The good folks at VB have announced massive updates to the software stack … here are some of the things you should expect very soon:
- New Member Profile Page
The new page presents information in a far cleaner and more logical manner, while dividing up information into manageable chunks using a tabbed interface.
Individual profile field categories can be displayed alone in blocks in the right column, in addition to appearing by default in the ‘About Me’ tab.
2.User-Created Social Groups
To further social cohesion between users and to encourage people to make friends, VB now includes a facility to allow users to create their own social/interest groups.
- Reciprocal Friendships Between Users
As part of our new social networking system, users can now request that people on their buddy list confirm their friendship, after which time a person’s list of confirmed friends will be viewable to other users.
- Thread Prefixes and tags and social bookmarking
Threads can now have administrator-defined prefixes to their titles.
A new way to facilitate searching and grouping of threads, it is now possible for users to add tags to threads they post or read.
Tags can be added when creating a new thread, or to an existing thread by any user
Any users who then click on these tags will not only find all thread that have the same tag as the one clicked, but will also contribute to the building of a search tag cloud, which gives users a quick guide as to what has been searched for recently and most frequently.
- User Picture Galleries
users can now create albums and upload pictures to their account.
Plus many many more admin and UI enhancements!! … enjoy ..
