I ran across some nifty and helpful options available on the 3.7.0 version of vbulletin . I was curious if this had been brought up internally yet for upgrading over once this new version has a full, stable release, if not I wanted to bring it to attention.
Here are some things that may prove to be of benefit to the forums:
Thread Prefixes: Aside from the more obvious uses in most sections this in particular would be helpful in the classified sections, people could not only select between F/S and F/T but could specify what areas of the world they are willing to sell/trade to and from.
User-Created Social/Interest Groups:
With the popularity of "Clubs" this seems like it would be really popular.
Thread Tagging:
This could prove really helpful if used by posters. Searching is very difficult the way things are right now.
From vbulletin:
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.
User-Created Social Groups
To further social cohesion between users and to encourage people to make friends, vBulletin now includes a facility to allow users to create their own social/interest groups.
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.
Here are some things that may prove to be of benefit to the forums:
Thread Prefixes: Aside from the more obvious uses in most sections this in particular would be helpful in the classified sections, people could not only select between F/S and F/T but could specify what areas of the world they are willing to sell/trade to and from.
User-Created Social/Interest Groups:
With the popularity of "Clubs" this seems like it would be really popular.
Thread Tagging:
This could prove really helpful if used by posters. Searching is very difficult the way things are right now.
From vbulletin:
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.
User-Created Social Groups
To further social cohesion between users and to encourage people to make friends, vBulletin now includes a facility to allow users to create their own social/interest groups.
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.
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