We're proud to announce that we have now added a profanity filter to BlogBaker's comments section. Use this to keep your blog family-friendly, even when you're not around to monitor the comments. The filter can be found in your blog's discussion settings.

Use the configuration to choose the words that you'd like to filter out from the comments, and to fill in what BlogBaker should use as replacements.

Remember: the filtering only occurs when a comment is saved, so older comments will not be affected by the filter!

Continuing in the vein of improving the private messaging features on ActiveBoard, we're happy to announce the addition of Group private messaging.

This feature allows the administrator of the forum to send a PM to everyone in a defined group. Need to keep all of your moderators up-to-date with changes on the board? No problem!

Select from the available groups and fire away. :)

Introducing a new way to keep your private messages organized! We've just added a new viewing option to ActiveBoard that allows you to display messages as threads containing back-and-forth replies, rather than simply viewing each individually.

You can enable this from your user settings on the forum, as in the screenshot below:

Once selected, your private message inbox and outbox will display messages using the new option. Clicking on a thread will load all of the messages between participants. As an example, here is a sample private message inbox:

Threaded, this becomes:

An easy way to cut down on clutter. Enjoy!

We recently added some minor, but important features to ActiveBoard:

• Spoiler tags now support content with BBCode
• Spoiler tags have been added as a blog forum feature
• Saving an edited post now returns you directly to the post itself
• Chatbox new post notifications now link directly to the end of the topic

We are pleased to say that our new spam filter has now been officially integrated with ActiveBoard!

Posts and topics that are detected as possible spam will be marked "flagged as spam." Under the "More..." option you can approve or deny these comments, as appropriate. If a spam comment makes it through without being flagged, please use the "Report Spam" option to remove the comment and help our spam filter learn and improve!

This option has been enabled by default, but if you'd like to disable the spam filter please go to:

Administration > Settings > Add-ons

Then, go to the bottom of the page and set Spam Filter to Off.

We hope this new development will help cut down on the spam out there. Happy posting everyone!