Board Software Upgrade

[Administrator]

The upcoming board software (3.7) upgrade will include many new features over the current software. Watch for this upgrade to take place within the next couple of days.

Here is just a glimpse of what is to come:

Thread Tagging

A new way to facilitate searching and grouping of threads, it is now possible for users to add tags to threads they post or read.



Tags can be added when creating a new thread, or to an existing thread by any user (with appropriate permissions).



Any users who then click on these tags will not only find all thread 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 Prefixes

Long requested by users, threads can now have administrator-defined prefixes to their titles.



Thread prefixes are divided into groups by the administrator, allowing different prefixes to be available in different forums.



Reciprocal Friendships Between Users

As part of our new social networking system, users can now request that people on their buddy list confirm their friendship, after which time a person's list of confirmed friends will be viewable to other users.



Public Messaging

While private messages between users have been in vBulletin since version 2.0, vBulletin 3.7 introduces the public messaging system, allowing users to communicate publicly via their profile pages.



AND many, many, more new features!!

Much more info here, on what is to come.