vBShout

DBTech vBShout v4 is Brought to you by the Designer of acclaimed products such as RPG Inferno and Inferno vBShout and the programmer of RPG Integration v3.

The smoothest, most advanced Shoutbox ever released for vBulletin has arrived. Using all of the technological advances discovered by Inferno Technologies and improving upon them.

Features including Archive, top shouters, usergroup specific permissions, command and shout logging as well as vBShouts unique Shout PM system and more.

Feature Lists / Comparison

Major Features:

Advanced Shout Control: You have the ability to post shouts, edit your shouts, PM shouts to other users, Ignore other users, insert /Me commands, insert smilies, Bbcode, change font, text colour, text size.

Advanced Staff Control: Give your staff members customised permissions to allow them to do certain actions, on all or selected instances and chat rooms. Permissions include: Silencing users, banning users, editing user shouts, Creating/Editing “Sticky Notices”, Pruning shouts and much more.

Resource Optimisation: Description of AOP and other resource saving methods. Talk about working with creator of vBOptimise Deceptor now and in future.

Customisable New Post/Thread Notification: Allows you to make the shoutbox post when a new thread is created, or a new post is made. You can make this happen with all threads (Which will take user permissions into account) or only threads/posts from certain forums.

Shoutbox Tabs: No more clutter! Lets you put things like system notices in their own tabs, create tabs for staff chat only, Detailed list of active users, notifications etc. – Keep your main chat tab for just that – chatting! Tab will flash to let you know something new has happened, and you can even set them to make sounds to alert you.

Active Users Shout-bit: Shows the users active in the tab/instance you are, with the option to view everyone who can enter/exit the room at will (and thus see any shouts posted) in a pop-up to save resources. Perfect for seeing what's going on and who's around at a glance.

Context Menus: Many places now make use of context menus – less having to remember /commands, one click access to the most useful and commonly used functions, and the ability for users to access their shoutbox settings directly from the shoutbox itself.

Custom Chat Rooms: Your users can now set up their own Chat-Tabs, where they get to set who can come and chat. Perfect for clubs, guilds etc. Admins can also create permanent Chat rooms for specific usergroups etc. – perfect for a staff only chat room for instance, or to reward loyal members!

Custom Shoutbox Instances: Ever wanted a separate shoutbox just for your admin forum? Got a part of your board only for VIP members? Now you can set a shoutbox just for them, with fully customisable permissions for staff and members alike.

Shoutbox Sounds: You asked for it, we delivered. Customisable sounds now available on receiving shouts, Invites, PM's and more. (Requires QuickTime Plugin)

Archive: View all the shouts posted since the last pruning, Also shows you the top X shouters, a variety of interesting and useful shoutbox statistics, and a fully featured search system with several different criteria options.

Logging: Worried about staff members pruning the shoutbox to cover their tracks? Don't worry, with our advanced logging options, you can make sure a hard copy is kept of every word spoke and action taken.

Revamped Thread / Reply Notices: Do you have a massive board with 100+ forums? With the revamped New Thread / Reply Notices page, you can edit exactly what forums show what notices in what instance all from one page.

Downloadable Shoutbox Archives: You and your shoutbox admins can download a complete dump of the Shoutbox' archive either per-instance or for all instances. With 3 supported formats (tab-delimited CSV, XML and TXT), there's something for everyone whether your purpose is review or programming.

Easy Shoutbox Notice Editing: You and usergroups with the "Can Set Sticky" permission can now edit the notice by double-clicking the Sticky in the shoutbox. Quickly fix typos or rapidly update with new turn of events, editing it is never more than two clicks away.

Shoutbox Report System: Members can now report offensive shouts by using the shout context menu. When a report has been submitted, those with the "Can Moderate Chat" permission will see how many reports need their attention via a new chat tab in the Shoutbox.

Easy User Infractions: The context menu also adds a quick link to infract users, for those who can access vBulletin's infraction system. This lets you quickly punish members who are overstepping your bounds.


FULL LIST:

• Shoutbox
  
  • Post Shouts
  • Edit / Delete Shouts
  • PM other users
    
    • PM tabs for convo between two users
    
    
  • View Active Users
    
    • Separate context-aware block that shows the people active in your specific tab.
    
    
  • Smilies
    
    • Integrates with vBulletin smilie popup for easy overview of all available smilies.
    
    
  • Update text styles
    
    • Bold
    • Italic
    • Underline
    • Font
    • Colour
    
    
  • Change font size
    
    • Improves readability for vision-impaired users
    
    
  • Slash commands
    
    • Custom commands
    • Built-in commands in a drop-down list
    
    
  • Mute individual tabs in individual instances
  • Edit notice by double-click
  • Report shouts
    
    • Handle reported shouts.
    
    
  • Context menu for available actions
    
    • View Profile
    • Send PM
    • Ignore / Unignore
    • Moderation actions
      
      • Add / Update Sticky Note
      • Ban / Unban users
      • Ignore / unignore users
      • Prune user's shouts
      
      
    
    
  • Create chat room
    
    • Invite / Manage users that can access this chat room
    • Inviting an user sends them a pop-up asking them to join the room.
    
    
    
    • Tabs
    
    
    
    • Highlights when you're not viewing them but they have new messages.
    
    
  
  

• Tabs
  
  • Separate tab for Notifications
    
    • Lets you hide them from the main view but still have them accessible.
    
    
  • Separate tab for System Messages
    
    • Lets you hide them from main view but still have them accessible.
    
    
  • Chat Rooms get tabs added as you join them.
  
  

• Detach shoutbox
  
  • Shows a dedicated shoutbox browser window.
  
  
• Shoutbox Options
  
  • Integration with UserCP
  • General Shoutbox Settings
    
    • Enable / Disable PMs
    • Enable / Disable Notifications
    • Enable / Disable System Messages
    • Override shout styles
    • Sounds on/off
      
      • Shout
      • Invite
      • PM
      
      
    
    
  
  
• Editor Settings
  
  • Detach
  • Clear
  • Smilies
  • Bold
  • Italic
  • Underline
  • Font Face
  • Font Color
  • Font Size
  
  
• Display Settings
  
  • Control shout area location
  
  
• Custom Commands
  
  • Add / Edit custom commands
  
  
• Ignore List
  
  • Add / Remove users
  
  

• Logging
  
  • Default logging logs all administrative slash commands.
  • High-level logging logs everything
  
  
• Archive
  
  • View list of all Shouts in the system
  • Top X Shouters
  • Shoutbox Statistics
  • Search Archive
    
    • Search by
      
      • Phrase
      • Username
      • Last X Hours
      • Start Date
      • End Date
      
      
    • Sort order for search results
    
    
  • Filter Archive Shouts
  • Edit / Delete Shouts
  
  
• AdminCP
  
  • New Thread / Reply Notices configuration
  • Downloadable Shoutbox Archives
    
    • CSV
    • XML
    • TXT
    • Ability to choose instance (or all instances)
    • Ability to remove BBCode
    
    
  • Instance Manager
    
    • Different instances on different pages
    • Separate Sticky notices per instance
    • Separate usergroup permissions per instance
    • Separate sounds per instance
    
    
  • Chat Room Manager
    
    • Assign chat room to any / all instance(s)
    • Assign usergroups to chat rooms
    
    
  • Edit Settings
    
    • Which commands to log
    • Log level
    • Shouts to display
    • Shoutbox Height
    • Shout display order
    • Shoutbox Refresh Rate
      
      • While idle
      
      
    • Smilies on / off
    • PMs on / off
    • Allowed BBCode controls
    • Enabled Editor Tools
    • Maximum SIZE BBCode
    • Max characters per shout
    • Max images per shout
    • Archive "Top X Shouters" count
    • Active Users block on/off
    • Auto-Delete Shouts
    • Max chat rooms per user
    • Global sound switch
    • Play sounds while idle
    
    
  • Show command log
  • Show banned users
  • Show shout log
  • Maintenance
    
    • Reset all style customisations
    
    
  • Ban / Silence management in Edit User