What’s New at The Forum?
This weekend I spent some time upgrading the Lets Make Software forum with new mods (hacks) and services. Here’s the change log:
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Forum category ‘WANTED! Beta-testers’ added. Post your requests here to get yourself a team of beta testers before releasing your software apps…
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Anti Spam MOD installed to make it a little harder for casino junks and certain perverts to posts their links and totally off usernames on our board.
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Custom Mass Messenger MOD installed so Matt and I are able to send a PM to all forum members at once. If you really, really detest receiving important forum announcements, you can change the settings for receiving our PMs in your profile…
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User Delete MOD installed so forum members can now delete their own accounts. Pretty useful mod and I wonder why it isn’t an integrated part of phpBB. It can be a little annoying when you move on in life that you cannot remove yourself from certain forums and have to request somebody from admin to cancel your account…
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Forum Topic Notification Mail Manager set up with Aweber to replace the previous Feedburner list. The latter used a subscription form and this was confusing for some. So there’s an icon at the bottom of the forum with a mail address where you simply send a blank email to to subscribe yourself to forum topic notifications.
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Running a new special offer for forum members only this week. You’ll need to visit the forum to see what this is…
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And of course upgraded the phpBB script to the latest version.
Otherwise we have a new moderator. He goes by the name of Maximus and he will also be writing content for this blog. Maximus is a true expert in creating software in ISB advanced mode. He’s hacks open source scripts and api’s and turns them into useful software applications. He just wrote a small special report about this which you can download at:
http://www.letsmakesoftware.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=592
I am quite impressed with what Maximus pulls off with ISB. It’s perhaps the kind of programs for the more script savvy users, but if that’s you, his report will get your creativity running without doubt!
Depending on how long it’s been since you checked the boards, you will also find a nice new collection of demo software in the ‘Look What I’ve Made!’ section:
http://www.letsmakesoftware.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=12
Lots of good things happening here again. I’m looking forward to seeing you back on the boards!
Patricia