As you might have noticed, I've upgraded the forum. It was a couple of minor revisions (2.5 > 2.5.1 > 2.5.2), so don't expect anything too spectacular.
I've also made a couple changes to forum settings:
- Fixed e-mail services! This has apparently been broken since November 22nd, 2007, which just goes to show that I procrastinate almost as much as Briney.
- I've increased the maximum number of attachments per post from 1 to 5.
- I've added the new Office file formats of .docx and .xlsx to the list of allowed extensions. Let me know if I missed any: jpg jpeg gif png sf zip txt bmp mp3 mpg doc xls ppt ico avi pdf docx xlsx
- I've increased the file attachment limit from 10MB to 100MB.
- File attachments with the same name as an existing attachment will automatically be renamed upon upload instead of overwriting the original file.
- The maximum avatar size has been increased from 65x65 to 125x125. We may need to go derper larger.
- The maximum size of an avatar file was increased from 1MB to 10MB. That should be enough even for Briney.
- Increased search results from 100 to 250.
- The registration timeout (to receive an e-mail and click on the registration link) was reduced from 168 hours to 72 hours to cut down on the ridiculous number of active registrations from spammers.
- Add god, love, sex, and secret to the list of banned passwords.
- Increased personal message limits to absurd numbers (10,000+).
I also updated some registration settings that are apparently bugged. I was sending an e-mail to new users (all 0 of them) with an automatically generated password, but the password contained special characters that are blocked by IIS. This effectively prevented them from ever logging in. I eliminated the automatically generated password so new users can specify their own passwords upon registration.
Here is the complete list of changes from the YaBB update:
New and Enhanced Features:
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- "X Posts Before Web Links"
- YouTube media support
- Admin: added 'Required on Registration' Extended Profile entries to registration log
- Admin: added choice to allow users to delete their own accounts.
- Admin: added choice to send 'registration denied' emails when no reason is given for rejection.
- Anti-spam modules: SpamFruits, HoneyPot and Anti-Spam Question with admin choice to activate
- Censor checks on PM and attachment names
- URL Encoding (Ban Email and Attachments)
Bug Fixes:
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- Display names in UTF-8 character fixed
- Fixed deprecated code in Admin/Backup.pl, Admin/ModuleChecker.pl, Sources/Subs.pl
- Hide Login, Register, Reset Password in Maintenance Mode
- Incomplete date in Last Zip backup
- Language Dropdown Menus fixed
- Mail to Groups fixed
- Rebuild Membership bug fixed
- Missing YaBB tags in ManageTemplates.pl
- Optional Gender on Registration
- Javascript error in BoardIndex.pl
- '+' in email and file attachment names
- Ex-Member stops ability to modify other posts
- Date bug in Extended Profiles
- Extended Profiles: Required on Registration with Admin Edit Only blocking User Profile editing
- Security/IP blocking issue with downloads with bad names
- List images in Personal Messages
- Erroneous contexthelp messages on Smilies in Personal Messages posting screen
- Redirect problem in Login screen
- N/A after post delete
- Incorrect error text in UserCP
- Negative number of PMs
- Images in quotes
- Changing case in Display Name triggers Duplicate warning
- Send Topic can be accessed when disabled
- noparse disables Newsfader
- Extra Javascript line in Subs.pl
- Forum Jump not disabled in Maintenance mode
- Greybox images fixed
- Space in Displayname bug with Password reminder/reset
- Issues with all-number user names and Admin Approval of Registrations mode
- /me code reformatted
Documentation Fixes:
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- Updated Quick Guide
- Graphics Changes/Cleanup
- Language fixes/improvement
Edit: I restored the silver default.css we came up with the for the last upgrade to replace that awful blue theme.