Inside V5: More New Features!

With development of Version 5 in full swing here, we have many new and exciting features that are being added. Here are just a few of the literally hundreds of new features that we are adding:

• Split Threads
  
  Ever had a time when a topic's discussion went from on-topic to off? With the Split Thread feature, you can take posts out of an existing thread and create a new thread from those posts.
  
  
• Merge Threads
  
  Sometimes there are multiple threads discussing the same topic on a forum. You will have the ability to merge these topics into one single thread with this handy feature.
  
  
• Personal Messages: Conversations
  
  Currently when you exchange messages with another member of your forum via our Personal Message system, each message shows up as it's own item in your Inbox and Outbox. In Version 5, each conversation you have will group together and function more like a thread does. This will allow you to read your entire conversation from one single page instead of needing to go back and look for previous messages.
  
  
• Threads: "Look Inside" Option
  
  In Version 5, you will have the ability to "see" into a thread without actually clicking on it. After hovering your mouse over the subject of a thread for 1 second a small box will appear with a preview of the message that is inside the thread!
  
  
• # of People Viewing Thread
  
  In addition to the current feature which lets you see how many people are viewing a particular board, you will also have the option to display how many people are reading a particular thread.
  
  
• Password Protected Boards: Remembering Passwords
  
  For those of you with password protected boards, it can be a pain to enter that password every time you come back. If you are logged in (not a guest), once you enter a password for a board it will remember that password for you, automatically allowing access to that board in the future. If the password for the board is changed by an administrator, you will then need to enter the new password to gain access.
  
  
• Multiple Member Groups
  
  In version 5, you will be able to join multiple member groups. This gives additional flexibility to forum administrators in managing their members -- anything from restricting access to categories/boards, doing mass PMs to different groups, etc.
  
  
• Sub-sub-sub-sub-boards
  
  There are no limits in the next version on the number of sub-boards any board can have. For those of you who have very complex forums, organizing your forums into many sections will be very useful.
  
  
• New UBBC tags
  
  We will be adding the following new tags, and more may be announced later:
  
  
  • [spoiler] ... [/spoiler] - Hides part of your message unless people click on it to display it. Useful for when you want to reveal something (e.g. plot details in a movie) but don't want to spoil it for people if they don't want to see it
    
    
  • [youtube] ... [/youtube] - Allows you to embed YouTube videos in your posts
    
  
  In addition to the new tags, some changes to existing tags:
  
  
  
  • [code] ... [/code] Will be wrapped in a div that will prevent it from scrolling the page to the right and too far down, and provide an easy way to copy the code to your clipboard.

We will be announcing many more features over the coming weeks!