Rope Access Forum: Welcome To The New Look Forum - Rope Access Forum

Welcome to our new look forum.

As you can see, there have been many changes carried out in this upgrade. The smoother interface is designed to make it easier to use and also enables more advanced stuff to happen on the back end.

We're keen to push the new calendar facility as it allows you to have your own personal calendar, you can now track your training course renewals, job starts etc. I'd like to encourage your feedback on what you think as it's important to get it right for you.

Here's a very brief run down of what this upgrade offers:


Reputation
Users can rate posts up or down, earning the author of that post reputation points. Users can earn badges and titles for having a good reputation, encouraging highquality posts across the board.





Topic Rating
Topics can be rated one to five stars, so users can identify the topics that others rate highly - or poorly!



Personal Conversations
Personal conversations allow members to send messages directly to other members,out of public view, in a topic format. Other members can be invited toexisting conversations - or remove themselves, if they so desire.



Calendar
IP.Board features a full calendar application, enabling members to post events for others to see. In addition, for members who specify their birthday,birthdays will be highlighted on the main calendar.


Friends & Ignored Users
Members can add each other as mutual friends, enabling quick communication and being highlighted in each others' profile. And, for those situations where problems arise, members can choose to hide all content from particular users by adding them to their ignored list.





Mini Profile Popup
Wherever you see on your board (which is just about everywhere a member name appears),it can be clicked for a handy mini-profile popup. Send a PM, check reputation or find posts - without needing to leave the current page.



Personal Picture & Avatar
Members can upload a personal photo to represent themselves throughout the community, as well as an avatar image to represent their posts. Expand the choice of default avatars by installing additional avatar packs!


Custom Profile Fields
You can create additional profile fields, that members can fill out to tell others a bit more about themselves. These profile fields may also be set to hidden, so that only administrators and moderators can see them,as well as configured to show on the registration form.



Profile Comments
Allow users to leave comments on the profile pages of other users for all to see - naturally, moderators and the profile owner both have full control over content posted, or can disable comments completely if they prefer.


Activity Overview
The profile page shows an overview of everything that user has done in your community, including recent topics, posts, blog entries and more.




There are a large amount of other upgrades that are way better than the previous forum version, best way to see them is to have a wander around. Feel free to leave a comment below with your feedback.