Hi All,

Regular visitors to the forums may have noticed we have recently updated these forums to our next minor revision of InstantForum.NET - version 2.1. Currently this version is undergoing testing but will be available very soon. More information will be posted on v2.1 once released.

In the meantime I would be delighted to receive any comments from regular forum members regarding version 2.1. I've detailed below a list of new features available within v2.1. If you have experienced any sudden problems with our forums since the update please please please let me know. Any bugs will be fixed immediatly. Any suggestions will also be added to the wish-list.

New Features In V2.1

• Forum now uses machine specific encrypted cookies to increase security - thanks to Jason Brunken for your suggestion.
  
• Password protected forums now supported - thanks to Mike Kropko for your suggestion
  
• Ability for members to view and un-subscribe from thread subscriptions within the MyProfile pages - thanks to Jonathan Buckle for your suggestion
  
• Paging support added to the repeater control on shwmessage.aspx - thanks to Triniti for your suggestion
  
• New field added to members table to allow a member status (Forum Admin, New Member)
  
• Improved design and layout of shwmessage.aspx
  
• Option to delete replies added to "Edit Post" page - thanks to Triniti for your suggestion
  
• Improvements to various administration pages
  
• Quotes now display in post preview - big thank you to the forum members for this suggestion
  
• Improve search interface and results
  
• Minor email and administration related bug fixes - thanks to JB for your suggestions

I look forward to any replies,

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Hello Ryan,

I don't know if this is going to be addressed but one feature that I would find benificial is a new posts since last on type thing.  This way, if I have been away for a few days I will not miss any posts.  If I am not mistaken, as it stands InstantForums will only have a thread marked as being posted "Today" or "Yesterday". 

If you mark posts since last viewed then this will enable people to see at the root if there is a new post or not. I hope this is understandable, I know it is a little jumbled but you should be used to my posts by now.

Thanks,

Mike

Ryan,

A followup to my last post.  As soon as someone reads a message the "New" mark is removed from the thread and the forum.  That way if someone else posts (Say it is the same person as before) they will know it is newer than the earlier post.

Mike

EDIT: Just wanted to check if an edit needed to be approved prior to posting it on a moderated board?

Ryan,  Another post

Is there anyway to edit a quote?  For instance, if I quote your first message (Which is a little longer than should be used in a quote) can I delete portions of the quote?  Or if I am only replying to post and only want to reference one point in the post.  As it stands I would have to quote the whole post.

Mike

Hi Triniti,

Great suggestion - this will be implemented within v2.2

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Hi Mike,

Another great suggestion - this will be available within 2.2

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Hi Mike,

Thank you for the suggestions. The edit feature within a moderated forum certainly should go through the moderation process. I will look into this feature for version 2.2. The new icon will also act as suggested in version 2.2.

Thanks to Triniti and Michael for your feedback. This is greatly appreciated

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Ryan,

Another feature request / suggestion.

When a thread hits the threshold to start another page, would it be possible to have a link to page 2, 3, 4, etc next to the link to the thread itself?  This way you don't have to open the first page and then browse to the second page to see the new posts.

Thanks

Mike