Post by Kim on May 1, 2005 19:19:06 GMT -5
The boards will be down for update for approximately 10 - 24 hours. Proboards is going to post a message at the top of the boards giving us 24 hours notice so we will know when this will happen.
Just to warn you in advance, after the updates are done, when you first go to log in - it will ask you to verify your account. Basically, it's going to send an email with a confirmation code for you to put in. It will also ask for your birthday (which you can choose not to be displayed) due to all users having to be over the age of 13 to use the boards.
On to the good stuff..
New features will include:
There are a few other things that for the mods and I that I will talk to them about as well.
Kim
Just to warn you in advance, after the updates are done, when you first go to log in - it will ask you to verify your account. Basically, it's going to send an email with a confirmation code for you to put in. It will also ask for your birthday (which you can choose not to be displayed) due to all users having to be over the age of 13 to use the boards.
On to the good stuff..
New features will include:
- Everyone being able to add to the calendar.
- Birthdays will be added automatically to the calender.
- Birthdays will be displayed at the bottom of the page - as in Todays birthdays are:
- New attachments features so you can upload files without having them hosted elsewhere (DOM, you'll like this one!)
- All users will be able to go into invisible mode. Administrators and Global Moderators will see these users as online with "(invisible)" after their name in the users online area.
- Usernames will no longer be case sensitive.
- You will be able to get your password reminder sent to you just by entering your email address -- you won't need to remember your username.
- When registering you may specify your desired password instead of receiving a random password via email. You will receive an email with an activation code that you must use to activate your account. (all users will need to active their account the first time after the update)
- Users will be able to keep an address book of users so that they may easily select who they want to IM.
- A "check all" checkbox will be added to the inbox and outbox pages.
- Option in IM Preferences to get a popup message when you have a new IM.
- All email addresses will have spam protection on them which will help make it so that spam bots will not be able to pick up your email address.
There are a few other things that for the mods and I that I will talk to them about as well.
Kim