EntropiaForum VU 3.7.1

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Thanks for your patience during the latest EntropiaForum update.

Lots of exciting new features have been added to EntropiaForum!

Thread Tagging - Tags can be added to new and existing threads by members. Any users who then click on these tags will not only find all threads that have the same tag as the one clicked, but will also contribute to the building of a search tag cloud, which gives users a quick guide as to what has been searched for recently and most frequently. Thread tags can also be used in the forum search tool to help refine search parameters.



Thread Prefixes - Threads can now have predefined prefixes to their titles. This will work great in the Trading and Event forums. Samples of the new thread tags can be seen below. More tag options for various forums and subforums will be added shortly.



Member Photo Albums - Separate from the public EF Gallery, the new member albums can have custom permission settings, so members can choose to make individual albums public, or allow only buddies/friends/networking groups to view the images in a particular album. Images are limited to the following sizes: 1280 wide x 1024 pixels high, 700 kb. Each album can have up to 100 images.


Social Groups - Members can now create custom social groups. This new feature will be very beneficial to Entropia societies, as well as allowing members with similar interests (e.g. music genres, occupations, nationalities, etc.) to interact. The creator of each social group has the option to make their group public (joinable by any registered EF member), moderated (group leader must approve join applications), or invitation-only (group leader must send invites to other members). Each social group also has its own public messaging space (see below) where messages can be left for group members. Social groups can also have dedicated photo albums, in which only group members can view images.


Friends List - Reciprocal friendship status can be established between forum members. These relationships allow for more control over the content displayed on member profile pages and albums. For example, a member can choose only to show a particular album to members of his/her friends list.


Redesigned Profile Pages - EntropiaForum member profiles have been completely reorganized, utilizing a much cleaner tab interface to present member info. Profile fields can now also be edited inline by members by clicking the pencil icon on their profile page:



Customizable Profile Pages - Members now have the ability to personalize many aspects of their member profile page, including fonts, colors, backgrounds, borders, etc. Visitor tracking on profile pages will also allow members to see who has visited their profile page. ***NOTE*** Any image to be used as a background on a customized profile must be uploaded to a public album, otherwise you will encounter errors.


Public Messaging - Members can now leave publicly viewable messages for one another on member profile pages. If undesired, members have the option to restrict such public messages to members of their friends list.



Social Bookmarking - Threads and pages can now be bookmarked in popular social bookmarking applications such as Del.icio.us and Digg. These links are available at the bottom of every thread page:



Notifications - Just below the navigation bar, the usual PM link is replaced with the following menu whenever new forum events require your attention, such as group invites, picture comments and friend requests.



Anti-Spam Tools - Powerful new anti-spam safeguards to dramatically limit (hopefully fully eliminate) spam bots from posting on the forum.


I am still in the process of configuring all of the new features. If you find any unusual or unexpected behavior, please report in this thread.

Also, any suggestions or requests on the best way to implement these new features are appreciated.

Enjoy!

[Tidesong]

Awesome great features implemented!! I have been waiting hungrily

[Dante]

Bookmarks are weird

Nice with the prefix thingy and the spam!

[Dextar]

OH very nice Feature Update 711! Awesome job!

Dex

[Spikey1989]

Nice

Ty

/Spieky

[InDaHouse]

Some nice updates there, EF for the win!

[Burgerman]

Nice work 711, thankyou for the upgrade.

[levithanikos]

Mr. 711 ...


You give us no choice , i must admit it .

Now , more than ever, you push me and i think dozens of other EF-holics to stop playing EU , so we are able to stay in EF more and more ...

Thanks 711 , m8 ...

Great JOB!

PS - is the EFD shop working?

[NastyCenturion]

Great new features

[Dextar]

Again Awesome features!

BTW Love the Social Group Feature!

Still trying to figure out how to tag heheh

Thanks again 711!

Dex