Hello members and friends of yuku,
The dev team has been busy fixing bugs.
Currently fixed and pushed to the servers today:
**Newly created communities no longer have post deletion by default on
the forum settings page.
**Members invited to viewable MBA communities no longer have to apply to post.
**Messages of approval don't contain the link to the forum to which the
member has been approved: Fixed
**Deleted topics lead to white page instead of 404: Fixed
**Splitting topic removes signatures: Fixed
**When you delete a banned member, you can now unban them by inviting
them back to your community (admin menu -> invite)
**Daily Most stats stops displaying on the directory when a change is
made to the domain preferences page: Fixed
**Previewing a topic shows user's avatar in forums where avatars have
been disabled: Fixed
**'numbering' cannot be used in IE7 : Fixed
**Board owners cannot access newly created forums when logged out: Fixed
Inbox tags have been disabled
**Invite friends: Now when you invite friends, all your contact boxes
will be UNchecked and you need to check the boxes of friends you wish
to invite. This is to avoid inviting your entire contact list on
accident.
**Long links no longer break in quotes.
**Ignored user's posts are visible when loading the post editor: Fixed
Along with the above fixes, a large array of smaller bug fixes have been pushed.
February 12 2008
Ads have been rolled out to all servers
January 15 2008
Global css
January 7 2008
Prune Forum
Admin > Forum & Chat Mgmt > Settings
You'll see a button beside mimic forum that reads prune forum. Use this to prune topics in your forum by date. Once you confirm the date that you wish to prune up to, any posts older than that date will be deleted.
Undo Deleted Forums
Admin > Community Log
You are now able to delete a forum, and then undo that deletion via your community log. Simply go to the log and find the delete forum entry. There will be an undo link on it.
Personal editor setting
Navigation > settings > preferences
You can now choose to use the wysiwyg editor OR a bbcode editor (like ezboard, but with more yuku appeal!). If you use a browser that does not see the wysiwyg editor, or one that doesn't work properly with it, switch to the bbcode editor.
Disable Announcement
Admin > Community information
You can now hide your community announcements rather than having to delete all the text. This is particularly useful if you like to resuse the same announcement from time to time.
Subforums to below forum
Admin > Display preferences
You can now move the Subforums block displayed inside forums to the bottom
Customise post report reasons
Admin > Members > Post reports
Change the default report post reasons to ones that suit your community.
Filter banned emails
Admin > Members > Banned > View banned emails
You can now filter the list of banned emails to easily find out if you've banned certain emails. Supports * and ? wildcards.
Global HTML
Admin > Customised skins
Click the Edit Global HTML at the top of this page to add html (or plain text) to ALL pages of your community, regardless of which skin they use.
Bug fixes and minor updates
October 18 2007
New nav menu...
The navigation bar across the top of each page has been updated. It now shows when you have new messages, comments and friends in a clear and immediate way. Clicking on the number or icon will take you to your inbox, friends page or comments page.
...and admin control panels
When you're on a board at which you have admin powers, you'll now see a link to your new admin control panel page from the navigation bar on the right hand side (next to the navigation toggle button). You'll also see a link to your board support account, with a number indicating how many new support tickets you have.
Posticons now have a maximum of 30
To edit your posticons, go to admin > Community Customized Posticons and click edit. You can now add up to 30 posticons if you wish.
All posts have the option to have a subject line now
When you reply to a post, you'll now have the option to include a subject line. You can leave this blank if you wish.
Secret Q&A in account settings
For extra security in the event that you lose your password and don't have access to your email, we have given you a secret question and answer option. To update this, click navigation then settings and choose the secret Q&A tab.
Smilies below editor are now an option to show or not show
To remove the default smilies from the editor, go to admin > display preferences and uncheck yuku smilies
Turn off views/kudos/search tags/avatars per forum
You can now toggle these items on and off in forums via the forum management pages. Go to admin > forum and chat management > security and check or uncheck display views, display kudos and display search tags.
Option to disable poll resetting and closing buttons
To prevent accidental closing and resetting of polls, you can disable these buttons. Go to admin > display preferences and uncheck Allow Poll Closing & Resetting:
post flood safety check
If flooding is a problem on your board, you can enable post flood safety check. Go to admin > Community security settings and check the box beside check for post flooding
Streamlined administration log
There are now more actions recorded in the admin log, which has also had a facelift. To see your admin log, go to admin > community log.
Pending members
The pending member page has been updated to include members who have applied to individual forums. Go to admin > pending
Domain scripts
There are 17 new scripts for your communities! Have a look and play around - admin > community scripts.
Bugfixes
Fix for calendar events not displaying, featured topics and many more.
August 18 2007
Undo post deletions
Link/unlink photobucket account
Use your own profanity filter
August 7 2007
Block anonymous
Hide posts and ban via interact menu
Domain backup date
Back to board link in admin panel
August 2 2007
Ignore user feature
Community profile options
You can now turn elements of your community profile page on and off. To edit this go to admin menu > design > preferences and scroll down to the Community Profile Options box.
Subforums
July 27 2007
Ignore member's posts
To use this feature, just click the interact button on a post by the member in question. You'll see an option at the bottom to ingore the posts by that member. The result of this would be that all posts and lead posts by that member would be automatically minimised when you view topics.
Static (historic) avatars
This is an admin option, that allows you to keep historical avatars. This means that when a member changes their avatar, the avatars on old topics do NOT change. You can change from historic to current avatars at any time. To change this option, go to admin menu > design > preferences.
Static (historic) post counts
This is an admin option that allows you to keep chronological post counts. In other words, the first post you ever make on a board will always say post count: 1. You can change from static to current at any time. To change this option, go to admin menu > design > preferences.
May 23 2007
Polls released
March 11 2007
user preferences topics/replies per page
Pop into your account settings area and you'll see a new tab called preferences
Domain hosting
This is in beta (but then, aren't we all?) but now you can use your own domain name with yuku. Just open your user menu and click on admin menu > settings, then choose domain hosting.
change whosonline position top/bottom
Go to your usermenu, click admin menu > design > preferences and you can change this setting here.
banner_url field in custom images
You'll find this one under admin menu > design > my community skins Then choose the skin you want to edit and click images.
Name changes on your profiles
You'll also notice some changes with your name displays. This is early stages yet, and there may be further changes. Now when you register, you are registered to the board that you are at. Your name will show as johnny@jjb for example. Every account is global, and yet has a local base.
choose how many recent posts show in the blog
Go to your own profile and click on the edit link on your blog blog to change this setting
added missing/default avatar to edit avatar page
Open your own profile and click on your avatar to edit it.
send this page
Open your navigation menu and type in a friends email under "Send this Page"
to send them your current page.
support accounts
Manage all your users support tickets under one account. Open your usermenu menu as an
admin and you'll see Support under Account Settings. But first you'll need to login as support, so click admin menu > members > user support to log in. This is to allow you to run your own support desk for your boards. You'll see a notice about support tickets showing on your boards when they get submitted. Your members can put in a support ticket from a link on your community stats box. (You can simply hide this using css if you don't with to use it.
March 14 2007
1. Choose yuku or ezboard layout for topics
To change these settings, go to menu > admin menu > design > preferences
2. Editing a topic will bump it.
3. Smilies appear under the editor. (This one has mixed reactions - watch this space, I've got an idea!)
4. Forum Find now lets you filter for ezboards or yuku communities.
5. Imported local users from ezboard now have (l) after their name rather than the whole board name on their home board. On all other boards, their boardname will appear in this format: username@boardname
6. Click on interact to see recent posts
March 1st 2007
Feature voter added
February 27 2007
Promote me community was added
February 5 2007
January 22 2007
Blogs
New private message system
Stay in topic
Blog this feature
Add "new" icon to posts within a topic
November 29 2006
Forum specific skins
If you look around, you can see one of the most asked for features has been implemented in yuku! Forum specific customisation is here.
To play with it, simply go to menu > admin menu > my community skins, choose a skin and click apply. You'll then get a choice of where to apply the skin.
Use the Community skin map to see which forums use which skins.
Hide/show columns
The css problems with hiding different columns have been fixed, by removing the col tags. And a new tab has been added to the wysiwyg skins editor, so you can easily hide and show any colums you like.
Just go to menu > admin menu > custom > my community skins and use the wysiwyg button on the selected skin.
Group titles html
Now you can add html to your group titles. These will show up in the poster details box on posts. To edit these, go to menu > admin menu > users > user groups and select a group to edit.
Who kudoed?
You can now see who kudoed a topic, click on the word kudo while in the topic to see the list of users.
October 30 2006
Features include:
October 14, 2006
Yuku-firefox extension:
If you're a Firefox user, you'll be pleased to know that we have developed a yuku extension for Firefox which you can download from here.
This extension keeps you up-to-date with the latest activity on any of your accounts no matter where you are on the web.
September 21, 2006
You may have noticed a couple of changes on the site - one of these is the implementation of invisible forums.
To check it out, go and manage your forums (navigation > manage domain > structure) and edit the preferences of any forum.
To make it invisible, just use the drop down menu at the top of the edit page.
Another thing is custom titles. To change these, go to your member edit page (navigation > manage domain users > member), find the user you want to change, and then click the edit button in the last column to the right of their name.
You might also see the social networking icons and drop down at the top of the domain too. I can't really tell you too much about what this acheives, since I have a del.ic.ious account that I have no idea how to use.
August 2006: new domain code push
Welcome to the start of Message Boards 2.0. This is the first version of our MB2.0 generation of message boards. It's faster and more stable than the alpha version software that we've been running on Yuku since last September.
May 9 2006
There have been more changes to your profiles, including:
March 27 2006
This week we released 11 more bug fixes and 2 feature enhancements. The 2 new feature improvements are:
Dead bugs this week include:
March 20 2006
issues that you've experienced, although not all of them (yet). We are aware that IE is crashing in pages where the post editor is. We are working on fixing that as well.
If you are still having IE issues then please let us know in the helpdesk
We are developing Yuku to be equally usable on all browsers. But today the best Yuku experience is on FireFox.
Additional dead bugs this week include:
March 13, 2006
The dev team been working hard behind the scenes to bring you some significant new improvements… in a few weeks.
However, this week on Yuku we are releasing 11 bug fixes and 3 improvements.
The new improvements include:
The dev team has been busy fixing bugs.
Currently fixed and pushed to the servers today:
**Newly created communities no longer have post deletion by default on
the forum settings page.
**Members invited to viewable MBA communities no longer have to apply to post.
**Messages of approval don't contain the link to the forum to which the
member has been approved: Fixed
**Deleted topics lead to white page instead of 404: Fixed
**Splitting topic removes signatures: Fixed
**When you delete a banned member, you can now unban them by inviting
them back to your community (admin menu -> invite)
**Daily Most stats stops displaying on the directory when a change is
made to the domain preferences page: Fixed
**Previewing a topic shows user's avatar in forums where avatars have
been disabled: Fixed
**'numbering' cannot be used in IE7 : Fixed
**Board owners cannot access newly created forums when logged out: Fixed
Inbox tags have been disabled
**Invite friends: Now when you invite friends, all your contact boxes
will be UNchecked and you need to check the boxes of friends you wish
to invite. This is to avoid inviting your entire contact list on
accident.
**Long links no longer break in quotes.
**Ignored user's posts are visible when loading the post editor: Fixed
Along with the above fixes, a large array of smaller bug fixes have been pushed.
February 12 2008
Ads have been rolled out to all servers
January 15 2008
Global css
January 7 2008
Prune Forum
Admin > Forum & Chat Mgmt > Settings
You'll see a button beside mimic forum that reads prune forum. Use this to prune topics in your forum by date. Once you confirm the date that you wish to prune up to, any posts older than that date will be deleted.
Undo Deleted Forums
Admin > Community Log
You are now able to delete a forum, and then undo that deletion via your community log. Simply go to the log and find the delete forum entry. There will be an undo link on it.
Personal editor setting
Navigation > settings > preferences
You can now choose to use the wysiwyg editor OR a bbcode editor (like ezboard, but with more yuku appeal!). If you use a browser that does not see the wysiwyg editor, or one that doesn't work properly with it, switch to the bbcode editor.
Disable Announcement
Admin > Community information
You can now hide your community announcements rather than having to delete all the text. This is particularly useful if you like to resuse the same announcement from time to time.
Subforums to below forum
Admin > Display preferences
You can now move the Subforums block displayed inside forums to the bottom
Customise post report reasons
Admin > Members > Post reports
Change the default report post reasons to ones that suit your community.
Filter banned emails
Admin > Members > Banned > View banned emails
You can now filter the list of banned emails to easily find out if you've banned certain emails. Supports * and ? wildcards.
Global HTML
Admin > Customised skins
Click the Edit Global HTML at the top of this page to add html (or plain text) to ALL pages of your community, regardless of which skin they use.
Bug fixes and minor updates
- Phantom moderators appearing on community profile fixed
- Split/merge thread last poster corrected
- Screened forums let poster know that the message is screened
- Admin menu on control panel and left navigation reorganised to be more logical
- Various calendar bugs sorted
- Various tags bugs sorted
- PM send/save buttons in reverse order fixed
- White screens in control panel fixed
- Domain announcement text limit removed
October 18 2007
New nav menu...
The navigation bar across the top of each page has been updated. It now shows when you have new messages, comments and friends in a clear and immediate way. Clicking on the number or icon will take you to your inbox, friends page or comments page.
...and admin control panels
When you're on a board at which you have admin powers, you'll now see a link to your new admin control panel page from the navigation bar on the right hand side (next to the navigation toggle button). You'll also see a link to your board support account, with a number indicating how many new support tickets you have.
Posticons now have a maximum of 30
To edit your posticons, go to admin > Community Customized Posticons and click edit. You can now add up to 30 posticons if you wish.
All posts have the option to have a subject line now
When you reply to a post, you'll now have the option to include a subject line. You can leave this blank if you wish.
Secret Q&A in account settings
For extra security in the event that you lose your password and don't have access to your email, we have given you a secret question and answer option. To update this, click navigation then settings and choose the secret Q&A tab.
Smilies below editor are now an option to show or not show
To remove the default smilies from the editor, go to admin > display preferences and uncheck yuku smilies
Turn off views/kudos/search tags/avatars per forum
You can now toggle these items on and off in forums via the forum management pages. Go to admin > forum and chat management > security and check or uncheck display views, display kudos and display search tags.
Option to disable poll resetting and closing buttons
To prevent accidental closing and resetting of polls, you can disable these buttons. Go to admin > display preferences and uncheck Allow Poll Closing & Resetting:
post flood safety check
If flooding is a problem on your board, you can enable post flood safety check. Go to admin > Community security settings and check the box beside check for post flooding
Streamlined administration log
There are now more actions recorded in the admin log, which has also had a facelift. To see your admin log, go to admin > community log.
Pending members
The pending member page has been updated to include members who have applied to individual forums. Go to admin > pending
Domain scripts
There are 17 new scripts for your communities! Have a look and play around - admin > community scripts.
Bugfixes
Fix for calendar events not displaying, featured topics and many more.
August 18 2007
Undo post deletions
Link/unlink photobucket account
Use your own profanity filter
August 7 2007
Block anonymous
Hide posts and ban via interact menu
Domain backup date
Back to board link in admin panel
August 2 2007
Ignore user feature
Community profile options
You can now turn elements of your community profile page on and off. To edit this go to admin menu > design > preferences and scroll down to the Community Profile Options box.
Subforums
July 27 2007
Ignore member's posts
To use this feature, just click the interact button on a post by the member in question. You'll see an option at the bottom to ingore the posts by that member. The result of this would be that all posts and lead posts by that member would be automatically minimised when you view topics.
Static (historic) avatars
This is an admin option, that allows you to keep historical avatars. This means that when a member changes their avatar, the avatars on old topics do NOT change. You can change from historic to current avatars at any time. To change this option, go to admin menu > design > preferences.
Static (historic) post counts
This is an admin option that allows you to keep chronological post counts. In other words, the first post you ever make on a board will always say post count: 1. You can change from static to current at any time. To change this option, go to admin menu > design > preferences.
May 23 2007
Polls released
March 11 2007
user preferences topics/replies per page
Pop into your account settings area and you'll see a new tab called preferences
Domain hosting
This is in beta (but then, aren't we all?) but now you can use your own domain name with yuku. Just open your user menu and click on admin menu > settings, then choose domain hosting.
change whosonline position top/bottom
Go to your usermenu, click admin menu > design > preferences and you can change this setting here.
banner_url field in custom images
You'll find this one under admin menu > design > my community skins Then choose the skin you want to edit and click images.
Name changes on your profiles
You'll also notice some changes with your name displays. This is early stages yet, and there may be further changes. Now when you register, you are registered to the board that you are at. Your name will show as johnny@jjb for example. Every account is global, and yet has a local base.
choose how many recent posts show in the blog
Go to your own profile and click on the edit link on your blog blog to change this setting
added missing/default avatar to edit avatar page
Open your own profile and click on your avatar to edit it.
send this page
Open your navigation menu and type in a friends email under "Send this Page"
to send them your current page.
support accounts
Manage all your users support tickets under one account. Open your usermenu menu as an
admin and you'll see Support under Account Settings. But first you'll need to login as support, so click admin menu > members > user support to log in. This is to allow you to run your own support desk for your boards. You'll see a notice about support tickets showing on your boards when they get submitted. Your members can put in a support ticket from a link on your community stats box. (You can simply hide this using css if you don't with to use it.
March 14 2007
1. Choose yuku or ezboard layout for topics
To change these settings, go to menu > admin menu > design > preferences
2. Editing a topic will bump it.
3. Smilies appear under the editor. (This one has mixed reactions - watch this space, I've got an idea!)
4. Forum Find now lets you filter for ezboards or yuku communities.
5. Imported local users from ezboard now have (l) after their name rather than the whole board name on their home board. On all other boards, their boardname will appear in this format: username@boardname
6. Click on interact to see recent posts
March 1st 2007
Feature voter added
February 27 2007
Promote me community was added
February 5 2007
- Featured topics - turn this function on from the "look and feel" "preferences" area. You'll select featured topics from your forums and they will be separated off on the main page of the board and then the main page of each forum. If you have no featured topics, none will be shown.
- IP Lookup/Ban - VERY advanced set of IP features - explore these by going to "look and feel" and "ip lookup"
- Mark forum read
- Quick Reply
- Post preview
- Post counts are now board level, not global level
- Board stats - go to "stats graph" to see your boards stats in a visual format
January 22 2007
Blogs
New private message system
Stay in topic
Blog this feature
Add "new" icon to posts within a topic
November 29 2006
Forum specific skins
If you look around, you can see one of the most asked for features has been implemented in yuku! Forum specific customisation is here.
To play with it, simply go to menu > admin menu > my community skins, choose a skin and click apply. You'll then get a choice of where to apply the skin.
- You can select default - which will apply the skin to all forums that use the default
- You can select each forum - which will apply the skin to selected forums
- You can select ALL - which will apply the skin to all forums
Use the Community skin map to see which forums use which skins.
Hide/show columns
The css problems with hiding different columns have been fixed, by removing the col tags. And a new tab has been added to the wysiwyg skins editor, so you can easily hide and show any colums you like.
Just go to menu > admin menu > custom > my community skins and use the wysiwyg button on the selected skin.
Group titles html
Now you can add html to your group titles. These will show up in the poster details box on posts. To edit these, go to menu > admin menu > users > user groups and select a group to edit.
Who kudoed?
You can now see who kudoed a topic, click on the word kudo while in the topic to see the list of users.
October 30 2006
Features include:
- New usernav (menu) look and layout
- list of your communities, including boards you're a member at
- Updated navigation
- Consistent terminology
- Hide Posts and Threads
- Link to single post (Single Post View)
- Give kudos to topics
- New management pages
- Changed forum management pages to allow IE users to use them better
- subscribe to topic at time of posting
- WYSIWYG editor for customisation
- Ability to reply to comments on your profile *
- Ability to comment back to someone from their comment *
October 14, 2006
Yuku-firefox extension:
If you're a Firefox user, you'll be pleased to know that we have developed a yuku extension for Firefox which you can download from here.
This extension keeps you up-to-date with the latest activity on any of your accounts no matter where you are on the web.
The features include...
- Instant notification of a new message, comment or friend request - no matter where you are on the internet at the time
- Easily switch between profiles and use quick menu links to get around your account.
- Add your own favourite links to the menu.
- Set keyboard shortcuts for common actions like opening a new topic or reply or subscribing to a topic or forum.
September 21, 2006
You may have noticed a couple of changes on the site - one of these is the implementation of invisible forums.
To check it out, go and manage your forums (navigation > manage domain > structure) and edit the preferences of any forum.
To make it invisible, just use the drop down menu at the top of the edit page.
Another thing is custom titles. To change these, go to your member edit page (navigation > manage domain users > member), find the user you want to change, and then click the edit button in the last column to the right of their name.
You might also see the social networking icons and drop down at the top of the domain too. I can't really tell you too much about what this acheives, since I have a del.ic.ious account that I have no idea how to use.
August 2006: new domain code push
Welcome to the start of Message Boards 2.0. This is the first version of our MB2.0 generation of message boards. It's faster and more stable than the alpha version software that we've been running on Yuku since last September.
May 9 2006
There have been more changes to your profiles, including:
- user info icon for each friend
- online/offline icon changes
- some IDs changed into classes
March 27 2006
This week we released 11 more bug fixes and 2 feature enhancements. The 2 new feature improvements are:
- Smilies now have fully customizable keystroke shortcuts.
- You can designate favourite Smilies for your domain.
Dead bugs this week include:
- Numerous security enhancements and improvements.
- Profiles with a space in them now have the correct links
- Sticking a locked thread no longer unlocks the thread.
- Users with no avatar now have a default avatar.
- Improved error messaging.
March 20 2006
issues that you've experienced, although not all of them (yet). We are aware that IE is crashing in pages where the post editor is. We are working on fixing that as well.
If you are still having IE issues then please let us know in the helpdesk
We are developing Yuku to be equally usable on all browsers. But today the best Yuku experience is on FireFox.
Additional dead bugs this week include:
- All profile URL's in the system now point to the new personalized profile URL (e.g. rob.u.yuku.com).
- The 'Done��? button on the blorum management page now functions properly.
- RSS feed icon now displays on all domains.
- RSS title feed increased from 10 to 20.
- Previous and next topic links now appear on the thread view.
- Minor changes to the quick reply feature.
- You can now add more emoticons to the list
- Removed the character limit on the email address field at registration
- Unread icon and hot icons can now be seen at the same time
- Assign a moderator in one forums will no longer assign them in all
- Added previous and next links in threads
March 13, 2006
The dev team been working hard behind the scenes to bring you some significant new improvements… in a few weeks.
However, this week on Yuku we are releasing 11 bug fixes and 3 improvements.
The new improvements include:
- New personalized profile URL (e.g. http://rob.u.yuku.com/) that is much easier to remember and share with your friends.
- Improved server side HTML parsing that speeds up the site and improves reliability.
- You can now have 25 Friends per page in your view all friends section instead of 10.
- Profile and Domain skins manager now reliably applies skins.
- Disconnecting Friends updated to really disconnect friends.
- You can now edit Topic Descriptions.
- Blog View now displays more posts.
- Minor updates to the menu.
