Be.. Face.. Space.. boards.. what?

cormie

Looks like the new vBulletin has social networking features, so commenting on user profiles etc. Good or bad idea for boards? :eek:

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VBULLETIN 3.7.0 RELEASED

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Following a very successful public pre-release testing phase, we are delighted to announce the release of vBulletin 3.7.0. This new version supersedes vBulletin 3.6 as our primary, stable and supported release.

vBulletin 3.7.0 is now available for download from the vBulletin Members' Area by all customers with active vBulletin licenses.

In this new release, we have concentrated on improving features for visitors to your vBulletin forum by implementing social networking tools such as extended user profile pages with visitor messaging, user picture albums, user-created social groups and reciprocal friendship creation. We have also taken steps to help forum staff deal with the growing problem of bulletin board spam by improving our human verification tools to prevent automated systems from registering and posting, and putting in place a one-stop-shop tool for dealing with spam and spammers in the inline moderation system.

Here is a brief but far from comprehensive list of some of the new features making their debut in vBulletin 3.7.0:

* Inline spam management & prevention
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
* Notices system for navigation bar
* New human-verification tools including reCAPTCHA, and question/answer
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration

javaboy

Boo to these new features. Myface/Bebo is over that way ->

Ron DMC

There's already a 'friends' option (which no one really uses), but those features are taking it too far.

Sure no one even uses social.ie anyway.

Rb

Ronny Mitchell wrote: »

There's already a 'friends' option (which no one really uses), but those features are taking it too far.

Sure no one even uses social.ie anyway.

Exactly.

I would sincerely hope that this crap isn't implemented here.

GhostInTheRuins

cormie wrote: »

Looks like the new vBulletin has social networking features, so commenting on user profiles etc. Good or bad idea for boards? :eek:

Dear god no.

There's already a 'friends' option

Speaking of which, why can I add myself to my buddy list but can't ignore myself? it makes no sense!

kaimera

Jaysus..a thread on this already in Feedback and in Help Desk.

Sherifu

Down with social bullshit!

AlmightyCushion

What ever happens definitely limit the amount a user can customise their profile. I don't want to go into some one's profile and see a flashing pink background with green text.

Rb

Just re-read it again and ugh, seriously, keep those horrid features off boards.

The last thing boards needs is more things hogging the already limited resources.