Extra Modifications (these extend functionality and may come and go over time)
- RSS Feeds
These have always been there but for those that like to use email notifications to keep up with posts, this is much easier on the servers. Each forum can be selected and tracked in a news reader. The master list can be found using the orange RSS button at the bottom of every page.
- ImageShack & PhotoBucket Uploads
If for whatever reason you don't want to use the inline attachment system to add photos to your posts, you can now upload directly to Imageshack or Photobucket from within the post editor (of course, you'll need accounts with them first).
- Embedded Video
I've added a mod that make embedding video in a post pretty easy. It supports virtually all the tier 1 and tier 2 video sites out there. Posting a video is easy, for YouTube simply copy the video url (Not the Embedding code although that may work too). Typically this would be the url you'd send in an email.
Quote:
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http://www.domain.com/watch?v=-nRGC720Qak"]
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In the example replace domain.com with youtube.com
- Post Thanks You
Each post has a "Thanks" button. This is intended to cut down the number of posts that say things like "Thanks for posting". If you want to thank someone for a post please use the Thanks button.
- Usernames
Funky characters in usernames are now restricted. The only allowable character is an _. I know some of you like to make really weird names but those characters end up preventing other things like your profiles, blogs, etc from working properly. If you have one of these username, you can contact us and we'll arrange to change it for you. It's not mandatory but if your having problems with profile association that is the only way to fix it.
- Force Users To Read A Thread
This won't get used very often but occasionally there is need to make sure everyone reads a particular post (ie: policy changes). I now have the ability to force everyone to read a particular thread before they're allowed to do anything else on the board. Just so you know.