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Tako
25-04-2008, 03:57 PM
I have just been informed by vBulletin (It's good to be registered :OO:) that v3.7.0 will be released some time next week. To be honest... when i saw the preview of the new vBulletin, I was stunned.... (PS - God bless we migrated from the v2 to the v3... ghax kont nidghiiii!!!)

Anyways....

This upgrade will include some kinky new features and updates, including...

Inline Spam Management and Prevention Tools - The new vBulletin will contain a new set of tools to help clean up spam and deal with spammers.... I KILL YOU.

Thread Tagging - A new way to facilitate searching and grouping of threads, it is now possible for users to add tags to threads they post or read.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/thread-tags-showthread.png

Thread Prefixes - Long requested by users, threads can now have administrator-defined prefixes to their titles.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/thread-prefixes.png

Reciprocal Friendships Between Users - As part of our new social networking system, users can now request that people on their buddy list confirm their friendship, after which time a person's list of confirmed friends will be viewable to other users.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/friends-edit.png

Public Messaging: While private messages between users have been in vBulletin since version 2.0, vBulletin 3.7 introduces the public messaging system, allowing users to communicate publicly via their profile pages.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/public-messages-profile.png

User Picture Galleries: vBulletin users can now create albums and upload pictures to their account.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/album-show-album.png

User-Created Social Groups: To further social cohesion between users and to encourage people to make friends, vBulletin now includes a facility to allow users to create their own social/interest groups.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/social-groups.png

New Member Profile Page: In order to accomodate all the new features in vBulletin 3.7, the member profile page has been completely redesigned from the ground up.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/new-memberinfo-b.png

Member Customization of Profile Page: The administrator may choose to allow his members to use the profile page customization tool, which allows users to alter fonts, colors, background and borders etc. of their profile page in order to create a more personalized look.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/customize-profile-editor.png / http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/customize-profile-memberinfo-b.png

Attachment Viewing Lightbox: Clicking on an attached image will now open a lightbox rather than open a new window, with the image scaled to fit the browser viewport. A click on the image in the lightbox will open it in a new window as before.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/lightbox-showthread.png

Post Edit History: For boards where the history of posts is important, it is now possible to log all edits to posts and then review the changes at a later date.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/post-edit-history.png

Inline Moderation Enhanced Authentication: When performing inline moderation actions, board staff will now be required to re-authenticate themselves if they have not done so in their browsing session. This prevents the possibility of unauthorized parties acting as a moderator on a public computer where a board staff member has accidentally ticked the 'remember me' box.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/inlinemod-reauth.png

Navbar Notices: Administrators can now set up custom notifications that will appear underneath the navbar when visiting users fulfil specified criteria. For example, one may want to set up a notice to display when a user is a member of a particular usergroup, or to show a congratulatory message when a user has posted their 1,000th post etc.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/notices-manager.png

New Human Verification Systems: In addition to the image verification system available in previous versions of vBulletin, 3.7 introduces the means for the administrator to choose the verification system employed on their board.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/human-verification-frontend.png

User Change History: In order to track changes made to users' profiles by administrators, a change log is now kept for various user profile fields including username, usergroup etc.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/user-change-history.png

Social Bookmarking of Threads: Administrators can now define a list of their favorite social bookmarking sites and have them available for use on the showthread page for bookmarking threads.

Preview: http://files.vbulletin.com/3.7/social-bookmarking.png




WANT MORE???
Visitor tracking on profile pages
Automatic resizing of attached images to match filesize or pixel dimensions
Enhancements to custom bbcode system
Custom icons per forum
Advertisement locations defined in templates
Add multiple moderators in one go through ACP
ATOM support for RSS Poster Robot
Hooks to allow attachments to be passed through a virus scanner
Posts by users in 'Tachy Goes to Coventry' will no longer count towards the total number of posts in a thread or forum. They are now truly hidden!
All AJAX systems now employ the Yahoo! User Interface Library (YUI) for a more consistent and predictable system
YUI files can now be switched from locally hosted to remotely hosted by Yahoo! with a single option change, saving you bandwidth

MASSSSIIIIVVVEEEEEE

Avaloner
25-04-2008, 04:07 PM
Very nice features xD

Neostus Caeser
25-04-2008, 04:17 PM
nice, keep it up :)

V0rteX
25-04-2008, 04:37 PM
so i guess it will be implemented here right?

badboy
25-04-2008, 05:40 PM
nice features :)

Tako
25-04-2008, 05:56 PM
so i guess it will be implemented here right?

goes without saying :cool:

Kamadake
26-04-2008, 09:21 AM
The gallery feature seems brilliant actually. Thanks for informing tako ^_^

Tako
30-04-2008, 03:33 PM
IMPORTANT NOTIFICATION - I have got my hands on a copy of vBulletin 3.7, and will proceed to upgrade the forum tomorrow. This is going to be quite a hefty upgrade, and I may have to switch the forum to maintenance mode for a couple of hours. For the time being I am verifying that all is in place to actually perform the upgrade.

Will keep you all informed on the outcome and how the upgrade will proceed. :frusty: