As a new feature for all forums we’re giving you the ability to customize the registration process. This enables you to firstly present a short message to your potential users:
And then on the registration form itself you can add or remove fields and reorder them as you desire. This all links in to our existing [...]
When I announced the introduction of the WYSIWYG editor I had high hopes for what it could do and what it would bring to vForums. However things did not go smoothly from the start with one issue arising as soon as another was fixed. At first I was sure that these were teething problems and [...]
A new (fairly small) feature will soon be released to all forums. Topic ratings. Allowing you to rate a topic from 1 - 5 stars with the average rating being shown. It’s a fully AJAX based system which makes it pretty easy and non-intrusive to use.
At the same time, I have been working on a [...]
Over the past few days I have spent some time reviewing and updating all e-mails that the forums send out. This covers everything from their contents, to the way they are sent and even to their layout.
From now on, all emails get sent in both plain text and HTML formats so that they look good [...]
Another new feature announcement for you all We will be making some of your forum statistics available for you to view within your admin panel. This new section gives you an overview of your general forum activity. In the initial release this will include Page Views*, Topics Started, Replies Posted and Members Registered. Although [...]
We’ve made the decision to change the way dates are going to be outputted in our next version. This will solve two problems related to the current method.
Firstly, it’s in the interests of search engines. Some of you may be aware that Google has started indexing “Last Post” dates for forums. Unfortunately it’s not always [...]
As some of you may have noticed yesterday evening, and others may have noticed friday evening, the support forum has been offline while I’ve been trying to implement some changes.
Trying is the key word in that sentence though. Over the past week my ISP has proven itself to be very unreliable. It seems I can’t [...]
I’ve just processed the monthly stats which I do at the end of every month to see how we are performing. I was pleasantly pleased to see that the number of new signups for July has set a new record. In fact, July has had more new signups than May and June combined!
Lets hope that [...]