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If that's all that's needed, I'd be fine with adding that back in.

I run a Colostomy support message board where patients help each other with support and advice of dealing with a colostomy, be it for a few weeks temporarily, of permanently due to cancer etc. My board also has a pretty large off topic posting community contained within it.

I would very much like to be able to disable post reputation in the off-topic forums, so that reputation is based on supportive posts to users needing support in our ostomy-support forums, rather than from posting cute pics of the dog with a toy in the off topic forums.

So, that's my suggestion for a future build of IP Board. It would really make my community better. I did ask in peer to peer if this was possible with current settings etc, and was told it was worthwhile posting a request in here. :)

Another possible feature, which would be useful in cases of the reputation system being abused is a setting that lets ONLY the Original Poster being able to vote as to which replies/posts have been useful to them.

Many thanks for reading this. I hope those ideas are useful to you. :)

Best wishes to all,

Jason Dale.
West Yorkshire, UK.

A more customizable moderator permission system.
A better forum permission system.
A better moderating team system. One that lets you put members into groups, instead of all people with any amount of admin access showing up as admins and anyone who is a moderator showing up as a mod.

A MODERATOR CP. For approving posts, reading reported posts and managing infractions.
And a better warn system. One that lets mods only give a warning, not an infraction, set a warn amount, so minor advertising and insulting members are not on the same level, and such.

I got some suggestions for changes and futures for IPB v3.0.0 and future versions.


Requested changes: When viewing a profileBelow the users photo, there should be buttons similar to find topic/posts for displaying all gallery/blog/issues. The following texts: "<username> hasn't added any friends yet." and "<username> has no profile comments yet. Why not say hello?" seems misplaced as they ain't skinned properly into they're respecting areas. Also when there is comments and friends, it seems a little off because it ain't skinned in with the title of the area (other boxes are skinned in with background, etc. Should also might conider placing the comment box below the comments to match the forums setup? The image displayed next to the post comment box should be larger. As it is, it's waisting a huge amount of whitespace to the right of the editor, that could be used by increasing the image size. This would also make you able to see the image, instead of a colordot that seem misplaced due to the size of the image vs. editor/other images. TabsThe tabs only show the most recent topics, posts, images, blogs, issues. This should be made more clear. Maybe by adding a link for showing all, or changing the text to most recent images/blog/topics/posts/issues. In the about me tab, the signature should be removed. This is a place where the user is meant to talk about himself, and the signature don't have anything to do there, as it just seems messy and strange. When a tab don't have anything to show, it just states "Message". This is confusing, and should be changed to something more describing/helpful. When viewing the gallery tab, there is a lot of wasted whitespace! When viewing the gallery, i can fit two more images in the columns. There is also a huge amount of whitespace between the image and the information below. Most of this information could really be removed, as it's still showed when viewing the image itself. You should be able to see where you got +/- reputation from (the posts). This should only be shown to the member that received the reputation.When you see your own profile, and you don't have a blog/gallery etc., there should be stated under those tabs, or under the "Show members topic/posts" button something like "You don't have a gallery/blog. Press here to make one now!" or something to make the member more aware that they can do so. Considering the fact that most members almost never use they're control panel, a lot of users will never know they even can make it!
Requested changes: Other technique. This can also be used with the images stacked on top of each other instead of next to each other.When uploading files/images, there should be displayed allowed file types somewhere. This can be displayed in a box just like the one used when viewing who voted in polls.Performance mode: it don't show anywhere that you are using performance mode, this should be added in a notification or something to the latest news box. Can be something like "The site is currently running in performance mode to handle all the traffic. This means that some futures is temporarily disabled and/or changed to allow the site to run more smoothly."Let us be able to minimize forum rules in topics and the related forum. No use to have them taking up space after you've read them a 1000 times already...The post icons for forums: there really need to be added a read icon for closed and moved topics. Also, the icon showed when you have posted need to be changed. Currently, it looks like there is an attachment. Should be a pencil or something, and then you can use the current for topics with attachments. You can also consider just using the normal images, and add a pencil and/or paperclip (as used now)(two different places, so both can be used) with a transparent background over the normal image. This would remove the need for extra icons, and would allow it to be used on _EVERY_ topic, including hot, moved and closed.When translating, you sometimes skip some of the phrases, and it can some times be a hassle to find out where they are, so you should consider adding a "Show untranslated strings", just like the "show outdated strings" (never seen it tbh), or add the untranslated to the start or end of the language pack.
Requested futures (for later versions?)When working in ACP with areas that are using permissions, please add a dropdown-box that allows you to copy all the permissions from the selected area (forum, category, addon categories, etc.). This will allow you to add e.g. forums at a largly increased speed, and with no errors when dealing with a lot of permission masks (as used by a lot of forums, myself are using at least 10 different masks), and advanced mask permissions. This is a future that's been needed for quite a while by a lot of customers. When clearing out cookies/temp files or using a new computer, the state of the sidepanel and forums ain't saved (open/closed). Hoping you can change it so the state is saved using ajax when status changes, and then load the current state into a cookie or something when logging on, to save extra queries each time you browse the forum index. You really need some way to temperately cache text from the editors. When typing a large thread, this can be a issue (see below):You accidentally press a button that loads another page (can also be mouse and keyboard shortcuts), and when using back/forward in the browser, all is gone! (this is not tested in v3, but was an issue in v2) When submitting a topic that generated an error, due to too much text/images/emotions etc, the you had to go a page back to change it. The issue there was that the text almost never was there when you got back. I saw mods that displayed the text in a editor when this acured, so you could copy it before going back, hence solving the issue. Both above have happened to me several times (once when writing this, that deleted a _LARGE_ page with text...

Oh, and i tried to make this easer to read, but the editor kept eating up my empty lines and spaces after each submit.

Will be back with more later...You need to change the way the hover images is displayed. In order to get rid of the problem with no background while it is loading upon hovering, you can use this

If it's not displayed out-of-box, you should really consider adding this as default. Users not knowing you are running in performance mode can get a little pissed if a lot of the futures they use suddenly is disabled.
Should add a message to the latest news tab or something: "The site is currently running in performance mode to handle all the traffic. This means that some futures is temporarily disabled and/or changed to allow the site to run more smoothly."

I think it would be nice if under the quota information, there was a list of enabled file types allowed for upload.

Right now there is no list....so how would i know what i could upload? wait for the error screen?

like this:

Used 0bytes of your 4.88MB global upload quota (Max. single file size: 2MB)
File Types allowed: jpg, doc, zip, png, pdf, etc

Nokia is the largest producer in the world, and Sony Ericson is number 5. However, in most of Europe, you almost only see people using Nokia and Sony Ericson cellphones, so it's important that this is supported out of the box :)

Nokia is the largest producer in the world, and Sony Ericson is number 5. However, in most of Europe, you almost only see people using Nokia and Sony Ericson cellphones, so it's important that this is supported out of the box :)

It would be nice if there were a setting that if there were either no avatar or no personal photo that one override the other.

As such say I didn't have an avatar or I deleted my avatar but still had my personal photo that the personal photo would take over the places an avatar would.

As such I would like it in a vice versa way.

That way if you had a community of Avatar uploaders but didn't like to upload their personal photo images won't be vacant but also images that would be vacant wouldn't be so required to seem human.