Even a Sunday doesn't stop the new features coming in 1.2. However, this is likely to be the last HYS for XF 1.2, so take that as you wish. :)
User preference to disable Flash uploader
Some users have run into problems where Flash is enabled but Flash-based uploads would fail. Individual users can now turn off the Flash uploader even if the admin has enabled it.
Robot identification in online visitors
The online visitors lists now distinguishes guests from robots based on user agent and counts them separately.
When viewing the list of online users, robots will be displayed differently, showing you a bit of information about the robot. The online users list can now be filtered to just members, guests, or robots.
Command-line...
Have you seen...?
This forum spotlights some of XenForo's interesting features. Spotlights on features in upcoming releases will be posted here.
The proliferation of human-backed CAPTCHA breakers and all manner of other means to break through anti-robot protection on forums means that spam prevention systems must now be joined with spam clean-up utilities.
With this in mind, XenForo introduces the Spam Cleaner - a one-stop shop for quickly and easily dealing with spam that has made it onto your forum.
I suggest you view this video at full-size by clicking the full-screen gadget in the bottom-right of the video.
Welcome to the first Have you seen... for XenForo 1.3!
In this video, I demonstrate the significant improvements and new features we've added to make the management of smilies easier, faster and more flexible.
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... update, Dec 11th - a follow-up video :)
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First, welcome to XenForo 1.3. As the first step to releasing a beta, we are running it here on XenForo.com. Once we are happy with the state of it, we will release a beta to all customers with active licenses.
So with that, we're going to look at some more assorted improvements coming in 1.3. While we expect this to be the last Have You Seen for 1.3, over time, you may discover some other changes and tweaks that we haven't explicitly mentioned here.
This thread is still a Have You Seen thread and posts should relate to the features discussed below. Other types of posts will be removed. There is a separate thread for discussion 1.3 in general.
IPv6
All IP logging and management systems have been adjusted to support IPv4 and IPv6...
While the conversation concept in XenForo works well, there have been some challenges managing your conversations, particularly if you have a lot. XenForo 1.2 makes some changes to improve this.
Most of the changes can be seen in this one screen shot:
So the first thing to note is that conversations now have their own tab, which allows us to give a few additional navigation links to specific lists.
From there, you'll note that conversations can be starred. You can see the conversation listed there is starred. Starring works like you're probably used to in emails; it's mostly to allow filtering.
You can also bulk manage your conversations (over multiple pages) using the inline moderation-style check box. You can star/unstar...
Today, we're ready to start talking about some of the features that will be coming in version 1.1 of the XenForo Resource Manager add-on. This version will be more evolutionary and focuses on adding some of the most popular RM feature requests.
Let's start with custom fields...
The custom fields you'll find in RM 1.1 are similar to the custom user fields already in XenForo. If you know how to setup those fields, you'll understand how to setup RM custom fields. I'm not going to cover the features in custom resource fields that are part of custom user fields (such as making a field required or the value display HTML).
Display Locations
Custom resource fields can be displayed in 4 different locations:
Above the resource description...
There's an alternative way to find new content and keep up with what is going on with XenForo than clicking the 'What's new?' link.
If you click on the 'Members' tab, and then the 'Everyone's news feed' link, you will find the global activity stream. Everything that all members of the board does is published to the news feed. It's kinda fun to sit on that page and refresh from time to time to discover what people are doing and posting about.
With XenForo 1.1, it's now possible to (optionally) define individual smilies from a sprite image. This video shows you just how easy it is to use the system.
While 1.1.4 added some spam prevention tools, XenForo 1.2 takes these further. This is by no means the end of our fight against spam though.
In 1.2, we've mostly focused on adding support for APIs and adaptable spam prevention techniques. Let's look at a few.
Deeper Stop Forum Spam Integration
We actually detailed this a long time ago. While 1.1.4 added support for checking a DNSBL that used the Stop Forum Spam database, 1.2 has a much more configurable integration:
In addition to simply checking registrations against SFS, you can also get an API key and submit back to them automatically when spam cleaning a user.
If you opt to use the SFS integration to check registrations, the Tornevall DNSBL will not be checked.
Project...
In order to better support smaller-screen devices such as mobile phones and tablets, XenForo 1.2 will be introducing a responsive version of the default design.
What is responsive design? At the simplest level, it allows you to specify CSS that applies only if the screen width is below a certain level. This allows the design to be significantly altered to fit smaller screens. For example, tabular or horizontally-focused designs don't work well when you only have a screen that's 320px wide (an iPhone).
So, what options will XenForo provide?
Here you can see that we provide 3 "inflection points". In general, they correspond to particular classes of devices.
Narrow (max width: 480px): phones vertical, some phones horizontal...
XenForo 1.2 now has a new collection of permissions to control what your users can put in their signatures.
For performance reasons, these restrictions are only checked when a user tries to change their signature. It will not invalidate existing signatures.
The easiest thing to do is to simply show the permissions that can be set:
For user friendliness, if a user tries to use a BB code tag that they don't have permission to use, it will simply be stripped out. For other errors (too many images, too long, etc), the user will receive an error.
In a previous video, we looked at various style property options and also touched briefly on the XenForo color palette.
The color palette is an integral part of the style property system, and so it is open and extensible, allowing interaction and extension through the add-on system.
This video shows an add-on defining a new color and adding it to the global palette, and then shows a few of the tools XenForo provides for quickly and easily manipulating the palette, so that administrators can create the basis for new styles in seconds.
View the video at full-size by clicking the full-screen gadget in the bottom right of the control bar.
The Resource Manager 1.1 update will soon be running here on XenForo.com with a public beta release to follow after further testing. But before that, let's talk about a few more of the new features coming.
Watching Resource Categories
Similar to watching a forum in XenForo 1.1, you can now watch a whole resource category:
Anonymous Reviews
Administrators can now choose to allow users to leave anonymous reviews. Anonymous reviews are still associated with the user leaving the review (to prevent duplicate reviews and to maintain accountability). However, only users with permission to bypass user privacy will be able to see who left the review.
In this example I can see that "test" left the review because I have permission...
