vBulletin 3.7 First Look Discussion

[Kier]

Like what you've seen so far?

[---MAD---]

Haha :). Good stuff!

[Kier]

You so didn't read the whole thread, --MAD-- ;)

[Mazinger]

WOW! There's alot of stuff there, can't get all of them! Just shocked! :D

When will it be running on vb.com?

Edit: Ok, Monday. :p

[Mike Sullivan]

Mazinger:
In terms of timescales, the plan is to upgrade vBulletin.com to run on vBulletin 3.7.0 on Monday (November 26th) and to let it run for a few days in order to get some feedback and bug reports before releasing the first public beta.
:)

[---MAD---]

You so didn't read the whole thread, --MAD-- ;)
Haha, not all but was too amazed with the first few posts! Some fantastic new features - I just cannot imagine how amazing this is going to be haha - definitely going to be a fantastic release!

This is what I like to see :D!!

[Dean C]

I have to say I'm impressed :) With the whole move into the social networking market, how about adopting some kind of API on a per-forum basis to get a users friends (if they allow it) and things like that. Ala the whole http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ thing :)

[albn]

Looks like it is going to be pretty cool. Just when I thought vB could not have any more features crammed into it already...

[optrex]

Great news that its finally very nearly out ;)
Looks to be some great features

[Gulf Soul]

Woow !!

We are waiting for it ..

[---MAD---]

Ooo, advertising spots defined - nice :P.

Have officially read the whole thread now :).

[MrNase]

That is truly some great stuff! :)

[touba]

hi all,

great work by Jelsoft :cool:

lot of new stuff looks like mods i have already install, i hope it will be not a problem for the upgrade.
do i have to delete these mods before upgrading ?

thanks and long life to vbulletin, the best board script !!! :)

[---MAD---]

Have a good weekend devs ;).

[jwocky]

By far the most amazing update to vbulletin EVER. I can't wait to get this installed. Big congrats to the team at vbulletin for getting such amazing advancements to us. And reading that they will now move to vb4.0 is even more amazing, what more can they give us?

[---MAD---]

By far the most amazing update to vbulletin EVER. I can't wait to get this installed. Big congrats to the team at vbulletin for getting such amazing advancements to us. And reading that they will now move to vb4.0 is even more amazing, what more can they give us?
Totally agree.

I only wish they add in report PMs :).

I love the way the thread was presented - well done on that too.

[TalkSound]

:eek: wow great features which would really enhance my site, good work :D

[Mazinger]

That really deserves waiting! The more-coming list looks very intersting too!

Can't wait untill monday to play with the new stuff. :(




btw, when will vBulletin 4.0 be released? :p

[Freezerator]

Fantastic!!!!

[Cromulent]

Very interesting release. Looks good. I'm not looking forward to the template edits though :(.

[Umut Ceylan]

its really amazing
Congratulations all team
vbulletin is very best all time

[Comtech]

Well done!

I'm glad that I decided to return as a vBulletin license owner. vBulletin 3.7 will make that move a very smart decision on my part. vBulletin 3.7 will make a lot of administrators who are still using another competitor's software to take a strong, hard look at the new and improved vBulletin.

I'm looking forward to trying it out here on Monday, and hopefully within a few short days, on my own community!

Thank you for listening to all of our rants (requests) over the past few months, it is appreciated!

[AzhriaLilu]

Very nice!!!! Looks like you've put a lot of work into it again :)

[Sephiroth]

Sweet. <- Only thing I have to say about it.

One bad thing about it, is I don't want to see what kind of template edits I'll have to do for my theme. D:

[Mazinger]

Just curious, how does eveybody think of the new profile page?

For me, I'm afraid I wouldn't feel comfortable with it! :(

[Mez]

btw, when will vBulletin 4.0 be released? :p


When it's ready

[---MAD---]

When it's ready
Here we go again, haha.

[slavetothename]

The profile page does look pretty ugly to be honest. But I guess we can obviously customise the templates (the standard one now isn't much of an improvement).

But on the whole, looks fab. I hope you will release a converter for Zoints Thread Tags.

[pipedreams]

OMG I'm in a state of shock! :eek:

VB 3.7 has far more then I was expecting!

Well done guys!!

[Comtech]

I am looking forward to the template edits :D

I just redesigned my forum skin and whatever it takes, I will get the new skin 100% updated.

[|Norman|]

I'm sad.

LOL

In these past three months I have devloped (and I'm/I was developing) a new style for my web site, Web City Forum Online. This style was a fully encoded style, I've spent alot of time doing it (it's not a *super-style*, but I'm a noob, so it is.. for me), and now.. and now.. :(
My profile system now should be re-made from the begining. This was my work:

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7141/profilowebcityxu1.gif

:(

My gallery:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8488/membergallerypreviewsz4.gif

:(


..etc.
Now? Arg, my users will kill me. They was wainting months, for this style release. I'm a dead man. LOL
However, I like your changes and your new features. I can't wait (and this is not an exclamation, this is an vital help request)!

[The_cobra666]

That's simply beautiful! Very nice! I can't wait to test these features! This will be great! All that I want is in there! That's simply zuper! Good job!

[MsJacquiiC]

ROFL at the "when will vBulletin 4.0 be released?"
But WOW! A very impressive list of NEW features!
I'm looking forward to it.................kinda - but it looks like a lot of templates may need to be adjusted/readjusted, etc....

I'm not looking forward to that part of it.

But I reiterate = WOW! Very impressive job with the 3.7 release!

Jacquii.

[Umut Ceylan]

When it's ready
heheheh nice answer

[Comtech]

The profile page does look pretty ugly to be honest. But I guess we can obviously customise the templates (the standard one now isn't much of an improvement).

But on the whole, looks fab. I hope you will release a converter for Zoints Thread Tags.


I agree with both comments.

However, the new profile system is a step in the right direction. Allowing our members to customize the colors of their profile is nice, and as a former IPB owner, that is something they haven't even considered doing. With a custom skin design, I could see the new profile system looking nice.

A converter for Zoints Tags for the new official tagging system would be very welcomed.

[iardon]

Nice update, just wish some updates to moderated users was added that were mentioned in the suggestion forum. Oh well, hopefully with 4.0.

[Sychev_S]

wow, amazing job! The only feature I need that's mising is profile rating. Other than that it is all good!

[barroca]

Wow!
Really the other boards softwares will cry ... :)
The notice was posted in vB Brasil - here (http://www.vb-brasil.org/forums/noticias-vb-brasil/39630-vbulletin-3-7-fique-de-olho.html)
Tks a lot
Joao Barroca
aka beduino

[---MAD---]

wow, amazing job! The only feature I need that's mising is profile rating. Other than that it is all good!
I think thats in there because on the profile screenshot you can see the 5 gold stars near "Kier". That may be for profile rating?

[Bob Isaac]

Some nice additions to the overall package, well done vB team. I have two questions.

1) Many sites, and ours, have used the Thread Prefix mod from vb.org and I wonder if those threads will integrate with the new vB built-in system.

2) Are we looking at a pre Christmas release, and if so how will the numerous Christmas themed styles be affected.

Bob

[Sychev_S]

I'm sad.

LOL

In these past three months I have devloped (and I'm/I was developing) a new style for my web site, Web City Forum Online. This style was a fully encoded style, I've spent alot of time doing it (it's not a *super-style*, but I'm a noob, so it is.. for me), and now.. and now.. :(
My profile system now should be re-made from the begining. This was my work:

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7141/profilowebcityxu1.gif

:(

My gallery:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8488/membergallerypreviewsz4.gif

:(


..etc.
Now? Arg, my users will kill me. They was wainting months, for this style release. I'm a dead man. LOL
However, I like your changes and your new features. I can't wait (and this is not an exclamation, this is an vital help request)!

Don't feel too bad, I am going to have to edit this:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/5642/profilepageswm6.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=profilepageswm6.jpg)

[xjuliox]

Nice job Kier and vbulletin team. I bought vBulletin just in time :D

There's soo much stuff on 3.7.0 is going to take me longer to get use to vBulletin again :)

Going to read through it later today after i am done installing and playing with my new copy of vB :)

[---MAD---]

Some nice additions to the overall package, well done vB team. I have two questions.

1) Many sites, and ours, have used the Thread Prefix mod from vb.org and I wonder if those threads will integrate with the new vB built-in system.

2) Are we looking at a pre Christmas release, and if so how will the numerous Christmas themed styles be affected.

Bob
Templates will have changed a lot as most 3.6.8 bugs have been fixed for 3.7 (plus 3.6.9 when its released - probably the same day as 3.7) so its best to wait until after you are done with the christmas themes to upgrade :).

[Kwong]

i'm wetting my underwear here !

:D

can't wait for the realese.

just installed coppermine two weeks ago , is there any way you are implementing a games section ?

[ManagerJosh]

LOL. Good thing I didn't blow a lot of money on Black Friday :D. I can now blow it on Jelsoft :D :p. Watch out Um....Three Letter Virginia Company :p.... vBulletin has struck back and is a force majeure :p

[---MAD---]

I am starting to think the profiles are a bit too blocky. Not sure if its because the screenshot is a bit too small and will look better on a fluid skin but that will have to wait until monday.

[Scott MacVicar]

The screenshot is compressed width wise, looks much better when its 800px wide.

[---MAD---]

The screenshot is compressed width wise, looks much better when its 800px wide.
Ah I see, that could be it :).

Thanks.

[1996 328ti]

Gotta check my calendar.
Nope, it's not April 1st.

In the few years I've been using vB, I've always looked forward to new releases. I've never used more than a couple new features each time. But this one? OMG!

I'd love to be able to import Photopost into vBulletin though.

[Comtech]

Will it be possible upon release or sometime in the future, for us to re-order the way the profile system is displayed? With zoints, we could re-order the profile boxes and have them anywhere that we would like for them to be.

This was done mainly by dragging & dropping. Any ideas?

[Onimua]

Well, it's my birthday today, and what a gift. ;)

I'm kidding of course... Very nice set of features! Since this is the last major update, what a way to do it. :) I think this will sufficiently keep us busy until vBulletin 4 is released; but what then? Does a coffee making system and mind-controlled posting ability are included in it? :p

Excellent job! I already renewed one of my other licenses a short while ago, I shall renew my other one next week. :D

[SyriaBoY]

:rolleyes: Good job

[---MAD---]

Will it be possible upon release or sometime in the future, for us to re-order the way the profile system is displayed? With zoints, we could re-order the profile boxes and have them anywhere that we would like for them to be.

This was done mainly by dragging & dropping. Any ideas?
If you mean per user, I don't think so. But I am sure it can be done via editing templates.

[ManagerJosh]

Digg Users: http://digg.com/software/vBulletin_3_7_Jelsoft_Unveils_The_Latest_To_Flagsh ip_Product =P

[|Norman|]

Don't feel too bad, I am going to have to edit this:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/5642/profilepageswm6.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=profilepageswm6.jpg)
Yup, then I would like to ask to the vBulletin team: If we have installed profile comments mods, profile buddies statistics, etc., like on the Sychev_S's forum (for example), will we lose all the old datas? I mean.. if I have 10 reply on a profile, on my profile comments system, then will I lose them?

[aff2k4]

I am absolutely AMAZED by the plethora of updates in the upcoming release. Everyone on the vBulletin team has done a great job considering this is the final release of the 3.x.x series. One can actually see where the development of the 4.x.x will be headed after 3.7.0 is released. Although I am a fairly new customer, I can already see the decline of hacks I will need once this new version goes gold.

Things I particularly like:

- Full customization of profile
- MORE spam control
- Integration of social bookmarking sites
- Tagging of threads

And just about everything else the team is adding. It's a much needed and requested improvement over the previous versions.

Kudos vBulletin development!

aff2k4

[onestopadam]

I can't wait for this! Itching to get it installed ;)

[Ascor]

Woow i'm impressed, a lot more from what i was waiting Oo !
Glad to know i made the good choice waiting so long, it was worth :)

Thank's to dev's for this very good job, you are the best :)

[Joe Siegler]

All this looks good, but one thing I've been hoping will go in still isn't (unless I missed it), and that's disappointing.

It's about private messages. They need to be "threads" and not individual messages. An exchange between people can easily clog one's inbox, and it would be a heck of a lot easier and nicer if replying to a PM just added to the PM, and not just started a new one.

When you want to follow a conversation between yourself and another user, you're having to flip flop between inbox and sent, and then you have to open multiple msgs.

It would be a lot easier if it was just a "thread" of messages so to speak.

[onestopadam]

Quick q.. how difficult will an upgrade from 3.6.x be?

[---MAD---]

All this looks good, but one thing I've been hoping will go in still isn't (unless I missed it), and that's disappointing.

It's about private messages. They need to be "threads" and not individual messages. An exchange between people can easily clog one's inbox, and it would be a heck of a lot easier and nicer if replying to a PM just added to the PM, and not just started a new one.

When you want to follow a conversation between yourself and another user, you're having to flip flop between inbox and sent, and then you have to open multiple msgs.

It would be a lot easier if it was just a "thread" of messages so to speak.
That would require a re-write of the PM system meaning it has to wait till 4.0.x :).

[HaYLaZ]

Wonderfull Release!

[telc]

Great work Guys!

I have a couple questions about the "Thread Prefixes" will I be able to limit only Admins and Mods to assign a Prefix to a Thread.

Also will I be able to prune based on thread prefix's, so for example I can prune all threads in a forum, but ignore threads that have a certain prefix, such as a "How To" Thread.

[daFish]

Wow, I'm officially hyped. :D

Are there any plans to integrate human readable URLs like vBSEO as part of the social networking?

[NolFito]

OMG I was literally crying of joy when I saw the notice :) no actual tears but yeh the intention is what counts.

This is one of the finest things i've ever seen :O So many new and usefull things

I better start getting ready and set up the test board it's going to be an awful lot of work to set it up, probabily less than the amount of work you have used to get this beauty ready :P

My users are gonna kill me with all this new features :D:D :cool:

I'll be waiting for the release and the documentation :P

Thanks vb team always ready to surprise as and excell. Gotta love the attitude.

One quick question
Regarding the "human verifications system" will we be able to select more than one? meaning questions and a one of the image options?
I think I know the answer but...

THx again vb u made my day :D

[doshomik]

after seeing all this screenshots, all i can say is...

/me can't wait :(

:p

[Wayne Luke]

I'd love to be able to import Photopost into vBulletin though.


The user albums are not a global image gallery replacement.

[Wayne Luke]

All this looks good, but one thing I've been hoping will go in still isn't (unless I missed it), and that's disappointing.

It's about private messages. They need to be "threads" and not individual messages. An exchange between people can easily clog one's inbox, and it would be a heck of a lot easier and nicer if replying to a PM just added to the PM, and not just started a new one.

When you want to follow a conversation between yourself and another user, you're having to flip flop between inbox and sent, and then you have to open multiple msgs.

It would be a lot easier if it was just a "thread" of messages so to speak.

Having private messages as threads and tracking conversations would require rewriting the entire private message system. That is not something that would be done in a feature release such as this but would be done, if it were to be done, in a major version release.

[daFish]

Btw. Is this Kiers Baby at 2 of the pictures in his gallery? If so, congratulations, Kier. :)

[adguru]

This is like a dream come true. I've been waiting for it my entire life. :p

[MrNase]

After reading Kier's thread for the second time I am even more excited. :)

I wonder how long it takes till the first MySpace-like profile pages show up. :p

[Bounce]

Very Nice :D

One Question thou..

Can the prefix system be turned on/off to suit forums?

I had it as a hack and my users hated it

Great looking Release thou :cool:

[Mazinger]

Very Nice :D
Can the prefix system be turned on/off to suit forums?

I belive prefix system is coming with usergroup, forum custom permissions.

[Jamie Edwards]

Drool

[wizardan]

Wow.
Just...
Wow:)

[WildEye]

Looks very nice from the preview pictures.

Can't wait to see it in action, and moving over to it. Template changes and translation galore again :)

[ragtek]

it tms is working i'm not scared:D

[Michelle]

Good work vB devs! :)
I didn't like ALL of it, but its not the time for criticism (I hope though that they are turnable off). Most of them are awsome additions! Thumbs up! :)

I hope the template variables haven't changed very much, I am working on a custom style since June! I sure hope I wont have to re-make the whole thing :o

[masterross]

All these users images can be stored on separeted server?

thx

[navjotjsingh]

Looks like it is going to be pretty cool. Just when I thought vB could not have any more features crammed into it already...

I am thinking exactly the same. I thought maybe now vb has saturated and doesn't look like there can any more features be added. But when I saw vb 3.7 announcement...gosh...so many new features. I can't wait...:D

[StuntFactoryX]

is it codded simulalar to 3.6 w/ some more features? i know its not your problem but do u expect any 3.6 hacks and other add ons to work like vbadvanced or is it a very unlikly?

im looking forward to playing w/ here but ill wait for all things to be ironed out before i get to go live w/ it.

[Wayne Luke]

is it codded simulalar to 3.6 w/ some more features? i know its not your problem but do u expect any 3.6 hacks and other add ons to work like vbadvanced or is it a very unlikly?


I would suspect that the majority of 3.6.X addons, products and plugins will work with little or no changes. Just like the majority created for 3.5.X still work in 3.6.X.

[COBRAws]

I see a lot of requested utilities had been applied and this is the best update that has most of the most popular request. Its a good thing that the vb staff and devs see the most popular hacks and try to improve them and bundle them into the next releases of vBulletin

I hope vb4 will be even better than my expectations. Most of the hacks I use are being integrated into the official vb releases and this is excellent. There are a few questions and/or problems. I have a post edit history hack, as well as the thread prefix, I hope someone makes a "port utility" for the actual hacks so we can port them to the vb3.7

Keep it up guys!

PS: Give us a CMS :P

[---MAD---]

I just noticed theres no report button in the user picture albums - this is quite important. Maybe I missed it or something but if its not there, its vital that its added :).

I wish they would add it in PMs as well.

[Princeton]

Superb enhancements!
Exactly what I expected .. I can't wait to get my hands on it.

[Captain DDL]

I'm sad.

LOL

In these past three months I have devloped (and I'm/I was developing) a new style for my web site, Web City Forum Online. This style was a fully encoded style, I've spent alot of time doing it (it's not a *super-style*, but I'm a noob, so it is.. for me), and now.. and now.. :(
My profile system now should be re-made from the begining. This was my work:

http://img267.imageshack.us/img267/7141/profilowebcityxu1.gif

:(

My gallery:

http://img208.imageshack.us/img208/8488/membergallerypreviewsz4.gif

:(


..etc.
Now? Arg, my users will kill me. They was wainting months, for this style release. I'm a dead man. LOL
However, I like your changes and your new features. I can't wait (and this is not an exclamation, this is an vital help request)!

You could stay at 3.6.8 until you get the skin finished... =)

[thedvs]

Finally! THREAD PREFIX's!!! Wooohooo, the new enhancements are awesome guys, well done!

[Audentio]

I just can't believe how cool that is. The profile editing this is simply amazing. I was using the enhanced member profiles and I didnt like their css feature. This will be SO much cooler, I cant wait. ALL of these changes look just awesome.

[Garamond]

Really nice, according to the preview notes and pictures! I will be upgrading to 3.7 when it arrives, no doubt about it.

[Dream]

Excellent job, thanks Kier and the gang.

I'm wondering how's the SEO of the profile pages.

[L'ingegnere]

Guys this is cooooooooooooool

[Pandemix]

Simply amazing, I can't wait to upgrade.

This is better than what I honestly expected.

vB > IPB

[Bill-Kill]

AMAZING upgrades, I cannot wait until Monday to try it out myself.

[joomlajon]

Looks like the right direction :)

How long usually, does beta periods endure?

[Icy]

vBulletin rules :D

[projectego]

It's good to hear that there will be support for custom icons per forum with 3.7. Can't wait. :)

[Darat]

Yet again you've incorporated many of the add-ons and hacks I've already installed! :( ;)

[Mazinger]

It's good to hear that there will be support for custom icons per forum with 3.7. Can't wait. :)
Yeah, but what about forum status icons? :confused:

[Wayne Luke]

How long usually, does beta periods endure?

It depends on any issues found and the impact of them. We can't test internally on the thousands of different server configurations out there so often times issues will come up that we didn't foresee.

[randychase]

Great job, I am surprised at all the enhancements.

Thanks for the answer that the user picture gallery does not replace a global image gallery, so I guess most of us just continue using VBGallery, Photopost, etc.

[Zingu]

O M G.

can't wait!! this is worse than a 5 yr old on the night before xmas!! ahhh!
(ie: GREAT STUFF!! most exciting update in a long time. :))

[Zingu]

ps. omg I HATE YOU TOO!! cause you just made hours and hours and hours of hard work tweeking and fixing fretting moot.... and paid for add-ons obsolete!! GRRRR!!!!

(no, that's not actually a complaint. at least...not a long term one. lol ;))

[doshomik]

Ok I've 2 questions about 2 hacks that we installed and now build-in by default in vB..

1. Thread Prefix: what about those who installed this hack ? will there be any importer for this or you guys just adapted that hack and added it in vb so old prefixes will be all OK ?

2. Thread Tagging: what about those who installed a hack called 'zoints threads tagging' will there be any importer for this or we'll lost old tags ?

[mlucek]

Veeeeeerrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy cool new features !! :cool:

Looks like a whole buncha hacks from vb.org were integrated. VB.org activity will be decreasing on those "former" hacks :D

Look forward to using the new goodies :D

[StrongMotive]

I like the look of some of it - well played ;)

[|Norman|]

You could stay at 3.6.8 until you get the skin finished... =)

Yeah, I know, but I prefer to upgrade. ;)

[Zingu]

2. Thread Tagging: what about those who installed a hack called 'zoints threads tagging' will there be any importer for this or we'll lost old tags ?

Doubt it.

btw, you might want to keep zoints in some capacity anway as zoints sends your tags to the zoints site which gives you a ref/linkback... this is great for SEO (as its from a different IP and relevant site).

vbull tagging will be within your boards only. convenient and cool, but will offer no other real SEO promotional value.

[ragtek]

Dont think so
There will come new Add-Ons/Hacks ;) :D
But yea. Many realy cool new ideas but not complete sophisticated(hope its the real word for it, have it out of the dictionary)
herehttp://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/spam-management.png i would love to see a checkbox by the users to can select the users who will be affected by the action.

for example:
i have 20 spamthreads
12 are from a spamrobot 8 from some users
so now i would have to select first for the spamrobot threads, delete them and ban the user
then select the others delete them but not ban the user

[regitbull]

could there be a better pay subscription systeem like setting the option to select a subscription on the registerpage?

IPB have it to and its better to let the users now about the paid subscriptions !

[Comtech]

Will the new thread tagging system ping technorati or other systems as designated? If not, would this be implemented at a later date?

[Zachariah B]

Cool more toys :D

[.Tim]

Looks great. I'm not looking forward to the upgrade process since I'll have to do a lot of cleaning up (mods/hacks/3rd party software) but the end result will be nice since some of those things will be built in to the software. :cool:

[Legendery]

Good job vBulletin Team.

Waiting 3.7.0 :)

[TrIn@dOr]

Looks really great!

[Zingu]

Don't feel too bad, I am going to have to edit this:
http://img91.imageshack.us/img91/5642/profilepageswm6.th.jpg (http://img91.imageshack.us/my.php?image=profilepageswm6.jpg)

even worse.. I have NO idea what I'm gunna do with my zoints integrated profiles. :( :eek::confused:

[unitedpunjab]

Good to see that new version is just around the corner with great features inline for everyone. But i was very disappointed to see that still vB is missing out people who want to access the forums on the move. And they usually do it from their mobile phones with help of GPRS or Internet services provided by their operators.

Think about it. It will be very helpful and forums can attract more and more people if they are also available on people's mobile phones.

[t3nt3tion]

1. Will the prices go up since the new release ?
2. Very nice :D

[Cheertobi]

Great new features, but seems like they forgot, once again, to improve the calendar :(

[---MAD---]

Good to see that new version is just around the corner with great features inline for everyone. But i was very disappointed to see that still vB is missing out people who want to access the forums on the move. And they usually do it from their mobile phones with help of GPRS or Internet services provided by their operators.

Think about it. It will be very helpful and forums can attract more and more people if they are also available on people's mobile phones.

That will have to wait till 4.x.
1. Will the prices go up since the new release ?
No price won't be increased.
Great new features, but seems like they forgot, once again, to improve the calendar :(
Rewrites are for 4.0 ;).

[Luciano]

Stupid question... will All hacks have to be recoded? ( I meen hacks that are not replaced by the new system. Example: video hacks for profile or audioplayers for attachments etc.. etc.. admin log in as user.. and and.. and..)
btw.. looks very nice.

L.

[Gray Matter]

Well I think this is just amazing. ;) All of the new features are awesome and I'm so happy that I don't have to worry about the Thread Prefixes hack anymore, because it is an extreme pain to install and maintain.

And I'm glad that I no longer have to rely on modifications to control username histories and post edit histories. I do hope, though, that there will be an importer script in the upgrade or an ImpEx importer available for these two, as I don't want to lose all of the histories that I already have. :)

[dklassen]

I'd like to hear more details about this. Advertisement locations defined in templates. Locations?

Does that include left and right columns?

[iogames.com]

I hope to be alive to see it! LOL:D
Incredible stuff, I'm so glad I choose vB for my forums.

[Scottymeuk]

You guys should work on SEO for this version. Its a MASSIVE thing these days.

[josephheskett]

It's looking good!
Definitely going to be some fantastic new changes...
like inline :D

Whoever said forums could not be social networking sites at the same time?

[---MAD---]

Stupid question... will All hacks have to be recoded? ( I meen hacks that are not replaced by the new system. Example: video hacks for profile or audioplayers for attachments etc.. etc.. admin log in as user.. and and.. and..)
btw.. looks very nice

L.
Not recoded entirely - they will most likely just need a few updates here and there. Some might not need any changes at all :). Its the same as from 3.5 to 3.6 :).

[unitedpunjab]

That will have to wait till 4.x.



OH k. Don't you think so they are loosing a big market share by not introducing it as soon as possible.

[Wayne Luke]

OH k. Don't you think so they are loosing a big market share by not introducing it as soon as possible.

In reference to Calendar updates?

The main focus of the vBulletin product has and always will be the Forum Discussion aspect. Very few of our competitors even offer an events calendar at this time. It is either not available or an additional cost. Time constraints do not allow the developers to put in every feature or update that they want in an "interim" release. It is much easier to deal with major rewrites of systems on a major version upgrade.

[Joe Siegler]

Having private messages as threads and tracking conversations would require rewriting the entire private message system. That is not something that would be done in a feature release such as this but would be done, if it were to be done, in a major version release.

Fair enough, but 4.0 is the next release, right? ;)

To be honest, I came here from Ubb.threads (and before that ubb.classic). It's the one thing that I think still kicks vb in the head - the PM system. So I'm eager to get that going here, as my pm box is a complete mess due to each one being an individual message.

The structure exists in the code somewhat doesn't it - your support ticket system code would apply here, I would think.

Having said this, the upgrade does look really good - I'm going to have spend some time figuring out what features will be applicable to my forums and use them.

I PARTICULARLY like the thread spam feature. That rocks.

[aff2k4]

OH k. Don't you think so they are loosing a big market share by not introducing it as soon as possible.

Not a "big" market share as there really aren't that many people that browse the internet entirely through their web-enabled cell phones (after all, it DOES cost money). WAP inclusion might not even be considered for the 4.x.x release IMO because it's just not that important in relevancy to other additions/integrations/changes (though I wouldn't entirely count it out).

In the end, it may just become a 3rd party (paid) development project.

Just my opinion, of course. :)

aff2k4

[Sychev_S]

I just now realised that the profile rating feature is also available. Well done. I just wish it could be out of 10 and not 5.

[pingme]

Great Features indeed :D I am just egar it get it on my board

one question about pictures, is it a ful proof gallery like vbgallery?

[Gray Matter]

Great Features indeed :D I am just egar it get it on my board

one question about pictures, is it a ful proof gallery like vbgallery?
See Wayne's post here (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?p=1450880#post1450880).

[trigon]

Your guys are great, the most of my modifications (with hacks) are new inside the Vbulletin. Very good. :)

[telc]

Will we be able to disable some of the new features such as "Thread Tagging"? I can for-see users entering irrelevant keywords into the posts just to get them to come up in searches.

[Wayne Luke]

Fair enough, but 4.0 is the next release, right? ;)

3.7.0 is scheduled to be the last feature release of the 3.X series. I wouldn't necessarily say it is the last release.. there may be a 3.7.1 in the future but it is hazy.

[jonsimmonds]

Wow amazing news, cant wait to have a play with the beta

my suggestions (some have been said by others on this thread)
- make the gallery a full on gallery as well, or let users upload into admin defined "public multi user" gallerys
- pm's arranged in a way similar to how gmail works then instead of giving users a message limit give them a memory allowance instead (so lots of small yes/no replies dont count to highly against it)
- some way of using a different template for when the visitor is a mobile/pda browser (could also be used for people printing a page) unless the new 4.0 is more flexable with CSS (dont think this is the case at the moment)

Other than that, WOW!

[rellek]

Loving the feature list :D

And thanks for the prefixes!

[Magnumutz]

OMG, it's worth every penny i payed for it...
It's a really major upgrade guys... It'll open new paths for hack developers :D
And fit all of our needs.
I'm amazed of the result.

[Easyskillz]

Good luck with the finalization of the update !

[trdspd]

so this has the user profile photo and the avatar? this is similar to invision's?

[alessai]

hmmmm <<< little bit scared
i have noticed that there is many things have ajax in it ,,, and thats a big problem as every one know arabic and many other languages doesnt work with ajax!!!

are we going to have this problems with 3.7 ?!!!

[Gray Matter]

so this has the user profile photo and the avatar? this is similar to invision's?
User profile pictures combined with avatars isn't a new feature in 3.7.

Additionally, with the SN, it would be great to see status and mood updates, guys. And then be able to see your friends' latest updates as well. Not needed, but would be nice. :)

[Joe Siegler]

3.7.0 is scheduled to be the last feature release of the 3.X series. I wouldn't necessarily say it is the last release.. there may be a 3.7.1 in the future but it is hazy.

I was being sarcastic with that remark. While I would like that feature in there now, I'm no fool - I know how these things work. :)

[RedTyger]

I'm quite impressed as far as first impressions go. I was rather diffident about releases like the Project Tools and Blog, they seemed to lack any innovation at all. But this seems to be a good mix of what you'd expect to find and something a little extra too. If that's a sign of what will be for 4.0, all the better.

[1996 328ti]

Is it me or are there 0 post trollers posting?

[dougeetx]

Could you possibly add a WORKING revshare addon? That would be sooooo sweet!

[Razasharp]

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!

I haven't even read all the announcement but had to come here to quickly SAY:

I LOVE IT!

THANK YOU! To all the VB TEAM!! You retain place as my favourite developers and support team! :cool:

[Mazinger]

Is it me or are there 0 post trollers posting?
Posts are not counted in this forum.

[Wayne Luke]

so this has the user profile photo and the avatar? this is similar to invision's?

Our profile has shown the user profile photo and avatar since version 3.0 was released.

[Wayne Luke]

hmmmm <<< little bit scared
i have noticed that there is many things have ajax in it ,,, and thats a big problem as every one know arabic and many other languages doesnt work with ajax!!!

are we going to have this problems with 3.7 ?!!!

AJAX is being switched to YUI in 3.7 so that there is a wider range of support among languages and systems than there is now. YUI also receives a lot more development and testing as it is probably used on millions of sites around the world including Yahoo's properties. This means that issues can be resolved easier.

There may be some issues but they should be minor. Also all AJAX based features have fallbacks so you do not need to use AJAX.

[ricerice]

i love you master of ceremonies, you have made my day in the biggest way. awesome awesome awesome. sooo many cheers to the vbulletin team.... my hat is off to you.

[pelican]

3.7 is very nice. hopefully the searching function with the ability to search between a date range will be in...

[Lpspider]

Will it be possible upon release or sometime in the future, for us to re-order the way the profile system is displayed? With zoints, we could re-order the profile boxes and have them anywhere that we would like for them to be.

This was done mainly by dragging & dropping. Any ideas?

I think the users can reorder the profile boxes. If you see the screenshot there are upward arrows on each boxes. I don't think you can move the right column boxes to the left, howeer.

[Ghostsuit]

Oft, thats really all I can say looks sexy as hell.

[Fusion]

Impressive, indeed, but it begs a couple of questions I hope Kier will answer:
How long has 3.7 been in active development?

There's a whole host of new features listed which could easily have warranted their own releases, maybe even as part of the 3.6 series. Why wait this long, when obviously this has been a long, long time coming? By splitting it up you'd have spared yourselves a lot of grief and potentially some business as well.

[kafi]

haha, I am glad that vbulletin is fighting to keep their position on the market, hopefully they will suprise us with 4.0 even more :)

my questions:
- is there an option in attached picture lightbox to move back and forward between pictures? I do not see it there..
- can I search multiple tags at once? like> vbulletin AND addon AND userbase ??? (to narrow search result)

good job! Keep up!

[Wayne Luke]

I think the users can reorder the profile boxes. If you see the screenshot there are upward arrows on each boxes. I don't think you can move the right column boxes to the left, howeer.
Those are standard collapse arrows used throughout vBulletin. The system doesn't support Drag & Drop at this time.

[jigger]

Looks pretty good, but I am not completely satisfied. :p

These features are missing:
- profile album: 1. report picture 2. rate picture 3. comment picture 4. view counts
- invite tool (messenger contacts for example)
- profile rating
- move blocks on profile by mouse (I think zoints has this)

Other than that it is a very good release. Congratulations!

[Lpspider]

Those are standard collapse arrows used throughout vBulletin. The system doesn't support Drag & Drop at this time.

I see. That's a bit of a disappointment, but the good still outweighs the bad.

Great job on the release - I'm very eager to see this running.

[|Norman|]

Yup, then I would like to ask to the vBulletin team: If we have installed profile comments mods, profile buddies statistics, etc., like on the Sychev_S's forum (for example), will we lose all the old datas? I mean.. if I have 10 reply on a profile, on my profile comments system, then will I lose them?


Can you reply to this question?

[RvG]

IPB sucks! :p

oohhhh what a day... :rolleyes:

[riskofficer]

Are you going to implement "post thank you" system to the 3.7 release?

[---MAD---]

Are you going to implement "post thank you" system to the 3.7 release?
I don't see why that is necessary? Thats basically what the rep system is for..

[Wayne Luke]

Can you reply to this question?

In the beta no... I don't think this this has been discussed for future versions of Impex though. Not even sure if it would be feasible to do partial imports like this.

You would have to make a suggestion in the suggestions forum for it to be reviewed.

[Wayne Luke]

Are you going to implement "post thank you" system to the 3.7 release?

I believe that 3.7 is feature locked at this time. I do not believe there is any plans to integrate this feature.

[Benj]

I would suspect that the majority of 3.6.X addons, products and plugins will work with little or no changes. Just like the majority created for 3.5.X still work in 3.6.X.


Glad to hear that


looks wicked guys

small request i would have is the cool ajax mini calendar used in the blogs add-on be incorporated in the vb calendar.... I use it heavily you see



cheers

[Magnumutz]

Is it me or are there 0 post trollers posting?
To tell you the truth, it's been the first time when i really felt the need to say how pleased i am with the progress... the other releases seemed only normal to me.

[Mazinger]

vBulletin 3.7.0 contains a plethora of new features, many of which have been long requested by users and customers, while other new features will come as a surprise to everyone.

So, there are some other features haven't been mentioned in the announcement?

[Wayne Luke]

So, there are some other features haven't been mentioned in the announcement?
You'll have to wait and see like everyone else. :)

[kafi]

Those are standard collapse arrows used throughout vBulletin. The system doesn't support Drag & Drop at this time.

Along with customization of profile, it would be nice to personalize also forumhome (to choose which forum I want to display and which I dont + recent posts from my favorite forums...).
This should work for public/private social groups (aka their own homepage) or individually (or both :D ).

Sorry didnt want to turn this thread into feature requests...

[RvG]

You'll have to wait and see like everyone else. :)

OMG... please I want to have a sleep till monday :eek::rolleyes:

[---MAD---]

So, there are some other features haven't been mentioned in the announcement?
I think it may have been referring to what was on that thread. Some features we knew about already ie SN. The rest was a surprise to most of us :).

[Lpspider]

So, there are some other features haven't been mentioned in the announcement?

I took that to mean that these surprise features were the ones that followed that post - though looking back, I suppose additional features is a possibility.

[RvG]

I am wondrin' if we can drag and drop the boxes in the profile section? :) just like the zoints...

[Lpspider]

I am wondrin' if we can drag and drop the boxes in the profile section? :) just like the zoints...

Unfortunately, no (http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1451044&postcount=158).

[Hemanth]

OMG I got enough.. We can now dump a tonne of mods.. :D Like Member galleries, Social stuffs, Re captcha, Quick ban button, Lightbox etc. Great work team.

[Lpspider]

Will there be a way to limit who can create user created groups? Or the number of groups said user can create?

[1996 328ti]

To tell you the truth, it's been the first time when i really felt the need to say how pleased i am with the progress... the other releases seemed only normal to me.Same here. Projects and Blogs made be yawn.
3.7 has me wanting to explore what it has to offer.

[Shazz™]

The future is here!
Taking over again

[---MAD---]

The future is here!
Taking over again
Haha yeah.
Will there be a way to limit who can create user created groups? Or the number of groups said user can create?
Hope so.

Also, maybe with the verification of mod/smod/admin when using inline mod - maybe this can be used for banning users outside admincp as well?

[Kitebu]

Oh wow, I'm quite impressed. <3 I can't wait to upgrade, this is probably the most excited I've been over a coming release.

One question though, will it be possible for users to "ignore" custom profile styling all together? That is to say.. an option, something like "Set this to yes to globally ignore profile styling." would be really nice, that way people who don't want to see see peoples' profile customizations don't have to, and those that do, well, can. (There's a good chance the admins of a forum I'm on will disable the feature entirely without such a feature, and I'd be a shame for that to happen.)

EDIT: Another thing that comes to mind is conversions from IPB. Will we be able to convert profile comments / friends?

[KoC]

You must add more functions to the blog system. The new features are excelent.

[---MAD---]

You must add more functions to the blog system. The new features are excelent.
That will come after 3.7 is stable ;).

[Gray Matter]

One question though, will it be possible for users to "ignore" custom profile styling all together? That is to say.. an option, something like "Set this to yes to globally ignore profile styling." would be really nice, that way people who don't want to see see peoples' profile customizations don't have to, and those that do, well, can. (There's a good chance the admins of a forum I'm on will disable the feature entirely without such a feature, and I'd be a shame for that to happen.)

I second this. A feature such as this is a necessity.

[---MAD---]

I second this. A feature such as this is a necessity.
Agreed.

[Lpspider]

Just echoing what's already been said, but I think a way for user to ignore all styles is vital.

[KW802]

Looking forward to the upcoming release, in particular the spam modifications.

Just one request... please prepare a Zoints Tags import function. :)

[ChrisGuthrie.net]

I love the ability to ban users inline if it's spam. I get a ton on some of my forums and this is a sweet feature.

[Arrangements]

Vbulletin wants to take over MySpace!!! lol

[Gomjaba]

Stunning ... and finally including lightbox :XX:

[ChrisGuthrie.net]

Would there ever be an option for users to have the ability to change their username based on a particular user group they're in?

It's kind of annoying to have to change members user names all the time and if I set up a premium member group that had permissions to change user names then they could do it all they want.

Is this something you ever might try adding in?

I'm sure other forum admins may agree that changing members user names is time consuming.

[Darat]

If there is any chance of a Zoints tag importer? We've a team of volunteers that have worked hard to make the Zoints tags useful and consistent on our forum and if they didn't have to start from scratch that would be superb.

[Shazz™]

First question as always members will have. "Will my mods work on 3.7"

[Lionel]

Most of these new features appears to be cosmetics or additions. Are there any major existing core files change?

[jbart04]

Would there ever be an option for users to have the ability to change their username based on a particular user group they're in?

It's kind of annoying to have to change members user names all the time and if I set up a premium member group that had permissions to change user names then they could do it all they want.

Is this something you ever might try adding in?

I'm sure other forum admins may agree that changing members user names is time consuming.
Totally agree. I have ~40k members and I know a ton of them would love to change their name. When you have that many members and a lot of them changing their names, it's hard to keep track of who is who if you know what I mean.

Also, is the username change history going to be public?

Overall, great announcement! I'm very excited to get this installed onto my sites!

[haythamghareeb]

I think it will be nice but what about some features in the AdminCP? Like when you search for a user/s and you click on a user to edit and press save. Why don't I be taken back to the other users I searched for? I have to click search for users again. Same applies to User groups. If I ask for all primary users of a group and try to edit one user, I have to click user groups again to go back to the rest of the primary users.

Another great addition would be built in statistics ( top poster, top thread..etc)
Also how about a built in shout box?

I'd like these additions so I would have piece of mind when running them as a part of the Vbulletin thus the code would have been fully revised and we wouldn't have to use outside mods.
Thank you

[Mazinger]

Also, is the username change history going to be public?

http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/user-change-history.png
From the photo, it's in the ACP.

[---MAD---]

http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/user-change-history.png
From the photo, it's in the ACP.
Yeah it is.

[Chousho]

Well, it's my birthday today, and what a gift.

It was either that or laser hair removal.


Great job, VB team! I'm very ecstatic about both the release and that the release had information given ahead of time. It seems the team has learned a thing or two in dealing with the public.

Thank you so much for the information. I think after 3.7 is released you guys should have a nice vacation on a Hawaiian island (only if you guys take me along, cause I wanna go to Hawaii!).

Thanks again to the whole team for the upcoming release!

[Lizard King]

Fantastic news :) Now i will be able to run only 2-3 different modification on my board and rest will be only vBulletin.

However there shall be importers for couple different modification such as :

Zoints Tags
Vision Script Profile System
Thread prefixes hack

[Neal-UK]

Amazing, absolutely amazing. Can't wait to use this new release!

[doshomik]

However there shall be importers for couple different modification such as :
Zoints Tags
Vision Script Profile System
Thread prefixes hack

Thats what I was asking few page back.. :D

[jbart04]

I think it will be nice but what about some features in the AdminCP? Like when you search for a user/s and you click on a user to edit and press save. Why don't I be taken back to the other users I searched for? I have to click search for users again. Same applies to User groups. If I ask for all primary users of a group and try to edit one user, I have to click user groups again to go back to the rest of the primary users.

Another great addition would be built in statistics ( top poster, top thread..etc)
Also how about a built in shout box?

I'd like these additions so I would have piece of mind when running them as a part of the Vbulletin thus the code would have been fully revised and we wouldn't have to use outside mods.
Thank you
Shout box would have to be a definite...no. I hate shout boxes, makes sites look tacky and I've only seen them used on sites ran by kids. Not to mention all the spam, advertising and flaming going on in them, you would need a moderator there 24/7 just to watch the shout box.

Top statistics would also be a nice feature.

[Floris]

I have to say I'm impressed With the whole move into the social networking market, how about adopting some kind of API on a per-forum basis to get a users friends (if they allow it) and things like that. Ala the whole http://code.google.com/apis/opensocial/ thing

Yes, this would be nice. Please post it as a suggestion here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=55

hi all,

great work by Jelsoft

lot of new stuff looks like mods i have already install, i hope it will be not a problem for the upgrade.
do i have to delete these mods before upgrading ?

thanks and long life to vbulletin, the best board script !!!

On my own forum I am going to disable the plugin, backup any data it has created in case I need to re-add it later. Remove the plugin code from the template just to be save, and then uninstall it, and use the official feature instead. In case of conflicting database tables, yes. it is wise to uninstall it

Totally agree.

I only wish they add in report PMs .

I love the way the thread was presented - well done on that too.

Please post the suggestion here if it hasn't been already: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=55

That really deserves waiting! The more-coming list looks very intersting too!

Can't wait untill monday to play with the new stuff.

btw, when will vBulletin 4.0 be released?

We should have a new rule, everybody that asks within the first 24 hours after a release has to renew their license

Well done!

I'm glad that I decided to return as a vBulletin license owner. vBulletin 3.7 will make that move a very smart decision on my part. vBulletin 3.7 will make a lot of administrators who are still using another competitor's software to take a strong, hard look at the new and improved vBulletin.

I'm looking forward to trying it out here on Monday, and hopefully within a few short days, on my own community!

Thank you for listening to all of our rants (requests) over the past few months, it is appreciated!

Thank you for the kind words, and welcome back to vBulletin.

The profile page does look pretty ugly to be honest. But I guess we can obviously customise the templates (the standard one now isn't much of an improvement).

But on the whole, looks fab. I hope you will release a converter for Zoints Thread Tags.

Tags is just a small portion of data, I don't see the devs deciding to include an importer script into impex for this. Perhaps a vBorg mod could do this, or perhaps Zoints could provide it. To make the suggestion, please post it here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=55 or give Jerry a poke in the ticket system with a friendly request.

I think thats in there because on the profile screenshot you can see the 5 gold stars near "Kier". That may be for profile rating?

No, I believe this is just an image, not user rating.

Some nice additions to the overall package, well done vB team. I have two questions.

1) Many sites, and ours, have used the Thread Prefix mod from vb.org and I wonder if those threads will integrate with the new vB built-in system.

2) Are we looking at a pre Christmas release, and if so how will the numerous Christmas themed styles be affected.

Bob

We have no ETA on the 3.7 release, except that it will be on vBcom this monday, so we can't answer question 2 really. if it runs on your site around christmas you would have to make sure those christmas styles are compatible with 3.7.

In regards to question 1. I don't think the code has been written to be compliant with the many mods available on vBorg.

Will it be possible upon release or sometime in the future, for us to re-order the way the profile system is displayed? With zoints, we could re-order the profile boxes and have them anywhere that we would like for them to be.

This was done mainly by dragging & dropping. Any ideas?

I just tested, I can't drag a box around on the profile page. This also wasn't the case in the blog, so I can only assume 3.x won't have this functionality.

Well, it's my birthday today, and what a gift. ;)

I'm kidding of course... Very nice set of features! Since this is the last major update, what a way to do it. I think this will sufficiently keep us busy until vBulletin 4 is released; but what then? Does a coffee making system and mind-controlled posting ability are included in it?

Excellent job! I already renewed one of my other licenses a short while ago, I shall renew my other one next week.

Happy Birthday buddy. Enjoy this announcement ;)

Digg Users: http://digg.com/software/vBulletin_3_7_Jelsoft_Unveils_The_Latest_To_Flagsh ip_Product =P

Dugg.

Quick q.. how difficult will an upgrade from 3.6.x be?

The same as always.
1- Backup your files and database
2- Upload the 3.7 files
3- Run upgrade.php
4- Enjoy 3.7

All this looks good, but one thing I've been hoping will go in still isn't (unless I missed it), and that's disappointing.

It's about private messages. They need to be "threads" and not individual messages. An exchange between people can easily clog one's inbox, and it would be a heck of a lot easier and nicer if replying to a PM just added to the PM, and not just started a new one.

When you want to follow a conversation between yourself and another user, you're having to flip flop between inbox and sent, and then you have to open multiple msgs.

It would be a lot easier if it was just a "thread" of messages so to speak.

If it has not been suggested yet, do so here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=55

Wow, I'm officially hyped. :D

Are there any plans to integrate human readable URLs like vBSEO as part of the social networking?

Future plans can't be disclosed, and I am not aware of any. In the alpha version of 3.7 I haven't seen readable urls. It is still 3.x

Btw. Is this Kiers Baby at 2 of the pictures in his gallery? If so, congratulations, Kier. :)

I believe it is :)

After reading Kier's thread for the second time I am even more excited. :)

I wonder how long it takes till the first MySpace-like profile pages show up. :p

Our staff playing with the system were able to make them in 5 minutes :) :p

I belive prefix system is coming with usergroup, forum custom permissions.
I believe ... implies you have experience or know something. What you really mean is that you assume, since you do not know.

[Zi5]

Cool COool Really Cool... Nice going vBulletin

[jw0ollard]

I don't want my first remark about 3.7 to be negative so here goes: WOW you guys!!! I am absolutely stunned. This makes me change my mind about whether you guys actually LISTEN to us!

Now for the bad:

*Looks over at other computer with test server that has a month's worth of non-stop work, including entire template rewrites and relying on some pretty big mods (vBadvanced) and starts to cry*

*Looks at live site's member profiles, wonders if someone is going to make importer for visionscripts' iProfiles, and cries some more*

*Continues crying*

Now for the even worse:

I agree that the profiles would look better at full width, HOWEVER, something has to be done about that tabbed interface! Increasing the height of the active tab is just not the way you should show it. The entire profile also looks way too boxy. (I understand I can change all this myself, and I definitely will... so I guess I should just not say anything. :) )

Friending system still seems clunky. Checkboxes? How about a simple "Send Friend Request".. And on the "Request-ee's" side of it, you just get simple Approve/Deny buttons. I also don't think there should be any distinction between buddy and friend, that's kind of silly, awkward, and confusing.

Everything is really amazing though, even if some of it is just "slightly-less-than-amazing"!! :D

Now for the questions:

Do we still have no control over which profile fields SHOW on the profile?I guess you can set the field to "Private" and then allow NOBODY to see private fields (but can a user see their own private field, even if all usergroups have the option set to no?). For instance, profile fields can be used for "utilitarian" things, like for a link to MySpace or something else that doesn't really need to be SHOWN on the profile, but instead you use the info somewhere else like in the postbit, etc. There's a simple Yes/No option for "Show in Member Search"... why not "Show in Profile"?
Isn't the PEH a semi-invasion of privacy?E.g. - I might change my mind about saying something and remove it... I'd be pretty P.O.'ed if I knew that admins could see my previous edits.
Do I smell an ACP restyle/rewrite?????????? The screenshots aren't in the current vB 3.6.x Default... :cool:

Now for the compliments:

Wow at the social groups, and WOW at the messages for them. (Although, TBH, I thought that the "groups" thing in vB 3.6.x was this until it um, wasn't. :))

WOW at the member gallery. Never would have thought vB would include that stock.

WOW at the YUI interface stuff, and WOW at the lightbox!!!! yessssss.

And finally, Kier and his baby are really freaking cute! ;) Oh, and that's a freaking huge lens on that camera.

[richpal]

What can I say apart from the new updated vBulletin 3.7.0 looks very impressive indeed...Well done to everyone involved :)

Just two tweaks I can think of...


SEO for images posted on the forum so the pics are actually listed by the search engines

And just one tweak to really annoy the spammers...As below

Automatic forum list created as 'spammers' posting their username and email address (once they have clicked on the verification email) as defined in the [NEW] sign up user terms and conditions :D I say this bearing in mind that spam bots trawl the internet looking for email address to spam to!

[---MAD---]

Nice big detailed post their Floris ;).

[Sownman]

Really nice looking changes. Esp thread prefix and lightbox and spam prevention. I'm surprised and a bit pissed. My annual upgrades just expired. You're going to force me to pay up again which I didn't think I'd do until 4.0.

Steve

[Floris]

is it codded simulalar to 3.6 w/ some more features? i know its not your problem but do u expect any 3.6 hacks and other add ons to work like vbadvanced or is it a very unlikly?

im looking forward to playing w/ here but ill wait for all things to be ironed out before i get to go live w/ it.

It is 3.6 with code rewrites and new code and new functions and options. In order to have the new features work. It is big enough of a change to go from 3.6 to 3.7, just like it was from 3.5 to 3.6. It is not uncommon that after the stable release of a product addons like vBAdvanced are releasing an update to make sure it remains compatible.

I just noticed theres no report button in the user picture albums - this is quite important. Maybe I missed it or something but if its not there, its vital that its added :).

I wish they would add it in PMs as well.

I can't say there is or is not. You'll have to wait. But you're always free to suggest it to the devs here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=55

Looks like the right direction :)

How long usually, does beta periods endure?

In my eyes it has never been an unreasonable amount of time. You could compare history and assume the average.

Yeah, but what about forum status icons? :confused:

Why would anybody want to have custom forum icons per forum? And no, I don't believe it will have that.

ps. omg I HATE YOU TOO!! cause you just made hours and hours and hours of hard work tweeking and fixing fretting moot.... and paid for add-ons obsolete!! GRRRR!!!!

(no, that's not actually a complaint. at least...not a long term one. lol ;))

A result is that sometimes new features are inspired by popular modifications, although any code in vBulletin is written from scratch by the developers, unless they expressly note otherwise

Veeeeeerrrrrrrrrryyyyyyy cool new features !! :cool:

Looks like a whole buncha hacks from vb.org were integrated. VB.org activity will be decreasing on those "former" hacks :D

Look forward to using the new goodies :D

A great moment for them to get inspired to step it up and come up with yet again a new version that will make everybody install their update to that unofficial mod.

could there be a better pay subscription systeem like setting the option to select a subscription on the registerpage?

IPB have it to and its better to let the users now about the paid subscriptions !
I don't use IPS software, so I don't know how it works for them, but it would be really nice for one of my sites if a customer could sign up and purchase the subscription during registration.

Will the new thread tagging system ping technorati or other systems as designated? If not, would this be implemented at a later date?

If it isn't listed, then I can't comment on it. But as far as social bookmarking goes, you can add your own bookmarking sites from the manager, as per the screenshot.

Good to see that new version is just around the corner with great features inline for everyone. But i was very disappointed to see that still vB is missing out people who want to access the forums on the move. And they usually do it from their mobile phones with help of GPRS or Internet services provided by their operators.

Think about it. It will be very helpful and forums can attract more and more people if they are also available on people's mobile phones.
I am not a developer, nor do I choose what goes in or not. However, seeing how the market is changing and more and more phones (such as the iPhone) provide full browsing .. I believe it is a matter of waiting so everybody can just use the full forum from their mobile device.

vBulletin already offers a lite browsing for guests AND logged in users through the archive for PDA/WAP. And admins of a forum could install a lite style optimized for mobile devices.

1. Will the prices go up since the new release ?
2. Very nice :D

No. I have not heard any info about a price increase for 3.7.

Stupid question... will All hacks have to be recoded? ( I meen hacks that are not replaced by the new system. Example: video hacks for profile or audioplayers for attachments etc.. etc.. admin log in as user.. and and.. and..)
btw.. looks very nice

L.

Yes, many hacks might require a small (or major) update in order to work properly on 3.7. But it will not surprise me that many will not need an update at all. Since it is still the same 3.x branch.

I'd like to hear more details about this. Advertisement locations defined in templates. Locations?

Does that include left and right columns?

vBulletin does not have left or right columns.

Locations meaning hooks in templates that link to advertising templates. You as an admin can open this advertising template (for example) for the header and throw in the ad-code. Without having to update the core templates of the style, such as header/navbar/footer, etc. Meaning if you upgrade from 3.7.0 to 3.7.1 you don't have to revert the navbar template and re-apply your customization (to name a random benefit).

You guys should work on SEO for this version. Its a MASSIVE thing these days.

You can post suggestions here: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?f=55

Most of these new features appears to be cosmetics or additions. Are there any major existing core files change?

Yeah. Files have been changed. See the top of this post.

[Vile]

Wow, amazing...Thanks for the update!

[Floris]

*Looks over at other computer with test server that has a month's worth of non-stop work, including entire template rewrites and relying on some pretty big mods (vBadvanced) and starts to cry* You could choose to not upgrade just yet, and have your forum work with your customized current version. Let 3.7.0 become stable first, and perhaps even wait until 3.7.1, then while your members are getting used to the current update, you can work on your site site on the new features and their own customizations. Of course, I hope you understand that vBulletin will continue to be developed, and 4.x as mentioned by the devs will mean you have this same issue next time you customize your complete site.
*Looks at live site's member profiles, wonders if someone is going to make importer for visionscripts' iProfiles, and cries some more* I have never heard of these addons, I don't know how populair they are. So I am not sure how complex or data-rich those profiles, etc are. Meaning I am not sure if an import script for just a profile will be provided. You can always make the suggestion in the suggestion forum (or perhaps better in the impex forum)

*Continues crying**comforts*

Now for the even worse:

I agree that the profiles would look better at full width, HOWEVER, something has to be done about that tabbed interface! Increasing the height of the active tab is just not the way you should show it. The entire profile also looks way too boxy. (I understand I can change all this myself, and I definitely will... so I guess I should just not say anything. :) ) It's using/adapting to the 3.x design, offering a total rewrite of a design just for the profile page will give the impression it is a third party addon on top of vBulletin. A new style change if any, will be for the next major release, not 3.x

Friending system still seems clunky. Checkboxes? How about a simple "Send Friend Request".. And on the "Request-ee's" side of it, you just get simple Approve/Deny buttons. I also don't think there should be any distinction between buddy and friend, that's kind of silly, awkward, and confusing.
I've used it the other day, and it is not exactly how you describe it. It's intuitive, easy to use, logical and simply works. I'd wait and see how it is 'live', and if it then still isn't to your liking you can always make a customization or suggest changes in the suggestion forum.

Everything is really amazing though, even if some of it is just "slightly-less-than-amazing"!! :D Glad we got something right! hehe.

Now for the questions:

Do we still have no control over which profile fields SHOW on the profile?I guess you can set the field to "Private" and then allow NOBODY to see private fields (but can a user see their own private field, even if all usergroups have the option set to no?). For instance, profile fields can be used for "utilitarian" things, like for a link to MySpace or something else that doesn't really need to be SHOWN on the profile, but instead you use the info somewhere else like in the postbit, etc. There's a simple Yes/No option for "Show in Member Search"... why not "Show in Profile"?

Custom profile fields are the same as in 3.6 basically, (leaking info here .. I just think they have a new little feature)
Isn't the PEH a semi-invasion of privacy?E.g. - I might change my mind about saying something and remove it... I'd be pretty P.O.'ed if I knew that admins could see my previous editsWell, .. if you say something you shouldn't have said, you can always say sorry. A good admin can see in the post history that you've changed your mind and should not hold the previous post against you. You could also of course think twice before posting, so you don't run the risk of offending anybody. (note, just commenting to your post here, not to you personally)
Do I smell an ACP restyle/rewrite?????????? The screenshots aren't in the current vB 3.6.x Default... :cool: I doubt it.

Now for the compliments: keep them coming

[Floris]

Really nice looking changes. Esp thread prefix and lightbox and spam prevention. I'm surprised and a bit pissed. My annual upgrades just expired. You're going to force me to pay up again which I didn't think I'd do until 4.0.

Steve
It is impossible to pick a date where the majority of the customers have renewed, and the 'other majority' doesn't have to renew. Sorry if it didn't work out in your case.

[AWS]

I hate to be the first negative responder.

So far all the new features that will be added to 3.7 are just fluff. Still no love for people with huge forums. No new search facility that will actually work without slowing the servers to a crawl. Still no support for other db besides mysql. No true way to archive old threads and posts so wecan keep the db down to a manageable size.
Oh well, there is always hope that 4.0 will actually bring about some optimizations instead of more fluff.

[Ohiosweetheart]

OMG! I have been waiting for the SN'ing features and I am NOT disappointed!
Monday IS my birthday, and I will be spending it right here! :D

[corman420]

Looks amazing guys. Keep up the great work. Seriously amazing work.

[Floris]

I hate to be the first negative responder.

So far all the new features that will be added to 3.7 are just fluff. Still no love for people with huge forums. No new search facility that will actually work without slowing the servers to a crawl. Still no support for other db besides mysql. No true way to archive old threads and posts so wecan keep the db down to a manageable size.
Oh well, there is always hope that 4.0 will actually bring about some optimizations instead of more fluff. The things you mentioned require dramatic underlying code and structural changes. Which will push v3 to v4 for example, and can't be expected for 3.6 to 3.7 change. But yes, I understand your frustration. Though 3.x has been updated to include quite some changes to make it easier for bigger sites. Such as support for FULLTEXT for search and Slave database, file system cache for datastore, storing images/attachments in the file system, and such ..

[jw0ollard]

I don't use IPB, so would not know. This is not written based on how IPS does their stuff, this is how the devs want it, and think the users want it.


Was that left over from something else?? I didn't mention anything about IPB in my post. ;):p

As for more compliments, I'll keep the coming -- come Monday when I can see it with my own two eyes. :)

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As for the addon I was talking about, it's VisionScripts' Interactive Profiles (it used to be commercial but is now doing very well at vB.org), which is almost exactly what the new member profiles/friend requests are now. (I'm quite sure the devs received some inspiration from this hack.) But anyway, I'd still wish there'd be some kind of importer. :)

[Mansour_Q]

I Hope 4.0 Will Be The Biggest Ever ..

People Always Want Something Amazing But You Will Got What You Want When They Want " I Mean By The Steps We Will Got EveryThings " ..(Add Lines After I Read Negative Post)

3.7 Mmm Great Works But In Beta Stage ..

[Floris]

Was that left over from something else?? I didn't mention anything about IPB in my post. ;):p

As for more compliments, I'll keep the coming -- come Monday when I can see it with my own two eyes. :)

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As for the addon I was talking about, it's VisionScripts' Interactive Profiles, which is almost exactly what the new member profiles are now. (I'm quite sure the devs received some inspiration from this hack.) But anyway, I'd still wish there'd be some kind of importer. :)
Yes, I wrote a reply but deleted it, I missed a line. Thanks for pointing it out - I will update my post.

[jw0ollard]

I'm assuming the URLs for the Thread Tags link to a search results page that contains all the relevantly tagged threads?

Is the tag in the querystring of the URL and is it simple, like "&tag=iPhone"? That will make linking to results for a certain tag very easy and very nice if you have things like news forums.

[Wayne Luke]

I'm assuming the URLs for the Thread Tags link to a search results page that contains all the relevantly tagged threads?

Is the tag in the querystring of the URL and is it simple, like "&tag=iPhone"? That will make linking to results for a certain tag very easy and very nice if you have things like news forums.
search.php?do=findtag&tag=iphone

So yeah.. you should have fairly easy linking available.

[Analogpoint]

Thank you so much, you've made my day :D Now have a great weekend!

[Zachery]

The admincp style uses is frontend IIRC which is included by default.

[jw0ollard]

search.php?do=findtag&tag=iphone

So yeah.. you should have fairly easy linking available.

Are spaces replaced with dashes or underscores? Or do you simply show the "%20" in the URL?

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Also, Floris, RE: making an importer suggestion in the ImpEx forum:

ImpEx currently doesn't even import custom profile fields (or at least when I imported my live site to my test site a month ago it didn't).. So I'd probably start by suggesting importing things from vBulletin -> vBulletin before I start suggesting importing things from 3rd Party Hacks -> vBulletin. :)

Besides, if the data is stored similarly (blob, mediumtext, etc), I can hopefully just run an update query.. Although I'm not the greatest with MySQL.

[DaveTomneyUK]

Will anything be added like this : http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=150491 so people can add there own "SWF - MP3 - WMV etc" files.

[EWGF]

Busy to completely restyle my site, I guess I'll try to stall some time to include vB3.7 :rolleyes:

Amazing features! Can't wait till monday to check it here..

[telc]

I have a couple questions about the "Thread Prefixes" will I be able to limit only Admins and Mods to assign a Prefix to a Thread?

Also will I be able to prune based on thread prefix's, so for example I can prune all threads in a forum, but ignore threads that have a certain prefix, such as a "How To" Thread.

Will we be able to disable some of the new features such as "Thread Tagging"? I can for-see users entering irrelevant keywords into the posts just to get them to come up in searches.

[Lpspider]

Will anything be added like this : http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=150491 so people can add there own "SWF - MP3 - WMV etc" files.

I doubt it'll come stock. But I have no doubt there'll be modifications for this sort of thing.

[Demaree]

Absolutely amazing stuff coming out in 3.7. Can't wait to get my hands on it!:)

[Wayne Luke]

Are spaces replaced with dashes or underscores? Or do you simply show the "%20" in the URL?

%20

[alme]

I'm impressed! To me it seems like 3.7 is where vB goes from a forum software to a community software.

[Kier]

One question though, will it be possible for users to "ignore" custom profile styling all together?Yes, this was one of the first things we decided would be necessary if we were to allow profile page modification.

[Kier]

Most of these new features appears to be cosmetics or additions. Are there any major existing core files change?
No. 3.7 is a purely feature-based release, not a change of architecture.

[Alfa1]

I am very happy with these new features. Most is awesome. The profile looks ugly and I hope this will get more work or has functions to enhance it.
Thread prefixes rock!! Thank you!!!

Will prefixes made with mystic's thread prefixes add on be imported to 3.7??

[pollon]

It's amazing, I really can't wait to install it!!!

[Kier]

Re: Profile ratingI think thats in there because on the profile screenshot you can see the 5 gold stars near "Kier". That may be for profile rating?No, the image you see there is actually a rank image. On the development forums we use the 1-5 star images as rank examples and that is what you are seeing up there.

I decided not to include profile rating as a feature in 3.7 because IMO we already have a superior system for rating members in the form of the reputation system.

[Alfa1]

Can we import images from photopost pro to vbulletin's image gallery ? Will Jelsoft release a script for this?

[Chroder]

Really impressed by this. It looks very very good! Brilliant work guys, really :D Can't wait to get my hands on it :cool:

[glorify]

W-O-W That's a ton. Gonna have to remove some hacks to let vb's take their place.

[Reeve of Shinra]

This looks like a very exciting release! I have some vacation time i need to burn so I hope its released soon ;)

Q1: Will User-Created Social Groups be replacing the public usergroup feature currently in vbulletin 3.6?

Q2: Can forum perms be setup per social group?

Q3: Any changes to the similiar threads feature?

Q4: Navbar Notices -- is this intended as a replacement for the welcome message mod that everyone knows and loves?

[chaselafon]

The new features are superb! :)

[Michael2]

Good god, I think I just wet myself.

[Milado]

I'm amazed, but didn't like the profile especially the upper left corner, where the image, the IP icon and the activity box. .. etc. I think it may be done better. you may gather those things in one extra box. like the rating and the small icons.

[RedTyger]

Q4: Navbar Notices -- is this intended as a replacement for the welcome message mod that everyone knows and loves?

It seems unlikely they target modifications for replacement, more likely see a feature that functions well and decide to do something along the same lines themselves. I would imagine it is an upgrade of the default Guest message vBulletin has by default rather than a usurping of a modification.

I wonder also if it may be a replacement for the current forum announcement system, which I believe adds a query to forumdisplay itself. Or does it work in tandem?

[Kier]

I'm amazed, but didn't like the profile especially the upper left corner, where the image, the IP icon and the activity box. .. etc. I think it may be done better. you may gather those things in one extra box. like the rating and the small icons.
Those icons are actually your rank and reputation images - if you have nice looking rank images they'll look nice on the profile page - it's just that on the dev forums we use icons from elsewhere in the system.

I can see how this could be confusing, so I'll alter the screengrabs.

Edit: I have now done this. I have disabled the rank system and increased my reputation on the screengrab so it is more obvious what you are looking at.

I've also posted a look at the complete memberinfo page so it is possible to see how the new template fits into the overall vBulletin design.

http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/full-memberinfo-compare.png

[ReQueM]

Like what you've seen so far?

Good job, thanks..

I can't wait :D:p

[stryka]

Is there a way to have the option of the profile picture as your avatar?

Or... Some ppl may want to have an cartoon avatar for forum posting but show their profile pic on their friend lists.....

hmm.... i like what i see... i guess my answers will come Monday when i try it out myself...