Software Upgrade - September 2009

[Warren]

In keeping up with the latest advances in vBulletin development, TRF's owner Andy R has upgraded us to vBulletin version 3.8.4.
There are some additional features which members may find useful, and of course there are some which may be less so.

The three member-related areas affected by the upgrade are:

Private Messages

• a PM reply box, with the original PM already in quotes, now appears underneath the PM.
• There is a new Search/sort option for incoming and outgoing PMs. At the top of the list of PMs, Title/Sender and Date are clickable and will sort PMs accordingly. Below the list is a more extensive search function that allows members to select PMs from particular senders or with particular titles or date ranges. The Sender option in the 'Sent Items' (or outbox) area isn't very useful as the sender will be yourself.

Social Groups

• We now have the ability to have threaded discussions in the social groups.
• The Administrators can now create Categories for social groups. This may become more useful as the number of range of the social groups expands.
• Members can now subscribe to threads in the social groups so that automatic notifications are made when there is activity in a thread.
• We can now add Icons for the social groups to give a splash of colour.

User CP

• Members can now determine the privacy levels for different areas of their profile and profile page. You can select one of Everyone, Registered Members, Your Contacts and Your Friends. These will allow or restrict who sees what in areas such as your Profile Picture, Profile Comments, About Me, Friends, etc. This new feature can be found under the heading Profile Privacy which is in the Your Profile panel on the left hand side when in UserCP. Check it out!

If other useful features contained within the upgrade come to light, they will be added to this list.