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  1. I think that I would want a user's profile information to be changed, his email address to be changed/removed, PM's deleted, gallery images deleted, blog posts deleted and his account renamed and banned, but not deleted, so that his posts stays in tact under for example a user called "deleted_user_00234" or whatever. If a user wants specific posts deleted (due to personal information contained in it) then he/she can request that separately. I delete all personal information from the forums in any case, as I think it's looking for stalker trouble, and my users are urged to not make their details public. To me, this would be a much better option, since deleting post data just makes topics become useless. I've had this happen a few times, and I've always refused, but I do live in a backwards country when it comes to this type of thing, so for now I'm ok. However, when this does become a requirement, I'd like this option to be available, but with certain limitations, as explained above.
  2. +1 This is VERY useful. I used to have this on my VB board, and it saved us TONS of times. Disputes have no leg to stand on. I, the site owner, can VERY easily see when a user complains, or when I check up on a mod, what he did, and what he removed. +10 for this one. I would just like to sort the tabs into my own order, and move tabs into a global tag called (applications - let me just name it what I want) and then have it be a drop down tab if hovered over. The number of tabs are going to be a HUGE problem very soon. I've made a few suggestions for this in another thread. Quoting here: And now, a list of changes that I want to see in future releases: Trash Can: Have some kind of link to the topic where this was deleted from, please? In my setup, I really need to be able to see this, as I like to be involved in every decision my mods make. Also a restore button or link or something?Multi moderation extras - allow me to PM the user as well. Basically, when I use multi moderation, I want the following to happen. Post deleted (moved to trash can), user PM'd and/ user given warning.User Images depending on groups belonging to - So, like you have a "Staff" badge, allow a badge for secondary groups as well, set up by an Admin, but perhaps selected by user which ones they want to show up on their post (maybe set a limit option by ACP option too, to only allow 3 secondary badges, for example)Rep System is currently pretty useless without anyone seeing your rep. Put rep in the profile, put up a highest rep user thing, and perhaps even rep in the post bit under the avatar. I know there are 2 hooks that does this, but it should be included in the standard, IMO.Extra tab on profile page, which must have watched forums/posts. This is a pretty often requested feature on my board. My members want to watch certain forums and posts, and then just refresh their profile page, seeing both these on the same page. Currently, you have the two tabs in the side bar, but people prefer not clicking between these two. If it's on the profile page, it could be on a separate tab, which shows watched posts first, with a separation after this, showing the watched topics second. It could even refresh via AJAX (really, I want to have AJAX's babies some day), which would stop the spam refreshing that users tend to do while they wait for new posts to pop up.Option to put sidebar blocks on every page, not just forum home page - please, pretty please.Link to ACP member record from member profile page (admin only, obviously)Option (user selectable) to reverse sort order for posts in topics - newest on topMass add or remove members to a group. If I want to, for example, search for email addresses that has the word "facebook" in it, and move them to a new group, it's a REALLY long process at the moment.Check all boxes EVERYWHERE - moderated posts, and everywhere in the ACP as well - subscriptions for example. Basically, if there's a checkbox, I want a check all above it.Multi quote breaches topic borders - currently, if you multi quote a post on page 1 of a topic, and press the reply box on page 2, it'll include multi quotes from page 1. However, it will not do this over 2 separate threads. Basically, when someone clicks a reply box, while there are multi quotes selected all over the forum, it must only include the current topic's multi quotes in the reply, but have a little link below the box, asking the user if he wants to include the other x number of multi quotes from different topics in this post as well, or if he wants to clear multi quotes. VB does it this way, and it's quote useful.Live Ajax post feature - see below Josh touched on it a little bit in the quote below: However, there's a better way. It's called Live post (it was available as a hack on Vbulletin) and it basically refreshes the topic automatically every X seconds. It's got a few options that you can set: Refresh topic every x secondsTimeout for refresh - if user leaves the page (click on another tab in browser for example) or becomes inactive on his computer (goes AFK) or whatever, it times out the refresh.Live topic time out - X seconds after the last reply, the topic stops being a live topic, and refreshes like a normal topic. Now this sounds like a gimmick. I know when I first saw this hack, I thought that I'd give it a try, but I'll probably uninstall it after a day or so. However, let me tell you that this is now the most missed feature on my board since I've moved to IPB. The first week, I was sitting in front of my computer, waiting for the replies to happen, and not understanding why I must keep on pressing this F5 button all the time to see who replied to the thread while I was typing something in the quick reply box. This feature is the single biggest improvement that I've made to my board, and MANY of my users miss it incredibly. There are also a ton of benefits of this Live topic feature. For one, it saves a crap load of bandwidth. In stead of refreshing the whole page, it only checks every 5 seconds (or whatever), which takes up about 4k or less) and adds a new post only when there is one. If IPB adds this feature, I can only imagine how many more Vbulletin (and many others) users they'll draw (not that you necessarily want them. They're a pain to deal with! Look at me! I've probably logged 20 tickets in the last 3 weeks, since moving to IPB, and now I'm testing the post size limits with this suggestions list - sorry about that, btw). Anyways, thanks for an awesome piece of software, and I hope to see some of these in future releases. :D
  3. Yea, as Mark said, VB has basically three ways to remove a topic/post. Hard deleted - physically remove post/topic from DB with no traces and no way to restoreSoft deleted - Remove the topic/post from public view, but all the admins and mods can still see it in the topic view. They also slim it down so that only the user's nick is visible, with a thin line going across to the right, where there is a "Manage" link or a "View" link which would allow you to undelete it (restore it back into public view the way it was) or make other changes (like delete the attachments uploaded in that post)Moderated - Similar to IPB's inactive/invisible Not that it's any of my issues at the moment, since I've already migrated, but this is a HUGE issue for VB migrations, especially for larger boards (not that mine is that large anyways), so I think it would be a great feature to have available for next time I want to stick needles in my eyes :D Do you perhaps have a sql script that will allow me to move the invisible posts to my trash can? I have no more topics left, just posts. That would help a LOT. A restore button would be awesome, yes. I didn't even think of that. And here I thought that IPB should give me a job as the person just thinking crap up the whole day. Seems like I should share that position with you :D
  4. Hi Guys, Firstly, let me say that I am SERIOUSLY impressed with your software. I just moved from Vbulletin about 2 weeks ago. However, there are a few things that's, to me at least, missing, or could be improved a bit. Report Center: Allow some moderation functions in this please. In fact, make it act like a hidden forum? Put up some sort of unread feature, so that I can see which reported items I have read, and which contains unread posts by another moderator. Perhaps allow Admins to delete posts in there, edit posts, etc? If it acts like a forum, then all of these can be possible. Allow +/- reps as well, as I often want to thank a mod for doing something, which isn't possibly at the moment. Also, the "1 Active Reports" thing in the header should also have "10 Active Reports (4 Unread)" there, so that you can quickly and easily see who did what. Lastly, a search feature, please. if you later want to find something in there, it's going to be nearly impossible. Also perhaps some prune function? Perhaps move reports to your trash can when deleting?Migration changes - soft deleted posts in Vbulletin must rather be moved to a trash can, in stead of unapproved. I currently have 1100 posts that's got to be deleted, since it was soft deleted on Vbulletin, and is now moderated posts in IPB. The problem is that there's no "select all" option, like with moderated topics, so you literally have to enter each thread with moderated posts in it, click on the check boxes of the individual posts, and then delete them. This is a HUGE schlepp. I've already cleared about 5000 posts this way, and can I say that I seriously have better things to do with the past 4 days than just deleting posts.Trash Can: Have some kind of link to the topic where this was deleted from, please? In my setup, I really need to be able to see this, as I like to be involved in every decision my mods make. That's me for now, but thanks again for a great piece of software, and I hope some of these makes it into a future release :)
  5. Dude, you're a legend. I'm searching the hell out of that admin panel, and finding nothing! Thanks so much!
  6. Sorry. I know I saw this, but I for the life of me cannot find where this setting is. Can anyone tell me what to search for? I've now searched for everything I know, but I cannot find this setting anywhere... :(
  7. Ok, I get your point. Makes perfect sense. Thanks!
  8. Ok, thanks for explaining. You've got a point there. Although, if every developer were to not make an application/mod/hack due to a slippery slope, I think we won't have any developers :D
  9. Doesn't all these trackers work (almost?) the same? Would one single text area not allow the majority of code of these apps to be entered?
  10. Also, which code are you using? There are two, according to analytics: New Tracking Code (ga.js) Legacy Tracking Code (urchin.js)
  11. Makes sense, I suppose. I just think that it's much easier putting some code that's given to you in a text area, than finding the place in the template to add it in. I know this isn't something big, and heck, I bet nobody out there would ever think about not buying IPB vs. some other software just because they offer this, but it's just something I've always missed, and thought was an oversight...
  12. Absolutely. We must be very careful. It's a dangerous world out there.:ph34r:
  13. You're a legend! Thanks so much! To be honest, I've always wondered why paid for forum applications don't offer this as a standard thing. I mean, who would ever buy something like IPB or VBulletin and NOT want to have some sort of stats tracking on it? There are phpbb and whatever else out there for the people who don't want to spend money on something like forum software. Anyways, you should apply for a job with IPB. They need you!!! :D Thanks again!
  14. I'd love to see this feature so that I can literally only type in my Google Analytics code, and it will automatically integrated. I mean, this should be a VERY easy thing to add. Heck, even a place where I can enter in the whole set of code would be great. I don't know if this is being discussed as a new feature or not, but I'd sure appreciate the system just handling any template modifications for me, in stead of me having to do them. :) Thanks!
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