What bells & whistles should the new board have

[BTownJack]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

Yeah, except that's not what I was talking about. I teach new media courses, so I'm pretty familiar with this stuff. By enabling html code, I meant just html, not higher level code like javascript. Most bulletin board systems are smart enough to parse text looking for html code (and limiting what code can be used) while ignoring javascript or other malicious code. vBulletin is actually one of the best at that.

For example, vBulletin allows administrators to create custom formatting codes.

Read this: http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=199304

So an administrator can create a [youtube] tagset that allows only the embedding of YouTube videos.

I agree...you should be able to distinguish between the two (HTML & Javascript). Maybe if we did a little research we'd find somone that has already created a [youtube] tag for the software that runs this site.

Check that...i just did a quick search and came up with this: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=130868

Filbert...if you can play around with this I think it might work for us.

[JimmyJack]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

I agree...you should be able to distinguish between the two (HTML & Javascript). Maybe if we did a little research we'd find somone that has already created a [youtube] tag for the software that runs this site.

Check that...i just did a quick search and came up with this: http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=130868

Filbert...if you can play around with this I think it might work for us.

From that original site, it looks trivial to create the [youtube] tag. That's a vBulletin developer who posted the instructions. So you can trust that they'll work, and will be secure.

[filbert]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

How about Boosting the Private Message load from 50 to 100?

You can download messages to your own computer, which quite effectively transfers the cost of providing disk space for those messages from me to you. This seems to me to be a preferable approach, but I'll admit that it is a bit more cumbersome.

[filbert]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

From that original site, it looks trivial to create the [youtube] tag. That's a vBulletin developer who posted the instructions. So you can trust that they'll work, and will be secure.

Man, you just want to make work for me! :-)

I'll take a look when I get a chance . . .

[JimmyJack]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

Man, you just want to make work for me! :-)

I'll take a look when I get a chance . . .

Sorry. Now might be a good opportunity to say how much I appreciate all your work on this site. Really. And I know I'm not the only one.

[Jack4Life]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

Sorry. Now might be a good opportunity to say how much I appreciate all your work on this site. Really. And I know I'm not the only one.

I second that!

[Jacks#1Fan]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

I second that!

Ditto to that, Filbert...you are doing a great service for a large number of fans in Jackrabbit nation! THANKS!!

[thebluehatman]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

Is it too late to suggest CAPTCHAs again filbert????

[filbert]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

Is it too late to suggest CAPTCHAs again filbert????

Hmm, I thought I'd turned CAPTCHAs on . . .

[MilwaukeeJacksAlum]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

What are CAPTCHA's?

[filbert]

Re: What bells & whistles should the new board have

What are CAPTCHA's?

Those funky hard-to-read letters in a box that you are asked to type in when you're signing up for an ID - - - they cut down on automated spam.

Unfortunately, they work less well when the spammers pay guys in Delhi two cents a day or whatever to type them in and spam sites by hand :-(