Darren Gordon

vb3.8 Beta 3

26 Comments

on Wed 19th Nov '08 at 10:46am (14033 Views)

Hey everybody.

We've been very busy testing and fixing for vBulletin 3.8's release. Beta 3 is now up and running here on vbulletin.com. Aside from general bug fixing there have been a couple of feature changes that you might be interested in...

Private Message History

A new private message history feature has been implemented. When you receive a message from another user that is inreply to something you sent them, you can now view a history of replies.

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This is useful when you receive a message from someone and you cannot recollect the original discussion. The message history keeps track of all messages that have been replied to back and forward since an original message, allowing you to view the full discussion. There are some caveats that should be noted:

The message history will only ever show messages from your own message folders. For this reason, if you do not save sent messages then they will not be displayed; nor will messages that you delete.

The message history only displays messages that are older than the current message.

Message history will only be shown for PM's sent since vB 3.8 Beta 3.

Messages sent since Beta 1 will show the message history option but it will display 'This message has no saved history'.

If you save a copy of a PM when you send it, that PM will always have a message history option and open with 'This message has no saved history'.

Social Group Icons

When a user creates a social group, they will now be prompted to upload an icon during the group creation process. Additionally, the new usergroups and random usergroup on the group overview will favour groups that have icons. This ensures that the group overview appears interesting, and is not simply full of the default ? icon, as well as encouraging users to maintain their groups with interest.

vBulletin 3.8 will be with you shortly

Bonus Feature: A 'Save & Reload' button has been added to the plugin editor so that changes can be applied, tested, changed, tested more easily.

Tags: ‎vbulletin 3.8, beta 3

Categories: ‎ vBulletin 3.8 , ‎ vBulletin

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Comments

daFish - Wed 19th Nov '08 11:04am

A 'Save & Reload' button has been added to the plugin editor so that changes can be applied, tested, changed, tested more easily.

This one feature is very handy and really helpful. Thanks for adding it and thanks for the rest anyway.
---MAD--- - Wed 19th Nov '08 11:31am

Excellent. Message history will save a lot of time!
pipedreams - Wed 19th Nov '08 12:07pm

Super!
testebr - Wed 19th Nov '08 12:40pm

No updated files list since last beta is a problem for us test each beta release.
3dsoft - Wed 19th Nov '08 12:42pm

Actually I like the idea of threaded private messages better but a "Private Message" history is a good start. ^^
Darren Gordon - Wed 19th Nov '08 2:10pm

Yeah, it's important to note that the message history is kept simple so as not to delay the beta process.

I personally thought there was a lot of 'bang for buck' for something that was fairly simple to implement while not impacting 3.8's release
Reeve of Shinra - Wed 19th Nov '08 6:20pm

good call
raiderlax - Thu 20th Nov '08 2:13am

Thanks, good work!

When do you think 3.8 Gold will be released?
hornstar6969 - Thu 20th Nov '08 4:25am

great new feature, something which I welcome very much because I am often going back looking at what they are referring to when they pm me with a reply a day latter.
Princeton - Thu 20th Nov '08 10:18am

Private Message History - Excellent idea!!

thanks for the update
cheat-master30 - Fri 21st Nov '08 7:21am

Nice features, but to be honest, why wasn't any of this stated in the announcement topic? It would encourage more people to use this version and actually see why a new beta has been released.
induslady - Tue 25th Nov '08 4:36pm

Look forward to the gold release soon!
Floris - Wed 26th Nov '08 11:03am

Beta 4 is out
Ranger375 - Thu 27th Nov '08 8:35am

I hope you guys fix the "latest blog entry" addition to the bottom of the main page. When it worked in the first beta, people were actually posting to the blogs. Now that it's gone, well, it gets less attention.
shlomot - Fri 28th Nov '08 3:09am

Just noticed that a usergroup that is not allowed to PM or Email forum members can still exploit their Instant Messaging information. Please take care of this glitch a.s.a.p.
Wayne Luke - Fri 28th Nov '08 1:28pm

I hope you guys fix the "latest blog entry" addition to the bottom of the main page. When it worked in the first beta, people were actually posting to the blogs. Now that it's gone, well, it gets less attention.

This is actually a bug in the blog product.
PitchouneN64ngc - Fri 28th Nov '08 8:18pm

And it's fixed here for the next release
ReQueM - Fri 28th Nov '08 11:10pm

beta 4?
schwab2clarkson - Sat 29th Nov '08 6:27am

Awesome stuff. Sounds like we are all in for the ride of a lifetime with version 3.8
MR K - Wed 3rd Dec '08 3:40pm

RC1 is out