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Community Feedback: New Forum Software Is Live!
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We are excited to announce that we are live on our new forum platform!
It’s been a long time coming. Let’s face it. Sometimes older forum technology lags behind other parts of the internet. Although seeing the same format for a long time is comforting, the member experience shouldn’t include dealing with outdated, unsafe, slow software.
The transition to a new platform will never be 100% smooth but the days of dealing with out of date forum software are over. We have teams dedicated to building a world-class community for you. The development has been steady with regular software releases since May 2019. Asking members for feedback and coming up with ideas for improvement is what we want.
Speed and Reliability Are Key
No one should have to wait for information. This site has been built to be much faster and more reliable, period.
New Homepage Experience
Our algorithm will serve a personal customized feed based on your prior engagement with content on the site. If you’ve liked and or commented, or are following certain topics that are of interest to you, similar content will appear at the top of the homepage.
Search
We have introduced new search algorithms, powered by an industry-leading AI platform, to help you find information faster. We plan to roll out new features to continue improving search, and to power many additional areas of the forum.
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Due to the volume of content, our search platform may take some time to complete indexing over the first few days after migrating. During this process, you may see a limited number of posts until indexing has been completed. We appreciate your patience.
Finding Your Way Around
We have made the design clean and simple to use. Near the upper right-hand corner of the community, you will see navigation icons.
The first icon is for what’s new on the site.
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Clicking on it, by default, will take you to new unread posts. On that page, you can click on additional tabs as well, such as Popular, if you prefer to view active topics.
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Clicking the list icon next to “NEW” will bring you to the full forum listing.
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Clicking your avatar will give you a drop-down menu for all things related to your account.
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You can also navigate more by clicking the 3 vertical dots.
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Dark Mode
We have introduced Dark Mode. One of our favorite features allows you to access the site with a power-saving, and easier on the eyes dark mode. You can access it in the drop-down menu under the 3 vertical dots.
Save Bookmarks
Now you can save your favorite discussion threads and posts! Bookmarks are a handy way to remember and easily find great content or stuff you want to read later.
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We also wanted to make it easier for new users to understand the lingo of forums. We have cleaned up various language to more commonly recognized phrases including:
Please keep all feedback, questions, concerns, requests for help, etc. regarding the new platform right here in this Feedback thread. This will help us make sure not to miss a request for help and also let us pass along your thoughts to our Product team. The Admins and I will be here to help along the way taking note of your comments.
- Community Management Team
It’s been a long time coming. Let’s face it. Sometimes older forum technology lags behind other parts of the internet. Although seeing the same format for a long time is comforting, the member experience shouldn’t include dealing with outdated, unsafe, slow software.
The transition to a new platform will never be 100% smooth but the days of dealing with out of date forum software are over. We have teams dedicated to building a world-class community for you. The development has been steady with regular software releases since May 2019. Asking members for feedback and coming up with ideas for improvement is what we want.
Speed and Reliability Are Key
No one should have to wait for information. This site has been built to be much faster and more reliable, period.
New Homepage Experience
Our algorithm will serve a personal customized feed based on your prior engagement with content on the site. If you’ve liked and or commented, or are following certain topics that are of interest to you, similar content will appear at the top of the homepage.
Search
We have introduced new search algorithms, powered by an industry-leading AI platform, to help you find information faster. We plan to roll out new features to continue improving search, and to power many additional areas of the forum.
Due to the volume of content, our search platform may take some time to complete indexing over the first few days after migrating. During this process, you may see a limited number of posts until indexing has been completed. We appreciate your patience.
Finding Your Way Around
We have made the design clean and simple to use. Near the upper right-hand corner of the community, you will see navigation icons.
The first icon is for what’s new on the site.
Clicking on it, by default, will take you to new unread posts. On that page, you can click on additional tabs as well, such as Popular, if you prefer to view active topics.
Clicking the list icon next to “NEW” will bring you to the full forum listing.
Clicking your avatar will give you a drop-down menu for all things related to your account.
You can also navigate more by clicking the 3 vertical dots.
Dark Mode
We have introduced Dark Mode. One of our favorite features allows you to access the site with a power-saving, and easier on the eyes dark mode. You can access it in the drop-down menu under the 3 vertical dots.
Save Bookmarks
Now you can save your favorite discussion threads and posts! Bookmarks are a handy way to remember and easily find great content or stuff you want to read later.
We also wanted to make it easier for new users to understand the lingo of forums. We have cleaned up various language to more commonly recognized phrases including:
- Following - Thread subscriptions, and Watched are now known as Following
- Conversations - Private Messages or PMs are now conversations and can be accessed from the user avatar drop-down in the main navigation
- Showcase - Showcase is designed for users to "showcase" items/projects through the use of uploaded images, text descriptions and custom content categories. It’s a way to visually and textually provide detailed information on the content you wish to share. The showcase would be similar to a catalog, whereas the gallery would be like a photo album. It can be accessed from the drop-down menu with the 3 dots.
Please keep all feedback, questions, concerns, requests for help, etc. regarding the new platform right here in this Feedback thread. This will help us make sure not to miss a request for help and also let us pass along your thoughts to our Product team. The Admins and I will be here to help along the way taking note of your comments.
- Community Management Team
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Added to my earlier concerned post
[ ATTACH type="full"]
So I browsed to some of my recent and also some of my older post. One bit of good news is that (at least from now) I'm able to "edit" posts beyond the period previously allowed under the "old" forum software. So I could fix some of the Posts where attachments displayed as thumbnails by changing formats, changing [ ATTACH] to [ ATTACH type="full"] in the BB Code.
Still a lot of work, I would have preferred tech support to have handled this issue correctly by making [ ATTACH type="full"] the default setting for all attachment that have been added/included in a post.
At least, that's the default setting you now get with the new "direct image upload"
HTTP VS HTTPS
So I can understand that things change constantly on the internet, hence FB snapchat, tinder, stories, et all. Unlike print, there seems to be less and less demand for content that lasts more han a minute or with more than 160 tokens. But not on SF. This site has been a welcome archive since ages (centuries in internet time).
So why the ban on Image links with URL's starting with HTTP instead of HTTPS ?!
So I'm not speaking just for my personal posts here...does VS have any idea how many broken image links banning HTTP Image URLs will create site wide
Oh and P.s.p.s. the new smileys suck
[ ATTACH type="full"]
So I browsed to some of my recent and also some of my older post. One bit of good news is that (at least from now) I'm able to "edit" posts beyond the period previously allowed under the "old" forum software. So I could fix some of the Posts where attachments displayed as thumbnails by changing formats, changing [ ATTACH] to [ ATTACH type="full"] in the BB Code.
Still a lot of work, I would have preferred tech support to have handled this issue correctly by making [ ATTACH type="full"] the default setting for all attachment that have been added/included in a post.
At least, that's the default setting you now get with the new "direct image upload"
HTTP VS HTTPS
So I can understand that things change constantly on the internet, hence FB snapchat, tinder, stories, et all. Unlike print, there seems to be less and less demand for content that lasts more han a minute or with more than 160 tokens. But not on SF. This site has been a welcome archive since ages (centuries in internet time).
So why the ban on Image links with URL's starting with HTTP instead of HTTPS ?!
So I'm not speaking just for my personal posts here...does VS have any idea how many broken image links banning HTTP Image URLs will create site wide
Oh and P.s.p.s. the new smileys suck
No because than you, the user/reader could disable or over rule the security setting. For instance Slotforum was considered an "unsafe site" for years.
No the problem is in the settings of the BB code/ Admin tool on what type of URL's they will or will not allow.
For instance if you want to add an Image to your post you can choose Drag & drop (like adding an attachment) of link to URL.
Now the pop up menu even starts with an text example "http://" for the url..but it won't accept http url's try it and you get a "sorry something went wrong" message.
But add a https url and no problem...like this
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