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VoyForums News and Updates

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VoyForums-2.0 has been placed online!

At first you may not notice the numerous enhancements, as one of the most important changes is hidden from the user's perspective. The messaging system was completely re-designed and re-coded -- this fixes numerous bugs in the old version, and allows for greater extendability of features from now on.

Forum Owners will notice that the Configuration Area has been completely re-worked. However, one of the most important new aspects is the Message Handling and Archival available from the Forum Archive Configuration area.

We're going to try and list some of the new features here, but there are way too many to list in full so we will primarily cover those options visible to Forum Owners and Users.

A more-detailed explanation of all the new features is available at the VoyForums-2.0 Info page.

Messages, Archives & Rotation:

• Messaging Engine rewritten
  
• Thread Rotation is now available to automatically rotate out individual threads as needed (vs. Index Rotation, which moves the whole Index into an archive).
  
• Allow Forum Owners to choose which threads get archived/rotated (by position or age).
  
• Archive messages may now be deleted.
  
• Forum Owners may allow replies to threads already in archives (which are then made active and moved back into the main index).
• Doubled maximum archive settings (max index size, threads, and messages).
  
• Option to relocate thread to top when thread is posted to/made active.
  
• Clear All Messages option.
  
• Force Index Rotation into Archive.
  

Security:

• Password Protect Forum (passwords for read and/or write
  access).
  
• Internal Security Improvements
  

Other:

• Software architecture redesign (allowing for accellerated feature addition)
  
• Confirm Message before final post
  
• Forum Configuration area expanded
  
• Owner Login change-password page
  
• Timezone/GMT setting
  
• Reply message quoting on/off
  
• No more non-cookie access in Forum Owner area.
  Supporting both methods limited the configuration area and the amount of people using it (less than 1 per day, on average) showed the lack of necessity.
  

• Re: Hi. I've got a bug report, but thank you very much for the upgrade! :) -- KW, 11:04:33 03/18/00 Sat
  • Re: Hi. I've got a bug report, but thank you very much for the upgrade! :) -- Brandon, 13:10:37 03/18/00 Sat
    • Re: Wow, thanks also for a quick response! :) -- KW, 09:10:28 03/19/00 Sun
    • Re: Problems -- James T, 13:50:49 03/20/00 Mon
  • Re: Upgrade -- Brandon, 13:13:51 03/18/00 Sat
    • Re: Upgrade -- KW, 09:21:12 03/19/00 Sun
  • same thing here -- AW, 15:23:50 03/18/00 Sat
    • Re: same thing here -- AW, 15:43:27 03/18/00 Sat
    • more buggies -- AW, 16:06:07 03/18/00 Sat
    • Re: same thing here -- Brandon, 16:19:44 03/18/00 Sat
      • Re: same thing here -- AW, 16:57:22 03/18/00 Sat

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• HELP! Message Boxes have disappeared! -- Just Me, 15:35:45 03/18/00 Sat
  • Re: HELP! Message Boxes have disappeared! -- AW, 16:22:34 03/18/00 Sat
  • Re: HELP! Message Boxes have disappeared! -- AW, 16:56:51 03/18/00 Sat
    • Re: HELP! Message Boxes have disappeared! -- Just Me, 04:21:32 03/19/00 Sun

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• Another bug? Messages disappearing? -- Karen, 23:32:36 03/19/00 Sun
  • HELP! Addendum to previous message. More disappearing posts!... -- Karen, 01:29:21 03/20/00 Mon
    • Re: HELP! Addendum to previous message. More disappearing posts!... -- Brandon, 12:57:53 03/20/00 Mon
      • Recreating the bug? -- detoured, 20:29:33 03/21/00 Tue
        • Note: This ^^^ is still me, Karen! nim -- Karen, 20:35:17 03/21/00 Tue
        • Were they archived? -- Rudi, 22:02:11 03/21/00 Tue
          • No they were not archived.... -- Karen, 05:23:16 03/27/00 Mon