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I'd like a PM system. Although the hack I wrote works well, it'd be nice to see it as an out-of-the-box feature.

The new skin is beautiful by the way. Can we have a screen of the topic view? I think the current one could use a revamp.

Well, because many people have requested a PM system, there's a big change there will be one built-in in some future version (not 0.3 though). The forum administrator should be able to disable the whole PM system for his board if he wishes.

The new skin is still very under development. At this moment, it has been very bad written (merge between old HTML/CSS and new one from the new website). I'll post a bunch of new screens in a week or 2.

all sounds great so far cant wait for any new updates

Took a little time getting a hang of the way you configure and run UseBB but once I learned that everything is managed form the Database it didn't take me long before I started playing around with UseBB.

I like it and I wish it the best future since I see something big coming along here …

i agree lennilg i also think that useBB is going to be big!

Unfortunately for some, things will be less database powered when 0.3 is released. Templates, translations and configuration will be moved out of the database. This gives faster loading times and increases portability and working with CVS a lot.

UseBB will not be big, it's designed as a lightweight bulletin board, and will not compete with packages such as IPB, vB, WBB, ... but more like PunBB, MyBB, etc...

While the development continues, this is what the forum view looks like in UseBB 0.3. Note the major changes in global layout, the forum's name above the topic list and the page links (which is a new feature).

https://sourceforge.net/project/screenshots.php?group_id=93103&ssid=4414

Just curious as to whether or not it's possible to limit the size of user avatars. If not, would it be possible to implement CSS clipping or something of that nature in future releases?

thats what i like, i dont want this forum to be big in features, just simple and very fast and optimized.

which it already is lol.

The CVS version of UseBB 0.3 here has been updated. You can now see a big part of the new 0.3 version, altough some things have not been implemented yet: editing and deleting posts, search, active topics, ...

Give me your opinions!

kevinski wrote

Just curious as to whether or not it's possible to limit the size of user avatars. If not, would it be possible to implement CSS clipping or something of that nature in future releases?

There's no built-in function to do this (might be one later maybe), I also don't think you can do that with CSS...

You can do it with CSS

Wrap the image in a div tag of the required size, say 50px, and set the overflow property of the div to hidden, like so:

div.avatar { width : 50px; height : 50px; overflow : hidden; }

This will limit the display area of the image to 50px, although it still loads the full things its a sure way to stop your layout from being barfed.

Tested in Gecko, IE6 and Opera.

Yes but if the avatar is smaller dan 50x50 it will be resized too...

The image isn't resized...

Oh yes, I see what you mean. That might be a solution indeed.

In short, the solution is:

Replace this:

table.maintable td.posterinfo .avatar {
	margin-top: 10px;
}

With this:

table.maintable td.posterinfo .avatar {
	margin-top: 10px;
	width: 50px;
	height: 50px;
	text-align: center;
	overflow: hidden;
}

In templates/default/global.tpl.php (only present in UseBB 0.3).

The Wolf wrote

The image isn't resized...

I dont wanna sound bad... bad this will enable me to url a 1000000px by 100000000px image ...

Will fix this later.

This thread is closed now. We are already working on 0.4.