Zetaboards Beta Released

[Nixt]

Invision Free have announced the release of their beta test boards, you can register your own here.

The full announcement can be found here - http://beta.zetaboards.com/test/topic/2743/1/#new

[Homesrfan]

Wow - that's actually extremely cool.
The ACP is great. Now they just need to add a few more features (WYSIWYG Editor would be great) and that would be one of the best places to get a free, remotely hosted board despite the fact it's not a popular forum software.

[Nixt]

Wow - that's actually extremely cool.
The ACP is great. Now they just need to add a few more features (WYSIWYG Editor would be great) and that would be one of the best places to get a free, remotely hosted board despite the fact it's not a popular forum software.

I believe they are looking into adding more features, but overall it's great free software and it will be even better once out of beta stages

[Homesrfan]

I believe they are looking into adding more features, but overall it's great free software and it will be even better once out of beta stages

They need a better way to make skins too.
The image set things needs to be uploadable, but I guess that would take up too much space.

[Nixt]

They need a better way to make skins too.
The image set things needs to be uploadable, but I guess that would take up too much space.

Yeah it would be better, but then again it's not that big a deal. The skin thing is a little more confusing than IF but I suppose it opens up more oppurtunities for better skins?

[Homesrfan]

Yeah it would be better, but then again it's not that big a deal. The skin thing is a little more confusing than IF but I suppose it opens up more oppurtunities for better skins?

I guess, but I still can't imagine going through there and uploading images one by one to ImageShack and putting the image there.

[Mentor]

Other than a new skin, it doesnt seem to have made much progress away from the ipb 1.3.x system in terms of what it appears to do and alot of the interface design "/ (although i prefer the ipb one design wize)

Whats really new on it?

ps. skin system looks the same to me?

[Splinter]

It just seems to be a skinned ipb 1.3 with no extra features.. could be big in the future though!

[Nixt]

Other than a new skin, it doesnt seem to have made much progress away from the ipb 1.3.x system in terms of what it appears to do and alot of the interface design "/ (although i prefer the ipb one design wize)

Whats really new on it?

ps. skin system looks the same to me?

They haven't really made a full announcement with all the details, but there is a short wiki article with some of the features -

• Categories can be collapsed and expanded, and the text boxes used to post can be resized
• The list of emoticons can be expanded and will appear inline, as opposed to the original popup window (although the Full Posting Method allowed some emoticons to be shown inline)
• Posted images are dynamically resized to fit into the post area as to not to stretch the board
• A legend specifying member groups for clarity
• The ability to have more than one poll in a topic
• A built in themes selector allowing you to add up to 32 themes
• Notification upon receiving private messages
• An online/offline legend, as well as members being able to disable PM's
• A revamped Admin Control Panel (ACP)
• A "Report Post" control panel
• "Limited Admin CP Access"[4]
• Custom Profile fields

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zetaboards