Please consider this for the next release.  I would like to send a registration or account activation before the user can login to the forums.  This will help filter out bogus e-mail addresses.

Thanks

Hi Eddie,

Thank you for your suggestion. This has been requested several times recently and will be included very soon. I'm planning to make this an option you can disable / enable within the web.config. Do you have any preference as to how this should work ? Would adding a COPPA Policy be of any use ? I'd be interested to get any feedback people can offer on this subject.

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I think a pre-registration page, which can be customized with terms and conditions and COPPA before moving to the registration page is great.

My personal preference is that a generic password is assigned, a confirmation e-mail is send out that tell the member to confirm their registration, and part of this process is to change the password to their own, although this is not necessary.

Also, it could be great if the registration page contained a little more detail to register, such as personal information, not just a name, e-mail address.  Some of the comon fields like bio, url's and interests.

And finally, it's great to have a nickname on the forums, but also have the person's first and last name on the forums as opposed to posting with their full name as their user name.

Just some things to consider.  It's really great as is.

Wow Eddie - I was not expecting all that

Thank you for your comments.

This is some good stuff. I agree with your comments on the registration page this was really intended to allow a quick sign-up. I know forms put many people off. I'm thinking maybe have an option similar to vBulletin for a quick registration and a standard registration.

I agree with your method of validation this is virtually the same method i had in mind. I also plan to add flood protection and some form protection to protect from bots etc - like a random string of chars within a image you have to copy etc

Regarding the COPPA i will feel this should be made an option within the web.config as not everybody needs this feature. Its really for community use.

I'll see what i can do with the nickname option. Good suggestion. Would you suggest this should also be the name used on members list page ? I'll look at that

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Hi Ryan

Yes, there should really be three fields.  One for nickname, one for first, last or like you have now, fullname.  Most people want their fullname on their profile, but not on their posts.  It's kinda like dragging long family names with you - oh the curse of that.

Thanks for all your efforts.

Hi Eddie,

No problem i'll do my very best to oblige. This makes perfect sense.

I'm just battling a JavaScript issue in Opera at the moment which is never nice

Thank you for all your kind words,

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I have a love/hate relationship with java.

I just heard from someone who is testing my forums on Mac that they have issues with Safari.  Their post came through for moderation, but was empty, and the post does not show up at all on IE on mac.

Ouch

Hi Eddie,

Good guess thats the problem i'm fixing right now

I'm desperately working to get this fixed and issue updates to existing 3.0 clients please bear with me.

Thanks for all your suggestions - i'll get onto your other forums posts ASAP which BTW are very good

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Not really i want to create a page within the admin soon to modify all the web.config settings for the forums web.config. This needs to be centralized really

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