Additions, new features, etc.

[WebMaster]

Loads fine for me. :help :? :help

[WebMaster]

Some more forums added based on region/continent. Please post strategic-defence and political issues in the correct forums that now have been created. Enjoy!

[WebMaster]

http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13 < Strategic Defence and Political Issues forums related to various regions moved as sub-forums for Strategic Defence and Political Issues Forum.

[srirangan]

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I see my name in Pink. PINK!!!!
:'(

[mysterious]

OMG!! Mine is PINK as well!! I can understand your feelings Sri. My sympathies with you.

[WebMaster]

Purple should be a neutral choice, don't you think? Its a manly color. :-D

[WebMaster]

Just a FYI item:

There are various usergroups that control what you can and cannot do on DT. Some of the Public (Joinable) groups are:


Registered Users
Users in this group are those who have just registered on the forums but have not posted yet. These users can post, view threads, browse the forums just as anybody would but they may not be able to get to some parts of DefenceTalk.com forums (other user profiles, etc) as well as:

only 50 Private Messages inbox limit
One file upload at at a time instead of multiple in the gallery.
no custom title
no custom avatar
Long list of other restrictions.




Members
From a "registered user" with minimal access you will be promoted to member status once you have made one or more posts at the forums. You will be able to view user profiles, send PMs, etc unlike registered users along with:


100 Private messages in the inbox limit
upload multiple files (2-4) in the gallery
no custom title
no custom avatar
Some other restrictions are also lifted


Picture Uploaders

Members who do not need approval from the Admin to have their pictures approved once the pictures are uploaded (they are shown on the gallery as they are uploaded). Must have 100+ Pictures uploaded and/or 600+ posts in order to get membership to this group. However, we may still deny you membership to this group depending on your behaviour on the forums.

200 Private Messages Inbox limit
Multiple files upload in the gallery (4 through user harddrive and 4 from using URL/web address)

Senior Members

DefenceTalk members with more than 500 posts on the forums. These members are expected to be familiar with DefenceTalk.com rules and procedures. You are automatically promoted to Senior Member once you have listed # of posts.


250 Private Message inbox limit
Yes custom title
Yes custom avatar
Multiple files upload in the gallery (6 through user harddrive and 5 from using URL/web address)


Weapons DB Team

Members working with DT admin and Mod team on theWeapons DB project (http://www.defencetalk.com/wdb). User must have knowledge of Defence and Military equipment and must be willing to write articles about various equipment that maybe assigned to the user or user may pick from different categories. Please don't join or try to join if you don't fall under above description. You will be dropped from the group if you fail to submit articles you agreed to submit.


300 Private Message inbox Limit


You can access group membership by going to the UserCP on top menu.


DefenceTalk.com > User Control Panel
Group Memberships

Enjoy!

[WebMaster]

Don't forget to read the reply above this one.

In addition to that, new template has been added for the users with dial up connections. The page loads maybe a little faster on that as it doesn't have any images, etc. To select, just scroll down at the end of the page and look to your left and select whichever template you prefer.

Enjoy. :)

[mysterious]

Maybe its just me but I like this new layout that is appearing when I read posts!! The username and information shows above the persons's post rather than to the left side of it. Looks cool and gives a new feel to the whole forum I'd say! Sweet!!

[mysterious]

Ok. That new 'feel' only lasted about half an hour and now its back to the same old view.

[WebMaster]

Just testing something. Probably, we would end up with user option so user can select which display option to have. Either on left (old way) or on top ( the new way).

[WebMaster]

Now you can reach the "Defence News" Page by typing this domain:

http://www.DefenceNews.info

Enjoy!

[WebMaster]

Changed some things around on the home page with additional features and integration, etc.

http://www.defencetalk.com/

Enjoy!

[srirangan]

Good stuff!

[WebMaster]

New look for the site is here... demo here:

http://www.defencetalk.com (http://www.defencetalk.com/)

[srirangan]

Nice stuff!

[WebMaster]

New forum theme added... please scroll down and choose "New-DT-Fixed Width."

If you don't like it well, you can't please everyone. Please choose the one that you like. ;)


Enjoy! :coffee

[srirangan]

Imho this new one's the best you've got.

[srirangan]

New forum theme added... please scroll down and choose "New-DT-Fixed Width."

If you don't like it well, you can't please everyone. Please choose the one that you like. ;)


Enjoy! :coffee
Srirangan said:
hey .. a little bug on DT forums .. the logo on top links to dt/forums/india.HTML instead of .PHP .. thus results in a 404...

just making a perm copy so that you dont miss it..

[kashifshahzad]

[B]Using this new theme my monitor look like black and white only the Avastars are cloured the quote reply post reply and the messengers signs like Msn Yahoo and the Icq msut be coloured other wise this theme is better then the old one

[WebMaster]

What are you talking about Kashif? Which monitor are you using? Fix the brightness!

[WebMaster]

General Issues and General Picture's Gallery forums are now closed for posting.

http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=13

Please discuss all related topics and content here:

http://www.globaltalknetworks.com/forums

A Military Books and Magazines (http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=46) forum has been added to the Military Media Forum

Enjoy!

[ashblackhawk]

Hi Webmaster,
I am sick of pakistan-India comparision. Can you please put hold on such meaningless discussions !! Weapons platforms can be discussed in a little more moderate environment under weapons database and not under which country has what and how it is superior. I think many people will agree with me(including you :coffee )
cheers,
blackhawk

[WebMaster]

ashblackhawk,

I don't think anyone is more sick of India-pakistan threads than my self but the problem is you can't really stop people from discussing certain stuff related to their countries. However, members from india and pakistan are seriously obsessed with their own respective countries while they totally ignore what is happening in other countries as far as defence is concerned. Even if they look at military developments in Europe or USA, they will still link it to their own countries by any means possible. Frankly, I am sick of this type of blind patriotism and request those members to "open-up" and think out side the border lines for once. As it is, DT is not here to discuss issues related to a particular country or particular region but as an international platform for all types of defence discussions (technical/non-technical).

In Past, we have had this to stop the influx of posts but it hasn't been used for past few months:
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2012

[WebMaster]

Attachment limit has been increased from 2 / post to 5 / post.

[WebMaster]

Attachment limit has been increased from 2 / post to 5 / post.


This is a quote test... i am a test!

New layout for the "quote" posts. As you can see here... ;)

[srirangan]

Wow!!! We can now play with the alignment!! Blessed are we .. :D :P

[WebMaster]

Cool new feature has been added to save some time if you want to insert pictures from the gallery.

You must have pictures already uploaded in DT's gallery for this to work, see image below...

Also, file attachment size has been increased from 100 kb to 150 kb for JPG, JPEG formats. You can also attach WORD documents and PDF with size of 195 KB.

Any issues? Send email to admin@defencetalk.com

Enjoy!!!

[kashifshahzad]

New layout for the "quote" posts. As you can see here... ;)

when something is quoted the and the orignally posted by is a bit uppish cant it be placed right in the centre and i also want to ask the webmaster that you have allowed members which have more then 50 post to send PM can i ask if some one have less then 50 posts can he post to the administrators for some information???

[WebMaster]

I will try bringing it in the middle.

If anyone has less than 50 posts, they can contact the admin through this:
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/sendmessage.php

Enjoy

[kashifshahzad]

Dear webmaster what is the Rep power does it depend on the no. of posts and the joined date but i dont think it depends on that and when i move the cursor to this green dot then i see (nick) is on distuingshed road ????what is all this and what does all this mean

[WebMaster]

What is rep (reputation) power feature?


The User Reputation system allows your board members to leave comments about one anothers' posts, and thereby contribute to their overall 'reputation'.

User Reputation in its simplest form is a ranking of your user's benefit to your forum. Its basis comes from the opinions of all of your forum users that choose take part in it.

Users gain and lose reputation based on how their posts are scored by other forum participants. Users with the ability to affect reputation, will either give or take aways points by approving or disapproving with a post's content.


I will post the various reputation levels soon.

[WebMaster]

Okay, here are details about the rep power feature:

Register Date Factor
For every 120 number of days, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power.

Post Count Factor
For every 100 number of posts, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power.
Reputation Point Factor
For every 100 points of reputation, users gain 1 point of reputation-altering power
Minimum Post Count
How many posts must a user have before his reputation hits count on others? 100.
Minimum Reputation Count
How much reputation must a user have before his reputation hits count on others? 6.
Daily Reputation Clicks Limit
How many reputation clicks can a user give over each 24 hour period? 10.

See two pictures for more details.

Any questions? Comments? Please let me know.

Enjoy!

[srirangan]

Hmm.. and how will higher rep power help me?

[WebMaster]

Server has been upgraded further to accomodate load and possibly eliminate database errors that appear on the site randomly during high traffic times.

[WebMaster]

Bunch of features added to the forums... when you receive a new PM, top right side of the navbar turns yellow as a way of notifying you.

[WebMaster]

Country flags added... please select your by going to the

UserCP > EDIT PROFILE > scroll down

Forum icons added. :D

[WebMaster]

Some new features:

RSS feeds for each forum. See attached image

Signatures now align nicely at the bottom of the post... in small text. See attached image

Profile area next to user name organized. See attached image


Enjoy!

[srirangan]

Sweet. Thanks.

[armage]

What do RSS feed do?

[mysterious]

Brief explanation - put related news at your fingertips or in this case, within clicks of your mouse.

[WebMaster]

RSS=Real Simple Syndication

Easy way to deliver content to website users / visitors without them having to come online. For example: If you were to have news RSS, gallery rss and forum rss in a RSS reader like PLUCK or search on google for many more... you would be shown latest posts, news and gallery updates (with thumbnails) at your desktop without you even have to logon to DT or visit DT. You can then click on the picture or post or news link to read the full item. ;)

[WebMaster]

Around 100 nice avatars added... how to get those? Click on the USERCP link on the top navigation, then on left side click on the AVATAR link and then choose "whatever" category.

Enjoy

[WebMaster]

Sidebar implemented on forum home and gallery home pages only. It should come useful once you get the feel of it...

[WebMaster]

http://www.defencetalk.com/pictures/data/3682/javelin.mpeg

Now you can play video and media files directly in the post!

Just use the new MEDIA bbcode button or tags like:

[media] url to the movie file from video sites [/ media] without the space.

[WebMaster]

The forum software has been upgraded with some great features. You will notice as you browse along... :)

Also some enhancements have been made to the threads where users are given options to post the thread to their favorite link sharing portal. (see screenshot in attached image)

The news articles pages and tools, info related to the article have been reorganized into one place, at the bottoms and rightsides of the article. (see attached image for a screenshot)

Find out more...
Links and info related content links such as pictures, videos, PDF file reports, discussions that have something to do with the article.
Do more...
Links that allow you to print, email and get further updates through RSS feeds are in the "do more..." area.
Spread the word...
If you participate on link sharing websites that are listed in this section, then please take some time to share the link on those websites and get the word out!

The country flags are gone and will be restored soon with more "modern" looking flags. :D

Another thing for everybody, if you LOGIN to the forums, you will have a chance to browse with LESS ads. :)

Questions, comments and suggestions? Feel free to post here!

Images!

[WebMaster]

In order to fight the spam terrorists that come on with their nokias and sony crap. You would think these people would go to NOKIA and SONY (cellphone, game) websites to sell their stuff and not military/defence... :rolleyes:

Anyway, any new members wanting to insert URLs/LINKS in their posts would need at least 15 posts or more before they are able to do so.

In addition to that, the users with less than 10 posts will be scanned for special keywords, etc. and if matched their posts will be sent to moderation queue thus not letting the general users and visitors see what type of spam was posted.

That is all for now.

Thanks and enjoy!

[WebMaster]

Some new avatars added for the users who care about their avatar (picture under the username as seen next to my username). :D

Visit the User Control Panel > Edit Avatar > Animated Smiley to view the new ones
http://www.defencetalk.com/forums/usercp.php

Enjoy!