New Features

[UrbanWaterloo]

Thread Prefixes
Now clickable, allowing you to easily filter projects within a folder. Click the prefix again to expand the thread list.

All Threads


Only U/C Projects

[Spokes]

Thats an awesome feature! Didn't know we could do that.

Should we differentiate between proposed and approved projects?

[UrbanWaterloo]

The five options so far are:

U/C
Proposed
Complete
Demolition
Cancelled

If people would like an Approved option we can add that, and others (Sales?) too. My only word of advice is lets not add too many, as these should be broad stages shared by most developments. The last section of the thread can be used for project specific data (ie. X% Sold).

[Shawn]

Monthly Newsletter

Figured someone would've already started a thread on the Monthly Newsletter but I can't seem to find it. (feel free to move this post to an existing thread if one exists)

I just wanted to say I really like the idea! It's fresh, short, sweet and to the point!!

I like the idea of keeping it 1 or 2 pages so it's "readable" in a short period of time. I know when I get newsletters from other organizations, I like it best when I can scan it quickly, get important points, dates and information from it in a few minutes. If it's too long or too wordy, I usually don't read the whole thing. Bite size is best for me.

Great idea gang! Wonderful Waterloo is getting more Wonderful.....

[UrbanWaterloo]

Tables

Opening Section: [table="width=800px"] ; note width can be displayed in px or %
Divider Between Columns: |
Next Line In The Same Cell: {br}
Closing Section: [*/table] ; without the *
Note: The first row must contain as many columns as you want displayed. Use blank columns if needed: | | |

Example

Column 1	Column 2	Column 3
A B C	align left align centre align right	Creating a List Point A Point B Point C
Smilies	Photos	Video

[UrbanWaterloo]

There's now a "Thanks" at the bottom of every post (not including your own).

There's an undo ability if you click it by mistake. Also the total number of thanks you receive will show up in your profile.

[UrbanWaterloo]

Membership Levels

Gone are the days of Junior Member, Member & Senior Member. In their place are a series of levels based on Settlement Hierarchy.

# of Posts	Category	Wikipedia Definition
0	Isolated Dwelling	An isolated dwelling would only have 1 or 2 buildings or families in it. It would have negligible services, if any.
1	Hamlet	A hamlet has a tiny population (<100) and very few (if any) services, and few buildings.
50	Village	A village generally does not have many services, possibly only a small corner shop or post office. A village has a population of 100 to 1,000.
100	Town	A town has a population of 1,000 to 20,000
500	City	A city would have abundant services, but not as many as a large city. The population of a city is over 100,000 people up to 300,000.
1000	Metropolis	A large city and its suburbs consisting of multiple cities and towns. The population is usually one to three million.
5000	Conurbation	A group of large cities and their suburbs, consisting of three to ten million people.
10000	Megalopolis	A group of conurbations, consisting of more than ten million people each.
50000	Ecumenopolis	The entire area of Earth that is taken up by human settlements. As of the year 2009, the United Nations estimated that for the first time more than 50% of the world's populations lived in cities, so the total population of this area would be about about 3,400,000,000 people as of 2010.

Hamlet


Village


Megalopolis


Ecumenopolis: Coruscant, from the Star Wars galaxy.

[Ktown4ever]

How are membership levels determined?

[Spokes]

How are membership levels determined?

Number of posts. You're curently a Hamlet Member, but once you reach 50 posts it will change to Village Member

[Ktown4ever]

Thanks for clarifying. I guess that's what the heading "# of Posts" meant! :-) d'oh!

[UrbanWaterloo]

Customize Your Profile

If you want an image as your background, just insert the link in Page Background.

[UrbanWaterloo]

Post Bookmarking

Allows members to bookmark posts for later perusal, quickly and easily.

You'll now see a bookmark icon at the bottom of posts:

There's a delete icon to remove the bookmark:

Accessing Your Bookmarks

• Bookmarks Page
• Forum Tab → Community Drop-down List → Bookmarks
• Bottom of User Settings

[Waterlooer]

This new feature is great, I love it!

Did you code this yourself?

[Spokes]

Taking away the actual reply with quote button and going with just the icon....not the greatest decision. You have to hover over things to figure out what they are.

Same with the Thanks button and everything else.

[KLM]

Taking away the actual reply with quote button and going with just the icon....not the greatest decision. You have to hover over things to figure out what they are.

Same with the Thanks button and everything else.

would icon with text under work for you?

[Waterlooer]

I like how it's just the icons that are shown. It makes everything look more clean.

[Section ThirtyOne]

I like how it's just the icons that are shown. It makes everything look more clean.

Totally agree!

I really like the bookmarking feature as well, I wish more forums would implement this. Is it customized code, or something VB can do out of the box?

[Spokes]

would icon with text under work for you?

It was just more functional before. Particularly for those who don't know the icons well.

Looking good is great, but over functionality? Not that great.

[IEFBR14]

It was just more functional before. Particularly for those who don't know the icons well.

But once you realize that hovering the mouse pointer over the icon reveals the text description it's much cleaner — providing the powers-that-be can resist the temptation to add more icons