A sneak peek of what's coming up

[Mike1]

Here are some of the new functions members of this forum will be able to enjoy, after tomorrow's upgrade -

Reciprocal friendship between users

As part of the 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.

[Mike1]

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.

[Mike1]

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.

These groups are enhanced by having their own public messaging system, and the ability to add pictures to the group from user albums.

[Mike1]

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.

The new page presents information in a far cleaner and more logical manner, while dividing up information into manageable chunks using a tabbed interface.

Individual profile field categories can be displayed alone in blocks in the right column, in addition to appearing by default in the 'About Me' tab.

[Mike1]

Inline editing of profile field values

The 'About Me' tab of each member's profile page has edit controls, allowing them to quickly change values without leaving their profile page.

[Mike1]

Attachment viewing lightbox

(This is one of my personal favorites)

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.

(And clicking isn't actually required, as merely hovering over an attachment will open it)

[Mike1]

These are just some of the new functions. There are many others, some of which will help the moderating staff perform their tasks without the need to log into a moderator's control panel.

I hope the preview will help everyone see the changes to be made are all user-friendly.

[starbkjrus]

Mike,

I appreciate the effort but I've always gotten the below error when i try to view any of the attached images in your messages.

starbkjrus, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

[Ozman1944]

Ah Mike, perhaps the Website Selkie spirit of Lock Ness caught you wearing Trousers?????

[Yaish]

Sounds like they are trying to be like Myspace/Facebook.