Hi everyone - as you may have noticed we have upgraded the software and improved the theme (to bring it in line with the rest of the site) which just went live.
To help everyone here are some of the new features:
Greatly-enhanced mobile-friendly style
The new style is the first thing you will notice. The entire style has been redesigned with a fresh new appearance, but also with mobile browsing at the forefront of the design. When the screen size shrinks, on-page content shrinks, shifts and reorganizes itself automatically to optimize the browsing experience for small displays.
A sticky header automatically activates when the window is scrolled, allowing the most important navigation controls to remain available at all times.
* Don't worry TapaTalk functionality is still there should you prefer to use that, but now you can have a great experience on a mobile device with or without a third-party app.
Emoji support
All textual content now supports emoji, from message text to forum titles.
Retina avatar and smilie support
Avatars and smilies now support high-DPI imagery, allowing for a crisp, high-resolution display to match the text on displays that support 2x resolution graphics, such as Apple's retina displays.
Enhanced message editing
Rather than opening an overlay, editing messages are now done entirely in-place, with the content of messages replaced by a full-fledged message editor that allows the complete range of editing and posting actions, including attachment management.
Alerts in favicon
When new alerts or unread conversation messages are available, the site icon (shown in the browser title bar) will have a badge added to it, showing that there are items waiting to be viewed.
Member tooltip
The member card (shown to the left of all posts) has been replaced with a new member tooltip, which appears on the first click on a member's name. A further click will load the member's full profile page.
What’s New and Find Threads
To aid in content discovery, the new software has a brand new 'What's new' system, which can fetch new content from all sources across the system, including threads and posts, profile posts, and media items.
Additionally, a new Find threads system provides quick links to unanswered threads (with no replies), threads you have started, and threads in which you have posted.
New media embedding features
The BB Code Media system has been significantly enhanced, and now supports embedding Facebook posts, Tweets, Instagram photos, Reddit posts and comments, Spotify and Soundcloud tracks, albums, and playlists and a whole host of others.
Quick thread
Quick Thread is a brand new system for the new software. Above the list of threads on a forum page you will find a title entry box. Focusing this box and starting to type a thread title will load a quick message editor, in which you can post the content for the first post of your new thread. Hitting the save button will then post the thread, leaving you on the forum page rather than redirecting you to the thread page. This makes the process of creating a new simple thread extremely quick and easy.
These are just some of the new features along with the new design. As with any upgrade there may be snagging issues. Do let us know in this thread if you find anything.
Thanks!
To help everyone here are some of the new features:
Greatly-enhanced mobile-friendly style
The new style is the first thing you will notice. The entire style has been redesigned with a fresh new appearance, but also with mobile browsing at the forefront of the design. When the screen size shrinks, on-page content shrinks, shifts and reorganizes itself automatically to optimize the browsing experience for small displays.
A sticky header automatically activates when the window is scrolled, allowing the most important navigation controls to remain available at all times.
* Don't worry TapaTalk functionality is still there should you prefer to use that, but now you can have a great experience on a mobile device with or without a third-party app.
Emoji support
All textual content now supports emoji, from message text to forum titles.
Retina avatar and smilie support
Avatars and smilies now support high-DPI imagery, allowing for a crisp, high-resolution display to match the text on displays that support 2x resolution graphics, such as Apple's retina displays.
Enhanced message editing
Rather than opening an overlay, editing messages are now done entirely in-place, with the content of messages replaced by a full-fledged message editor that allows the complete range of editing and posting actions, including attachment management.
Alerts in favicon
When new alerts or unread conversation messages are available, the site icon (shown in the browser title bar) will have a badge added to it, showing that there are items waiting to be viewed.
Member tooltip
The member card (shown to the left of all posts) has been replaced with a new member tooltip, which appears on the first click on a member's name. A further click will load the member's full profile page.
What’s New and Find Threads
To aid in content discovery, the new software has a brand new 'What's new' system, which can fetch new content from all sources across the system, including threads and posts, profile posts, and media items.
Additionally, a new Find threads system provides quick links to unanswered threads (with no replies), threads you have started, and threads in which you have posted.
New media embedding features
The BB Code Media system has been significantly enhanced, and now supports embedding Facebook posts, Tweets, Instagram photos, Reddit posts and comments, Spotify and Soundcloud tracks, albums, and playlists and a whole host of others.
Quick thread
Quick Thread is a brand new system for the new software. Above the list of threads on a forum page you will find a title entry box. Focusing this box and starting to type a thread title will load a quick message editor, in which you can post the content for the first post of your new thread. Hitting the save button will then post the thread, leaving you on the forum page rather than redirecting you to the thread page. This makes the process of creating a new simple thread extremely quick and easy.
These are just some of the new features along with the new design. As with any upgrade there may be snagging issues. Do let us know in this thread if you find anything.
Thanks!
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