I paid some extra to get the new forum software early "pre-release" anyhow, we should be doing the update middle of next week. About the only downside is I will have to rebuild the custom skins, nothing too major, but will take a little time. I will have to re-add the quick reply hack and what not as well.



There are a ton of administration features I didn't list, i figure about a half hour of downtime if all goes well.



Here is a list of some of the new features:



Other: [NEW] Events Calendar

Other: [NEW] COPPA compliance



Private Messages: [NEW] Forward Message

Private Messages: [NEW] Graphic display on allocated storage size remaining

Private Messages: [NEW] Message Tracking

Private Messages: [NEW] Carbon Copy Feature

Private Messages: [NEW] Save as draft feature

Private Messages: [NEW] Ability to receive email notification of any new private messages

Private Messages: [NEW] "Select all read messages" link

Private Messages: [IMPROVED] Cleaner interface with a more logical structure

Private Messages: [IMPLEMENTED] Email notification of new PM's



Posting: [NEW] Ability to remove, or change an attachment when editing

Posting: [NEW] Ability to add or remove the "Edit by" line (group setting)

Posting: [NEW] Ability to restrict the time edits are allowed

Posting: [NEW] Root forums can accept sub forums and remain postable

Posting: [NEW] Admin ability to stop quote embedding

Posting: [NEW] Group Promotion; admin option (per group) to allow a member to be promoted to another group based on posts

Posting: [IMPROVED] Improved Code Buttons

Posting: [NEW] Ability to set an independent poll question to the topic title

Posting: [NEW] Admin ability to allow [URL] and[IMG] tags in polls



Moderation: [NEW] IP Management center: Look up IP address, find all users that match an IP or find all posts made under an IP

Moderation: [NEW] Ability to view / unsubscribe all users from a topic

Moderation: [NEW] Ability to merge two topics into one

Moderation: [NEW] Ability to split a topic into two

Moderation: [NEW] Ability to move a topic directly after posting

Moderation: [NEW] Admin option: View Topic History; produces topic overview and any related entries from the moderator logs

Moderation: [IMPROVED] Re-written Moderators Control Panel: Includes topic by topic selection to move/prune/pin/unpin/close/open and delete



Search: [NEW] Search flooding added (by member group)

Search: [NEW] View results as posts

Search: [IMPROVED] Increase in speed and effiency



Interface: [NEW] Ability to download a copy of the topic in HTML or Microsoft Word format

Interface: [NEW] Quick log in box for guest users

Interface: [NEW] After log in, you're taken to the page you logged in from

Interface: [NEW] Users browsing forums feature (can be switched off)

Interface: [NEW] Users browsing topics feature (can be switched off)

Interface: [NEW] Yahoo! Icon linked to Yahoo! Messenger Console

Interface: [NEW] MSN Icon linked to MSN Messenger Console

Interface: [NEW] Ability to choose posts per page and topics per page

Interface: [NEW] Report post to moderator link on each post

Interface: [NEW] Who posted featurette

Interface: [NEW] "Browse Buddy"; a floating 'pallete' launcher

Interface: [IMPROVED] Base skin font sizes increased

Interface: [IMPROVED] Edited by line now in viewers time zone

Interface: [IMPROVED] Pinned topics have their own HTML rows and start / end rows

Interface: [IMPROVED] PM Pop up contains a direct link to the latest message (saves a few clicks!)

Interface: [IMPROVED] Printable Version of topic HTML makeover



Active Users: [NEW] Admin Group ability to view "anonymous" users

Active Users: [NEW] Admin Group ability to view online user IP addresses

Active Users: [NEW] Link to topic with topic name a user is browsing



Registering: [NEW] Anti "Flood Bot / DoS" control when registering, forces user to input a random numeric string shown in images

Registering: [NEW] Error messages printed above the form, no more hitting "back" to correct the form!



Subscriptions: [NEW] Ability to "auto track" topics you participate in

Subscriptions: [NEW] Ability to receive notification of new topics in a forum via "Forum Subscription" feature

Subscriptions: [IMPROVED] Viewing current subscriptions list grouped by forum

Subscriptions: [IMPROVED] Frequency of emails for tracked topics increased to 1 per board visit

All those new features makes me want to be a mod now.EH https://www.nopistons.com/forums/pub...#>/biggrin.png

What about 400hp20B.exe for download? Just unzip & run the executable in your garage

wonder who your gonna use that one on

:wave:



Hi ya'll!

I wish i had something that actually pertained to this to say. Or even something that pertained to something that pertained to something about this topic.