• MSN Messenger - The MSN option only displays a user's MSN username, there is no tie-in with MSN Messenger. Appears in the profile and in their posts.
  


• Username Filter - Allows you to specify usernames that you don't want people to be able to register with. For example, you might not want to allow someone to register with your real name, even if you don't use that as your username.
  


• Show Days... - You can specify the default number of days to show for each forum. Only used if the user doesn't already have their preference in their cookie. The default in 3.3.03 is currently "Show topics from last 30 days." You would typically use a larger default value for low volume sites, or a smaller value for high volume sites (volume defined as number of new topics/replies).
  


• Password Encryption - Passwords will be stored in encrypted form in cookies. Don't know if they'll also be encrypted in the database.
  


• Hide Email - Members will be able to hide their email address/profile. Thwarts email harvesting programs used by spammers. Removes all references to the user's email address from the forum code, so that nowhere will it ever be displayed in the outputted HTML (if you have e-mail functions enabled on your forum). If you don't have email functions enabled, each user can still choose to "Not Receive Mail" and then their email address will never be displayed in the outputted HTML. But, if they have chose to receive mail, but you don't have email functions enabled, it will display a mailto: link including their email address.
  


• Sticky Topics - Allows creation of "sticky" topics that always appear at the top of the forum list. Very useful for topics that you want to give high visibility to.
  


• Email Validation - Automatically sends a confirmation email to new registrants, requiring them to click-through to activate their account (and thereby validating their email address).
  


• Dynamic Signatures - If enabled (it's optional) signatures are no longer stored as part of the post. If you change your signature, the changes will show up in all your previous posts. Also, members can choose to view posts without signatures if they choose (might speed things up a bit).
  


• Preview Signature - Similar to preview post.
  


• Link to Last Post - Not sure where this appears.
  


• Images Location - I'm guessing this lets you move your images (folders, smileys, buttons) to another folder.
  


• Background Image - You can configure a background image for your forum.
  


• Bad Word Filter - Updated to allow word-by-word replacements (i.e. replace "sh*t" with "poop")
  


• Forum Link Color - Now configurable.
  


• Dynamic "Edited By" and Datestamp - The "edited by" and edited datestamp are dynamically created. Past edited by text and dates cannot be edited as text. The datestamps will automatically be reformatted if you change your timezone offset or date display format.
  


• Disable Registration - Allows the forum administrator to disable new registrations. This might be useful if you want to close participation but allow anonymous browsing. I'm not sure what other reasons you'd use this option for.
  


• Moderator Configuration - Moderators can now be configured when creating or editing a forum/web link. Very nice improvement that makes moderator configuration much easier.
  


• Group Categories - Allows you to create "groups" of members. In theory this could be used for permissions (grant moderation rights to a group). I'm not sure what specific features are included in this implementation.
  


• Flood Control - Limit the number of topics/replies a member can post within a certain period of time.
  

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You also forgot the "turn off registration" feature Richard said he wanted to put in as it was only a small but useful MOD: http://forum.snitz.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=24144

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(p/s: is snitz 3.4 using CAT_ID or FORUM_ID or TOPIC_ID instead of the subject/name in between pages?? cleaner/shorter URL-querystring parsing?)

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I see that my suggestion for "Dynamic Signature" and "Dynamic Edited By" actually made it to the board!!! WooHoo... I have to say, these two features are the one that I see from vBulletin. There are many other things that I would like to adopt from vBulletin, aside from vBulletin being PHP-based forum system though.

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Really ? not to be picky, but dynamiv adit by information has been running in my forum for over a year, so it may not have been your idea

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You should be able to choose, to display all edit bys, or just the last one. This could also be an option in each users profile on how many they would like to see, if they want to see any.I dont think it would be that hard to just insert another editby in the table, put the date, and then when outputting the edit by, you just sort it by the date.

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That would be a bit daft, you would have to add a new field each time you edited the post, or have a seperate link table maintaining a list of dates, even more strain on the server.

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That would be a bit daft, you would have to add a new field each time you edited the post, or have a seperate link table maintaining a list of dates, even more strain on the server.

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