UseBB Community

These are the features I am going to implement in release 0.3:

- Editing and deleting posts;
- Frequently asked questions (faq.php);
- Cross-forum search engine;
- Active topics listing;
- [quote] and [code] BBCode tags;
- Smilies.

The following will be done if I still have some time on my schedule:

- Topic subscriptions;
- ACP for configuration options and forum management.

Suggestions are welcome

Sounds good, I can wait for that.

Hidden boards would be good.

Hidden boards exist already by adjusting the "auth" property. Check this.

Basicly i want everyone to be able to post like normal, but i want the board hidden from the general forum list. But vieweble if the user knows the link.

Thought about it but I don't think this is a useful feature. It won't be implemented in version 1.0 except if somebody makes a mod for it (is quite a bit work).

Sounds good...
I'm waiting for that...

lets start the modding then :p

I might make a mod for useBB, i just have to work out the style of coding useBB uses, im useds to coding like the code in Mediarchive or Metaboards.

If you dont get something (function / class) please ask, pcf (& me) would be glad to help you.

I should be able to work it out, i just need to redownload it.

Keep in mind, this is a topic about new features in 0.3 in the general discussion forum. Modding talk should not go in here!

I think an online users list would be good.

It's also nice to know what's new and what's not, and then if it's new to be taken to the new post.


How many of the features in your first post have been implemented already?

A detailed online users list will be available by 1.0, also marking of new topics will be ready by then.

At this moment, none of the features above have been implemented yet, only a whole bunch of bug fixes and optimizations have been made to the CVS snapshot of UseBB 0.3. The Changelog is here.

A detailed online users list will be available by 1.0, also marking of new topics will be ready by then.

At this moment, none of the features above have been implemented yet, only a whole bunch of bug fixes and optimizations have been made to the CVS snapshot of UseBB 0.3. The Changelog is here.

The reason why I asked is because it looks like you have implemented the quote and edit features.

Another useful feature would be topic preview while you reply.

Quote is temporarily the same as putting text between italic-tags. Also, nested BBCode doesn't work, this will be fixed when I've made a BBCode parser.

Preview is indeed a nice feature, don't know yet when I would implement it.

it's easy to do, when you parsed the post, check if you have to display it or have to store it.

It 'll probably be available in UseBB 0.4...

But please, do feature requests at the trackers: http://www.usebb.net/features/#rfe

Today I fixed one bug and added one feature.

The bug caused newlines to be stripped out of textarea's when output compression has been set up to compress the source code. From now on, no newlines are stripped out of <textarea /> and <pre />

The new feature kicks the user to the forum if there is only one viewable forum available. Also, the Statistics box then appears at the bottom of the topic list, and the location bars are not shown. This feature is especially handy for BB's with only one forum which so not need the forum index. This feature can be turned off though to mimic the old behaviour.

This new stuff is available in 0.3 CVS. If you like to test or use it, get it from http://usebb.sourceforge.net/cvs/usebb-cvs.tar.gz

For the curious: I don't know yet when 0.3 will be ready, and if it will have an ACP, so don't ask anymore please

I like what I see thus far, I will have to grab the latest CVS snapshot.

Currently, I'm moving all the templates, language vars and configuration options out of the SQL database, because handling those big .sql files is not always that easy. As of later versions, upgrading UseBB to the latest CVS version with a cronjob will be possible.

Development is going really slow for the moment... it will return soon.

This is what UseBB 0.3 will look like, adjusted to the new website's layout:

http://users.pandora.be/pc_freak/diversen/screenshots/usebb-0.3.png

I would set the link "Detailed online list" next to the line above "... in the next 30 minutes."

Templates will still change...