The New eMastercam

[spade117]

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It was on the table, but the current version is not sitting well with even some long-time supporters.

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You don't necessarily need to use the most current version. 3.8.x seems to be the most acclaimed one out there from my perspective.

[Tyler Robertson]

Haha, that's definitely included

[Tyler Robertson]

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You don't necessarily need to use the most current version. 3.8.x seems to be the most acclaimed one out there from my perspective.

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That's true - it's used a lot. There's some other softwares though that seemed to fit better with what we're going to try to be doing, and people slag the vBulletin company lately..

 

I like a lot of vbulletin forums (www.mylespaul.com)

 

But I think you're going to find the new forum system much better

[The_Evil_Machinist]

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Have to get back to you on that. Even so, while these numbers would provide a good baseline, we'll be potentially requiring much more bandwidth for the new site.

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I doubt it. Even if you add another board or two traffic isnt gonna be increased that much. Unless you want to put in a HTML5 avatar 3d playground (lol I didnt say flash cuz I'm a fanboi ). If it does jump up to using say, 20% more, that's not bad. I've always pushed the borderline on connection capability's. You get more than you need, take a baseline average load then scale back with 40% extra for denial of service attacks/misc crap people do (doubt this site will be attacked).

[Tyler Robertson]

This board has little to no multi-media though, we expect more than that. We don't expect the traffic to increase in a major way immediately (but we hope it does), but we expect more bandwidth out of individual users

 

Storage-wise though, new forum will be less than current forum.

We want to avoid any reason to 'prune' the forum, or if that ever happens again, we maintain important information.

[Camgal_59]

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Its already there

My Profile/Preferences

Hide Avatar

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No .. turning of SIGGY photos is NOT an option.

 

Hide avatar ONLY effects the avatars [which I don't mind] Webby polices the avatars very nicely.

 

However, some users get carried away which size and quantity in their siggy pics. Would be nice to turn those off if one choses to do so!

[Joe788]

Jo, if you're using Firefox, just download the Adblock Add-On. Just right-click each sig picture you don't want to see, and block it. It will never show up again. You'd be amazed how much more streamlined the forum is without 76 signature photos to load on every page!

[Goldorak]

V- bulletin or PHPBB V3

 

both one are pretty versatile

 

i use both as a Forum Administrator and i really like them

 

but as an administrator, PHPBB admin panel is a bit confusing, and v-bulletin's admin panel is pretty easy to use, and you got some very advance setting

[Camgal_59]

Thanks for the tip .. but I'm not using Firefox .. 'corporate' insists on Explorer.

[Del.]

most definitely need an IGNORE option that will block any thread we choose.

[gcode]

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most definitely need an IGNORE option that will block any thread we choose

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I never thought of an ignore for a

whole thread.. the ones I'm familiar

with just allow blocking individual

users.. on one thread Is used to

frequent, there was a seriously vile

troll carrying on a 3 year conversation

with himself.. The entire forum had him on

ignore.

[Del.]

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I never thought of an ignore for a

whole thread..

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it would be kinda cool G.then ONLY topics you are interested in will show on the screen.can something like that be done?

[spade117]

I already ignore any thread I choose to.

[Guest Tyler Yanta]

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it would be kinda cool G.then ONLY topics you are interested in will show on the screen.can something like that be done?

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Not sure about physically hiding topics however you'll be able to rate threads (among other things) so it will be easier to identify content you don't want to see.

[Del.]

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Not sure about physically hiding topics

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kinda like facebook where you can hide posts that come up on your wall.

[Turn Master]

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I never thought of an ignore for a

whole thread.. the ones I'm familiar

with just allow blocking individual

users.. on one thread Is used to

frequent, there was a seriously vile

troll carrying on a 3 year conversation

with himself.. The entire forum had him on

ignore.

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That wouldn't have been Cliff by any chance, would it?

[Randy Morton @ Clem Industrial]

I didnt read all, so sorry if this is a repost. On other forum I visit, they have the option to delete a post made by yourself (only) or even your thread...again, provided you are the creater of said post/thead.

 

The ability to add our own avatars instead of needing to upload them to someone else to put on.

[Mic6]

Instant Message feature

[gms1]

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I didnt read all, so sorry if this is a repost. On other forum I visit, they have the option to delete a post made by yourself (only) or even your thread...again, provided you are the creater of said post/thead.

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We had the ability to delete our threads/posts years ago. It was taken away when some people started abusing it and the half hour edit limit was put in place. I prefer it the way it is now.

[spade117]

Ditto what gms said. You should not be able to delete a thread.

[Bill Sutton@Accurate Machine]

When you post a topic and when someone reply's it will send a email to you with responses.

[Webby]

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When you post a topic and when someone reply's it will send a email to you with responses.

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Most definitely. There will also be a feature where you can "watch" a specific forum or sub-forum for new content if you wish (in addition to being able to watch just an individual thread).

[LA CAMmer]

The "Jump to new posts" idea is really nice but it does not work for me. Can it be updated/fixed? I haven't seen anyone post a topic saying it didn't work for them - maybe just me?

[Guest]

I would like to see some kind of "human" check to stop the scripts and bots from just making a new account.

[Webby]

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I would like to see some kind of "human" check to stop the scripts and bots from just making a new account.

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That was one of our core requirements of the new platform. We should see significantly less spam with the new system as it will incorporate active monitoring algorithms to prevent unwanted (automated) account / post generation.