vBulletin 3.7

[Tom]

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=249460

That's the next version of vBulletin, which is the forum software we use ... have a look through and let me know if there are any features you think you are likely to use.

The new social networking features should integrate nicely into the blogs.

 

[class 313]

I like the idea of the user picture galleries.

 

[D306]

that looks good. I think the social network features would be used by a lot of people

 

[Coxster]

While on the subject of blogs, will this one have a link to the blogs from the work safe theme? The current one doesn't despite requests for it made through the feedback section

 

[Gizmogle]

Thread prefixes are a good idea I think. For things like the meet forum, you could have [CASUAL] and [PROPOSED] already in there. Also the simsig and other games forum there could be prefixes for the games like [LOCOMOTION] [SIMSIG] [TRAINZ] and such.

I like the friend idea.

The comment/public PMing thing looks fun. But will probably mean more moderation required to control what people say.

I like the social groups idea too. But think there will be way too many retarded groups set up.

The new profile pages look like they'd take some getting used to...

Profile customization just looks annoying. I'd keep profiles set to one colour scheme.

The inline editing is a great idea.

Attatchment lightboxes seem to work well on other forums, but sometimes It'd be so much easier just to open the image in a new window.

I really like the sound of visitor tracking on profiles.
Automatic resizing of images to fit the size restrictions is a great idea.

And yes, I'm done

 

[D306]

alright! three people at once!

 

[Gizmogle]

I'm assuming you have to upgrade to the new vBulletin, and can't just steal features from it?

I really like how everything looks and is right now, and don't feel like a massive change of colour and layout.

 

[Tom]

The theme won't change - but I can turn off some features but I don't think I can turn off the profile ...

 

[Gizmogle]

Well, the new profile layout is certainly different, but I think it should be kept, as it works with the rest of the features.

 

[nath9425]

I have just had a look. It doe's look very nice, and if bought will be used by the community to quite a high standard. But as Gizmogle says, the new layout will take a while to get my head round it.

 

[Coxster]

The new profile thing looks a bit like Invision's which I've always found to work quite well. Yes it takes a bit of getting used to, but so did the upgrade that Tom made from phpBB to vBulletin. At first most people disliked it (including me), but now I would discourage Tom from going back.

 

[Tom]

Did someone just say Invision? *throws up*

In all honesty, I'm not particularly keen on it. It looks a bit too much like MySpace to me...

 

[Gizmogle]

It looks a bit too much like MySpace to me...

That was my first thougt when I saw the public PM feature.

I think it'll encourage more activity on the forums though.

I'd at least give it a trial run and see what members think of it.

I like the look of it

 

[Craig]

Tagging and attachment lightbox would be handy, but there's nothing much that stands out. It's probably worth installing at some point, but I don't think there's any hurry to do it.

 

[Mojo]

I like the Profiles feature...

 

[me123]

It's looking good. The profiles will be really good and the photo galleries will be highly applicable to this site I would think.

And I think the myspace/bebo thing could be useful as long as it's used well, which it should be on this place.