Forum Suggestions
With the latest upgrade of our forums, myself as well as various other members have been disappointed from some of the features that have been long lost alongside our old forums. So I am here to suggest some features that should be brought back for this forums, I will try my best to make sure the changes are feasible in vBulletin 5.2.6. but some may not be possible in which case please state them and make clear that it's not possible.
1) Increase the size of the avatar:
Has been discussed on vB forums quite a lot by many VB5 users because many find it too small, and even many GXers find it quite too small. So if this can be done it can be very nice for those who want to show off their images or whatever it is that they want to set as their profile pictures. I think the small size limits our choice of images. So increasing the size will make your profile or posts look "better" if that makes sense. (This is viable)
2) Signatures need to be enabled via AdminCP:
Signatures are really nice features we used to have where we could put on anything. Some players even had really nice custom designed signatures and I feel this needs to be brought back as soon as possible for players to share their cool designs, jokes etc. (This is viable)
3) Able to view users started threads
Now I am aware that you can use Advanced Search on a profile and search for started posts only, but it shows Visitor messages too, in the old forums Visitor messages were so much easier to look through as it had it's own section on everyone's user profiles. Along with that, the old forums also provided a way to look at the threads started by the user, as well as ALL their posts. I know this may not be possible in this forums update but if it takes add-ons, extra stuff please try to implement this, it makes much more sense and the usability would be so much more easier else if not possible at all, we're going to have to adjust to going through advanced settings. (This isn't guaranteed viable but if there is a loophole to do this, please do)
4) Last 10/20 visitors in the profile
At the moment this feature is not possible for VB5, this is what the developers have commented about this:
There is no Profile Visitors feature in vB5. In vB4 this feature tracks users that visited others' user profiles and displays them in the Recent Visitors profile block.
When this feature is implemented, the admin cp options related to it should be taken into account (Settings -> Options -> User Profile Options -> Enabled User Profile Features -> Visitor Tracking, and Maximum Visitors to Show on Profile Page).
When this feature is implemented, the admin cp options related to it should be taken into account (Settings -> Options -> User Profile Options -> Enabled User Profile Features -> Visitor Tracking, and Maximum Visitors to Show on Profile Page).
5) Thanks
VB5 uses a like system which adds onto the reputation. I'd like the phrase for likes to be changed to thanks. (This is viable)
Perhaps also a total like counter which could be calculated from the reputation table. (Partially viable - not too sure to be honest)
6) User rank
1) I would like the user ranks (User, Trusted Player, Admin Level 3...etc) to be shown on the users profiles and not only be visible when they post something. This goes for donator tag too, it should be added alongside the usual ranks.
2) User rank sizes need to be increased too! It seems that as soon as we got the upgrade everything has almost shrunk at the side. If it is possible, please make the side where the user information is shown to a bigger width. Even if that is not possible, increase the user rank size. The old forums made ranks stand out and it made the posts look cooler as well as the profile too. I was more proud of my "bright, stood out" Admin Level 6 tag when it was larger, this forum makes it look like nothing.
Extras (Not sure if it's viable): Who visited forums today (Resets at midnight), Admins could view the latest people who viewed a thread at the bottom of the page, bring this back if possible, When clicking on Online Users, I could view which users were viewing which thread, now it appears that it is blank or doesn't show anything (IT ONLY SHOWS IT SOMETIMES FOR SOME THREADS).
Overall
I wasn't too keen on the new forum version...no offense. For a "gaming" server, our old forum version was perfectly suitable, and had relevant features and addons/hacks that made it perfect. While it is true that "not everyone can be happy", it is best that we try to bring back some of our old features that made GamerX forums unique from other SA-MP server forums..if not other gaming forums.
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