New Features

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New features as a result of the latest upgrade:
* Social group discussions
* Social group categories
* Private message sorting and filtering
* Private message history
* Quick edit for newer types of content (visitor messages and picture comments)
* Social group icons
* Social group transfers
* Private message quick reply
* Private message throttling (limit messages sent over a time period)
* Private message reporting
* Profile privacy (limit blocks to a subset of users)
* Lightbox navigation
* Thread prefix permissions
* Dismissible notices


Social Group Discussions
In order to greatly enhance the ability of social groups to allow users to talk about their common interests, the social group messages have been threaded with the use of 'discussions'.

By default, the owner of the group can moderate their discussions and the messages within them. Another permission allows owners to configure their social groups so that only they can create discussions within that group. This allows owners to create social groups with greater control over the subject matter (kinda like a forum with limited 'Can Post Threads' permissions such as the Announcements). Because owners can take control of their groups and can be given the primary responsibility for maintaining them, this also reduces the potential extra work for board moderators.

Discussions and messages now also have several features from forums and threads. This creates an interesting scenario where group owners can now see how moderators work with the forums, and allows them to get involved in their own space. Features included:

* Full inline moderation (Discussions and Messages)
* Quick Editing (Messages)
* Subscriptions (Groups and Discussions)
* E-mail Notifications (Discussions)
* Social Bookmarking (Discussions)
* Read Marking (Groups and Discussions)

With read marking, users can mark discussions or entire groups as read, as well as automatic marking when users have read the last post of a discussion, or the last discussion of a group.

Social Group Categories
Each Social Group now belongs to a category. Categories allow users to find groups that are relevant to them. The categories are predefined by the board admin.
Categories are included in the advanced search filters, and can also be viewed individually. Selecting a category displays only the social groups that are in that category.

Any existing social group messages will be moved into an initial discussion named after the group.


Private Message History

A new private message history feature has been implemented. When you receive a message from another user that is inreply to something you sent them, you can now view a history of replies....

Also if you would like your real name to appear below your screen name in posts, go to edit your details your UserCP.