New forum software, looks great!

[FishingLTJ]

As many of you know, we are running vbulletin forum software here. It's great and the features are endless. Well, they are about to release a better version that will change this forum software forever.

Now, just to get you guys up to speed on the software right now. The software is very bare right now. All the extras like the arcade, photo gallery, and others are all mods for the software that have to be coded. With the new software coming out a lot of this stuff is integrated with the initial install.

Below are the features:

Vbulletin 3.7
- Inline Spam Management and Prevention Tools

Forum spam is an increasing problem for many boards. Unfortunately, due to the visible-source nature of vBulletin and most other forum systems, most preventative measures we might add to the system can simply be reverse-engineered and worked around by persistent spammers.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.

- 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.


These are the major changes to the software listed. This is actually going to be really good for the site!

So, with the new software in mind. I am going to wait to move to the new server until this software is released.

Comments........?