We're pleased to present a new version of OpenTopic™ community software to all customers. All upgrades are performed automatically and new features are available in the control panel.

New Additions include:

Content Islands
This new control panel wizard will create content islands you can cut and paste on any HTML page. Embed featured messages, community, statistics, a featured poll or a recent members welcome.
Instant Topic
A simple URL plus your unique identifier can create topics on the fly from any web page or even an email. Let the discussion begin even before a visitor clicks an OpenTopic™ page.
Hidden Forums
A forum can be completely hidden from community navigation allowing truly secret forums the public cannot see.
Site Events Tracking
For communities with many moderators, this feature logs all administrative activity for easy review.

To go along with these new features there is a completely new Administrators Guide available from the Infopop Support Pages.

Look as well for dozens of small improvements to the control of the OpenTopic™ application:

New display options include:
· the ability to hide ratings until after a certain number of ratings have been made
· the ability to hide a forum from your categories and forum page (and “hop-to” navigation). This enables “secret forums” for all those private moderator-only discussions...
· an option to prevent people replying to topics that have been inactive for a given period.
· an option to control which member profile fields show on the topic thread page.
· an option to hide the reply with quote button.

A detailed list of version changes is posted at http://community.infopop.net/6/ubb.x?a=tpc&s=729094322&f=479091422&m=1573002603 and the Infopop support team will be on alert this week to help out with the new version.

Michael Farris
OpenTopic™ Product Manager

sweet.. sounds like some nice additions.

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- Allen
- Stand318
- UBB DevZone

No -- there's nothing you need do. We're rolling out 2.1 by cluster starting with Maya the /3. By the end of the weekend at the latest you will have the stealth forums, instant topics and content islands.

Enjoy!

Michael Farris
OpenTopic™ Product Manager

Hi RJ. If you're that interested in OT you can have my life. I'll be doing the updates over the weekend. Subscribe to notifications on the OpenTopic News forum (not this one) for details. As Michael says, I'll be doing Maya (on /4) tonight.

been to the support pages and printed out the manual for 2.1

coming soon

adminstrators, moderators, and other members

heres some suggestions for the next release of OpenTopic

how about this.

members have rights to ban members from posting on their topics (say when a member breaks the rules).

its a question that is raised on my other topic military.com
about members flaming other members for things.

if i ever get a hold of OpenTopic it will be my number 1 priortery

suggestions for "member" level access

ban another member from posting on their own topic.
warn another member that their comment will result in being banned on that topic after 3
strikes.
access to the setting IP LOGGED.
ban by ip or user name access.
profanity filter set to "on" with a list of common swear words that are to be replaced with "******" and cannot be turned off in all future releases.

theres your list.

thanks
clinton radloff
theres your suggestion