After about 2 weeks of evaluation and restructuration on the permissions and access to the forum, here is the final draft of what we think is the best on vbE.

First, the entire site is visible to guests and Registered Users, but most of the forum’s participation require a Member Key. Remember that this site is commercial, that means it’s not a fan site for free distribution of everything. Do not even complaint about the cost to access the downloadable content, you always have the possibility to go to vb.org.

There is actually 2 keys available for the registered members here:

The Member Key, which validate your access on the site. With this key, you have access to everything that indicated as freely available. There is not that much because this site is dedicated to commercial products, but we have a wide range of freebies and take-over that we leave for free, like the iTrader 2.5.

The Acolyte Key, which is not reachable by subscription, is a key delivered by the admins to any contributor that is evaluated as safe and in which we have confidence in. These Acolytes can release their work in the Showroom and the Tutorials, and they can advertise their commercial site/products in their signatures.

There is a third key that is called ‘Accomplice‘… these are the most trustworthy members we have on this site. They are well known coders, good councelors and efficient consultants. Their role on the site is obscur, they are here mostly as spectators, they participate in the administration and make me spend all my time on debates and long term evaluations.

As a note, here is a description of the situation in privileges given on the forums. The main 3 categories on the forum are containing specific forums that fits for the usergroups permissions to be simplier, and they goes like this:

The Day to Day Coffeeshop:
Registered User is the only requirement to access this publicly open forum, so everybody can access and chat.

The Coders Shack:
Member Key is required to create new threads, for replying others.

The Enhancements:
Member Key is required to participate, for replying threads, downloading free products.
Acolyte Key is required to create new threads and release own free products.

… more details will come when we finish fixing permissions and usergroups for the guys here that were already participating on the forum… please be patient, i’m on the site like 2 hours per day lately, having to deal with the kids, the wife’s new job and some external contracts here and there… 😉

–nexia!

As requested by cloni: https://unpapapro.com/i-need-something-my-vb/need-get-rid-buddy/4872/

Do you want to get rid of the + or the * in front of the usernames in who’s online and logged-in users in different places on the forum?

This small product is doing it for you…

and the result looks like this:

As usual, it’s a simple product import, no template or file edit…

We need something better, less complicated and more efficient…

actually IPB’s permissions system is better… isn’t it ?!

I’m going to trash it all and start over in the next minutes… the only thing that will remain is the 10$ Member Key to have access to the site system… All other ranks will be given to anybody who’s showing the need to have it.

The reason why it is complicated right now is that we are planning a Releases engine with licenses and ownerships, but in the meanwhile, i wanted to have a replacement for accessing the releases part of the site. That’s crap with the actual permissions… usergroups over usergroups, we would have like 50 subscriptions next week.

As i just have members that subscribed to the Member Key and noother, it’s easy to drop everything and start over the permissions… but it will take my afternoon making everything like before, and John Doe is not helping…*(one day i will copy/paste his real name in Chinese)…

Now everybody purchasing the Member Key will have access to the forum and all the sections like officially licensed etc. there will be only two types of users on the site, the registered and the members… registered are just lurkers, and the « members » are the ones who have dedication to the site.

😉

Summary 16 sliced, fully layered vectored (for extremely easy colour modifications) you are able to adjust the colour to your preference by tinkering with the « adjustment layer » which resides in each no avatar grouped set so your not left settling for the colours which are included in this pack.

Summary 12 sliced, fully layered vectored (for extremely easy colour modifications) you are able to adjust the colour to your preference by tinkering with the « adjustment layer » which resides in each no avatar grouped set so your not left settling for the colours which are included in this pack.

– Transparent .PNG for users who are unable to make adjustments simply upload to a directory of your choice pending you are using the no avatar script

– Dimensions: 80px X 80px

Summary: A selection of seal badges. You can modify/re-colour/resize so your not limited to the colours or sizes shown in the preview. Only the PSD is supplied as it would be pointless in releasing other formatted icons when users will have different text/wording.

The PSD is sliced so it’s an easy one click save. Also, the icons are vectored which means re-colouring them takes 2 seconds as does resizing etc.

I used the font Tahoma with the settings Bold, size at 11pt (within the black area) with the anti_aliasing setting on Sharp

Install Notes: Threadmarker status icons for your thread display area indicating new threads, threads you posted in, locked threads etc. Upload to your /statusicon folder and overwrite your current images.

Conditions of use: This pack may be used on forums, websites but cannot be redistributed or repackaged in any way shape or form for any reason without prior consent of the author.

Summary: This pack consists of x6 Seals (.PSD format). Can be used/adapted to be used and/or integrated into your site/forum or graphical projects. The PSD Image is pre-sliced so anyone can make the necessary colour changes and click the save for web for a one click save without worrying about saving individual colour changed seals.

Restrictions: There are none. Do as you wish with them.

Summary: Primarily. The Pixelsize template(s) are visual guides to help members decide (when requesting graphics) what size they want, or atleast, determine what is the nearest size of the image they may request. The templates will not appeal to every type of forum but would most likely benefit resource sites which deal in styles and graphics. I’ve included a selection of coloured templates and they come in .PNG format.

You can see a live preview in this Thread.

Summary: Included in this pack is the PSD. x16 army themed emoticons which subscribers can save to their own background colour or choose their desired format. The PSD is sliced so you only have to click the save for web button and it’s as easy as that, one click saves all 16 emoticons.

In the attachments below I have also included the .png variants for those of you who aren’t savy with photoshop. The .png will blend in with any background colour so you won’t have to worry about it suiting the background your applying it onto.