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DigiGuide Forum Features
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General
- Unlimited Forums
- Integrated Search Engine
- Lost password auto-email
- Email notification of replies
- Email a Topic to Someone
- Bookmark topics
- 'Sticky' topics which always appear at the top
- Ability to close and move threads
- Support for special HTML-like code within messages
- Forum moderators (who can edit/delete any post in a forum they moderate)
- Registration system
- User profiles (can be updated by users)
- Ability to edit/delete messages
- Word censor capability
- Classic design
- Online FAQ
- List of all new/active topics
- Closed forums
- "Jump To" box, for instant jump to a different forum or feature
- Topic rating
- Topic icons/moods
- Shows number of times topic is read
- Reply to messages with quotes
- Ability to ban a user
- Optional logging of user IP addresses
- Forum Conventions
- Topic Spell Checking
Forums List
- Date, time that person last logged on to the forums
- Forum name & description
- Total number of topics in forum
- Date of last post in forum
- Name of forum moderator
- Graphical alert for forums that contain new messages since person last logged on
Topics List
- Topic
- Subject
- Next and Previous topics
- Bookmark topic
- 'Sticky' topics which always appear at the top
- Displays topic icons
- Displays topic rating
- Name of person who started topic
- Date/time of last posting to topic
- Name of person who last posted to topic
- Number of replies to topic
- Number of times topic has been read
- Option to change topic view (by days)
- Sorted by date/time, with most recent posts first
- Links for email, homepage of topic poster
- Graphical alert for topics that contain new messages since person last logged on
- Close and Move topics
Individual Topic Display
- Sequential paged listing of entire thread
- Option to view profile of author
- Option to email author
- Date/time of each posting
- Alternate colors for each post row
- Topic review at bottom of a reply
- Expandable reply box for users with big screens
- Users can specify an ICQ number and their ICQ Status appears on their posts
- Users have the option to include a signature with every message posted
- Displays topic rating
- Reply to messages with quotes
Miscellaneous
- Bookmark topics
- 'Sticky' topics which always appear at the top
- Email a topic to someone
- Cookies for storing username/password, so that users do not have to identify themselves every time they post a note
- Forum Code, an HTML-like tag language that allows users to easily add hyperlinks and formatting styles
- Password-protected user profiles; can be modified by user
- Online FAQ
- Ability to close a particular topic (only admins and moderators can do this)
- Online registration system
- Lost password auto-email system
- Email notification of replies to topics
- Hot Topics are any topic that has had more than x replies
- Shows members level depending on number of posts or their administrative level
- Buttons on message posts to insert smilies and forum code easily
- Topic Spell Checking
Browser-Based Administrative Features
- Add new forums
- Turn Forums on/off
- Set user permissions (can take away ability of a user to post messages)
- Set forum order within category
- Set category order within list of forums
- Delete topics
- Assign forum moderators
- Ban registered users
- Delete registered users
- Hide certain forums and categories by passing an "area=" query string into default.asp.
- Set entire forum UI with fonts, table widths, colors, and graphics
- Set ability for users to delete replies
- Turn Forum Code on or off
- Turn Smilies support on or off
- Turn Topic Spell Checking support on or off
- Specify number of posts per page
- Specify number of posts before topic becomes 'Hot'
- Set whether member levels are shown
- Set whether ICQ status is shown on user posts and profiles
- Define graphics used by forum
- Topic rating (configurable per forum)
- Topic icons/moods (configurable per theme)
- Shows number of times topic is read
- Ability to ban a user (configurable per theme)
- Optional logging of user IP addresses on registration and posts
- Conventions on a per-forum basis
- Auto-upgrading with audit log written next to database
