Features planned for the BRTD website

[Juggernaut]

Hi folks, currently been working on these features over the last few days.

• logo (working on it)
• background
• colors
• footer finished
• join us fixed
• sign up form
• guides (work in progress)
• video section(will implement in the next month or so )
• email campaign (looking at mailchimp and mandrill)
  
• Thread Rating
• Add more smilies for the forums
• bugs fixes and full tidy up of the site.
• VET TAG.

 

[Juggernaut]

Finished these this morning

• footer finished
• sign up form and new join us page

 

[Pajszer]

Awesome job!

 

[Juggernaut]

Finished a new landing notice on the home page of the site. The background image is a placeholder. open to suggestions on this and would like a custom image done for this

 

[Juggernaut]

changed the recaptcha to a shape recaptcha, as i was getting about 5-10 spammers a day trying to sign up on the site and spam.

 

[StriKe_jk]

• - Profile Linking
  Links to a user's profile. This is generally inserted automatically when tagging a user.
  
  Example:
  [USER=953]StriKe_jk
  Output:
  @StriKe_jk
  [/user]

I see what you did there jugg Haha I like it!

 

[Juggernaut]

Hi folks, currently been working on these features over the last few days.

• email campaign (looking at mailchimp and mandrill)

Trying out Mandrill as a email service. this connects to Mailchimp which will allow us to do email campaigns and so on.

Fixed the RSVP on the events, outfit member can now use it

 

[Thundestrucks]

What is difference between new post and recent post? i.e. I made a new post and its in "recent" tab at top but not in "new" tab.

EDIT: Ok when someone replied in my post it appeard in "new" tab dunno if it should work like this.

 

[StriKe_jk]

What is difference between new post and recent post? i.e. I made a new post and its in "recent" tab at top but not in "new" tab.

EDIT: Ok when someone replied in my post it appeard in "new" tab dunno if it should work like this.

recent posts are the last posts based on a time frame.
New posts are just all new posts.

With new posts you can check all posts you didn't read yet, but they will vanish from the list if you read them.

With recent posts you just see a list of the last posts based on the time it got posted

 

[Juggernaut]

@Thunderstrike Recent Posts was feature requested for this forum (got a lot of private message for it to be added.), as it was used heavily on the old forum.
and @StriKe_jk is indeed correct.

 

[Juggernaut]

it is... you wrote and read it ....

 

[Thundestrucks]

it is... you wrote and read it ....

Ye i noticed, sorry for inconvenience.

 

[Juggernaut]

@Thunderstrike no worries mate, it excludes the person who wrote the post from new posts, this makes its easier on the users and the reduces the load on the database by a small amount.

Ram usage since we moved to the Forum software

a lot of work has gone into this forum software to make it easier on user and yet give great server performance as well.
They were the main developers of Vbulletin till they were brought out about 4 years ago, so they left vbulletin and built new forum software Xenforo from the ground up to have the best of breed features from a lot website CMS's and forums software.

 

[BakaneSan]

so new post do what? im kinda new to this forum thingy

 

[Juggernaut]

recent posts are the last posts based on a time frame.
New posts are just all new posts.

With new posts you can check all posts you didn't read yet, but they will vanish from the list if you read them.

With recent posts you just see a list of the last posts based on the time it got posted

Sent from my steam powered digital telegraph

 

[BakaneSan]

so i can view new post and then sort them by post time?

 

[Juggernaut]

always a troll eh @BakaneSan

its always shows the most new post first that is unread..... its called new posts , as the saying goes : "Does exactly what it says on the tin"

 

[BakaneSan]

me a troll? im innocent why you doubt my sincerity @Juggernaut

im about to cry...

 

[ChipMHazard]

As a professional troll I must declare that I take offense to that, Jugg. My jimmies have been ruffled to such an extent that I shall now venture back to my bridge and start writing on a stern letter.
Good day sir!

 

[dnaRIP]

Ok, I need to have all of the posts on the forum marked as read because every subforum shows as new since the new site went live. How do I mark as read all forum posts?
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