Question Kunena 1.6 - a moderator's view

It's good to hear about your hard-work Matias.

Keep it up, you're working on a really good project that deserves all my respect!

I have been experimenting with the latest development build of K 1.6 and I am very impressed. Although the feature set is not fully complete, it's coming together nicely. But, as I indicated earlier in this discussion, this new version is going to take time for all of us to accustom ourselves to. Some people are going to love some of the new features (the multiple file attachment feature is really good) and some people will discover that some of changes will be difficult to get used to.

One of the new features that I've been looking at is the new user profile feature. Forum moderators will have considerable power, from the front-end, to regulate user behaviour (to ban or delete users and, optionally, remove all user messages from the forum) as the screenshot below indicates:

But, perhaps the best feature that I've discovered with the new version is the login form. You may recall, in an earlier message of mine ( A dingo took my login ) where I wrote:

Some of the most difficult questions to answer have been the login redirection ones arising from the many attempts to integrate Kunena (and Fireboard even before that) with whatever login extension is used where Kunena is installed. Whether you use JomSocial or Community Builder, some other login mechanism, or just the core Joomla login module, these problems have never quite been resolved satisfactorily.

I am excited to inform you that this new login form is magic! The login forum not only logs you in, it keeps you on the forum page. Now isn't that something to be excited about? :woohoo:

Now do you guys know that posting this screenshot only increased my eagerness? :woohoo:
Can't wait for the public release!

I have one more piece of news that I'd like to share with you. As a Kunena moderator, this is particularly exciting news.

How often do we ask, "What version of Kunena are you using? What Kunena template are you using? What version of ... etc., etc." With K 1.6 there will be a new feature at the backend that simplifies getting the information to us in a consistent form (see the following image):



With this feature, site admins can produce a report (in BBCode format) that can be simply copied and pasted into a message and posted here at www.kunena.com . The following partial screenshot shows how such a message might appear. (I've made a few minor edits to the image for illustrative purposes.)



In future we won't have to second-guess what users have done to their K 1.6 configurations and we will be able to more help you better and quicker.

That is awesome. I think this will also put Kunena way ahead of the other forums being developed!

(Original posted with the inclusion of sozzled's long earlier message - this has been removed at the moderator's discretion)

Let me start off by thanking the Kunena Dev. Team for giving us this great forums option. I have used Fireboard and now Kunena since last January and I love it.

I have kept my questions to myself about 1.6 because I know how things can change during development of any sorts from beginning to end. But after seeing that a Configuration Settings report is going to be available for 1.6, well I just had to comment on it. This should be of great help to all of us when asking for support. The whole configuration report being available to display when asking for support should eliminate confusion in the future.

This feature will allow us to also share our config. settings with others in case they probably see something on our forums that they might want to have on theirs, correct?

I wont ask any questions even though I really want to, but I do want to say that I am eagerly waiting for 1.6. Thanks again Kunena Dev. Team, you guys are doing a great job!