New Upgraded Bulletin Board System for Tsikot Forums!

[tsikot]

The Tsikot Forums has just gotten a lot better!

we just completed the upgrade of our bulletin board system to vbulletin 3.7.1, the latest version. This is in preparation for a major server upgrade / expansion scheduled this June / July 2008 to further enhance your Tsikot experience.

Once the BBS and server upgrading / expansion are completed, Tsikot Forums will be faster and a lot better!

Here are the additional features as listed in vbulletin.com official site:

There are many new features and improvements to existing functionality in vBulletin 3.7.1:

• [SIZE=1]Inline spam management & prevention[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Thread tagging[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Search cloud / tag cloud[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Thread prefixes[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Reciprocal friendships between users[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]User picture galleries with user comment facility[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Extended member profile pages[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Inline editing of custom user profile fields[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Notices system for navigation bar[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]User change history[/SIZE]
• [SIZE=1]Social bookmarking integration[/SIZE]

We will be enabling most of these features in the coming days!

Stay tuned!

[roninblade]

cool! and here i thought inalis nyo lang yung panel sa right side ng forum kaya bumilis yung load time.

[boybi]

Ano yung 'Thanks' button sa tabi ng Quick Reply button?

[tsikot]

Ano yung 'Thanks' button sa tabi ng Quick Reply button?

The Post_Thanks Button

One of the biggest problems on forums as you may know is 'posts boosting'. There are users who LOVE to say 'thanks' when ever they can. How can it hurt? Their post count goes up, they have nothing to lose.

There are also users who really like to express their thanks to post but don't like posting a post that looks like they're post boosting.

Then comes the moderators who have to delete people's thanks yous so a thread can look readable with out the thanks yous thrown around.

Finally comes the posters of these useful posts. They have no idea how many people really like their posts if only some people say 'thanks'.

What this hack does is fix ALL these problems - except those users who like post boosting. This places a button called 'thanks.' When a user clicks on it, it places his username in a box right under the post saying that so-and-so says 'thanks' for the post. Every-one who clicks is placed in one box.

[paolorenzo]

O ayan. I just Thanked you sir tsikot, for the improvements to the site.

Anyway, nawala yung Auto Threads sa right side. Yun ang feature na medyo gamit ko.

[Jun aka Pekto]

This isn't a biggie. It only happens when I surf without the browser maximized. But, I think the Sponsors and Site Network blocks should be on the right side. At the main page, the blank areas are on the right side. No problem. But once I move into a subforum, those two blocks causes the blank space to shift to the left side.

It's no big deal. But, having to move the viewing slider every time I go from subforum to main page can get repetitive.