Minor updates planned for the next few days

Hi all, as one of the admins, I am proposing the following updates to the system. It won't affect most of you, unless you constantly browse as a guest.

I'm putting this list here before I do anything to get some feedback first (we are a 'community' forum, so you can get involved if you wish to).

Anyway, here's the list:

• Move DPRevived news down the bottom. It's all admin stuff and not now the most important part of the system. This includes feature requests etc. We still get people posting in 'migration' when they should be posting elsewhere. By making these at the bottom, maybe that will reduce. We want photography to be the first thing people see.
• Shorten a few of the category names (they are too long for the underlying box they live in).
• Put in extra checks for new registrations:
Verify by email
Add a question to be asked when registering
Check IP address with Stop Forum Spam
• Turn pruning on for the test forum. After 30 days of inactivity, posts there will be deleted.
• Turn off allowing guests to download attachments. This one may also preclude guests from seeing attachments (images) and is probably the most contentious one here.
• Turn off allowing guests to browse user lists
• Turn off allowing guests to 'like' posts
• Turn off guest access to the DPRevived bug list and feature suggestions forums. Possibly a few others. The rationale behind this is that I expect guests to browse around, see what they like and register - at which time, they get full member access to everything.
• Tidy up colours on the forum lists. Bob has been doing some work, but I've been lazy when creating new forums - and I need to fix that.

Feeback welcomed. I'll probably do some of it today (like the registration stuff) and some later on.

Alan

Alan,

I like the concept of turnng things off for non members. Some of the colours are definitely not visible against a white background. (And, as I wrote before, the favicon is not very visible on the black taskbars of Firefox and Safari.)

David

There are buttons on the Top and on the Bottom. ???

Ok understood. will think about it.

I'm in discussion with the developers on this so that you can't create a post if you are not in an area that allows you to do so - so the default never gets taken. But it's complicated and may not happen soon.

Alan