[EasyTarget]

Originally Posted by AndrewD

Good news guys and gals...

There's a new beta going to appear here tomorrow or so, with the following features...

+ Categories
can now have inheritable settings defining the appearance of categories/links (i.e. you can change the appearance setting per category), including having different new/not new display icons
+ Email notifications to moderator when link submitted/to user when accepted
+ "Featured Sites" (=selected users' favourites)
+ Final tweaks to User Profile integration
+ Linkbits
New linkbit available (intended for photolibraries)
Option to display multiple columns across some linkbits
General tidying up of linkbit templates (icons, layout)
+ Thumbnail images generated whenever possible during link creation/edit, rather than on the fly.
'thumbs_dir' indicates where these thumbnails are stored
Images generated using 'resample' algorithm rather than resize algorithm to obtain better image quality
+ Admin settings page restructured into groups and new admin settings and permissions added:
'default_style' - style to use for whole LDM board
'moderate_email_submit' and 'moderate_email_accept' - enables confirmation emails
'cat_icon' and 'cat_icon_new' - alternative category icons
'cat_cols_display' and 'link_cols_display' - vary columns of categories/links
'can_link_files' - usergroups has permission to add urls (sister to can_upload_files)
'featured_user_faves' and 'featured_sites' - controls over featured sites

Bugs fixed
> 'Report bad link' works correctly
> Phrased the admin xml file
> LDM checks for some valid mimetype information for Jukebox files
> Improved image quality of thumbnails
> 'Scan' code re-written to behave more consistently

Hope you're happy.

awesome job.
would the new photo library be able to be used like the other gallery hacks? That would really benefit me since your hack uses cURL functions

If this is the case (crossing fingers) then hopefully people can release vbadvanced and forumhome add ons for previews. actually maybe that's a good addon for the links/downloads right now, a horizontal box on the forumhome with what's hot or new or random. (sorry, typing what I'm thinking lol)

another feature request would be to have permissions per category so that I can allow some users to moderate one category and other users to moderate a different one. (like maybe one will be doing photos, one files, one links, one media, etc)