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Hi Everyone. It's Tom again and I am proud to announce that we have just upgraded the BMWClubMalaysia.com forums. The new forums software includes a few new exciting features including a social networking profile (replacing the less simpler one before) that allows you to add friends, join groups and everything else including uploading images to your personal album.Here's a short list of some Improvements
- Inline Spam Management and PreventionForum spam is an increasing problem for many forums, so we're trying to eliminate as many as we can
- Thread TaggingA new way to facilitate searching and grouping of threads, it is now possible for users to add tags to threads they post or read.
- Reciprocal Friendships Between UsersAs part of our new social networking system, users can now request that people on their buddy list confirm their friendship, after which time a person's list of confirmed friends will be viewable to other users.
- Public MessagingWhile private messages between users have been in BMWClubMalaysia since forever, we now introduce the public messaging system, allowing users to communicate publicly via their profile pages.
- User Picture GalleriesUsers can now create albums and upload pictures to their account.
- User-Created Social GroupsTo further social cohesion between users and to encourage people to make friends, BMWClubMalaysia now includes a facility to allow users to create their own social/interest groups.
- New Member Profile PageIn order to accomodate all the new features, the member profile page has been completely redesigned from the ground up. The new page presents information in a far cleaner and more logical manner, while dividing up information into manageable chunks using a tabbed interface. Individual profile field categories can be displayed alone in blocks in the right column, in addition to appearing by default in the 'About Me' tab.
- Member Customization of Profile PageWhich allows users to alter fonts, colors, background and borders etc. of their profile page in order to create a more personalized look.
- Inline Editing of Profile Field ValuesThe 'About Me' tab of each member's profile page has edit controls, allowing them to quickly change values without leaving their profile page.
- Attachment Viewing LightboxClicking on an attached image will now open a lightbox rather than open a new window, with the image scaled to fit the browser viewport. A click on the image in the lightbox will open it in a new window as before.
