Saxperience Forum Update - V3.7

26th July 2008, 16:36

Early this morning some significant changes were made to the back-end structure of the community. It will take you a while to find and appreciate many of the changes that have been made.

I AM aware that some 'old' features and functionality is currently missing. Some of the 'old' functionality will return over the next day or so. Some features will not return. Please feel free to log any missing items within this thread, so that I can confirm whether this item will return or not.

Your user profile pages are currently not displaying correctly - I am aware of this. A temporary fix was put in place to work around an internet explorer issue... the profile pages will be fixed as soon as possible.

Some of the additional features are reserved for Premium Members.

I know some people dont like change... but I'm interested to hear your feedback all the same

Some additional modifications will apper over the next few days.

Details of 'most' of these features can be found in the FAQ SECTION

Simo

A very quick overview of some of the additions :-

Inline spam management & prevention
Thread tagging
Search cloud / tag cloud
Thread prefixes
Reciprocal friendships between users
Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
User picture galleries with user comment facility
User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
Extended member profile pages
Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
Inline editing of custom user profile fields
Lightbox viewer for attached images
Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
Notices system for navigation bar
Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A
User change history
Social bookmarking integration
Visitor tracking on profile pages
Automatic resizing of attached images to match filesize or pixel dimensions
Enhancements to custom bbcode system
Custom icons per forum

26th July 2008, 16:40

it still says 3.6 in the top left simo

26th July 2008, 16:41

didnt get any of that, but well done

26th July 2008, 16:41

changes are sounding good, im sure it will take people a while to get used to them all

26th July 2008, 16:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viper

it still says 3.6 in the top left simo

Really??

Quote:

Some additional modifications will apper over the next few days.

26th July 2008, 16:42

yup

Quote:

Please feel free to log any missing items within this thread

26th July 2008, 16:43

Quote:

Originally Posted by Mark51

changes are sounding good, im sure it will take people a while to get used to them all

now were friends mark, what happens now?

26th July 2008, 16:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by Viper

yup

Thanks...

Now try and keep everyones ideas in a managed list dude

26th July 2008, 16:44

Quote:

Originally Posted by bullit

now were friends mark, what happens now?

You can e-touch him

26th July 2008, 16:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simo

You can e-touch him

thats old news simo. ill wait for mark to tell me lol

whats a welcome message btw?

26th July 2008, 16:52

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simo

[*]Search cloud / tag cloud

changed his name to James now boss

26th July 2008, 16:57

Quote:

Originally Posted by Yates

changed his name to James now boss

lmao...

I thought that too when setting it up

26th July 2008, 17:00

Simon, will you be my friend? please...

26th July 2008, 17:07

Quote:

Originally Posted by bullit

thats old news simo. ill wait for mark to tell me lol

whats a welcome message btw?

you will have to wait and see

26th July 2008, 17:41

Sounds very nice imo cant wait to see the changes

26th July 2008, 18:49

Some very good changes here

26th July 2008, 18:55

Noticed the changes when i just logged in!!

Had a play with the profile page and things look good

26th July 2008, 19:19

Everything looks good.

Will the pager bit come back too?

26th July 2008, 19:23

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luke

Everything looks good.

Will the pager bit come back too?

atm you need to go to "Quick Links" and choose VB Pager from there

apparently the pager system is not coded very well

26th July 2008, 19:25

dont like u pm bit not flashing

and when it goes to profiles
seems abit too
occupied imo

26th July 2008, 19:29

its all getting 'social'...

26th July 2008, 19:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simo

Early this morning some significant changes were made to the back-end structure of the community. It will take you a while to find and appreciate many of the changes that have been made.

I AM aware that some 'old' features and functionality is currently missing. Some of the 'old' functionality will return over the next day or so. Some features will not return. Please feel free to log any missing items within this thread, so that I can confirm whether this item will return or not.

Your user profile pages are currently not displaying correctly - I am aware of this. A temporary fix was put in place to work around an internet explorer issue... the profile pages will be fixed as soon as possible.

Some of the additional features are reserved for Premium Members.

I know some people dont like change... but I'm interested to hear your feedback all the same

Some additional modifications will apper over the next few days.

Details of 'most' of these features can be found in the FAQ SECTION

Simo

A very quick overview of some of the additions :-

Inline spam management & prevention
Thread tagging
Search cloud / tag cloud
Thread prefixes
Reciprocal friendships between users
Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
User picture galleries with user comment facility
User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
Extended member profile pages
Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
Inline editing of custom user profile fields
Lightbox viewer for attached images
Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
Notices system for navigation bar
Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A
User change history
Social bookmarking integration
Visitor tracking on profile pages
Automatic resizing of attached images to match filesize or pixel dimensions
Enhancements to custom bbcode system
Custom icons per forum

most of them are the same changes over at 106rallye

One thing i really miss is when it goes yellow when i have private messages

26th July 2008, 19:42

The yellow bit should come back as I'm sure it did it last time.

26th July 2008, 19:54

Quote:

Originally Posted by Robb

its all getting 'social'...

hi facebook rob

26th July 2008, 20:00

Quote:

Originally Posted by bullit

hi facebook rob

*poked*

26th July 2008, 22:36

boooo at pager gone

ive actually just noticed it says pager message at top right

26th July 2008, 23:29

i was wondering why the forum was down in the early hours of the morn

i thought simo hadnt paid his electric bill and the server was effed lol

all this new behavior is a bit confusing, but im sure we will all catch on soon

26th July 2008, 23:36

Quote:

Originally Posted by Furio_Rob

boooo at pager gone

ive actually just noticed it says pager message at top right

Its not gone.. its just temporarily hiding.. will be on full display again shortly

Mark's fixing the user profile display issues now also.

26th July 2008, 23:51

for sure get pager back...not sure what the whole profile thing is about yet though..

27th July 2008, 00:06

Yellow box is back...

Pager icon at left of posts is back... link in profiles will return when the user profile page is fixed.

Pager text area is bigger too to stop you pager-whores from having to scroll so much

27th July 2008, 00:15

I'm not overly fond on the Convo bit on the profile, would be better if that was there, but so others can't see... Sorta like a genral chat thing..?

27th July 2008, 00:21

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anthony

I'm not overly fond on the Convo bit on the profile, would be better if that was there, but so others can't see... Sorta like a genral chat thing..?

Yeah, think it would be better to keep it private instead of public. Or should give you the option of choosing to allow anyone to see it / contacts(friends) / just you.

That would probably be the best option

27th July 2008, 00:29

Quote:

Originally Posted by Anthony

I'm not overly fond on the Convo bit on the profile, would be better if that was there, but so others can't see... Sorta like a genral chat thing..?

Quote:

Originally Posted by JC-Furio

Yeah, think it would be better to keep it private instead of public. Or should give you the option of choosing to allow anyone to see it / contacts(friends) / just you.

That would probably be the best option

If its to be private use the PM system.

If its public use the forums or the profile messages.

If you want it to be off the forum and only for select members.. then create a social group and invite your friends to join it. Then only people within 'your' group can leave messages...

Within your userCP (edit option) you can set it so only people within your contacts (buddy's/friends) can leave messages on your prfile screen.

"Limit usage of Visitor Messages to Contacts and Moderators"

Premium Memebrs can create their own social groups.... treat this like a circle of friends.. so you may have regional group , or people who have "1.5D saxos', or "stripped out racers" groups, etc, etc.

You need to play with it to understand it... so far, im the only person to create a social group.

27th July 2008, 00:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simo

If its to be private use the PM system.

If its public use the forums or the profile messages.

If you want it to be off the forum and only for select memebrs.. then create a social group and invite your friends to join it. Then only people within 'your' group can leave messages...

Premium Memebrs can create their own social groups.... treat this like a circle of friends.. so you may have regional group , or people who have "1.5D saxos', or "stripped out racers" groups, etc, etc.

You need to play with it to understand it... so far, im the only person to create a social group.

Very true.

Seems like a good update from what i've seen of it so far

Need to update the banner to v3.7, as someone already mentioned though... guessing it will only be a minute or two job if you still have PSD file?

27th July 2008, 00:50

I guess it's just time to get used to it and get to see how it works, as for a general thing with the messages via asking questions or what not, could that not just be posted as a thread?

I'm sure it will come in handy somewhere along the line lol.

27th July 2008, 01:40

I love the look of the new Profile page.

27th July 2008, 01:48

What's the change with the list of Reputation Received, Simo?

Some reps are now marked with "N/A" where the thread title would have been, and I'm positive some rep has appeared which wasn't there before the update - one of them is dated April 08, so hasn't just been left recently.

27th July 2008, 02:09

Quote:

Originally Posted by potatopete

What's the change with the list of Reputation Received, Simo?

Some reps are now marked with "N/A" where the thread title would have been, and I'm positive some rep has appeared which wasn't there before the update - one of them is dated April 08, so hasn't just been left recently.

I dont see any issues with your when I look in the admin part... can you quote a post number of rep comment or something??

27th July 2008, 04:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by potatopete

What's the change with the list of Reputation Received, Simo?

Some reps are now marked with "N/A" where the thread title would have been, and I'm positive some rep has appeared which wasn't there before the update - one of them is dated April 08, so hasn't just been left recently.

I have this aswell.......

27th July 2008, 09:35

Quote:

Originally Posted by Saxo_89

I have this aswell.......

deleted posts or threads i assume. i have it and i know they were deleted lol

27th July 2008, 09:45

We all need a 'Sax-p Training Day' over at Simo's.

27th July 2008, 10:43

The N/A bit on the rep system does relate to threads that have been deleted.

Everything seems OK so far.

27th July 2008, 13:51

Quote:

Originally Posted by adamsax

We all need a 'Sax-p Training Day' over at Simo's.

oh my.

Sex lessons. nice.

EDIT. wheres the search cloud thing?

27th July 2008, 16:19

Quote:

Originally Posted by Simo

I dont see any issues with your when I look in the admin part... can you quote a post number of rep comment or something??

The details are:

Neg rep, left on the 20th April 08, and says "Spam shit".

Not really bothered about it, but I don't recall it being there before this update, mate. Cheers.

28th July 2008, 11:21

Just a quick one...

When sending a pager message before, I just clicked on the persons profile and then send vBPager message but now I can't do this.

Is this going to come back?

Or is it just through the quick links OR finding a post by that particular person?

28th July 2008, 11:24

Quote:

Originally Posted by Luke

Just a quick one...

When sending a pager message before, I just clicked on the persons profile and then send vBPager message but now I can't do this.

Is this going to come back?

Or is it just through the quick links OR finding a post by that particular person?

In THIS thread it explains that the pager links have been added to user posts and the quick links and WILL return to the user profile pages once the display bugs are fixd on the user profiles pages. Will get around to it sometime this week.

28th July 2008, 11:25

OK, cheers

28th July 2008, 11:50

Banner still says v3.6, although it also still says "new & improved" which i suppose is relevant again lol.

28th July 2008, 14:28

im loving the new buttons still havent got around them all

28th July 2008, 15:22

I dont get what the bookmarks are for..

28th July 2008, 15:22

Me neither Amiee..

28th July 2008, 15:24

haha only recognise two of them aswell doh.. just want to "digg" it lol!!!

28th July 2008, 15:30

You see sites everywhere with facebook and google buttons etc.

No idea what they do though..

28th July 2008, 15:39

it seems to me like you have turned sax-p into a lite version of bebo, just spent the last 15 mins clicking on everyones friends fun fun fun.

28th July 2008, 15:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Doyle

it seems to me like you have turned sax-p into a lite version of bebo, just spent the last 15 mins clicking on everyones friends fun fun fun.

Most people here drive.
Wouldnt that mean they are too old for Bebo?

28th July 2008, 15:47

Quote:

Originally Posted by djrem

Most people here drive.
Wouldnt that mean they are too old for Bebo?

im 23, i drive, im not too old for bebo, neither is the rest of the folk i know that are on bebo who are older than me, so no.

although i have a problem with the befriend button on here, i keep clicking it, so sorry if i have added u, was in a rythym. lol

28th July 2008, 17:38

bebos for kids and groomers...

28th July 2008, 20:45

I do think Bebo is a bit in your face tbh!

31st July 2008, 23:28

maybe its just my pc.......

bue everytime i reply to someones pager message, there's will still pop up the next few times i view a new thread or refresh the page

31st July 2008, 23:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Furio_Rob

maybe its just my pc.......

bue everytime i reply to someones pager message, there's will still pop up the next few times i view a new thread or refresh the page

My pager thing doesn't even work...

But that's probably because somewhere i have put 'disable pager' not sure though lol

1st August 2008, 00:25

it doesnt delete the messages either?

ive got 124 and dont know how to get rid of them lol

1st August 2008, 00:33

No my pager just doesn't work full stop.

"Sorry, you are not allowed to use vB Pager!"

1st August 2008, 01:40

Quote:

Originally Posted by JC-Furio

No my pager just doesn't work full stop.

"Sorry, you are not allowed to use vB Pager!"

Peasent. We must return to the fields until we are worthy of this Pager...

1st August 2008, 01:45

You arent premium so cant use the pager!

Why are there extra pages at the end of some threads like this one, there are 4 pages displayed but only 3 pages worth of posts?

1st August 2008, 08:29

I have noticed it doesn't delete pager messages, but you can do them yourself.

Click onto 'Pager Messages', tick the box at the top so it selects ALL messages and then delete.