3.1.6 beta 2 is under way with a big bug fix to the pagers which mysteriously stopped working after doing the .NET 2.0 upgrade.  I didn’t notice that they stopped appearing on the pages until I started working on beta 2.  The bug is related to a change in event processing from the 1.1 to 2.0 platforms.   I fixed the bug and they are working again, but I can’t release the fix until I release beta 2.

I added a new feature that lists active topics based on the number of replies (similar to the feature in Ideal BB the ASP product.)  It caches 100 of the most active posts per board and lets you browse through them to see which content is most popular based on replies.  There is an “Active Posts” link right next to the “New Posts” link.

I’m done hashing out the features for a rating system but I haven’t begun to implement it yet.  I think I’m going to release 3.1.6 beta 2 first so that users can get a stable .NET 2.0 build of our product and then start to tackle the rating system for beta 3.   I want to use the new Microsoft AJAX libraries that ship with .NET 2.0 so I’m going to need to take some time out to learn how to use them before adding this feature.  (How can you have ratings without using AJAX?)

When a new post is created on our Ideal BB.NET product, that post is parsed and all HTML is converted into IBB tags.  Those tags are then saved into the database.  When that post is requested to be displayed, those tags are converted into HTML and then displayed on the page.

We recently changed our rich text editor (RTE) to a more compatible product and in doing so, broke some of the formatting.  We’ll be releasing an update (version 1.6) that will correct most of these problems.

If you are experiencing any issues regarding the RTE and formatting, please post them to our Customer Portal so that we can address them in this next release.