Posted on August 19th, 2008 by kriki
This one is new and quite interesting. What are friends for? Well, in general you want to keep them close! How? I think it is easier to explain it with an example.
- Manage friends
If for example you send a lot of PM’s to a certain person, in the new version you always needed to type in his/her name or search it in the list. If you define the person as a friend, you don’t need to do it anymore. You can just click on the add-button near the name and it will be added as the person to send a PM to (later more on PM’s). You also see if they are online or not. If the person wants his online status to be hidden, you won’t see him as online.
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by kriki
Until now, Luc did change some things in the forum software to simulate groups (Administrators, Moderators, MVP, Site Supporters).
Now this is integrated in the forum-software.
All users, once they confirmed the registration, are placed into “Registered users”. In some you can apply to join and if you meet the conditions, you are admitted. This is all done by the administrator.
You have this menu if you are leader of a group. For the moment only the administrator can do this.
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Posted on August 19th, 2008 by kriki
Also this is quite familiar.
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Posted on August 12th, 2008 by kriki
This is quite familiar, I would say.
Ok. I admit it, the birthday part is new…
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by kriki
If there are forums or topics that interest you, you can subscribe to it. If a post is created in that forum/topic, you will be notified.
To subscribe a forum : Open the forum and in the top, you wil see “Subscribe forum”
To subscribe a topic : Open the topic and in the top, you wil see “Subscribe topic”
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by kriki
After registering and confirming it, best thing is to setup your profile before starting to post. Where to do that? In the User Control Panel.
From now on, I will call the User Control Panel the “UCP”!
And here is the UCP front page:
It gives some basic information like when you joined, how many posts you have. In which forum you are most active, and your most active topic.
There is so much in the UCP that I decided to divide it into parts. I will make a separate blogpost for:
- UCP Overview
- UCP Profile
- UCP Board Preferences
- UCP User Groups
- UCP Friends & Foes
Also the private messages are a part of the UCP now. I will come to these in the end. First I will handle the other UCP-topics, then about posting, RSS, PM’s, reporting.
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Posted on August 4th, 2008 by kriki
After searching something, it is possible you don’t find anything, so you have to write your own topic to ask for help. Where to start? First step, I would say, is to read the forum rules (of course you can also read them BEFORE you start searching [The first rule is about searching. Well, it just says that you should search BEFORE posting something!]).
But were are they? In the old version they are “hidden” in the “Announcements”-forum as an announcement. Now we have a better place! There is a link on the main forum page!
We did some restructuring of the rules. They are now grouped by topic:
When we make changes to the rules, we will still put them in the announcements, so check them regularly (RSS is useful for this [later more on RSS]). And then change/add them in the forum rules page.
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Posted on July 18th, 2008 by kriki
First and for all: Mibuso 3 has a new possibility to search: You can search on “Topic Titles Only”!
In the old version, I always missed this possibility.
Including the message texts in the search can give you a lot of extra topics that are NOT about your problem, but they are selected because your keywords happen to be in it.
The title does NOT have that problem (or at least SHOULDN’T have it). BUT this means EVERYONE has to create good titles that REALLY explain what the topic is about. This the BIG reason, I do insist on having a title that says something and not “Help”, “URGENT”,…
In reality, I only have 2 advices:
- First and for all: use good titles when you write a topic.
- Try to put your search-parameters to limit as much as possible the replies. If you don’t find what you need, you can always try to remove some parameters and have a wider search.
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Posted on July 11th, 2008 by kriki
About what do I need to blog and in which order?
First what is there to blog about? I made a tour of Mibuso 3 to see what is new and make some note for a blog. I noticed that in almost (or all) places something was changed or added.
Now I have a beautiful list of things to blog about. But now I have another problem: in which order to blog about them?
After some days I found the answer. I will blog about them in the order that a new user should use all the functionalities of the Mibuso 3.
But why does someone come to the forum?
Because you have a problem and are searching for an answer to your problem.
So first part is to search something. If you don’t find it, you need to write a topic but first you need to register as a user (and while waiting for the confirmation-email, it is a good idea to read the forum rules).
Then you setup your user account (at least I do that).
And then you write your topic, wait for answers (through email or RSS), respond to the replies (through a post or also a private message [=PM]) and then (hopefully) confirm your problem has been solved.
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Posted on June 30th, 2008 by kriki
Well, actually it is not a new version of Mibuso, but a new version of the forum software.
We are planning the upgrade in first half of September 2008!
This is the first post about the new version. Other posts will follow in which I will explain the new features and some differences.
First of all : we have tried to keep the forum-look as close as what we are used to (As a first ‘taste’, Luc showed me the new forum with a complete new look. HORROR! PANIC! I don’t recognize MY forum any more! We decided immediately to keep the look we all know too well.)
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