Tyler

Last week I was very busy upgrading the site. There are now a ton of upgrades and new features. In fact, there are so many additions that in order to write about them all here, I'd need to take up probably 15 posts.

I will therefore only list the highlights. Note that these are merely a tiny fraction of the new features available. (For a complete list of changes, you can view the developer's changelog here.)

Note: I am using screenshots from the default skin, not our custom skin, so don't be confused - the main elements are still the same.

That being said, here we go!

Fight Bookie!

We now have a Fight Bookie feature! You can access the Fight Bookie by either clicking on "Fight Bookie" at the top menu, or by clicking on the individual Bookie Thread on the forums.

Each member starts with $500 in Fight Betting Cash. This is just for fun, of course, but can definitely be used for bragging rights. I may... may... even add a feature in the future where you can trade in your fight cash for actual stuff (MMAForums t-shirt, pride/UFC dvd's, etc.)

Only administrators and moderators can create events, for obvious reasons, but everyone can bet on the fights. Enjoy!

Mark Forums Read with AJAX

If you wish to mark a forum read, you can simply click its status icon on the index page and the change will be processed without a reload. You can even mark individual sub-forums as read in the same way.




Quote Tags Link to Quoted Post

When quoting a post, the ID of the post is automatically included with the [quote] tag. When the quoted text is viewed in a thread, a small icon links back to the quoted post.

Auto-Resize Oversized Image Attachments

If a user attaches an image that has dimensions larger than the administrator allows, the image will automatically resized to fit. This is similar to the auto-resizing of avatars that vBulletin 3.5 performed

Infraction System

Note: I will be setting up the specific infractions and posting a new thread reminding members of them in a day or two. I will also notify and inform moderators of this new system.

The infraction system allows me and my moderators to flexibly reprimand problem users. We can create as many types of infractions as we want to represent any type of rules violation on your board. Each infraction has a controllable weight (points) and an option to allow it to be applied only as a warning, which alerts the user to their violation but doesn’t give them any points. Additionally, the points given to a user for a violation can be automatically removed after a specified amount of time via the Scheduled Tasks system.

The points are used to remove permissions from users that reach specific thresholds. To be more flexible, the existing user group permission system is used. You can see in the screenshot that “Registered Users” who have more than 15 points will have permissions from the “Infractions – Moderate All Posts” group applied, and any user with more than 30 points will get permissions from the “Infractions – Banned” group.



When an administrator or moderator wishes to apply an infraction to a user, he or she clicks the infraction icon on a post, and is presented with a choice of infractions and an option to send a private message to the user with more information. It is not a problem if a user has disabled private messages but that is a feature for another day. If private messages are disabled globally and email is available, an email will be sent to the user instead.



A user may also be given an infraction from their profile. The profile is also where a user's infraction history can be seen. Active infractions may also be reversed by users with appropriate permissions.



In addition to receiving a PM about an infraction/warning, users are alerted to new infractions in their User control panel.