vBulletin Community Forum - vBulletin 4 Suggestions

User Interface Preview button on quick reply

malmazan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:55:23 GMT

Would encourage more content quality.

If you ask me, there would be an admin option so an one could always FORCE a preview before posting.

User Interface Go to last post on subscribed threads

malmazan — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:37:26 GMT

Lists of subscribed threads should have a way to go to the last post, or last unread post, which what one would want most of the time.

Search Multiple prefixes select - please consider this urgent

Sarthek — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 19:35:49 GMT

Hi,

Forums who use a lot prefixes, I think would very appreciate this simple, yet modern and very useful function. When searching by prefixes, we could use multiple selection at once.

Please consider it adding to the next version.

Human Verify For PMs

digitalpoint — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 18:13:51 GMT

We really need the ability for PMs to be human verified (captcha) as an option. One of our biggest problems right now as a large board are PM spam bots... they manually set up the account (or in some cases 100 accounts) to get by the captcha, and use them to just blast out PMs.

Even when someone creates 100 PM bots to get around the time between sending PMs, they aren't too noticeable in the "Who's Online" area because they log in for a split second, send the PM, and log out... then repeat with a different account.

Please Baby Jesus, all I want for Christmas is the ability to have captchas when sending PMs... amen.

Search Advanced Search

interfx — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 17:51:00 GMT

I just figured out there are 2 different Advanced Search pages... One called "Search by Type", and One called "Advanced Search" by clicking on the upper right button... Although I think this is "cool", I think a majority of my forum members would not realize where to find both of them...

Why not make a tabbed version, so they can see both. Also, would like a way via the AdminCP to set the default of what comes up for users... (for example the Advanced Search page - the commonly used by my members)

Thanks -

Home page Images sizing

molieman — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 15:39:22 GMT

Since my update to vB Beta 4 I lost the automatic size format of the images on the home pages. Has this feature been removed or is there a setting somewhere that activates this.

Look here and you'll see what I mean:

www.mycockpitinc.com/test/

Matt Olieman
MyCockpit.org

CMS Not sure if this has been suggested yet (polls on CMS from forum)

dutchbb — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 13:51:42 GMT

What I would like to see for the CMS/suite is the ability to show old/new polls from the forum on the CMS pages.

This should have these options:
- ability to only show polls from certain forum ID's
- ability to show only polls from x date to y date
- ability to show only poll started by certain user ID
- ability to show either random polls, latest polls or a list of poll ID's

Thanks

Languages Suggestion

AdemGEN� — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 12:19:31 GMT

I'm sorry, my bad english

Welcome Email Message
Welcome PM Message
$vbphrase[moderation_deleted]
AND
{1} - Powered by vBulletin ($vbphrase[x_powered_by_vbulletin])

not be in language phrase
Because, these messages boards are special expressions.
Should not change the language file is loaded.

For vBulletin4
These messages separate from language
Was very good

Quote:

If this is your first visit, be sure to check out the FAQ by clicking the link above. You may have to register before you can post: click the register link above to proceed. To start viewing messages, select the forum that you want to visit from the selection below.

RSS Poster Automatically Promote To Article Or Promote To Blog

maximutt — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:37:26 GMT

It would be cool to extend the capabilities of the RSS Poster to include the CMS and Blogs. Or can we get a control to have a specific forum setup so that all incoming posts get automatically promoted to articles or blogs? This way the RSS Poster could be used in its current setup.

This would be great for syndicating content across various sites.

Today's Posts

Christie — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 11:25:51 GMT

Will there be an option to view "today's posts" as well as "new posts"? If there is one already and I'm missing it can someone point me in the right direction. I use that a lot on my forum and it would be a big miss for me.

CMS Rating function available?

Janmaat — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:45:25 GMT

I'm wondering whether there will be a rating function be available in the final? So that users will be able to rate articles maybe with 1 star to 5 stars like the Amazon Customer Rating.

New suggestion: Ban user in moderation area

CaptJager — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 09:00:17 GMT

Right now we have accept, delete, or ignore in the Users awaiting Moderation area I would like to see Ban user radio button added to there . THanks

Email Handling vB4 bounce management to prevent blacklisting?

boatdesign — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:27:39 GMT

Will vB4 provide any help for keeping the email addresses members have on file up to date to prevent the forum mailserver from being blacklisted due to notification bounces? (i.e. bounce management; automatic subscription suspension upon bounce; user prompting upon mail bounce)

Forums New Suggestion:

Sfitzgerald — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 08:12:08 GMT

I would like in future updates to limit what forums shows up in the what's new button - with out having to do some code edits

For example: I would like to have some RSS feeds forums and those posts from the rss feeder not show up in the what's new.

Thanks

Database Error on upgrade

underdog1954 — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:55:08 GMT

Hello,
I still haven't got the problem fixed, but when the upgrade was started it went fine until it reached the Alpha 6 step of the upgrade. On the second step:

Quote:

Altering attachment Table (1 of 2)
Altering attachment Table (2 of 2)

I got this error message...

Quote:

Database error in vBulletin 4.0.0 Alpha 6:

Invalid SQL:
ALTER TABLE attachment ADD INDEX contenttypeid (contenttypeid,contentid,attachmentid);

MySQL Error : Key column 'contenttypeid' doesn't exist in table
Error Number : -1
Request Date : Sunday, November 22nd 2009 @ 12:56:53 AM
Error Date : Sunday, November 22nd 2009 @ 12:56:53 AM
Script : http://11.22.33.66/~vbtest40/forums/install/upgrade_400b1.php?step=1
Referrer : http://11.22.33.66/~vbtest40/forums/install/upgrade_400b1.php
IP Address : 123.456.789.012
Username :
Classname : vB_Database
MySQL Version :

Has anyone else experienced this, and, does anyone know how to correct it? :confused:

Thanks

How can I change simple colors in default template

nurse_emily — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:23:52 GMT

I can edit #000000 in css but I can't find where to find them in the default forum. Where can I find the css in the default template so I can get rid of the horrible baby blue.

I can't find anyone with a template so I at least want to change the colors.

Thanks

"This CSS file is obsolete and is available here for reference purposes only." <----------- it won't let me change the colors! There is no save button

Adding Images from albums into articles

kwallace — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:03:44 GMT

I did have a search for this before I posted :)

My website, while community driven, has a series of news posts that reuccur. For these posts I use the same title picture.

It would be nice if though the "upload picture" setting in the WYSIWYG editor that you have a tab to put a picture from your album, that way you dont need to upload it over and over again or find out what URL it is every time you want to put it in :)

Also, while I'm here ;) It would be nice if you could word wrap around a picture when you view the article proper. In the main page where you get the teaser part of an article it's fine, but when you open it up into the main full article it sticks out by itself.

After a bit more playing..... It would also be nice to post an article under an alias (which is helpful if your adding articles and want to give credit to original author)

Ad Locations with Alignment (Left, Center, Right)

interfx — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 03:02:41 GMT

Please add a way when creating a new Ad, for example in these locations (Below Navbar, or Above Footer) to have the option to align left, center, or right...

For example, right now it defaults to left position... Either make it default to center, or have the option to show 3 different alignment locations...

This should be a very simple thing to incorporate...

Invite yourself - solution for valid mail on register

testebr — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 00:27:52 GMT

See this website idea of user account register http://svidgen.com/invite_self

You need to give your email to receive an 'invite' to register on website.

Good idea? Let users talk about it.

Cya.

Advertising dates

attroll — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:55:17 GMT

I don't know if this has been brought up before. But I have a few suggestions for the admincp area for advertising.

1. Have a start and end date when the ad starts displaying and when it stops displaying.
2. Track each adds clicks.
3. Track each ads impressions.

Sub forum under vb4 for stylvars help?

Charlie_Brown — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:46:35 GMT

Can we have a subforum section under the vb4 beta to only talk and get help with stylvars? This would make it easy weeding out all those posts when one is just wanting help or read what others did to change the colors.

Styles StyleVar Dictionary needs updated

Vicros — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 22:43:22 GMT

The stylevar dictionary needs to be updated. Its missing alot of things that beta 4 now uses.

Please use CSS sprites

Bisha — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:59:01 GMT

Why vB don't use css sprites? I recently notice this small issue on loading OVER images in replay and reply with quotes....

css sprites are used also in big websites google yahoo etc..

read about css sprites http://svidgen.com/sprites

Username change request

Temptations — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 21:42:18 GMT

I was thinking of something in the settings area where you can send a request to an admin to change your username. You type the username you want into a box and click "request name change" and then the request appears in the ACP.

CMS Orphaned attachments in articles with no deletion options?

HondaATC — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:08:41 GMT

http://img682.imageshack.us/i/orphanedattachments.jpg/

Heres another thing I encountered this morning. I was uploading some attachments to a test article I was making, and some how, the attachments went into this list style format isntead of being displayed with a thumbnail like all the rest of them. This was all done from the file upload option in the article creation page. Incidentally, these attachments are not even listed in the article creation/modification page, its like they do not exist. Infact I didn't even know they had uploaded until I saved and went back and looked at the article page from a non-editing view. I was just thinking the file upload had failed.

On the front end though, they are visible in this vb3 style list format. You can click on the link, and it loads the pictures directly on a new page in the same browser window. It does not bring up the Litebox with the forward/backward buttons like the rest of the images do. There also is no edit pencil when you hover over the links. This is with an administration account. The paperclip, is not click able either.

Also, minor thing, I'm not sure why the "HHHHHHHReply" is on the comment I made under the article. It links back to the main content.php page and it does take me there when I click on it.

reported post should include quote of post and member/author that was reported

boatdesign — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:23:22 GMT

When someone reports a post, it would be nice if the report includes a quote of the post and also the poster of the post that was reported in the email that's sent to moderators.

Currently this isn't included, and so I sometimes get more than one report on the same post and don't instantly identify that it's the same post being reported (vs. two posts in the same thread). Also I sometimes moderate on the forum itself, and then get a report via email so I'd appreciate the quote/poster listed to make it instantly identifiable. Finally, it would be handy for my own record keeping to have poster identified in the reports.

Also it would be nice to have reports recorded in the admin cp so you would look up a user and see all the posts of theirs which have been reported over time.

Asset Manager Please add ATTACH=CONFIG like the Insert Image option has.

Arjan — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 19:14:44 GMT

When you add a photo with the insert image, then the ATTACH BB-code automatichly has the option =CONFIG
This is very usefull, since you can set the size of the image (which is a request many people ask for) to large, thumb and medium. And you can set the alignment.
Also it seems to me that in CMSarticles the =CONFIG property is the thing that causes the (first) photo to be shown on the CMS frontpage as well (a normal attach does not show up there in my tests)

Please add the =CONFIG property also to image attachments which are added through the assets/attachment manager (both advanced and the old attachment manager).
Actually now I am just using the Insert image to add my photo's so I can set their size and alignment, while the asset manager is very powerfull.
In some cases I use the asset manager, but then I have to go to text mode and add the =CONFIG property manually to all attachments.

Threads Choose prefix at move thread

pod — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 18:31:52 GMT

An issue I ran to usually with my moderators is that they forget to set an appropriate prefix after moving a thread where prefixes are mandatory. The current process for doing so is very unintuitive (you have to Edit Thread after moving it). It'd be much easier if this could be done with only one step. I.e, when you choose the form you're going to move your thread to, AJAX loads the list of prefixes you can use in that specific forum.

Editable Tabs

[PGS]MikalMirkas — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:26:21 GMT

It's pretty straight forward, we should be able to edit them. That would be win, and it seems more like something that should be default, than be a custom mod @ vb.org

Social Groups Social groups picture categories

Sledgstone — Sat, 21 Nov 2009 17:10:30 GMT

I've been checking out the social groups in vb4 and the social groups are much much better in terms of adding pictures to them. Previously you would have to upload a picture to a public album in your profile and then share that picture with a group. But now you have the ability to directly attach an image into that group. Now if we can set picture categories into this group it would be even more functional. Lets say I have a social group for fans of the anime "One Piece". It has a huge following and a variety of pictures all over the internet. I'd like to have image categories for each of the characters within that social group for easier picture navigation. I could just make a new social group for every character and have each of those goups act as categories, but my board isn't frequented enough to necessitate making multiple social groups like that. If image categories were in place, I could have just one social group that would be alot more organized as opposed to having multiple social groups each with their own discussion topics.