Forum Updates

[Bram Hengeveld]

Ill update this document from time to time and explain the features of it so you can use it better:

1. Forum updated to 3.7.2
2. Who has visited the forum the last 24 hours
3. Paypal Donation System
4. Thread tagging enabled
5. Auto-Image-Resizer
6. Smilies under the editorbox
7. New download icon for post with downloadable content as setups
8. Legend bar
9. Embedded Audio/Video System
10. Choose your own postbitstyle
11. Seperate Sticky/Normal threads
12. "Thank you" hack
13. RSS Feed for the mainforum
14. Updated frontpage
15. Extra Navigation bar
16. RaceDepartment "Tube" added to the navigation bar of the forum
17. Forum rules
18. Forum Categories Spaced

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Example:

http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MRYLWJb1o

Just post this plain code in a post and it will look like this (click click )

[media]http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=c6MRYLWJb1o[/media]

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1. Go to your USER CP: http://forum.racedepartment.com/usercp.php
2. Click Edit Options: http://forum.racedepartment.com/profile.php?do=editoptions
3. Scroll down to the category called: Thread Display Options
4. Find Default Postbit
5. Mark "Yes, i prefer old postbit" for the vertical postbit
6. Unmark "Yes, i prefer old postbit" for the horizontal postbit
7. Enjoy your new layout

[Bram Hengeveld]

Originally Posted by Ramon van Rijn

As of today we have integrated the donations into our forum. There is a Donate button in the menubar on top of this forum and you will notice a new 'Donations' option in the Quick Links menu which will display both how to Donate and the Donators so far.

Thanks in advance for helping us paying the bills. This way we hope to hold the high standard of service we try to offer.

All donators will get a Donator title image

[Bram Hengeveld]

The following article will explain all our extra features at this forum since we upgraded (source: vbulletin.com)

Thread Tagging

A new way to facilitate searching and grouping of threads, it is now possible for users to add tags to threads they post or read.

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Tags can be added when creating a new thread, or to an existing thread by any user (with appropriate permissions).



Any users who then click on these tags will not only find all thread that have the same tag as the one clicked, but will also contribute to the building of a search tag cloud, which gives users a quick guide as to what has been searched for recently and most frequently.



Reciprocal Friendships Between Users

As part of our 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.



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.



User Picture Galleries

vBulletin users can now create albums and upload pictures to their account.

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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.



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.

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Member Customization of Profile Page

The administrator may choose to allow his members to use the profile page customization tool, which allows users to alter fonts, colors, background and borders etc. of their profile page in order to create a more personalized look.

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Attachment Viewing Lightbox

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.

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[Bram Hengeveld]

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 loose.

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 likes 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.

By giving your users the extra feature, you forum will look allot nice and organized. It is a guaranteed liking by ALL the members of your forum.

So from now on please do NOT post "thanks" only in a thread but use the thanks button which appears in all posts from now on

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Frontpage updated

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Extra navigation bar added to the forum displaying:
■ Home■ Forum■ Racing Club■ Racing Leagues■ Live Timing■ RaceDepartment TV■ Downloads

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RD-Tube can be found at YouTube - RaceDepartment's Channel and in the top navigation bar under "RD-Tube"

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RaceDepartment Forums - Forum Rules

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Forum categories are spaced and alligned!