Sug, community update.

[Joe]

Update: You can now find this hack !here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16290), Thank you to Kier, and Tubedogg!


Basicly, every member (who says its ok, in the profile) gets a email once a week (or whenever they say, in the profile) with a community update.

I would LOVE this feature for my forums! Everyone knows its ten times easyer to get a return customer, then a new customer, but most of us spend our time trying to get new customers! With a community update feature, this is done for us, every week!

I would like to see something like this:

BikeForums.Com Community Update!

Todays date: March 26, 2001
Activity since last update (March 19).

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View all new content here:
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"Username", you can log in now by clicking this link:
http://www.bikeforums.com/login.php?username-password

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What do you think? What would you like to add to the community updates? What would you change? Is it a good idea? Would you use it?

Out of my 1050 members, 800 of them have less then 5 posts, i think a system like this would get thoes less active members coming back to the forums again and again!

[Chris Schreiber]

I think this is a wonderful idea and I would certainly make use of it.

[RobAC]

Big ditto here!!

[claypots]

WOW that would be great!! - Kier could probably create a hack for that in 5 mins :)

[Joe]

:)

[Nicholas Brown]

all hail Kier :D

[Dark_Wizard]

Originally posted by claypots
Kier could probably create a hack for that in 5 mins :)

LOL...that's why I don't bother anymore ;) He usually has it done before I open my editor!

[jamez]

I could really use an automated feature like that.

[Kier]

Almost finished it... :)

[Joe]

Are you serious Kier? :)

I cant wait for this hack / feature!

[Kier]

Nah, just joking...

[Kier]

Or am I?

[Chris Schreiber]

LOL Kier, you're such a tease! Looks wonderful though!

[Joe]

Nice :)

I hope its not a tease (i doubt it is...)... cant wait! :D

[jamez]

Awesome..

Can there be a variable set to auto e-mail daily, bi-weekly or monthly?

...or, do you just send when you want to send the forum updates?

[auto]

Kier, I got 3 words for you:

YO DA MAN

:D :D

[Me2Be]

Oh THAT's cool!! I love this idea!

[Joe]

We need more ideas for this feature? I really didnt think it out too much when i made my first post... so everyone, what do you want to see in teh community update?!?! :)

[jojo85]

Kier,are you here?:p

[Kier]

I'm around... popping back here from time to time to see if anyone has thought of anything new.

[eva2000]

this would be awesome :D

[rockergrrl]

Looks Great!!

I can't wait!! :)

[pedershk]

YES! Definitely. It is a good idea to keep in touch with your "customers", even though they're not paying directly for your service. It's a great way to retain active members, instead of someone going to a board, asking one question, and then leaving again.

So, Please?????

[Joe]

If it makes 2.1 i hope i get a free liscense or the sug :)

[TechTalk]

John,
Could you comfort me and say this will be in the next release please? :D

~Chris
http://www.iguanaland.com

[auto]

Ya!
Comon John, be a man! [or a woman] :D

[TechTalk]

Originally posted by auto
Ya!
Comon John, be a man! [or a woman] :D

Thats not gonna get us anywhere hahaha :D

"Come on girls! Are we gonna lay eggs or program?!?!" :p

[Joe]

Hah! I just want to know who voted No in the poll, hopefully it wasnt John :)

[Freddie Bingham]

2.0 will not have anything else added to it.

[Joe]

2.1? :D

[jojo85]

:p

[webwizard]

I think people should only receive thread updates in their e-mail, to their subscribed threads. That's a much better option (especially for the large forums).

If I am visiting a webmaster forum, I would like to receive updates to the "Advertising & Affiliate Programs" threads and "Web Page Design" threads. I wouldn't care or like my e-mail to be cluttered with "General Chat' threads or the "Promotion and Marketing" threads.

It think this would be a much better enhancement, and hope that's the way its done ;)

[jojo85]

Yes :(
It's boring
i receive 45 mails a day of vbulletin community

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by webwizard
I think people should only receive thread updates in their e-mail, to their subscribed threads. That's a much better option (especially for the large forums).

If I am visiting a webmaster forum, I would like to receive updates to the "Advertising & Affiliate Programs" threads and "Web Page Design" threads. I wouldn't care or like my e-mail to be cluttered with "General Chat' threads or the "Promotion and Marketing" threads.

It think this would be a much better enhancement, and hope that's the way its done ;)

Just so you know Webwizard, I will be implementing this on a forum and category level by subscription so that you will only get notice from those forums that you choose on either a daily or weekly schedule.

That way you can subscribe to our "Advertising & Affiliate Programs" or "Web Page Design" forums and get just the information you need. ;)

[chrispadfield]

Kier you asked:

i) an extra option in profile to turn it off.
ii) ability to set the frequency of the updates. It would be good if it could be:
- daily
- weekly
- monthly

iii) ability to set in profile number of everything so you could see:

ALL (to see ALL the new threads, all the New polls) etc.
40, 30 20, etc...

These would then all "go back" as far as the last update was sent so if this was "activity in threads" if you set ALL you get a list of all threads with posts in since the last update, if you set 40 you get the latest 40.

iv) ability to add extra elements using the online forum, ie it updates the actual php code so people could just post the php code here for an extra option like "Top 10 posters" and this gets added to php code and becomes an options.

can't wait for this!

[mrlister]

man i want this sooooo badly

[chrispadfield]

Yes this would be 1 cool hack !

Possible thought:

at some point i think an extra tab in member.php for "email settings" would be useful. It would list (currently)

- subscribed threads
- admin email?
- email from other users?
- email upon pm

and

- settings for this hack
- settings for subscribed forums, if wayne is releasing this as a hack

and anything else we think off...

[jojo85]

Originally posted by chrispadfield
Yes this would be 1 cool hack !

Possible thought:

at some point i think an extra tab in member.php for "email settings" would be useful. It would list (currently)

- subscribed threads
- admin email?
- email from other users?
- email upon pm

and

- settings for this hack
- settings for subscribed forums, if wayne is releasing this as a hack

and anything else we think off...


Yes niakniakniak :)
Kierrrrrrrrr ,common :)

[auto]

Am I the only one thinking Kier is slacking?? :rolleyes:

[Wayne Luke]

Originally posted by auto
Am I the only one thinking Kier is slacking?? :rolleyes:

Kier isn't slacking. He is working on the main product now and that takes a lot of time.

[RobAC]

Originally posted by auto
Am I the only one thinking Kier is slacking?? :rolleyes:

:rolleyes: Ummm....ya :rolleyes:

[auto]

Originally posted by wluke


Kier isn't slacking. He is working on the main product now and that takes a lot of time.

I'm just kidding here ;)
Don't take it seriously :p

[Freddie Bingham]

Ed and I are seriously slacking, how long has it been since we released a hack?

[auto]

So why don't you and Ed make this hack then?? :rolleyes:

[chrispadfield]

Originally posted by freddie
Ed and I are seriously slacking, how long has it been since we released a hack?

hehe.. only cos you guys are putting them straight into the code, makes it even easier for us!

[coffee]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Snoozy]

Come on Kier! Lets do this...even though I know virtually nothing about PHP :( I'd like to learn! :)

[Joe]

So whats the latest?

Dev team, have you talked about this for a 2.1 feature?

[wandrer]

Any news on this ?

[Joe]

guess not :(

[jeb]

hi Kier,

would you please mind posting this great hack of yours

screenshots without any release : this IS NOT fair :mad:

thanks for any feedback, jeb

[tubedogg]

First off, nobody said life was fair. ;)

But seriously, what hack are you referring to? Kier did not make a hack like we are discussing in this thread, and I am also unaware of any hacks he has made where he has posted screenshots and not the hack itself...?:confused:

[chrispadfield]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=87215

could well have been a joke though.

[tubedogg]

I suppose I should have reread the thread. :o I didn't see that the first time around. Whoops!

I apologize, jeb. I stand corrected.

[Chris Schreiber]

I have a feeling Kier will be posting here soon :)

[tubedogg]

/me thinks someone knows something that someone isn't sharing.

Gee, who could that someone be? ;)

[chrispadfield]

feels like there is some hidden conspiracy :)

[Kier]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16161

;)

[tubedogg]

All I can say is, Wow. :) Looks awesome, dude.

I see how it is. Steal my "Who's Online" thunder. That's cool.

:D

just j/k :)

[Kier]

Actually tubey, I was kinda hoping that your would finish off the Community Bulletin script for me... I'm kinda busy right now...

You'll see that there's a whole section in the code for doing birthdays... (all commented out as I didn't have time to finish it)

[tubedogg]

I'll take a look at it, Kier. :)

[veedee]

is there any way of archiving these mailing sent out ?

[tubedogg]

I don't see why not. Do you mean archive to a post on your board, or something else?

[veedee]

Yeah something along those lines mate, like a hard copy that an Admin or any given user can look at.

I am not sure why !

Some website though used to (and probably) still do archive their news letters, so users can read them and choose whether they want to sign up, or use them for refernce etc.

I just thought it might be a good feature in that the codingtime:feature ratio will still be high :)

[tubedogg]

Sorry, I think you misunderstood me. Not "Why", I was saying I don't see "why not". :)

But yes you've got a good point there. It would be very simple to do. I'll work on it later. Got another hack in the works, but I'm adding this to my to-do list.

[Snoozy]

I have a community update hack that I think I got from Kier, anyways, I have integrated it fully into my board, and even added it to the control panel, so it is really easy to send them out. If anyone wants it, I'll post Kier's code again, and then all the modifications that I made.

[jamez]

Post it. Please

Originally posted by Snoozy
I have a community update hack that I think I got from Kier, anyways, I have integrated it fully into my board, and even added it to the control panel, so it is really easy to send them out. If anyone wants it, I'll post Kier's code again, and then all the modifications that I made.

[Snoozy]

Will do, I am not at my home computer right now, but I will tonight.

[Joe]

Is it the one he has already posted in the hacks forum? Tubedogg has also posted an update to this hack, the link is in this thread, or you can find it here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=16290) ( http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=16290 )

I also wanted to thank everyone for making this hack, or helping out, i cant wait to use it on my forums, im sure this will get hundreds of already registered users coming back to the site to post :)

[tubedogg]

Originally posted by veedee
I just thought it might be a good feature in that the codingtime:feature ratio will still be high :)

Interesting you should mention that...I had to go learn Regular Expressions to do the post a copy to your board thing. :) Meaning it took slightly longer than I expected. But it's done nonetheless.

[Snoozy]

Here is the little mod I made so you can access it from the control panel:

Search for:



<tr><td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" id="navtable">
<?php maketableheader("Announcements"); ?>
</table>
<a href="announcement.php?s=<?php echo $session[sessionhash]; ?>&action=add" class="newa"> Add </a> |
<a href="announcement.php?s=<?php echo $session[sessionhash]; ?>&action=modify"> Modify </a>
</td></tr>



and under that add:



<tr><td>
<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" id="navtable">
<?php maketableheader("Community Bulletin"); ?>
</table>
<a href="commbull.php?s=<?php echo $session[sessionhash]; ?>" class="newa"> New </a>
</td></tr>

[NickyNet]

@tubedogg,

after i uploaded your 0.96 version i get this error:


Database error in vBulletin Control Panel: Invalid SQL: SELECT * FROM user WHERE SUBSTRING(birthday,6)>='05-12' AND SUBSTRING(birthday,6)<='05-12' ORDER BY SUBSTRING(birthday,6) LIMIT 0,13
mysql error: You have an error in your SQL syntax near 'SUBSTRING(birthday,6) LIMIT 0,13' at line 1
mysql error number: 1064
Date: Saturday 12th of May 2001 09:11:40 AM


wenn i set birthdays to 0 then is working.

thx for your help

p.s.: using RC3

[Rick Horwitz]

That would be awesome!

[Jake Bunce]

so is this on the 2.1 list?

[Chris Schreiber]

Originally posted by Jakeman
so is this on the 2.1 list?

I would say it's safe to say that :)

[Jake Bunce]

ah, this is acceptable. :p

[Joe]

Ohh, if it makes it to 2.1 do i get a free license for the sug? :)

[Jake Bunce]

i would rather have a side note on the appropriate page saying: "*this feature suggested buy joe"

:D

[Joe]

buy? ;)

Id rather not :)

[tubedogg]

Do I get a free license for updating the hack? I think that's a good idea! ;)

[DevilsMania.com]

do i get a free license to read this ? :D:D:D:D:D
eheh

[eg_92901]

Stupid Question. Does it send the email automatically or do you have to manually go in and send it?

[tubedogg]

Manually.

[LeeS]

do it! do it! do it!!

[Joe]

Originally posted by LeeS
do it! do it! do it!!

This hack is avalible at the .org hacking site, I still hope this will be a standard feature in v3!! :D

[LeeS]

Does it work OK in 2.2.1?

[JamesUS]

I'm pretty sure it works fine on 2.2.1.

[Grover]

YUP! This is just one of the great additions to VBulletin.

Not only do we badly need a feature like this, but we also need the ability to send out an electronic newsletter to our members. We run a website for people who suffer from severe hairdiseases and we need to publish a newsletter.

A community update would be fine, but we also would like to be able to expand it with a website update or newsletter!

Grover.

[mishkan]

Hi all :),

I just read through this entire thread, and I really like this idea. Is this going to stay as a hack? Or will you put it into vB3?

Thanks!

mishkan :)