FuseTalk 3.0 For ColdFusion Released

[RichUK]

FuseTalk 3.0 For ColdFusion Released
Posted by: Jason Clark


We're pleased to announce that FuseTalk 3.0 for ColdFusion has now shipped. FuseTalk 3.0 is our most excitiing release yet, with weblog support a brand new interface and a raft of new functionality requested from our end-users. Our entry level product (FuseTalk Basic) now supports up to 5 forums, thus the price for this product is now $649 US. Currently we are only shipping version 3.0 for ColdFusion, the .NET version will release in Q2 of this year.

Below is a complete list of the major and minor changes in FuseTalk 3.0.

Major Feature Changes

Built in blogger - blogging support within the product
Search & Related topics - An overhaul of search and a neat feature called related topics.
Keyword notification - You'll be able to get emails or topic lists as soon as their posted, that match your interest.
XHTML - FuseTalk 3.0 will be XHTML 1.0 compliant. Along with a new skinning format.
Automatic Moderation - If a users rating gets to a certain level you can automatically ban them
Ratings System - A ratings system for content and users.
Knowledge Base - We'll be including knowledge base functionality in Fuse Talk 3 to mine important content.
CMS tag - we've included a cms custom tag that allows you to extract topics from categories you choose to display on your website
Ignored Users - you can now ignore users that you don't want to view content from.
Calendar - we've included a calendar for you to post important events for your users.

Minor Feature Changes


ColdFusion Mappings No Longer Required - One major "architectural change" is there is no need for ColdFusion mappings anymore, simplifying the install, especially in hosted environments.

Subscriptions - we changed the subscription system so that you when someone replies to a topic that you are subscribed to, you receive an e-mail but won't receive anymore emails until you visit the thread. This reduces the amount of e-mail traffic sent out to users and gets users back to your forum.

Database Driven Header/Footer - besides a coldfusion include file for placing your own look and feel around the forums we've included a database driven version so that content can be added to the top and bottom of every page without modifying files.

Sortable Columns - you can now sort the topic listing by topic name, last post date, replies, views, originator on the topic listing page

In-line Images - you can now have attachments that are images appear in-line within your post

Latest topics - we've provided an interface for you to view the latest posts for the forum either just a listing of whats new or from when you last visited.

New Admin - we've completely revamped the administration area, to make it easier to use and more intuitive.

Last post in thread - every topic listed has a navigation point to get tot he last post in the thread.

FuseTalk 3.0 For ColdFusion Released

I am looking forward to Anandtech's implementation.

 

[rbV5]

I gotta say that looks sweet, although

Automatic Moderation - If a users rating gets to a certain level you can automatically ban them

would likely do me in, in short order LOL 🙂

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Great, a new release that will offer tons of features that Anandtech will never allow to be used. The new software will be rolled out to test on the Anandtech boards, buggy at first as always, with no real "updates" actually used/allowed by Anandtech to justify the headache of trying to fix all the problems to have a newer version of the software. Yay!

Oh well.

I :heart: Jason.

 

[KarenMarie]

Originally posted by: rbV5
I gotta say that looks sweet, although

Automatic Moderation - If a users rating gets to a certain level you can automatically ban them

would likely do me in, in short order LOL 🙂

i cannot see that ever happening here. membership would turn into a popularity contest... not too. and if it were just the mods who could enter using ratings... well, there are too many judgement calls that having it automated would not allow for.

🙂

 

[SVT Cobra]

Originally posted by: KarenMarie

Originally posted by: rbV5
I gotta say that looks sweet, although

Automatic Moderation - If a users rating gets to a certain level you can automatically ban them

would likely do me in, in short order LOL 🙂

i cannot see that ever happening here. membership would turn into a popularity contest... not too. and if it were just the mods who could enter using ratings... well, there are too many judgement calls that having it automated would not allow for.

🙂

Yep I completely agree, 3.0 looks nice, but many of the options would never work here.

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: rbV5
I gotta say that looks sweet, although

Automatic Moderation - If a users rating gets to a certain level you can automatically ban them

would likely do me in, in short order LOL 🙂

That could be quite worrying for some, i don?t know if Anandtech will actually activate this feature. Although it is quite applicable in some forums, as in, if the community (certain forums) would like to reject someone it can be done in a general consensus style (I think there have been some perfect examples as of late).

As i understand it, other users have the ability to vote a bad mark against a certain user name, and once it has reached a given limit you are automatically banned from the forum, be it user or IP-Range based. I think it could work, it would definitely cut down the flaming that is for sure.

I think this feature should only be tested in a couple of forums first (if it were to be implemented), namely the ?Video? forum (No explanation needed 😛). I believe this to be the best way to implement this feature, mainly because there could be a legit debate going on in another forum that could get a bit heated, and this could result in an unjustly result aka a user getting banned when it isn?t really just.

Just my opinion 🙂

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: rbV5
I gotta say that looks sweet, although

Automatic Moderation - If a users rating gets to a certain level you can automatically ban them

would likely do me in, in short order LOL 🙂

That could be quite worrying for some, i don?t know if Anandtech will actually activate this feature. Although it is quite applicable in some forums, as in, if the community (certain forums) would like to reject someone it can be done in a general consensus style (I think there have been some perfect examples as of late).

As i understand it, other users have the ability to vote a bad mark against a certain user name, and once it has reached a given limit you are automatically banned from the forum, be it user or IP-Range based. I think it could work, it would definitely cut down the flaming that is for sure.

I think this feature should only be tested in a couple of forums first (if it were to be implemented), namely the ?Video? forum (No explanation needed 😛). I believe this to be the best way to implement this feature, mainly because there could be a legit debate going on in another forum that could get a bit heated, and this could result in an unjustly result aka a user getting banned when it isn?t really just.

Just my opinion 🙂

A user-instituted ban should never *ever* be decided over so few member inputs that could fit into one thread.

Member-instituted bans, if allowed here, should be done over hundreds of unique votes, if not thousands for a forum this size. Maybe the required number of votes to boot someone would be a percentage of the total number of members on the entire forum instead?

 

[rbV5]

Originally posted by: RichUK

Originally posted by: rbV5
I gotta say that looks sweet, although

Automatic Moderation - If a users rating gets to a certain level you can automatically ban them

would likely do me in, in short order LOL 🙂

That could be quite worrying for some, i don?t know if Anandtech will actually activate this feature. Although it is quite applicable in some forums, as in, if the community (certain forums) would like to reject someone it can be done in a general consensus style (I think there have been some perfect examples as of late).

As i understand it, other users have the ability to vote a bad mark against a certain user name, and once it has reached a given limit you are automatically banned from the forum, be it user or IP-Range based. I think it could work, it would definitely cut down the flaming that is for sure.

I think this feature should only be tested in a couple of forums first (if it were to be implemented), namely the ?Video? forum (No explanation needed 😛). I believe this to be the best way to implement this feature, mainly because there could be a legit debate going on in another forum that could get a bit heated, and this could result in an unjustly result aka a user getting banned when it isn?t really just.

Just my opinion 🙂

I wasn't implying it would be unjust....might be perfect for Video infact.:evil:

 

[RichUK]

Originally posted by: rbV5
I wasn't implying it would be unjust....might be perfect for Video infact.:evil:

Oh I know you wasn?t 🙂, I just quoted you as you brought up this particular feature, I just wanted to share my views on it.

It?s a good discussion point in my opinion (if it were to be implemented that is) 🙂

 

[JC]

Ignored Users - you can now ignore users that you don't want to view content from.

w00t! :thumbsup:


That's been a long time coming.

 

[compuwiz1]

Hey, I've been telling people for ages, that if you don't like what someone posts, or that person just irritates you, just to click the ignore button. We'll my dream has come true, there now actually IS an ignore button. 😉

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Hey, I've been telling people for ages, that if you don't like what someone posts, or that person just irritates you, just to click the ignore button. We'll my dream has come true, there now actually IS an ignore button. 😉

But what happens if one chooses to ignore the Mods.:brokenheart:

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Hey, I've been telling people for ages, that if you don't like what someone posts, or that person just irritates you, just to click the ignore button. We'll my dream has come true, there now actually IS an ignore button. 😉

But what happens if one chooses to ignore the Mods.:brokenheart:

Uh, isn't that what the ban button is used for? 😉

 

[EagleKeeper]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Hey, I've been telling people for ages, that if you don't like what someone posts, or that person just irritates you, just to click the ignore button. We'll my dream has come true, there now actually IS an ignore button. 😉

But what happens if one chooses to ignore the Mods.:brokenheart:

Uh, isn't that what the ban button is used for? 😉

I though the reference to Ban was related to not using the proper underarm spray😱

And all this time I thought that people just took time off when they got tired of this place😛

You mean they actually get punished for misbehaivor? I am shocked

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: EagleKeeper

Originally posted by: compuwiz1
Hey, I've been telling people for ages, that if you don't like what someone posts, or that person just irritates you, just to click the ignore button. We'll my dream has come true, there now actually IS an ignore button. 😉

But what happens if one chooses to ignore the Mods.:brokenheart:

Uh, isn't that what the ban button is used for? 😉

Nah, thats what the "nuke" button is for :evil:

Member-instituted bans, if allowed here, should be done over hundreds of unique votes, if not thousands for a forum this size. Maybe the required number of votes to boot someone would be a percentage of the total number of members on the entire forum instead?

No that wouldn't work. Hundreds perhaps, but certainly not thousands. While we have a huge base of members here, if you look at the number of people that view a particular thread, it is usually in the low low hundreds. If it is popular it may break 1000.

-Kevin

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: Nik
Great, a new release that will offer tons of features that Anandtech will never allow to be used. The new software will be rolled out to test on the Anandtech boards, buggy at first as always, with no real "updates" actually used/allowed by Anandtech to justify the headache of trying to fix all the problems to have a newer version of the software. Yay!

Oh well.

I :heart: Jason.

On top of that, current bugs (e.g. post count and join date of SampSon et al.) will go unresolved. Why fix current software when you can make newer software that's just as buggy?

 

[Rage187]

Ignored Users - you can now ignore users that you don't want to view content from.

that gave me wood.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
No that wouldn't work. Hundreds perhaps, but certainly not thousands. While we have a huge base of members here, if you look at the number of people that view a particular thread, it is usually in the low low hundreds. If it is popular it may break 1000.

-Kevin

You seemed to miss the part about how user-instituted bans shouldn't be considered over one thread. It's a community ban, so it should depend on the general community's feelings which includes a much more broad spectrum of posts than one thread.

 

[compuwiz1]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
No that wouldn't work. Hundreds perhaps, but certainly not thousands. While we have a huge base of members here, if you look at the number of people that view a particular thread, it is usually in the low low hundreds. If it is popular it may break 1000.

-Kevin

You seemed to miss the part about how user-instituted bans shouldn't be considered over one thread. It's a community ban, so it should depend on the general community's feelings which includes a much more broad spectrum of posts than one thread.

Coming from you, I would expect no different opinion. How many times have you been banned? I'll bet it's more than a couple. Bias...Bias...Bias...Bias!!!! 😉

 

[otispunkmeyer]

Originally posted by: RichUK

FuseTalk 3.0 For ColdFusion Released
Posted by: Jason Clark


We're pleased to announce that FuseTalk 3.0 for ColdFusion has now shipped. FuseTalk 3.0 is our most excitiing release yet, with weblog support a brand new interface and a raft of new functionality requested from our end-users. Our entry level product (FuseTalk Basic) now supports up to 5 forums, thus the price for this product is now $649 US. Currently we are only shipping version 3.0 for ColdFusion, the .NET version will release in Q2 of this year.

Below is a complete list of the major and minor changes in FuseTalk 3.0.

Major Feature Changes

Built in blogger - blogging support within the product
Search & Related topics - An overhaul of search and a neat feature called related topics.
Keyword notification - You'll be able to get emails or topic lists as soon as their posted, that match your interest.
XHTML - FuseTalk 3.0 will be XHTML 1.0 compliant. Along with a new skinning format.
Automatic Moderation - If a users rating gets to a certain level you can automatically ban them
Ratings System - A ratings system for content and users.
Knowledge Base - We'll be including knowledge base functionality in Fuse Talk 3 to mine important content.
CMS tag - we've included a cms custom tag that allows you to extract topics from categories you choose to display on your website
Ignored Users - you can now ignore users that you don't want to view content from.
Calendar - we've included a calendar for you to post important events for your users.

Minor Feature Changes


ColdFusion Mappings No Longer Required - One major "architectural change" is there is no need for ColdFusion mappings anymore, simplifying the install, especially in hosted environments.

Subscriptions - we changed the subscription system so that you when someone replies to a topic that you are subscribed to, you receive an e-mail but won't receive anymore emails until you visit the thread. This reduces the amount of e-mail traffic sent out to users and gets users back to your forum.

Database Driven Header/Footer - besides a coldfusion include file for placing your own look and feel around the forums we've included a database driven version so that content can be added to the top and bottom of every page without modifying files.

Sortable Columns - you can now sort the topic listing by topic name, last post date, replies, views, originator on the topic listing page

In-line Images - you can now have attachments that are images appear in-line within your post

Latest topics - we've provided an interface for you to view the latest posts for the forum either just a listing of whats new or from when you last visited.

New Admin - we've completely revamped the administration area, to make it easier to use and more intuitive.

Last post in thread - every topic listed has a navigation point to get tot he last post in the thread.

FuseTalk 3.0 For ColdFusion Released

I am looking forward to Anandtech's implementation.

that'll come in super useful down the video forum......see you later M0RPH! ignore the fanboys, and just leave what little useful info is there on display

 

[Gamingphreek]

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
No that wouldn't work. Hundreds perhaps, but certainly not thousands. While we have a huge base of members here, if you look at the number of people that view a particular thread, it is usually in the low low hundreds. If it is popular it may break 1000.

-Kevin

You seemed to miss the part about how user-instituted bans shouldn't be considered over one thread. It's a community ban, so it should depend on the general community's feelings which includes a much more broad spectrum of posts than one thread.

OH.. i see 🙂

Well if were doing it that way, that seems like a good idea, however i believe that the Mods should be notified so they can sort of approve of the people that we as the community deem.... unworthy :evil:

-Kevin

 

[Rock Hydra]

I wonder what happens when you ignore a post. Does it remove the post entirely so that you don't know it's there?....or is the post there and just blank? Another feature I would love to have in fusetalk would have been numbered posts or a way to link directly to a post. I'm sure this has all been mentioned before though.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: compuwiz1

Originally posted by: Nik

Originally posted by: Gamingphreek
No that wouldn't work. Hundreds perhaps, but certainly not thousands. While we have a huge base of members here, if you look at the number of people that view a particular thread, it is usually in the low low hundreds. If it is popular it may break 1000.

-Kevin

You seemed to miss the part about how user-instituted bans shouldn't be considered over one thread. It's a community ban, so it should depend on the general community's feelings which includes a much more broad spectrum of posts than one thread.

Coming from you, I would expect no different opinion. How many times have you been banned? I'll bet it's more than a couple. Bias...Bias...Bias...Bias!!!! 😉

Loads of times, but that doesn't (or, wouldn't) change my opinion about the matter. I'm obviously still here so none of my offenses could have possibly been THAT bad... 😉

 

[FrustratedUser]

$650!!!
That's expensive.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

Originally posted by: FrustratedUser
$650!!!
That's expensive.

I don't know what .NET costs, but before it was coded for .NET, FuseTalk used to run on ColdFusion which was even more expensive.