I've just upgraded the message board software to the latest version available. We haven't gone through an upgrade in awhile because the site has been very stable and the new features up until this latest version haven't been worth the upgrade. With this upgrade, we have some neat new features to play with:

- Users may now subscribe to topics when replying.
- Unsubscription links are included in all topic subscription emails.
- Updated the My Profile page layout. New links have been added to your own post history and list of subscribed topics.
- New profile edit confirmation screen allows users to see a preview of their signatures and public profile information.
- Multiple forums may be searched at once (a multiple select box is used instead of a drop-down menu), and categories may be searched.
- A new Quick Reply box has been added to the bottom of each topic. Admins or users may choose to hide the box. This saves one page view every time it is used, and saves two if you have the iframe post review feature turned on.
- New user preferences to check (or uncheck) the "Show Signature" or "Disable Graemlins in this post" boxes on the posting forms by default.
- New "Remember Me" box on the login form (checked by default) allows users to optionally be logged out at the end of their browser sessions.
- Hack: Quick Quote, allows you to quickly transfer a user's post text to the quick reply box at the bottom of the page. Please use this feature with common sence. Edit out text from the quote that you don't need. I may disable this feature if it is abused (needless quoting of text).
- Hack: Automatic long URL truncation to prevent display quirks. Makes viewing easier.

In addition, there are some new hacks that I will be adding as soon as this version is deemed stable:

- AIM pop-up link off of a user's post if that user has an AOL IM id listed in their profile.
- Advanced text font manipulation allowing users to change the color, font and size of the text in their posts.
- Category Minimizing, allowing you to colapse any number of categories for easier viewing.
- Message Board statistics
- Chat gateway (currently disabled, will re-hack and enable soon).
- Board Album (currently disabled, will re-hack and enable soon).

Please report any weird quirks or errors that you may encounter. Copy / Paste errors to an email to me.

I haven't finished looking in all of the different aspects of this software yet. I encourage you to poke around, look in your profile and find the new features available.