Here's a compiled full features list from the completed todo list. This is by no means exhaustive, and should not be regarded as perfectly accurate: not everything was recorded in the todo and some things were changed too.
Added Features:
--to the user interface
General
Quick registration system...username, password, email and any required custom fields and timezone
Pop-up auto-refreshing buddylist with ICQ-style alerts when new buddies come online. You'll find a link in the temp buttons top right in the nav bar.
Show the title of the last posted to thread for each forum on index.php
Subscription to Threads/Forum without receiving e-mails
Favorite threads - you don't get email from these either.
User rating - Karma
User ranking
Password break-in watches -- too many failed attempts warning with a preset wait after too many failures.
Threaded view
Password protected forums
Similar threads display
Send an email "thanks for registering and welcome to .." on user registration (welcome email)
Validity check for homepages
Search engine friendly archive of open forums
Happy b'day emails
Much improved calander system (too many changes to mention)
hit counter on announcements
Digests: new posts/threads in selected forums daily/weekly/monthly
"excerpt of message:" are now in the new reply email notifications
'report post to mod' sends anonymous copy to the original poster of the message
Restyled FAQ section now looks similar to a forum
Posting
WYSIWYG Editor for major text input fields (IE 5.5+Only)
Minimum number of characters in post
Insert smilie/vB code where cursor is (IE 5+ Only)
Preview on edit
Ability to add attachment when editing a post instead of just when creating
Reason for editing
Reason for deleting(for admins and mods)
User CP - Profile
User Pictures - user can upload a personal picture. This picture is shown in the profile of the user.
Completely revamped PM system (currently in work)
Longer signature field with optional limit
Search
Get daily for just one category
Search only in subscribed forums
A list of ignored words or words used in a search are added to the results page
Option to find only started by 'username'
Display matching forums in results
Support for searching custom profile fields
Search for exact username (e.g. turn off wildcards)
Polls
Option for users to see who voted for which option (public vote)
When you vote your name is highlighted when viewing results
Poll results ordered by most to less voted
Ability to post a poll AFTER a thread had started
--to the admin interface
General
New admin cp front end
Language Manager and vB Language packs (in work)
Context sensitive help
Improved attachment system. Statistics, Attachment types editing. Ability to delete old attachments. Ability to limit users to X number of bytes in total attachments. Option to "expire" attachments in CP.
New FAQ System
User ranking and karma admin
New settings manager
Help topics manager for the context sensitive help
vBCode descriptions in the "What are vBCodes" link are now the actual descriptions in the database. No more editing the template.
Add options to pick which groups appear on the memberlist, birthdays, etc
Categories for Avatars and Smilies
Ability to restrict "view new" to certain forums and groups of forums.
Admins are exempt from the custom avatar post limit
A "forum" can be just a link to something or somewhere else
New merge/split/delete posts system
A more complete set of subscription options for daily/weekly/on new posts updates, for forum, thread and board.
Utilities
Admin can run REPAIR and OPTIMIZE on tables as a group or singularly (using mysql 3.23+)
An SQL box in the admin section for executing general queries
vBcron system
Diagnostic tests for testing system compatibility and settings
User administration
Admin editing of User's Avatar is more user friendly.
Additional user profile fields - you can now add profile fields which can have either a single line text box, multi line text box, single selection radio buttons, single selection menu, multiple selection menu, or multiple selection checkboxs.
Add user option in the admin CP to change the user's referrer
Allow users to change usergroups automatically based on postcount
Option to merge user accounts
Search members based on custom profile field
Email members based on custom profile field
User notes -- A field for the admin to keep notes on the user
Admin can designate moderators who can themselves set forum passwords.
Place user under moderation
Extended Moderator Activity Logging
Add usergroup with permissions initially set as set for another group
Improved email address ban
Signature length control
Resend for registration confirmation emails
Styles
Completely revamped Style system
You can place $post[postcount] in your postbit template to see each posts position in the thread
Conditionals in templates. Also called vB Conditionals, these are "if" "then" "else" statements built directly into the templates. This gives the admin/designer improved flexibility in creating dynamic design
--to the programming
Code
Autoselect forumid for search when clicking search button on toplinks from the forum.
Todays birthdays to not always refresh the cached template when someone submits a profile.
Improved post storage to reduce resource usage when showing threads.
Use gmdate() and NOT date()
All bbcode/smilies are stripped from posts BEFORE indexpost()
Quoted text excluded from search.
Associate searchid with userid so people can't insert searchid's and get results they're not supposed to see
Who's Online code is moved to a function so that it can be used to figure out a single user's location, to be used in the user's profile and other places if need be
Meta tags -- forum descriptions (and keywords?) are added to the Meta tags for each forum page
Infinite parenting system for templates/replacements
Attachment images (.gif,.jpg,,etc) are no longer in the database.
Search system is improved with regards to speed. Even faster now!
No more "nosessionhash" setting.
No more use cookies setting
MD5 password by javascript before it is sent to the server
A second phpinclude template to be executed at the same time as dooutput() - to allow manipulation of elements already generated by the page
An API for posting functions (newreply, newthread, newpoll, editpost)
An option to have thread views updated hourly rather than immediately
Improved bbcode parser
An option for allowing a regex option to be specified for a custom profile field
Moved banned email addresses out of the settings
Remove check for attachments from mass-prune
Design
Back to Top link at bottom of page
"Want to register?" and "Forgotten your password?" before user/pass form fields, for using tab
All user info cells are combined into one template
Usability
Hitting the back button no longer necessary when you have too many images
Option to save cookie *on this computer* when logging in
Login/logout ability in all pages, with user/pass form -- single login system
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