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Small update today after the birthday bash this past Wednesday.
Now that the birthday bash is over, and Timeline Reference has been announced and is on it's way to completion, I am going to refocus efforts on the Shoutbox again, attempting to make everyone happy.
To start, the shoutbox will be updated this weekend to the latest version. Below is a list of all the new features of the shoutbox. We have both the Lite and Pro features, as I purchase the pro version for us.
Shoutbox Sessions
Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
Only shows people who perform an action as active
"Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active
Anonym.To Integration
Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
Works with BBCode URLs
Displays regular URL while editing shouts
Disallow "ALL CAPS"
Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout
New Slash Command: /resetshouts
Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
(Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
Great way to put spammers in their place
Context Menu Improvements
Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved
(Pro) Global Custom Commands
Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
Great for "canned responses"
(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle
New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
Hides it completely from all pages
Bugfixes
In certain cases, the menu could fail to close properly
For those who want it, here is the full features list of the shoutbox.
Feature List
Major Lite Features
Advanced Shout Control: You have the ability to post shouts, edit your shouts, PM shouts to other users, Ignore other users, insert /Me commands, insert smilies, Bbcode, change font, text colour etc.
Advanced Staff Control: Give your staff members customised permissions to allow them to do certain actions, on all or selected instances and chat rooms. Permissions include: Silencing users, banning users, editing user shouts, Creating/Editing "Sticky Notices", Pruning shouts and much more.
Resource Optimisation: vBShout implements an Advanced Optimisation Protocol to save your forum resources. Enabling this will further reduce the amount of resources consumed by the shoutbox. AOP was originally featured in Inferno vBShout, and DBTech vBShout takes it to the next level by ensuring that all your chats are always up-to-date without taking up needless amount of resources.
Customisable New Post / Thread Notifications: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.
Shoutbox Tabs: New PM's or User Chat Rooms create Tabs. Tabs will highlight to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.
Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.
Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus – less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.
Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. – perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!
Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox specific to those areas.
Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)
Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and allows you to search previous shouts.
Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every action taken.
Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.
Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.
Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.
Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.
Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.
Blog Integration: Give blogs a more prominent place on your forum by having the Shoutbox post notifications when someone posts a new blog or comments on a blog.
Professional Only benefits:
Personal User Shoutbox Options: Integrated with User CP, User gets to decide which things show on their shoutbox, PM's, notifications etc. Even what editor options show up for them. They also get to decide where their text input area goes for TOTAL customisation.
Ignore List: Allows users to keep track of who they are ignoring, and control this option via a list.
Custom Commands: Lets you and your users create their own commands for use. For example, create pre-set warning comments – Staff member types /firstwarning, Text appears saying "This is your first warning for breaking the shoutbox rules. You can view these rules at [link] If you have a question about this warning, please PM myself. Thanks.
Extra Tab Options: The ability to set separate tabs for system notifications and notices is available in the PRO version, fantastic for keeping your chat tab uncluttered.
Detach Shoutbox: Lets you and your users have the shoutbox open in a seperate browser window/tab for easier use etc.
Additional Moderation Commands: The ability to add/edit the sticky notice through the shoutbox.
Advanced Archive Searching: Ability to search by any combination of username, Last X Hours, Start/End date, as well as keyword. Filter searches, sort by criteria etc.
Extended Instance Options: Allows you to have separate notices per instance, set usergroup settings for individual instances, and even set unique staff permissions for each individual instance.
Expanded Context Menus: Lets your member/staff use the context menu to add/update the sticky note, Ban and Unban users, Ignore/Unignore users and prune individual user shouts.
Extra User Chat Room Moderation: Shows a page displaying every use-created chat room, who made it, how many active members/total members it has etc, and options to close it etc.
Complete Feature List
Lite
Shoutbox
Post Shouts
Edit / Delete Shouts
Shouts played using HTML5 <audio> tags
PM other users
PM tabs for convo between two users
View Active Users
Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.
Smilies
Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.
Update text styles
Bold
Italic
Underline
Font
Colour
Slash commands
Built-in commands in a drop-down list
/banlist for a list of all users banned from the shoutbox
Context menu for available actions
View Profile
Send PM
Create chat room
Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room
Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.
Tabs
Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.
Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.
Logging
Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.
Archive
View list of all Shouts in the system
Top X Shouters
Shoutbox Statistics
Search Archive
Search by
Phrase
AdminCP
Instance Manager
Different instances on different pages
Chat Room Manager
Assign usergroups to chat rooms
Edit Settings
Which commands to log
Log level
Shouts to display
Shouts to display (Archive)
Shoutbox Height
Shout display order
Shoutbox Refresh Rate
Smilies on / off
PMs on / off
Allowed BBCode controls
Enabled Editor Tools
Maximum [SIZE]
Max characters per shout
Max images per shout
Archive "Top X Shouters" count
Active Users block on/off
Auto-Delete Shouts
Max chat rooms per user
Global sound switch
Play sounds while idle
Per-Usergroup display of moderator actions (like pruning shouts)
Ability to disable the "Chat Access" list
Project Tools integration
Ability to disable Blog notifications
Alternating Shout Background Colours
Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
Every X Posts
Every X Threads
Every X Members
Show command log
Show banned users
Show shout log
Maintenance
Reset all style customisations
Ban / Silence management in Edit User
Shoutbox Sessions
Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
Only shows people who perform an action as active
"Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active
Anonym.To Integration
Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
Works with BBCode URLs
Displays regular URL while editing shouts
Disallow "ALL CAPS"
Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout
New Slash Command: /resetshouts
Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
(Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
Great way to put spammers in their place
Context Menu Improvements
Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved
Pro
Context Menu Options
Moderation actions
Add / Update Sticky Note
Ban / Unban users
Ignore / unignore users
Prune user's shouts
Slash commands
/silencelist for a list of all users silenced in the shoutbox
Separate tab for Notifications
Lets you hide them from the main view but still have them accessible.
Separate tab for System Messages
Lets you hide them from main view but still have them accessible.
Detach shoutbox
Shows a dedicated shoutbox browser window.
Shoutbox Options
Integration with UserCP
General Shoutbox Settings
Enable / Disable PMs
Enable / Disable Notifications
Enable / Disable System Messages
Override shout styles
Sounds on/off
Shout
Invite
PM
Hide alternating shoutbox background colours
Hide user avatars
Display Settings
Hide/Display individual Editor settings (Font, text colour etc)
Control shout area location
Tab Reordering
Re-order chat tabs
Custom Commands
Add / Edit custom commands
Ignore List
Add / Remove users
High-level logging logs everything
vBActivity & Awards integration (Award, Achievement, Promotion)
Filter archive shouts by chatroom
Create threads from archive shouts
Search Archive
Search by
Username
Last X Hours
Start Date
End Date
Sort order for search results
Shouts per page
Filter archive shouts
Edit/Delete shouts in archive
Separate Sticky notices per instance
Separate usergroup permissions per instance
Assign chat room to any / all instance(s)
Shoutbox Refresh Rate
While idle
PMs on / off
Archive "Top X Shouters" count
Play sounds while idle
Maintenance
Reset all style customisations
Ban / Silence management in Edit User
Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
Every X Blogs
Every X Shouts
Every X [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like button clicks received
Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging thread tags received
Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging quotes received
Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging mentions received
Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed created
Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed completed
Adjust time stamp format
Per-Usergroup "Can PM" permission
(Pro) Global Custom Commands
Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
Great for "canned responses"
(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle
New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
Hides it completely from all pages
Copyright Info / Branding
This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:
1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
1 Link to Product Description page of this modification
1 Link to Hivelocity Hosting (Lite Version only)
#staff #vip #dj
Now that the birthday bash is over, and Timeline Reference has been announced and is on it's way to completion, I am going to refocus efforts on the Shoutbox again, attempting to make everyone happy.
To start, the shoutbox will be updated this weekend to the latest version. Below is a list of all the new features of the shoutbox. We have both the Lite and Pro features, as I purchase the pro version for us.
Shoutbox Sessions
Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
Only shows people who perform an action as active
"Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active
Anonym.To Integration
Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
Works with BBCode URLs
Displays regular URL while editing shouts
Disallow "ALL CAPS"
Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout
New Slash Command: /resetshouts
Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
(Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
Great way to put spammers in their place
Context Menu Improvements
Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved
(Pro) Global Custom Commands
Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
Great for "canned responses"
(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle
New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
Hides it completely from all pages
Bugfixes
In certain cases, the menu could fail to close properly
For those who want it, here is the full features list of the shoutbox.
Feature List
Major Lite Features
Advanced Shout Control: You have the ability to post shouts, edit your shouts, PM shouts to other users, Ignore other users, insert /Me commands, insert smilies, Bbcode, change font, text colour etc.
Advanced Staff Control: Give your staff members customised permissions to allow them to do certain actions, on all or selected instances and chat rooms. Permissions include: Silencing users, banning users, editing user shouts, Creating/Editing "Sticky Notices", Pruning shouts and much more.
Resource Optimisation: vBShout implements an Advanced Optimisation Protocol to save your forum resources. Enabling this will further reduce the amount of resources consumed by the shoutbox. AOP was originally featured in Inferno vBShout, and DBTech vBShout takes it to the next level by ensuring that all your chats are always up-to-date without taking up needless amount of resources.
Customisable New Post / Thread Notifications: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.
Shoutbox Tabs: New PM's or User Chat Rooms create Tabs. Tabs will highlight to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.
Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.
Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus – less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.
Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. – perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!
Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox specific to those areas.
Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)
Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and allows you to search previous shouts.
Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every action taken.
Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.
Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.
Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.
Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.
Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.
Blog Integration: Give blogs a more prominent place on your forum by having the Shoutbox post notifications when someone posts a new blog or comments on a blog.
Professional Only benefits:
Personal User Shoutbox Options: Integrated with User CP, User gets to decide which things show on their shoutbox, PM's, notifications etc. Even what editor options show up for them. They also get to decide where their text input area goes for TOTAL customisation.
Ignore List: Allows users to keep track of who they are ignoring, and control this option via a list.
Custom Commands: Lets you and your users create their own commands for use. For example, create pre-set warning comments – Staff member types /firstwarning, Text appears saying "This is your first warning for breaking the shoutbox rules. You can view these rules at [link] If you have a question about this warning, please PM myself. Thanks.
Extra Tab Options: The ability to set separate tabs for system notifications and notices is available in the PRO version, fantastic for keeping your chat tab uncluttered.
Detach Shoutbox: Lets you and your users have the shoutbox open in a seperate browser window/tab for easier use etc.
Additional Moderation Commands: The ability to add/edit the sticky notice through the shoutbox.
Advanced Archive Searching: Ability to search by any combination of username, Last X Hours, Start/End date, as well as keyword. Filter searches, sort by criteria etc.
Extended Instance Options: Allows you to have separate notices per instance, set usergroup settings for individual instances, and even set unique staff permissions for each individual instance.
Expanded Context Menus: Lets your member/staff use the context menu to add/update the sticky note, Ban and Unban users, Ignore/Unignore users and prune individual user shouts.
Extra User Chat Room Moderation: Shows a page displaying every use-created chat room, who made it, how many active members/total members it has etc, and options to close it etc.
Complete Feature List
Lite
Shoutbox
Post Shouts
Edit / Delete Shouts
Shouts played using HTML5 <audio> tags
PM other users
PM tabs for convo between two users
View Active Users
Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.
Smilies
Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.
Update text styles
Bold
Italic
Underline
Font
Colour
Slash commands
Built-in commands in a drop-down list
/banlist for a list of all users banned from the shoutbox
Context menu for available actions
View Profile
Send PM
Create chat room
Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room
Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.
Tabs
Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.
Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.
Logging
Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.
Archive
View list of all Shouts in the system
Top X Shouters
Shoutbox Statistics
Search Archive
Search by
Phrase
AdminCP
Instance Manager
Different instances on different pages
Chat Room Manager
Assign usergroups to chat rooms
Edit Settings
Which commands to log
Log level
Shouts to display
Shouts to display (Archive)
Shoutbox Height
Shout display order
Shoutbox Refresh Rate
Smilies on / off
PMs on / off
Allowed BBCode controls
Enabled Editor Tools
Maximum [SIZE]
Max characters per shout
Max images per shout
Archive "Top X Shouters" count
Active Users block on/off
Auto-Delete Shouts
Max chat rooms per user
Global sound switch
Play sounds while idle
Per-Usergroup display of moderator actions (like pruning shouts)
Ability to disable the "Chat Access" list
Project Tools integration
Ability to disable Blog notifications
Alternating Shout Background Colours
Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
Every X Posts
Every X Threads
Every X Members
Show command log
Show banned users
Show shout log
Maintenance
Reset all style customisations
Ban / Silence management in Edit User
Shoutbox Sessions
Shoutbox activity is tracked separate from users' shouts
Only shows people who perform an action as active
"Active Indicator" on the toolbar shows whether the user is active in the SB or not
Doesn't flag users generating automatic notices as active
Anonym.To Integration
Ability to anonymise any URL entered in the Shoutbox per-instance with Anonym.to
Works with BBCode URLs
Displays regular URL while editing shouts
Disallow "ALL CAPS"
Ability to disallow all caps per-instance
Uses vBulletin's "Prevent SHOUTING" setting to de-caps the shout
New Slash Command: /resetshouts
Resets all users' "Lifetime Shouts" counter to how many shouts they currently have in the system
(Pro) /resetshouts user to reset an individual user's "Lifetime Shouts" counter
Great way to put spammers in their place
Context Menu Improvements
Dedicated context menu item for editing shouts (if user has permission to edit that shout)
Dedicated context menu item for deleting shouts (if user has permission to delete that shout)
JavaScript performance for menu closure operations has been improved
Pro
Context Menu Options
Moderation actions
Add / Update Sticky Note
Ban / Unban users
Ignore / unignore users
Prune user's shouts
Slash commands
/silencelist for a list of all users silenced in the shoutbox
Separate tab for Notifications
Lets you hide them from the main view but still have them accessible.
Separate tab for System Messages
Lets you hide them from main view but still have them accessible.
Detach shoutbox
Shows a dedicated shoutbox browser window.
Shoutbox Options
Integration with UserCP
General Shoutbox Settings
Enable / Disable PMs
Enable / Disable Notifications
Enable / Disable System Messages
Override shout styles
Sounds on/off
Shout
Invite
PM
Hide alternating shoutbox background colours
Hide user avatars
Display Settings
Hide/Display individual Editor settings (Font, text colour etc)
Control shout area location
Tab Reordering
Re-order chat tabs
Custom Commands
Add / Edit custom commands
Ignore List
Add / Remove users
High-level logging logs everything
vBActivity & Awards integration (Award, Achievement, Promotion)
Filter archive shouts by chatroom
Create threads from archive shouts
Search Archive
Search by
Username
Last X Hours
Start Date
End Date
Sort order for search results
Shouts per page
Filter archive shouts
Edit/Delete shouts in archive
Separate Sticky notices per instance
Separate usergroup permissions per instance
Assign chat room to any / all instance(s)
Shoutbox Refresh Rate
While idle
PMs on / off
Archive "Top X Shouters" count
Play sounds while idle
Maintenance
Reset all style customisations
Ban / Silence management in Edit User
Forum Milestones (replacing the simple "Post Markers")
Every X Blogs
Every X Shouts
Every X [DBTech] Advanced Post Thanks / Like button clicks received
Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging thread tags received
Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging quotes received
Every X [DBTech] Advanced User Tagging mentions received
Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed created
Every X [DBTech] vBQuiz quizzed completed
Adjust time stamp format
Per-Usergroup "Can PM" permission
(Pro) Global Custom Commands
Create custom commands that anyone can use via the AdminCP
Prevents users from creating commands with the same shortcut
Great for "canned responses"
(Pro) Per-User Shoutbox Toggle
New UserCP option to turn off the entire shoutbox
Hides it completely from all pages
Copyright Info / Branding
This mod displays a copyright notification in the footer of pages generated by this mod which includes:
1 Link to DragonByte Technologies homepage
1 Link to Product Description page of this modification
1 Link to Hivelocity Hosting (Lite Version only)
#staff #vip #dj
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