MessageBoard 1.05 [Cata-4.3.4]

[Kretol]

I remember someone mentioning this addon either in-game or in Skype, so I figured I'd add it on here!

MessageBoard

A guild-wide forum, similar to web-based discussion-sites. The difference is that this is a 100% in-game WoW addon. It does not need a web-server, or a server-character that is always logged in, or external software, or anything special.

It is often difficult to get guildies to log in to the web-site to check messages. It's usually only the "hardcore" people that bother on a regular basis. This addon will help you. It requires no technical skills at all, beyond the ability to use a simple forum. Just install and play.

Requirements

You need to:
- install the addon
- be a member of a guild
- have an administrator create permissions and all 6 categories
- set an admin by adding #MB:A to officer or player note

Usage

- To open MessageBoard, press the minimap icon.
- Hover the mouse over the minimap icon for positioning-help.

Features

- Notification of new posts.
- Search Feature.
- Officer Only Categories.
- Password Encryption of Category Posts.
- Supports announcements, sticky topics, normal topics, voting polls, and locked topics.
- Users can set an avatar.
- Administrators can be assigned by officer's or player's note.
- The text-editor supports inserting item,spell,http links.
- Quoting of posts during replies.
- The database size is regulated by automatic pruning, by means of post-count.

Please note

It is easy to forget that you are not using a regular forum, but it's all within the limits of the WoW game. This means that when you log in, you must allow MessageBoard 2 to 3 minutes to update data. The time will vary dependent on several factors. But the more posts, the slower it updates. The addons talk to one another, so the more people in the guild that have the addon, the better.

Administrators

An administrator is needed to set MessageBoard options, like message-limit for database pruning (auto-removal of old posts), 6 category names, and permissions. The admin can also edit, delete, and lock any post. An administrator is assigned by typing "#MB:A" (without quotes) in the officer's or player's note in the WoW guild-roster. He or she will also need access to read the officer's note (in the WoW guild-roster rank settings) for the addon to be able to read it. Write-permission is not needed.

Download: MessageBoard105.zip

[Edgar]

@Kretol

So, we've done some testing of MessageBoard in the Golden Quill, and we've come to some conclusions.

First, for everyone to even be able to use the addon, everyone in the guild needs to be set to admin.

Secondly, new players in the guild cannot see previous posts made before they joined ( or installed the addon ).

Thirdly, posts made may take a while to show up for others, if at all.

It seems very buggy.

I'll just update this post if we find out anything else, but thought you should know so you can update the post above accordingly.

-- The Quill