Zetaboards is in the process of transitioning to Tapatalk Groups. While existing Zetaboards will be grandfathered in under the new system, any new forums that are created will have to pay for premium to have access to CSS customization, favicon customization, and the ability to use Javascript. We'd love to hear about alternatives to Zetaboards. And consider this a warning that if you have any games planned, you might want to go ahead and register/create the forum so you can lock in the grandfathered features for free.
As you might be aware Zetaboard is currently transitioning to Tapatalk Groups and you might have received a Site Preview invitation to test your forum on Tapatalk Groups.
To communicate the migration plan better, here is what we have done so far and the steps we will take to transition the entire Zetaboard forums to Tapatalk.
We’ve sent the Preview Invitation to all forums with more than 300 posts to preview the new site
Active forums with less than 300 posts will soon receive our Preview Invitation email.
Today we have enabled CSS customization for all Zetaboard forums. If you have access to the Preview, you can now login to the your Tapatalk Groups as admin. In Manage Settings > ACP, you will be able to further customize your forum including changing the look and feel, and more.
JavaScript availability is still pending but is progressing well. We want to assure you that if you are currently using the JavaScript insertion feature in Zetaboards, you will be able to do so in Tapatalk.
Forums that are not using CSS or JavaScript will soon be receiving the Production Migrations from us, with no less than 14 days after you received the Preview Invitation.
There are confusions among Zetaboard forum admins about certain features that are being grandfathered and how it works in long term since CSS, Custom Domain, Favicon and Javascript features are reserved for Basic or Premium Tier customers on the Tapatalk Groups. If your Zetaboard forum is already using certain features, the same features will be available for you in Tapatalk Groups free of charge, you will be able to make changes just like before and rest assured there will be no expiry date for the grandfathered features.
We also want to welcome you to the Tapatalk Groups - there are also features that you will be able to enjoy that were not available in Zetaboards, including the availability to Accept Donations from your members, to set-up Premium Memberships, to receive Advertising Revenue from our Revenue Share Program, Ability to Mass Email to all Members, and more.
We’re excited to have you onboard, and we are almost there.
You might have received an email from us in past few weeks to participate in the Beta testing of the Zetaboard to Tapatalk conversion (If you haven’t, you’ll hear from us really soon). We received tons of great feedback and made many updates to address the issues raised during the Beta testing. Based on your feedback, we’re in the process of adding the following features to make sure your forum transition will be as smooth as possible:
Customizable forum templates with enhanced BBCode, including div (with class), span (with class), iframe, form elements.
Customizations via Javascript-like scripting feature to admin admins to further customize the user experience.
Custom pages:
Enhanced BBcode, embedded iframe or html in iframe.
Form handling for custom pages. Forms can be created to submit responses into a post.
View permissions for custom pages.
And Custom smileys!
These upcoming features will be part of the Tapatalk Premium Tier but If you had JS or CSS on your board prior to the conversion, they will be grandfathered into the converted site. Also - if you already have a custom domain with Zetaboard, your domain will also be grandfathered. Some of these features will be rolled out on your preview board in the next few days so you can play around with them before the production migration.
We plan to start the production migration for everyone within next few weeks. If you find any data or formatting issues on the preview board and would like to have a migration support specialist to look into the issues, please reply to this message.
Looking forward to welcoming you all to the Tapatalk Groups!
View New Posts is easy to find.
You can make the newest PM you receive automatically show up inline with the forum.
Custom BBCode
Icons for each usergroup (tribe badges, anyone?)
HTML customization SEEMS to be reasonably robust.
Some sort of MiniProfile thing can be enabled when an avatar is moused over?
I'll do some more digging in the morning.
EDIT: THERE IS A BUILT-IN ARCADE
AND A STORE/CURRENCY SYSTEM
