Advanced Post Thanks / Like v2.0.0 (Beta) Released

Fillip H.

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Hey all,

After collating your feedback for the past months, we decided that Advanced Post Thanks / Like was due for an upgrade, taking it up to v2.0.0!
Following the standard we have implemented for feature releases, this version is considered a BETA version. That means, it has been tested on our local test environments, and received limited testing here on DBTech, but lack the large-scale testing that only you guys can provide.

The Beta is only available to licenced customers. A Lite version will be released when the mod goes "Gold". We expect the beta period to last 1 week.

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A few of the major features found in this version are:

(Pro) Buttons in First Post Only: This allows you to only make the first post thankable. If you forum is based around news, releases or anything similar this will allow your users to easily see the quality of the thread in question.

(Pro) Button Click Anonymity: This feature will be extremely helpful to forums who like the idea of a "dislike" button, but don't like the drama it brings. Now you can set certain buttons to be anonymous - no one will see who clicked.

(Pro) Post Colour Thresholds: Ever wanted an easy way for members to tell if a post is helpful or trash? Colour thresholds let you change the colour of posts depending on how many clicks of a button they receive. Members can now see at a glance whether or not a post is helpful, interesting or pointless.

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Advanced Post Thanks / Like v2.0.0 (Beta):
Feature: (Pro) Per-forum option to have buttons show up in the first post only
Feature: (Pro) Ability to have APTL bar placed above or below the signatures
Feature: (Pro) Ability to limit number of clicks per button per day
Feature: (Pro) Users can turn off notifications for this mod via the UserCP
Feature: (Pro) Ability to hide who clicked the button on a per-button basis
Feature: (Pro) Ability to set certain usergroups to be "immune" to button clicks on a per-button basis
Feature: (Pro) Post Colour Thresholds; Set up to 5 different post colours and how many button clicks it takes for the post to get recoloured
Feature: (Pro) Ability to restrict each button to users that have X posts (different post limits per button is possible)
Feature: (vB4) Block frame for the Forum Sidebar; create your own blocks that shows a stream from the buttons you choose, obeying forum permissions and "clicked users hiding" as described above
Feature: Button Display Order
Feature: Ability to globally disable notifications without disabling plugins
Feature: "Hottest Threads / Posts" page that shows the threads and posts with the most button clicks for each button
Feature: Reputation rebuild, in case you recalculated vBulletin reputation
Feature: Ability to quickly tick all checkboxes in columns and rows in the Button Manager and Forum Manager. Big thanks to John (Darkwaltz4) for the jQuery JavaScript code that made this feature possible!
Change: Various optimisations to hopefully alleviate server load on very large forums
Change: Converted JavaScript code to jQuery for better compatibility with vB4 SuperCharged and any other mod that moves JavaScript. Note: We have NOT tested the compatibility with the JS relocation feature of that mod, it's simply a change that -may- lead to improved compatibility.

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If you suggested a feature that did not make it, don't worry! So long as the thread was labelled "Under Consideration", it exists in our system and we will continue to evaluate it for future versions.

Please remember to post only one feature suggestion per thread, and do not use any other category than "Feature Request" when requesting a feature. This ensures your feature request does not get lost in the system.


Thanks for your continued support and for posting your feature requests :)

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