Dear Boojlians,

To better serve our online community Boojle team is performing some upgrades and improvements of the site. The following updates were already performed this month some of which related to the e-Store, where more products were added to our catalogues. You can view the new products at Boojle e-Store New Products (http://boojle.com/estore/index.php?main_page=products_new). Other upgrades to date involved Boojle forums.

I would like to introduce you to what's new in this new version of upgraded Boojle Forum. Take some time to wander around the forums and you'll find new features and useful changes throughout the system. Some of them you might have noted already. So here are the changes:

Multi-Quote
The multi-quote feature allows users to tag multiple posts that they wish to respond to by clicking a small button on each post. Once the user clicks the reply button, each tagged post is quoted.

To increase usability, by default, only posts within the current thread are automatically quoted. If you wish to quote posts in other threads with multi-quote, you simply need to click a link on the reply page, and the text of those posts will be added without a reload.

Mark Forums Read with AJAX
If you wish to mark a forum read, you can simply click its status icon on the index page and the change will be processed without a reload. You can even mark individual sub-forums as read in the same way.

Quote Tags Link to Quoted Post
When quoting a post, the ID of the post is automatically included with the [quote] tag. When the quoted text is viewed in a thread, a small icon links back to the quoted post.

New Buddy/Ignore List Editor Saves with AJAX
Along with a new interface, your buddy and ignore lists are saved with AJAX to prevent an unnecessary reload. Additionally to make the interface even easier to use, Forum software searches for matching users as you type their names.

Private Message Preview in Notification Emails
If you have elected to receive emails when receiving a new private message, the email will now contain more than just the name of the user who sent you the message. The title and body of the message will be included. Any BB codes in the message will automatically be converted to an equivalent plaintext version using the new plaintext bbcode parser.

Auto-Resize Oversized Image Attachments
If a user attaches an image that has dimensions larger than the administrator allows, the image will automatically resized to fit.

‘Reason for Editing’ Available on Quick Edit
You may now include a reason for editing without having to click through to the full editor.

more will be described in the next post...

Save Search Preferences with AJAX
Changing your search preferences on the advanced search page no longer requires a page reload.

Infraction System
The infraction system allows administrators and moderators to flexibly reprimand problem users. Each infraction has a controllable weight (points) and an option to allow it to be applied only as a warning, which alerts the user to their violation but doesn’t give them any points. Additionally, the points given to a user for a violation can be automatically removed after a specified amount of time via the Scheduled Tasks system.

The points are used to remove permissions from users that reach specific thresholds.

When an administrator or moderator is forced to apply an infraction to a user, he or she clicks the infraction icon on a post, and is presented with a choice of infractions.

http://files.vbulletin.com/3.6/infraction_given.png

Infractions are implemented as a user group permission (not a moderator permission) so we will soon implement that any of the users can give infractions to other users. A thread will automatically be posted in a specific forum when an infraction is given, allowing discussion of the violation to take place.

http://files.vbulletin.com/3.6/infraction_post.png

In addition to receiving a PM about an infraction/warning, users are alerted to new infractions in their User control panel.

New Buddy/Ignore List Editor
The new buddy and ignore list editor allows users to be quickly added and removed from your lists, with AJAX-based assistance for name suggestion along the way. If an error occurs such as a user not being found, you can simply correct the error and continue without reloading the page.

Rate Threads with AJAX
Rating a thread can be done without a page reload now. Rate a thread like you normally would, but when you submit the rating, you’ll get a notification that your rating was accepted (or if it wasn’t) and the new thread rating will instantly appear.

Improved Proxy Support in Session Handling
In previous version of the forum, you needed to keep the same IP address from page-to-page in order to maintain a session. While this is very good for security, it causes significant problems for users behind a proxy, such as AOL users. (Many of our users noted that this was a problem when saving the scores in arcades). New version provides an option that allows us to control how much of the IP address must match for a previous session to be maintained. This should help eliminate many of the problems users have with staying logged in.

More AJAX Username Auto-Completion
Username auto-completion via AJAX is now performed when editing the buddy/ignore lists, searching the member list, and entering a referrer during registration.

This is not all. More is coming ...

I dont think too many people on this site know what AJAX is. AJAX is Asynchronous JavaScript and XML for those who dont know.

Thanks MadisonBoy!

Here is the continuation of the list of our upgrades:

Show Threads or Posts from Quick Search Popup
You can now choose to show search results as threads or posts without having to click through to the advanced search page.

Users Must Enter Required Profile Fields before Browsing
In the previous version, for some of the created custom profile field, existing users would not have to fill in a value for the field until they edited their profile. One such field was sex of the user, which many of our members left as N/A. This poses difficulty in some of the member searches for the users. In the current version, they will be forced to enter a value for the field before they can browse the board.

Pop Up List of Attachments in a Thread
The paperclip icon that denotes whether a thread contains attachments is now clickable. It will pop up a window that shows a list of all the attachments in the specified thread, including file size and number of views.

RSS Poster Robot
Forum now has a capability to include a new scheduled task that can check RSS feeds from the internet, read their contents and insert items from them onto our board.

The system is fully flexible, allowing us to fine-tune the items that are inserted using keywords and to control the output of the robot using special templates for both the titles and body text of inserted items, which can be inserted either as threads or as announcements.

Data outputted by RSS feeds will be cached for a specified amount of time, about an hour. This will significantly improve performance on our board.

Receive Private Messages from Buddies Only
You may now select to receive private messages only from users on your buddy list. If a non-buddy tries to send you a message, they will receive an error saying that you do not accept private messages. Administrators and moderators are automatically able to bypass this restriction though. We do need to reach you guys sometimes.

http://files.vbulletin.com/3.6/pm-buddies-only.png

Give Reputation Using AJAX
Reputation can now be added to a post without leaving the page. When you click the reputation icon on a post, a box will appear and allow you to choose whether you approve or disapprove of the post and provide a reason.

http://files.vbulletin.com/3.6/reputation-ajax.png

This is not all ...

thanx gandalf, these things are great

thanx gandalf, these things are great

yes these things are great,

How about some extra space for the inbox for PM's? :innoc08:

yes these things are great,

How about some extra space for the inbox for PM's? :innoc08:

i was gonna ask for the same thing :):)

if I could give my pm space to those who need it, I would gladly do it...I hardly use my pm features...e-mail & im is the way to go (imo)

if I could give my pm space to those who need it, I would gladly do it...I hardly use my pm features...e-mail & im is the way to go (imo)

true but not e/one has a sn or email they wanna give out to ppl they dont no :):) which is y ppl use PMS :):)

there are 50 pms that can fit at once, in addition to that, you can export the pms to a text file and keep it on your pc, if needed ;).

there are 50 pms that can fit at once, in addition to that, you can export the pms to a text file and keep it on your pc, if needed ;).

idn if u no.. but my PC breaks very often so i dont like doing that :):).. btw, u no wat my sis did but I'M REALLY GLAD i found E/TH thx to u:):)

lets thank admins for what we have, as to what we cannot have.
thanks admin!

idn if u no.. but my PC breaks very often so i dont like doing that :)..
lol...trust me, one can find a solution to any problem, if tries hard enough...your solution, email it to yourself, burn it on a disk, put it on a flash drive, print it out, or save it on a floppy disk (if you are that outdated :happy08: )...and if all mentioned won't work...might as well just delete it :innoc08:btw, u no wat my sis did but I'M REALLY GLAD i found E/TH thx to u:)you're quite welcome :party39:

lets thank admins for what we have, as to what we cannot have.
thanks admin!I agree...the admins and all those who are involved, behind the scenes, to keep boojle up and running, while improving it are doing an excellent job :happy65:

lets thank admins for what we have, as to what we cannot have.
thanks admin!

yes, i agree with u, THX A LOT ADMINS AND E/ONE ELSE INVOLVED

lol...trust me, one can find a solution to any problem, if tries hard enough...your solution, email it to yourself, burn it on a disk, put it on a flash drive, print it out, or save it on a floppy disk (if you are that outdated :happy08: )...and if all mentioned won't work...might as well just delete it
i no have lots of options.. the thing is I'M 2 LAZY :(

Here are some other updates that we performed:

Sort forum
We have added the ability to sort a forum by thread creation time by default.

Welcome Private Message at Registration
We now automatically send a private message to a newly registered user. This message will be sent after the user’s account is activated in the language that was chosen as default by the user.

Private Messages: Quota Warning
Once you have reached 90% of your private message quota, you will receive a warning telling you that you have almost reached your quota. But in case the box is full and we need to reach you, administrators can send private messages to users whose inboxes are full.

Full BCC Support in Private Messages
A number of you have discovered this by now. Like in an email, BCC (blind carbon-copy) allows you to hide the full list of recipients from each recipient. In previous versions of vBulletin, the “to” field acted like a BCC field. Now, the “to” field acts like the field in an email; each recipient will see all the names in the “to” field.

http://files.vbulletin.com/3.6/pm-bcc.png

Persistent Date of Birth Cookie for COPPA
The COPPA (underage users) age check now uses a persistent cookie to cause the first date of birth entered to be saved. This prevents someone from entering their real age, being rejected because they were too young, and going back to change their birth date so they are old enough.

Rankings
We added rankings (stars) next to the user name. The rankings are based on the user post count and reputation.

And by the popular demand...
We have increased the pm inbox box limits to the selected distinguished members. The pm limit would automatically increase through the post count, seniority on the forums, and most importantly, reputation of the user. The integration of a user reputation allows us to assess whether a large number of posts that the user has are actually quality posts. The little green icon under the number of the user posts reveals the member's reputation level. Our members are encouraged to provide positive feedback (or negative if it has no real substance or is very inappropriate for the given topic) to other members that posted very valuable and meaningful posts. Reputation icon is the little scale sign at the top right corner of each post.

And by the popular demand...
We have increased the pm inbox box limits to the selected distinguished members. The pm limit would automatically increase through the post count, seniority on the forums, and most importantly, reputation of the user. The integration of a user reputation allows us to assess whether a large number of posts that the user has are actually quality posts. The little green icon under the number of the user posts reveals the member's reputation level. Our members are encouraged to provide positive feedback (or negative if it has no real substance or is very inappropriate for the given topic) to other members that posted very valuable and meaningful posts. Reputation icon is the little scale sign at the top right corner of each post.

this is the part where girls start screaming.. yeah!!! or aimlessly wondering sheep cleaning out your in boxes.

Are these updates in place and how can we use them?