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We threw caution to the wind today and updated the site to 7.3 beta 2. It's called 'beta' for a reason, so while we're under testing mode expect to see some falling bricks, dust, and a few guys leaning on shovels.
For an idea of the thousands of things that have been changed since 7.2, please check the changelog. Thanks to Rick with LOTS of assistance from our very own Ian Spence, Sir Dude, Blaaskaak and even Gizzy and the support of the alpha testers. Hopefully the beta period won't be very long and we can get back to writing mods to break your site soon enough.
Stay tuned as we make use of the paypal integration too... we'll have the nickel tour up and running soon enough 
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:tap: :tap: :tap: Is this thing on? 
A few things to cover this month:
Content Rulez ::
We are pleased to announce the winners of our 3rd Semi-Annual Content Rulez Contest! All sites entered, from top to bottom, really were top-notch. Many hours were invested reading each entry, re-reading, checking out other parts of the site - we gave each a thorough review. Ties in voting happened a couple times resulting in more research.  Without further adieu:
Placement
- First Place - Mates Up-Over
- Second Place - SimHQ
- Third Place - Conduct Disorders
- Honorable Mention - GangsterBB
Interviews
- First Place - Mates Up-Over
- Second Place - SimHQ
In addition, Mates Up-Over won a free copy of Gizmo's Site Map mod and SimHQ won a copy of Beyond Compare. Congratulations and thank you to everyone for entering such high-quality sites!
UBBThreads™ 7.3 News ::
- Stay tuned here for a public look at the up-coming version 7.3. Rick (with some masterful assistance by our very own Ian Spence and SirDude) has been hard at work tuning up all aspects of ubb.threads and adding some highly-requested features.
For a look at the current changelog, keep an eye out here. We'll be moving to the new code here soon to open the alpha code up to a larger audience for testing.
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Contest Time::
It's time for the third semi-annual Content Rulez Contest! If you've got a site with Pulitzer-Prize Prose and Nobel-Worthy Words we'd like to honor you when you win our contest. Several succulent surprises will go to the winner, including sweet licenses to a couple premium scripts and apps. 
For more details, check the Official Entry Thread . Show the world what you got! 
Team UBBDev Kicks it in High Gear Once Again::
With the recent demise of the grid United Devices organization we've been looking for the right thing to contribute to. We've found it:
Team UBBDev's Haxxors are back at it and looking to crush the competition like we did with the UD people. "Team UBBDev" is our entry in the Folding@home Research Project. Team UBBDev, otherwise known as the Semi-Official UBBâ„¢ Protein Haxxors is made up of fellow UBBDev members who have joined our effort to help search for a cure for many diseases - cancer and alzheimers among others. All are welcome and encouraged to join up! Find more info here , install the app and join us as we streak to the top. After a few short weeks, we're already in the top 10,000 teams out of >70,000!
UBB.Threads 7.2 Released!::
Rick has recently released version 7.2 to wild applause with many noteworthy new features, bugfixes and updates. The shorthand version of the major new features added are:
- New Gallery Forums
- Mark a Forum as Read
- Who's On-line More Details
- Quick Full Reply
- Leaving a Private Message Notice
- Images with a Descriptions
- Moods have Moved
- Who is in a Private Message
- E-mail with Forum Name as Type And Subject
- Private Message E-mails
- Private Message Limit Bar
- Happy Birthday
- Attachment Limits
- New Active Posts
- Gallery Pictures in a side Island.
- User Information On the Top Or Side of a post view?
- View all Topics Started by a member.
- Spoiler Tags.
See the official announcement here. "It's got features that'll make developers happy, things that'll make old school classic people happy, things that'll make old school threads people happy, and things that'll make the new people happy." 
Since this site is called UBBDev::
Our developers have been hard at work, releasing many new mods in the last few weeks by Ian Spence, Gizmo and Sir Dude. With >100 mods released for the 7 series, there's always some new way we can help you break your forum - just ask when you have questions
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Rick just released version 7.1.1 to the Members Area. This is strictly a bugfix release and does not introduce any new features. You can read the Release Notes here.
The official announcement may be found here.
For those waiting for the stable 7-series release before upgrading, this is it
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ubb.threads 7.1 final released
Rick released the much-anticipated ubb.threads 7.1 version last night. Many bugfixes from the 7.0.x series and a good number of nice features:
- The Who's Online screen will now designate which guest users are search engine spiders, as well as showing the referer (which is how a guest got to your site).
- Custom User Titles, as well as a control panel option to designate which groups of users can change their custom title.
- Better performance by changing 2 of the tables to a HEAP table, so they reside in memory instead of being written to disk.
- Option to have multiple language with the user being able to choose what language they want to use for their default display.
- Option to show the total # of new topics and replies on the main page and when browing an individual forum.
- User selectable "moods" so users can designate their current mood while online.
- Online Status indicators next to each user's posts, that shows if they are currently online/offline as well as their current mood.
- Sort order options at the bottom of each forum to designate how a forum is sorted.
- When moving a post, there is now an option to leave a pointer to the new post that will expire after a certain number of days.
- Admin option to ban users for a certain period of time, ranging from 1 day to 2 years, as well as the standard permanent ban.
- New CAPTCHA feature that can be used for new registrations as well as guest posting. Note: You will need either ImageMagick 6 or GD2 with TrueType support in order to use this feature.
The official announcement can be found here.
Staff Changes
As further continuation of the merging of threadsdev and ubbdev sites, we're making more changes to restore the vibrancy of the site as the number of threads owners (and modify'ers) grows. Ian Spence has accepted the role of "Lead Admin" here at the 'dev effective immediately and will be spearheading new development efforts for the site. I'll be assuming a more junior role in support of the site, Ian's efforts, and the needs of the members. Other staff members have assumed 'emeritus' status as we work towards a working core of developers, moderators, admins, graphics people, designers, etc. While a good number of them have moved on to more pressing matters in real life, we thank them immensely for their dedication and time over the years. There's a lot anyone can be doing besides offering their time and energy for free at a support site. Thank you.
Join me in congratulating Ian and thanking him for his leadership.
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