Welcome to Proboards version 4.5.

[Scott (Former Account)]

The West Coast Ferries Forum is now running on the new Proboards version 4.5 software.

FYI, the following are some of the new features that are available to our staff and our members:

New thread sort options, ascending or descending order:

• Order by subject
  
• Thread creator
  
• Replies
  
• Views
  
• Post order
  

Revamped poll system with many new options:

• Ability to select multiple answers
  
• Auto-locking polls at a given time
  
• Ability to hide results until users have voted/poll is locked
  
• Ability to retract votes
  

New sub-board permissions:

• Ability to have all sub-board posts appear in its parent board
  
• The ability to hide sub-boards when this feature is turned on
  

Vastly improved speed on post and member searches:

• 1,000 member limit for top posters has been removed
  
• All users can now be displayed in post order, irrespective of forum size
  
• Member lists can be sorted in any order
  

• Character limit in posts and personal messages has been in been increased from 25,000 to 60,000 characters.
  
  
• Listing of all users online over the entire day is now available.
  
  
• Calendar entries displayed at the bottom of the page are now in date order.
  
  
• Gradients can be automatically generated for your forums colors.
  
  
• Ability to add a poll to an existing thread.
  
  
• Ability to set default listing order to a board.
  
  
• Ability to request a forgotten password by email address has been restored.
  
  
• Category access can now be granted based on membergroup and/or post count related ranks.
  
  
• Improved page jump, decreasing load times on large boards/threads/member lists.
  
  
• Other small software fixes (eg "on Today" now displays as just "Today").

[Nick]

I had a quick question.

With this new upgrade, I get the "new reply" symbol next to just about every thread that has been active in the past month or so. Is there any way to get rid of those, short of clicking on every thread to say it's been read?

[Political Incorrectness]

You can click the lovely "mark as read" button in the individual boards or at the bottom of the main page

[Neil]

The 'quote' format with name, time and box seems to have disappeared. Is that permanent?

[SS San Mateo]

Apr 11, 2008 22:03:50 GMT -8 Neil said:

The 'quote' format with name, time and box seems to have disappeared. Is that permanent?

I believe that only happened in any 'quotes' prior to the upgrade. I don't think any 'quotes' made afterwards are affected.

[Neil]

Why is it that when I'm not logged in, the post times are off by two hours?

[Scott (Former Account)]

For some reason guests are seeing the forum as if it is in the Eastern timezone. I have tried changing it but it doesn't seem to want to be anything other than EST.

We'll try to get this fixed ASAP.

[Neil]

Apr 15, 2008 14:08:17 GMT -8 Scott (Former Account) said:

For some reason guests are seeing the forum as if it is in the Eastern timezone. I have tried changing it but it doesn't seem to want to be anything other than EST.

We'll try to get this fixed ASAP.

Sheesh. I guess being a moderator isn't the bed of roses everyone thinks it is; you guys even work on your birthdays.

[Balfour]

I've just tried changing (and I practically have full admin powers) and it is definitely a ProBoards Issue. There is nothing we can do except wait for the Proboards tech guys to fix the problem.

[Northern Exploration]

Here I thought it was in honor of BCinNJ and I.

[Mike C]

Apr 15, 2008 17:21:16 GMT -8 Northern Exploration said:

Here I thought it was in honor of BCinNJ and I.

Bah, stop your whining. If you want REAL time, move out here to BC

[D'Elete BC in NJ]

Apr 15, 2008 18:55:48 GMT -8 Mike C said:

Apr 15, 2008 17:21:16 GMT -8 Northern Exploration said:

Here I thought it was in honor of BCinNJ and I.

Bah, stop your whining. If you want REAL time, move out here to BC

Ah ha...now that we have procured the proboards' clock, we have adjusted it to the real REAL time. You can expect an associated revision to your alarm clocks soon...then we will see who's whining...

[Scott (Former Account)]

The issue with the forum time should now be resolved...