DemonGoddess Posted January 22, 2009 Report Share Posted January 22, 2009 First of all, manta2g did a WONDERFUL job with the new coding additions. And a bit more in the way of cleaning it up more as well. reCAPTCHA- What this does, is prevent spamming. It was a major part of the last forum upgrade, in point of fact. Functions it has been added to, are: Add new story Leave a review By adding it to those two functions, a couple things are accomplished. First and very important, spam bomb attacks like we recently suffered, should not happen any more. Secondly, if an author opts to allow anonymous reviews, they can do so without fear of having their review boards spam bombed. Paginated review boards This is very handy, especially for the authors with 50 or more reviews. I'm sure you've all noticed the closer you get to 100 reviews, the more sluggish the review board behaves. Until it reaches a point to where it won't load at all. By paginating the boards, this makes it so that is no longer an issue. Yes, we are aware the sort is currently oldest to newest. Not to worry though, that will be changed to newest to oldest. Report links/buttons Now, if any of you find something or someone you know to be a clear TOS violation, and wish to report it, it's a simple click. This will launch the user's email handler, and get the email report sent off to the correct address. New registering users This one will eventually affect all users in the archive. At this point in time, this new function ONLY affects new users, just now registering. Although that is a very long time away (several months at minimum), as this change for ALL user names will not go into effect until the new software is tested and ready for deployment. For registration, the user name must be 8 or more characters in length. The only special characters allowed for this will be underscore and hyphen. The pen name has to be a minimum of 4 characters in length. Special characters allowed for this are hyphen, underscore and space. Password must be 8 or more characters an email address must be entered. There are more updates besides these, please click this link and read the news. It's ALL covered there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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