Ninjaboard Beta5 drops from the sky!

That's right people! Just when you thought we were gonna delay it (again) ;)

Try it out now!

Need to be convinced? Here's what's new in Beta 5:

  • Views like Forums in the admin now have maintenance mode that runs once per week. They will automatically fix table relations and such when needed.
  • Full downgrade support. Ninjaboard 0.5 tables are backed up during install, and will be recovered during uninstall to allow downgrades.
  • Users can now be assigned to more than one usergroup at once.
  • Possible to adjust spacing between forum boxes
  • Custom designed premium topic icons, exclusively for Ninjaboard.
  • Person page frontend. Shows the avatar, user rank and the persons latest topics.
  • Auto-translator, updates your NB language file with untranslated strings for your convenience. Turn on Language debugging under Global Config to activate it.
  • Tools screen upgraded
  • Norwegian translation on frontend.
  • Ninjaboard Stats Admin Module upgraded with another graph. Go to the module manager > administrator and publish it to ninjaboard-dashboard-tabs.
  • Chameleons compatibility with Gantry Framework and Warp5 are improved.
  • Views like the forums and topics views are now taking advantage of HMVC.
  • The forms styling when creating a topic, posting a reply or editing a post are now even sexier and more user friendly.
  • Usergroups are now easier to setup, as you get a live, human readable paragraph to the right explaining your permissions configurations.
  • Improved the Sample Content available on the Tools screen.
  • Added option to not make the forums title in forums view linkable. Instead of just showing a permalink, or making it linkable (which don't work well in all templates)
  • Much more localizable, javascript that were previously hardcoded, now uses JText for translatability.
  • Forums styling is enhanced to take advantage of more CSS3 features, and subtle highlights between rows that change correctly based on mouse hover.
  • Ninjaboard 1.0 can now install on a 0.5 site, and it'll present you an option to import the 0.5 data into your 1.0 database after upgrade.
  • Styling of moderation tools frontend upgraded to use Chameleon.
  • Advanced CSS3 (like gradients) no longer favor WebKit based browsers. Gecko and Presto support added.
  • Usability of usergroup Mapper is improved. Easier to click and drag, and mouseover highlight the end point.
  • phpBB3 converter vastly improved.
  • Converter speeds are dramatically faster. Things that used to take 3 hours, now take literally 3 minutes.
  • Major speed improvements, queries no longer recurse!
  • bbCode parser upgraded to support more tags, like table tags.

If you really enjoy using Ninjaboard, let others know here.

if you experience something that suck, there's a place for that to, just because we love you :)

We'll start posting some tutorials while working on RC in the coming days, like how to use the auto-translation feature to localize Ninjaboard super fast!

Cheers!