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Ok so i was starting the planning of the release addon and i thought we need some way in a forum to find out what « level » it is (how many sub/parent forums with the same type are). i started writing some code for this and i realized it is not a simple thing but needs some discussion.

My idea is that while viewing a forum/thread you can get the forums level with the level being the number of parent forums with the same type above it plus 1 (i.e. if we had:
Forum 1 (Type: Blah; Level 1)
— Forum 2 (Type: Blah; Level 2)
—- Forum 3 (Type: Default; Level 1)

So what do you think the best approach would be?

Based on the evaluation of what was done on vb.org and some other sites lately, i think it will be pointless to invite other coders to release their hacks here in the form of a paid directory… the discussions i had is that they all want to be on their own sites, without interferance with others…

So be it.. we will simply provide a banners system that let them advertise, with a list of the announcers as a blogroll.

Also, as my big plan was to take-over the biggest projects to reload or simply crash burn, it is going well… and with the MTF, we will be able to break anyother project, even the biggers. some of the tools that are not yet to be replicated are burning already because they were not able to find their market… the Geek stuff is completely abandonned, even if the Morgan girl is supported to support her stuff. Gio is quite occupied in real life, so he is not even supporting his own site, and Lionel is not releasing a lot of stuff, trying to support his buggy releases… we will crush them all.

Anyway, as i now control most of the releases that were made in the last 5 years on vb.org, i suppose i have enough stuff to put in the site and make people come here to register anyway. The goal is to provide the best enhancements for vB, we will.

In the next 6 days i’m alone at home, so i’ll fill the site with the extra stuff i already have done/upgraded, and i’ll try to make the rest of what is to be debugged.

I’ll also make the site more clever, with a better distribution of forums and content. The style is going well, you can see it on https://unpapapro.com/?styleid=6 … i’m redesigning some parts that Jelsoft never built properly, and i try to hide most of the crap i find.. lol

ok, let’s see if i can do something cool here!

Actually, when you want to be fully XHTML compliant, you need to have alt content for your icons, and a title content for your links… vBulletin sub-forums have no alt/title tags, and this is not good.

So here is the little quicky to change this situation…

when you hover the sub-forum icon, you will see the title of the forum itself, and when you hover the link, you will see it’s description.

It’s an automatic template edit, nothing to modify on your side, just upload the product and tada…

Ok well here you go. It is definitely a beta but close to stable.

Files: http://sitesmart.us/MTF_BETA.zip

would be cool to have a CVS, so if someone update an attachment, the old one is stored in backup, and only the new one is shown. also if someone delete an attachment, it is stored in the same backup and the file seems deleted…

i suppose it’s not complicated to do… this would be just awesome for releases… and to avoid the crisis we see on vb.org all the time about deleted and graveyard…

As you may notice, you can not, in most case, add a signature in your profile. We have a sponsoring engine on the site that let you advertise your business or services, so if you want to display a banner or a tagline, you can contact us and join the group.

We approve signatures in a simple way:

1- a tagline with a url, link or web-addy
2- a tagline, plus a banner 468×60, with url, link or web-addy

we will have a shop for these options in no long.

Sorry if it may look unfamiliar, but the private messaging engine is active only for internal support between coders/designers and the clients. Regular users have no private messaging for a simple reason: we have a forum!

We want to keep most of the conversations on the forum, to avoid spam and flaming in private. We know the song, it’s not the only place where it occurs, we just want to prevent. It’s nothing personal to you, it’s « just » for everybody.

Thanks for your understanding.

What are the features that you would dream of? – vBTEAM Underground

read this, you will see that the principle is very easy to execute… basically, if i do it right, this product itself could be sold to a great number of « relatives » forums… the only thing we really need is the structure of the forums, how it is displayed, and how sub-forums can altern with the others.

i would think to add a block inside each sub-forum with a reversed sub-forum tree… instead of just showing the sub-forum of the forum itself, it also display the parents, in order… inversed… i suppose it’s logical to say it that way.

the guy who asked it in the thread i started on vbteam.info is ready to pay for the whole thing, not just use it for free like i suggest to offer the CORE of MTF only for free so they can play with it… so it’s a client.

Ok, MTF is pretty much done. Right now I’m testing and making code more efficient. I would say it is done but still in a beta phase. We really shouldn’t release it for March 1st (it needs more testing then that). I think by March 7th we could do enough testing to declare it ‘stable’, and this means we will need to have the three basic addons done (links, articles, and albums right?).

ok, here are some news i share with you guys… 🙂

1- i’m creating a small style for the site, and the logotype will look like this:

the tagline would be better with a blinking « UP », but i prefer simple.. lol.. it means « did you check if your site was the best in town today? if not, see what we got for you! »…

🙂

the style is minimal, i want people to see the real impact of our products on a clean vB so they see if it fits their site — rare are the sites with a really customized style anyway.

…

2- i’ll post more News today.. lol