A Member Photo Gallery...

seanlail wrote: My 2c:   The ability to set a member expiration. If a member hasn't logged in for a period of say 6 months, then an email gets sent to them warning of their account deletion in one week. After one week, if member hasn't logged in, then account gets deleted. It will keep DB and memberslist current.

1. Admins can set a maximum image witdh and high if it is bigger then these valuse, image can auto thumbnail (for image upload + image insert(url))
2. For next generation of WWF, Borg must add null fields to DB. For example if next versions will need a additional fields, this is not problem for upgrade.
3. For download files, referer check
4. Improve Flood settings, For example daily limit. This mustn't effect admins, moderators..
5. Improve batch delete process, I can delete all members who dont visit from X date,
6. Admins can change users' username. Some users sometimes want this. I know, there is a mod for this. [Borg added this feature to v7.9 Sorry]
7. If we must modify DB for upgrade to v8, detailed introduction.
8. Users must have special folder for RTE v3 (upload picture/ upload file seperate) Users must see their previous uploads from RTE. http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=13825&PN=1 - This is how to tutorial
9. Improve statistics screen on the Admin menu, Admins can see IP Adresses and URL of visiting pages..
10. Quick Quote Feature : Users select a word, sentence, paragraph or all message and then click [QQF] button, After press this button, a javascript add a selected text between to quote tags, This is seperate function, it is not same thing already exist Quote feature.
11. For Users Profile : Web wiz forum must be integrate http://www.onlinestatus.org/forum/usage.php - http://www.onlinestatus.org/forum/usage.php  service. users online status must be appear (All networks Yahoo, MSN, ICQ etc.) And visitor must see or add user's Instant Message account to him/her account.
12. Insert link is very nice but if it include ed2k:// links this will be better. http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=12721&KW=superlative - See this link
13. May be db can seperate. But this is very hard i know. Example 2004 year topics, 2005 year topics.. But user try search, results from all DBs. In Default display only current year's topics. May be Borg add this feature to WWF v9 or v10
14. RSS Feed Feature (This is MUST) for only everyone read permission forums..
15. Picture Protect Feature : Some web sites stole forum content (c/p). For this reason call our pictures from other sites. Web site traffic dramaticly increase. May be add a referer check for uploaded pictures.. 
16. Advanced Auto-Ban options : to Flood setting. For example : admin can set to max amount of post in 10 min, Ex : 3 posts in 10 min, when user reach this value, user auto ban (temporary ban). May be user's username add the blacklist.txt. Admins can clear this text file via Admin panel. This is different normal ban. User automaticly add to txt file, admins can see who added this file. If admin wish the permanent ban click the username in the blacklist or easly clear all list.
17. Move group members to another group : Admins can move A group members to B group

I will add my ideas to this message, for this reason i will edit this message many times.

gencbakis wrote: all member pm send (admin panel) member total online time or member login number   ( I am sorry no speak english)

• Admins sent PM to all members via Admin Panel (nice suggestion )
• member total online time or member login number  (I dont undestand this - In Turkish : gencbakis bunu anlamadim buraya turkce yazarsan cevirmeye calisim benimde ingilizcem iyi degil)

Sorry for Turkish post . I ask to gencbakis what was his suggestion in Turkish for translate to English. I learned and translate gencbakis suggestion :

• gencbakis want to see users's registration IP adress in Admin panel
• gencbakis want to see users's visit counts and visit durations on Today / Yesterday / All Time at the Admin Panel (My comment : This is not required)
• gencbakis do not want to popup windows. Because popupblocker dont allow this windows. (My comment : This is not required, because if Somebody know popupblocker usage, They give permsssion to web site for popup.)

To gencbakis - English -

Please do not write turkish in this forum. And do not use CAPS. Also I dont use msn messenger and I dont read help request mails, I delete all of them. Sorry

Lutfen bu forumda turkce yazma, kiziyorlarmis ve buyuk harf kullanma. Ayrica msn de kullanmiyorum ve ozelden gelen yardim talepleri maillerinide okumadan siliyorum. Kusura bakma

Some fantastic suggestions.  I doubled one or two that I agreed with and added some small features which would make a great deal of difference for admin.  Thanks so much Borg for this awesome approach to community feedback!

• Allow for slightly longer usernames.
  
• Agree: Allow Admin to set maximum file resolution size.  If a picture is posted in excess of this size then it is made into a hyperlink and a notice is written saying that the file resolution is too high to post.
  
• Add another entry to the Cascading Style Sheet for text that lies outside of the tables.  (eg. <<<< Prev Page  Next Page>>>>)
  
• Allow Admin to allow avatars for certain user groups.  Allow admin to force/assign an avatar to each group.
  
• Make forum poll keep track of voter username.  This would allow users to truly only post once since their username will be cached and allow the admin to see who has voted.  Similar to Snitz Forums
  
• Allow admin to set a link in the registration_rules.asp that can be set to a forum code of conduct or personalized rules.  Example: http://www.mikesmarauders.com/forums/registration_rules.asp - http://www.mikesmarauders.com/forums/registration_rules.asp
  
• @comcast.net username issue fix: For example.  Currently, our users with comcast e-mail addresses will see their address mailto:oey@comcast.net -
  Joey@comcast.net turned into mailto:joey@comca&#115;t.net - joey@comca&#115;t.net
  
• Agree: Allow the PM'ing of all members and the PM'ing of specific user groups.
  
• Allow Dundas Mail to coincide with Dundas Uploading.  Seems odd that WebWiz only supports one Dundas.
  
• Agree: Allow automatic member removal after a confirmation e-mail and admin-definable expiration date.
  
• Agree: Disallow the viewing of forum/thread titles that the user does not have permission to view.  If this is a performance killer can we give the admin the option of turning this on or off?  For some of us, it's worth the sacrifice.
  
• Option to specify who is notified or sent an e-mail when a user uses the "Report Post" Function.  At least, can we specify just an admin group or just the moderator group?
  
• Keep rocking out the best darn ASP forum software there ever was.  Consider taking on a partner to help you out.

Please don't take these as demands.  I'm thankful for everything you've done and am happy to say that we'll be purchasing our WebWiz forums at the V8 release if not sooner.

• Manage Bad E-mail Address on Active Accounts.  Have some way to indicate that an e-mail is bad without disabling the whole account.  I have some users that change their e-mail address without updating it in WWF, but are still active members of the community.  I get bounce messages every time someone posts to one of the topics they subscribed to.  It would be nice to have a checkbox that the admin can use to indicate a bad e-mail address, to prevent subscriptions being e-mail to it.  I know I can remove all their subscriptions manually, but it is nice to know who has a bad e-mail address.  Keep in mind that some ISPs will ban your IP if you send too many e-mails to a bad address.  Also, it would be nice that if you flag an account with a bad e-mail, it requires the user to provide an active e-mail address and reactivate their account.  That probably should be optional, but it would be nice.
• Where are Members?  It would be nice if the member list would indicate where in the forum they are.
• Last Active Sort on Members List.  It would also be nice if you could sort users on the Member List by the date of their last activity, and also show that date when sorting by that option.

Some long term ideas not meant as suggestions for version 8:

• Plugin System. I know this is definately not a version 8 feature, but this is as good a place to mention it as any.  There has to be a better way at handling mods.  Many other packages use plugins to enchance functionality to limit changing of the core code for mods.  It would be nice if WWF had some kind of Plugin System in place so their would be less hacking of the core code.
• Integration with Other Web Wiz Apps.  I know it is your intent to not make a portal, but you have actually already written many of the pieces.  It would be nice if some of your applications, such as the Mailing List and Blog would integrate with the Forum, as far as user management is concerned.

That's it for now!  Keep up the great work!  

1. Use a template-based system for the layout of the forum. Currently adding a side navigation is not the easiest thing in the world. Have the template page call all needed functions to display the features.
2. Ability to track uploaded files/images in posts through the admin and manage them. phpBB has a feature like this.
3. Unlimited emoticons without a mod.
   

• Option so that Admin (and perhaps moderator) can edit html in a post, but users cannot.  I modified mine so I can do this and it is soooooo helpful, especially when users cut and paste stuff from web pages or Microsoft Word.  I can go in and edit or delete the extra html that is messing up their post.
• Make it so that when you are editing the html in a post, and you forget to switch back to normal view, it doesn't post the html as text!  I don't know how many times I have screwed up a post and had to reedit because I forgot to switch back to normal edit mode.
• A non-popup version of the profile.  In some places a popup profile is useful, others it is not.  You can always press the back button in most cases to get back to where you were.  Perhaps it can be an option for site owners.  I would prefer the profile button at the bottom of this post not be a pop-up, for example, but maybe have an icon next to it for the pop-up version.
• Administrators are allowed to post as designated alias accounts when logged in as Administrator.  There are times when I post using special usernames and it would be nice if I didn't have to log out and log back in.  These designated aliases would be tied to a master account, but would otherwise be independent accounts.
• The ability to search and sort accounts in the admin control panel by e-mail address.  Many times I get bounces because someone changed their e-mail address.  It would be nice if there were an easy way to find out what account that e-mail belongs to.
• Make the "Edited by" text optional when admins edit a post.
• If you have links in posts open in a new window, it would be nice to be able to designate that some links do not.  Right now it seems to be an all or nothing approach.  Even changing the target in html edit mode get overridden by the default setting for the forum.  Perhaps there could be a way to set it on a link by link basis (for those with permission to do so, such as admins).  Or you could also have it so that all links that start with designated domain names have target _top, while the rest have target _blank.  The admin would be able to set the domain name.

That's it for now.  Thanks.

• Instead of always programming for the lowest common denominator (i.e. MS Access), allow certain features that are more resource intensive to be optionally turned on if they are using SQL instead of Access.  WWF already sets a variable on whether they are using Access or SQL, so it wouldn't be too hard to turn on and off features based on that.  I think this would please your higher end websites who can stand the performance hit and afford a high performance database, while still catering to a majority of users who are using MS Access.  Some of the features that are not available for performance reasons are only unavailable because of MS Access.  They would actually work fine in a SQL environment.

Just a funny idea about the ladder system: beside from getting more stars, it would be fun if users could get additional goodies such as new emoticons/avatars everytime they go to a new level.

• Time between posts
• 5 posts in x time

when spammer wait x time, he can continue flood. When user force flood, system can auto ban to user.

marcpidoux wrote: Web Wiz Forum is almost never the only interactive tool on a website, often there are some other things such as calendar, email, events etc... it would be almost impossible to integrate it with all of them, even with some MOD.   However, maybe the login could be done more universally by, for exemple, an integration with the User Authentication/Log In Server-Side behavior of Dreamweaver.   I know, this will mean that Web Wiz Forum encrypting password technic will have to be ignored as well as some of the registration procedure steps such as disclaimer, email verification, ip recording etc... but an option to have the registration/login handled by Web Wiz Forum or by Dreamweaver Server-Side behavior (with all the consequances) will be a really cool and universal way to integrate it with many other applications on the market and even private ones!

• When you highlight text you want to hyperlink, it comes up with a pop-up window and puts your highlighted text where the URL is supposed to go, instead of where the title of the link is supposed to go.  This is backwards since you can just type the URL without using the link buton to make a URL clickable.  You would only use the link button to make text clickable.  The highlighted text should be in the title field, not URL field.  It especially becomes annoying when you already have the URL on the clipboard waiting to be pasted, but the title is in the URL field and you have to move both of them to the correct spot, but can only have one thing in the clipboard at a time.  This is in version 8.0 alpha 1 on this website.
• Also, in the same dialog box, the length of the title is way too short.
• I would also like to see this feature turned on and off.  The old version in 7.7a works just fine in most cases, plus I don't want everyone to decide what links open in a new browser window and which ones don't.  I want all links to open in a new window except for ones that an admin or moderator overrides.  This should be something that the system admin can set for his site.

I haven't installed the forum yet, but I think you've got a wonderful product going here.  Much better than the other ASP forums and it's only 50ish bucks.

• I'm a huge fan of the new PHPBB top navigation with the subtle drop down effects and clean menu style.  http://www.kirupaforum.com/ - http://www.kirupaforum.com  
• The avatar being a single fixed width and height is a bit of a bother. It would be nice if it you could just define max dimensions.
• The quick reply feature at the bottom of a topic is always handy. -- Clarification... It'd be nice to have a stripped down editor option for quick reply.  Bold/Italic/Link buttons only.  I'm a real clean freak as you might have guessed.
• From reading the posts it sounds like there's no real template system in place.  Obviously a big effort to change that, but it'd be nice to see sometime.

Thanks!

• Feature Ban.  It would be nice to be able to disable certain features by user without having to disable it for everyone or ban the person outright.  For example, someone who abuses the edit or delete feature: they can be banned from using it (even if the group or forum permissions allow it).  Or if someone is abusing private messages or sending e-mails, that could be disabled for just them.  The reason why I ask for this is because sometimes you have people who are otherwise good contributors, but abuse a certain feature of the website.  This way there could be a middle ground, where you don't have to ban them completely, and you don't have to disable features that 99% of the other members don't abuse.  Otherwise all you have is an all or nothing approach to banning.  And disabling certain features of the website via a feature ban may get their attention enough so you don't have to completely ban them.  They may shape up realizing you are serious about their behavior and will take action.

• Ban Time Periods.  Make it possible to ban certain people from the site for a period of time.  Great for warnings and showing you are serious without losing a member.  Some people will actually shape up after a temporary ban, other will not (and you permanently ban them).  But this would also give a middle ground as well.  It would also serve websites that cater to teenagers who are more likely to break the rules, but if you banned everyone permanently for breaking the rules you would have noone on your website.

• Voting Flood Control - prevents bots from voting in polls that allow multiple votes (or at least slows them down enough where they don't crash your server).

-boRg- wrote: You can already change how many stars each group in the ladder system (and non-ladder system) has as well as giving each group your own custom stars or image.

• Star Field Not a Dropdown List.  I would like the number of stars field to be editable and not be a drop down.  The reason why is because we use 7 stars on our website, not 5, and everytime I upgrade the forum, I have to hack the code again.  It would be nice to be able to just type in the number of stars.  It could be easily checked to see if the input is a number.
• Multiple Ladders.  It would be nice to specify more than one ladder for different types of users.  For example, we have normal users who visit the website, and we also have editors as well.  Each could have its own ladder, and different colored stars (or pips).

• Hide Other Categories When Displaying a Category.  It would be nice if a system administrator could optionally hide the other categories, instead of just collapsing them.  This would be useful to people who have wrapped the forum with a header and footer and already link to the different categories.

• http://forums.webwiz.net/default.asp?C=2 - http://forums.webwiz.net/default.asp?C=2  (notice that the categories are collapsed, not removed).

• List of all categories and forums (default.asp)
• http://www.caribbeanchoice.com/forums/default.asp?C=1 - List of forums in one category (notice that there are no collapsed categories, unlike how WWF does it now).

-boRg- wrote: wistex wrote: Star Field Not a Dropdown List.  I would like the number of stars field to be editable and not be a drop down.  The reason why is because we use 7 stars on our website, not 5, and everytime I upgrade the forum, I have to hack the code again.  It would be nice to be able to just type in the number of stars.  It could be easily checked to see if the input is a number. I don't know why people keep missing this, but under the bit in the admin section where you select the number of stars for a user group you have a text field where you can type in your own custom image or stars image for that group thus overridding the built in stars of the forum. So no need to hack any code. Custom Stars Image Link: If you wish to use your own custom stars/image for this group type the path in here to the image.

Actually I know that and use that.   But, what I am talking about is the member list "sort by number of stars" gets messed up since I have to put 5 stars in the drop down, and the image is 6 or 7 stars.  The 5, 6 and 7 star members get lumped together and are not sorted correctly.  I have to hack the code to get it to sort correctly on the member list.

• Sort By Number of Stars Should Sort Decending.  To me, it makes more sense to sort decending.  Usually there are less high ranking members than low ranking members, and I typically am more interested in the high ranking members when I sort by number of stars.  Another option would be allow us to pick which way to sort (acending, decending), but honestly, I only would need sort decending for number of stars.  I usually sort by newest members if I want to see the newbies.
• Allow Ladder Step to Start at Zero instead of One:  On my forum, when you first join, you are in the Lurker Group with 0 stars.  Once you post your first post, you then become a Newbie.  I like doing it that way since I can easily look in the member list and see who has never posted.  Plus, I kinda like the idea of a Lurker group for people who never post, especially since on my website, they are required to create an account to do certain things outside of the forum (for those that don't know, http://www.caribbeanchoice.com - my site fully integrates WWF and uses it for member management).  Edit: I mean that you should be able to start a ladder group at 1 post (i.e. as the second step in the ladder, the first step should always start at 0).  Currently 1 is not a valid option in the dropdown box.  I think you knew what I meant though.

Thanks.

• Remote Logoff All Computers with Auto-Logon Cookie!  I've done this before.  I've logged on at someone's home or office, and forgot to logoff!  And since it defaults to "Auto-Login" it stays logged in!  It would be nice if there was a way to make it so that all Auto-Login Cookies are logged off remotely by setting a setting in your profile.  For example, I could set a flag in my Admin account that tells it to ignore any Auto-Login cookie.  That way when someone visits the website on a computer I forgot to logoff of, it would automatically log me off their computer and ask them to login.  Also, this should probably be the default setting for the admin account.  On the admin accounts, I prefer to have to login everytime for security reasons, but on regular accounts I would prefer auto-login.
• Make Auto-Login (Remember Me) Default to Off.  I would prefer if people chose to auto-login, rather than it doing it by default.  It would also prevent people from accidentally leaving themselfs logged in on other people's computers or public computers.  I actually hacked to code to make it so it defaults to auto-login off on my website.  Edit: Not sure if this is needed as much since the problem with forgetting to logoff someone else's computer with auto-login on was solved in v7.8.  It might be nice if the admin could chose whether they wanted it defaulted to on or off when people login, however.

• They can set what IP addresses auto-login will work on, and ignore all auto-login cookies on any other IP addresses. 
• Or perhaps you could set a special "Allow Auto-Login" cookie that is different than the Auto-Login cookie that Admins can set from the Admin control panel.  Both cookies must be present for auto-login to work for an Admin account when "Override Auto-Login Cookie" checkbox is ON.

This may be a possible feature to prevent having an absent-minded admin leaving their account auto-logged on at someone else's home or office.

Maybe you should change my forum title to be "Idea Factory" or something.  Or maybe I've had too much caffeine and sugar for one day.  Either way, here is another idea:

• Modified Admin Member List.  In the admin control panel, when you list members, it should have a column for whether they have activated their account or not.  It would also be nice to see which ones where made inactive my a moderator or admin as well.

My additional suggestions :

• Optional Forum Intro Splash Page : This is very userful feature, some forums have special rules. I want to announce and warn users for while acces this area. This page editable for each forums. And admins can set a delay time. For example after 5 second auto redirect to forum. this feature must apply before Permission control. (All guest+users see splash page, after check permission)
• Optional Forum Announce Header : Admins can set to Announce message for each forums.
• For Performance : DB separate for each year, but search option apply all db's

http://forums.webwiz.net/forum_posts.asp?TID=13859&TPN=2 - My other 17 suggestions in here

@wistex : Do not stole my suggestion style this is copyrighted suggestion style

• Admins can post to locked topics.  It would be nice if an admin can post to a locked topic without unlocking it.  I'd find this especially useful when I need to add a post to a topic that has a poll attached.  The problem is that if you unlock the topic, you also unlock the poll.  But it also could be useful for other topics as well.  I have actually had someone post to the normally locked forum rules topic because I had to temporarily unlock it to add another post, and they happened to post during the few minutes I had it unlocked.  Normally I want topics locked from everyone else, not from me, the admin.
• Lock Poll But Not Topic.  It also would be nice if you could lock the poll without locking the topic.  In some topics it would be nice if we could have post-voting discussions in the same topic, but that is not possible when locking the poll means also locking the topic.

Keep up the great work.

• PM Inbox Size Can Be Adjusted Per Member.  It would be nice if we could allow certain members and/or groups to have a different amount of private messages stored in their inbox.  This would be an awesome way to reward active or paying members of a website, and also would be useful in giving certain people (like moderators, administrators, major contributors, etc.) a bigger mailbox.  For example, I may want regular members to have only 50 messages, major contributors 100, moderators 200, etc.

Thanks.  

I agree. I can't say how many times people forgot their username/password, and couldn't retrieve the password b/c both username and email was required. They asked me what their username was, and I had to conveniently search the whole member table in sql.

I'm really looking forward to the new version, looks like just when one would think it can't get much better, it does!!

• Add admin field in the users table for "Number of Times the User has Logged In" -- to help identify users who log in a lot but don't post as often as others.    Also useful to identify if a user is listed as not-active but somehow is able to sign in.
  
• Add the IGNORE mod that allows users to not display any/all of an individual's posts.  It might be worthwhile to incorporate this into the PM feature, where if a user is already ignoring somebody on the board and that somebody tries to send them a PM that it will automatically be rejected (without notifying the sender, of course)
  
• Add the VIEW IP USAGE mod in the Admin area that helps consolidate what IP addresses are being used for which users -- helpful in identifying users with multiple signons or other abusers.  Modify the registration page to include the original IP that the user was signed up from to help identify lurkers' IP addresses.
  
• Add a post rating system [as discussed in the Mod area a number of times], similar to Hot-or-Not rating scale where each individual has the ability to rate other's posts (not their own) on a scale of 1-to-10 in quality.  Keep an average in the posts table. 
  
  Allow users to view x-number of "top voted posts" and "bottom voted posts". 
  
  Allow admins to view and change/override a posts' rating. 
  
  Don't allow users to rate posts from admins or other specific user groups (site mods, for example). 
  
  Don't allow users to rate a specific post more than once. 
  
  Allow users to set a 'post quality viewing level', whereby only posts that meet or exceed a particular quality level (and posts by admins/site mods) will be displayed for them.
  
• Modify the banned words code to look for vbCRLF separating characters (or at least allow us to enter vbCRLF or <br> as an option to try and catch   t    h    o    s    e    enterprising folks.
  

FARSHAD wrote: 3.  in current version when admin edit user's post it will show "edited by" text in bottom of that post its better in version 8 when Admin edit users post it doesn`t show " edited by "  text

• Referral System.  Add an optional field (that the admin can turn on or off) that allows users to enter who referred them to the forum on the registration page.  This would be useful to see who is referring the most people, could be used for contests, and could easily be used in mods that are developed for the forum.

I have been looking at WebWizForums and what impresses me the most is the performance and efficiency of this forum. I 'm personally pretty brutal when it comes to my HTML and ASP code and I use all the tricks I can to squeeze out as much performance as I can.

1. Flexible registration fields.
   - At the very least, there should be fields for things like Company Name, Occupation, and Address. The Forum Admin should be able to config whether these fields are on or off, whether the field is required for registration or not, and whether the info is either visible or private (to Members and/or Moderators).
   - At best, configurable registration fields for whatever you want.
    
2. For the registration fields, ability for the Admin to produce a private report on demographics of the members, based on occupation, company, etc - anything from the registration field, and # of posts. etc.
    
3. Total integration with WebWiz Mailing list. This is an absolute must for a commerical forum. This won't affect performance of the forum. This forum, coupled with the WebWiz mailing list, would simply be a compelling combination.
    
4. Ability for Admin to configure forum to select either images or text links, for forum links like Report, Quote, new Topic, New Poll, etc.
    
5. If Images is turned on, Member should be able to select images or text links (same functionality as (4) but personalized).
    
6. Shorten the URLs. For example, instead of forum_posts.asp, use posts.asp, or even better p.asp. Instead of forum_topics.asp, use topics.asp, or even better t.asp. Small performance increase, but better yet, when people email URLs of posts to their buddies the chance of the URLs wrapping is reduced. In my experience, shorter URLs always look more professional.

These would really make this forum ideal for commerical use, while still making it dialup friendly.

Make the Welcome email HTML, so we can personlize it even more...