ProBoards BetaZone Starting Soon!

[VS Admin]

ProBoards v5 BetaZone is starting soon!
BetaZone allows you to make a "test copy" of your forum so that you can get to know our new ProBoards v5 forum software in advance of the full ProBoards v5 release later this year. Read on for details, or sign up for BetaZone right now!

What is BetaZone and ProBoards v5?
In BetaZone, participating admins have the exclusive chance to test their forums in ProBoards v5 mode. ProBoards v5 is our new forum software which includes numerous upgrades to your forum. This includes integrated forum notifications, live search (get results as you type your search!), a new single sign-on for all ProBoards forums, a fully revamped forum admin panel, a posting WYSIWYG editor, the ProBoards Avatar Maker, direct access to your forum's HTML templates, "Liking" posts, infinite sub-boards, @tagging members in posts, integrated shoutbox, personal messages with more than two people in the conversation, and literally hundreds more new features!

Click here to sign up for ProBoards BetaZone!

[Patrick [ASE]]

So how do people sign up now if they don't have facebook ?

[VS Admin]

You will need Facebook to sign up (for betazone. Facebook is not required for v5). If you don't have a Facebook account, it's free to create.

[Misaka]

sweet!!

already signed up
thanks PB your amazing

[Omio]

Listed, and you're going to have a lot of rabid fans soon.

[derritter]

So, will v5 screw up all the coding I already have on my forum and have to be converted or redone?

[VS Admin]

Oct 2, 2012 13:21:44 GMT -8 @derritter said:

So, will v5 screw up all the coding I already have on my forum and have to be converted or redone?

It depends on the code. Most codes aren't even needed with v5. We built-in many of the options that people needed codes to accomplish.

We're currently experimenting with different options for converting headers and footers over to v5.

Also, I would note that BetaZone is the chance for plugin developers to create new codes that will be 10x easier to use than how v4.5 uses codes. You can watch this video for an example:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=mYElzRo0jDQ&feature=plcp

[derritter]

What if we'd rather stick to the exact look and way our forum is now? Are we automatically converted to v5 or do we get the option when it comes out?

[Thesealion]

Just a quick question. What will plugins be coded in?

[VS Admin]

Oct 2, 2012 13:27:58 GMT -8 @derritter said:

What if we'd rather stick to the exact look and way our forum is now? Are we automatically converted to v5 or do we get the option when it comes out?

Everyone will, eventually, be upgraded. However, we're going to have at minimum a 3 month transition period where you can plan to move over.

One of the advantages of BetaZone is that you can build themes and export them. Then, when v5 comes, you can just import your theme I'm certain that someone will create a "classic" v4 theme that you would be able to import on your forum easily.

Oct 2, 2012 13:30:54 GMT -8 Thesealion said:

Just a quick question. What will plugins be coded in?

Plugins are coded using HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. It's just like Headers & Footers - except extremely organized and customizable.

[wildmaven]

Whoa!!!! Love the Hydra graphic!

I signed up.

[Patrick [ASE]]

Oct 2, 2012 12:57:01 GMT -8 VS Admin said:

You will need Facebook to sign up. If you don't have a Facebook account, it's free to create.

No thanks, hate facebook (and yes i did try it once), don't they get enough free advertising as it is ?

[Syko Nachoman]

Oct 2, 2012 14:34:36 GMT -8 Patrick [ASE] said:

Oct 2, 2012 12:57:01 GMT -8 VS Admin said:

You will need Facebook to sign up. If you don't have a Facebook account, it's free to create.

No thanks, hate facebook (and yes i did try it once), don't they get enough free advertising as it is ?

I think the point isn't to advertise FB, but to get more people to "Like" the ProBoards Facebook page. Even as someone who uses FB regularly, I'm not a fan of this policy.

[M³]

So, there's no other way to register other than registering an account with FB? If not, I guess I'll wait for the final release. :/ Not a big fan of FB.

[Patrick [ASE]]

Oct 2, 2012 14:38:23 GMT -8 Syko Nachoman said:

Oct 2, 2012 14:34:36 GMT -8 Patrick [ASE] said:

No thanks, hate facebook (and yes i did try it once), don't they get enough free advertising as it is ?

I think the point isn't to advertise FB, but to get more people to "Like" the ProBoards Facebook page. Even as someone who uses FB regularly, I'm not a fan of this policy.

That would be pointless in my case, as soon as i signed up, i would delete my account at fb (actually you can't delete your account, only disable it, so that's another reason i won't get another account)
And as such i wouldn't have any followers to see the likes.
Aren't there aleady over 3 million people that like PB ?
THis isn't just for me, but there's a lot of young people (13+) that can't have a fb account