Remember me

I've added a small but very handy feature to the shoutbox, a remember me box to the shoutbox login.

If you login without this option (default) the login will work as before. You will be logged out when the session expire, when you close your browser or when you choose logout in the shoutbox. However if you login with the remember me option you will stay logged in for a year, until you clear your browsers cookies or until you press logout in the shoutbox.

As this is a cookie based system you must have cookies enabled in your webbrowser for this feature to work.

Multiple moderators / Delete users

You can now assign moderators from the admin panel, those members can remove posts and view IPs. You can also remove users from the admin panel.

Timezones and an admin panel update

Now you can set a default timezone in the admin panel which all timestamps is the shoutbox should use.

Another update is that the admin shoutbox uses the same code as the main shoutbox. So all features from now on that is added to the main shoutbox should be added to the admin panel shoutbox at the same time.

Backend updates and a bugfix

Today I found that a MySQL query I have used for months could be replaced with a much faster query (maybe 15 times faster). So there should be a great performance increase for the whole system. Also now all shoutbox pages are compressed before they are sent to your browser (if your browser support it) so the latter will specially speed up for people with slow connections.

I have also fixed a bug in the login system that caused the auto-login after register session to be invalid.

Login system online!

The login system in the shoutboxes is now online, it is currently considered experimental, so please leave any bug reports/suggestions in the Support Forum.

You can register/login using the + button-page in the shoutbox, javascript is required for this. The usernames Admin & the username you registered your shoutbox with is pre-registered in the shoutbox too, the password is the same as your login password @ freeshoutbox.net admin panel.

There are different user levels, guests are posted in bold, logged in users are posted as bold underlined, mods/admins are bold italic underlined and can also view IPs and delete posts.

There are currently no way to change a users' userlevel (other than that the admin+your username is admins by default), but it will be added later.

Online at the new server

The shoutbox system is online at the new server and all shoutboxes should be restored, however it may take some time before the DNS-changes is reflected all over the net. So if you can't reach your shoutbox yet, it will soon be available.

The server config is not optimized yet, but with that much faster hardware the system is much faster anyways ;)

Server upgrades soon!

Today I ordered a new server for freeshoutbox.net, here are some specs on the upgrade.

• Server processor will be upgraded from 1 X 2.4 Ghz Pentium4 Celeron to 2 X Intel Xeon 2.8 Ghz
• RAM will be upgraded from 512 MB to 2048 MB
• Network speed from 10 Mbit/sec to 100 Mbit/sec (and more total bandwidth will be added)
• Disk space and server software will be upgraded as well.

Hope you'll enjoy the speed increase and apologize for the slight downtime this might cause. Thanks for hosting with freeshoutbox.net!

Sticky post

I've added support for a sticky post, it might be good for important announcements, shoutbox rules etc. You can fill in the post from the admin panel.

If you want to see how it looks like, just check out the example shoutbox

Added options page

I added a options page to all shoutboxes, accesible by pressing the + button.

Currently the options page only shows a list of smileys but more useful stuff will probably be added later.

I also slighly changed the behavior on the select all for the message box. It should be more easy to edit the box and to remove the "Message" text that is in the box from start.

As always please report any bugs you may encounter in the Support Forum.