A brief overview of some changes in 2.2

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Verteron
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A brief overview of some changes in 2.2

Post by Verteron »

Most of this I knew about before, but:

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* "Events", allowing the admin to define situations applicable to users and usergroups, e.g. "Usergroup X inherits Rank Y after Z days", "User A gains B forum permissions after C posts"
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That sounds _extremely_ interesting! Much like a sort of "promotion rule", which would allow us to create private forums for long-term members and so on, and perhaps even do something like granting moderator privileges to someone who's been on the board for 5 years (not that I'd want to do this, but it's an example). Of all the proposed features this sounds like the most interesting (aside from attachments ;)).

Quick question, any chance we'll have coloured usernames throughout the board rather than just the memberlist etc? Even better, rather than a simple colour specification, why not make it a CSS specification? I.e. <span style="{row.USER_STYLE}">{row.USERNAME}</span>, which an admin can specify either as a simple colour in the ACP, which will generate "color:#AABBCC; " automatically, or for those of us who know some CSS (or lots of CSS...), extraordinarily outlandish things like "filter: chroma(color=#000000) glow(color=#00FF00,strength=20)" :lol:. Just a thought ;)

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Just imagine how great the event system would be with Karma rating implented. ;) *hint* *hint*

User A has a certain amount of "helpful" Karma (a few different kinds of Karma like helpful, interesting, spam which can be assigned to a User's post, why not?), so he gets a rank which symbolizes this, e.g. "Santa's little helper".

And now I will shut up and continue the discussion about ratings here: :)

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Paul,

Wow! I had not idea that you had already implemented so much! It sounds great!

I do have one *probably ignorant question*. Excuse me in advance for asking.

It concerns this:

[quote]In 2.2 compilation is the default, indeed at present it cannot be disabled. At the current time the compiled templates are output to flat files stored within a world writeable directory. This shouldn't be a major issue for the vast majority of users.[/quote]

Would having this stuff in a "world writable" directory make the 2.2 more suceptable to hackers attacks? Would they be able to upload crap and corrupt the forums or run arbitrary code?


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Whoops! Sorry for not putting question in a new topic paul.

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this looks amazing!

i really really cant wait for it to be released!!!

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i haven't been keeping up with cvs, but i guess i should update it now. :D

all of this looks great.

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Have you thought out how you're doing the Merge function?

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Post by Guest »

i think that Attachments mod wont be useful...so plz don't add him as a fetaure....if someone wnat to have this mod...he can add him easily.

and it sounds great...hope to see it soon.

cool chnages BTW

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Whether you like it or not, attachments will be in 2.2. However, you will be able to turn them off on a per-forum basis.

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Post by Guest »

Darn, that sure sound nice. I am salivating at the chance to try it out.

Chuck

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