Post by Anna on May 7, 2013 23:11:44 GMT -6
Woohoo! So welcome to the updated site! Now, not everything is finished yet. There are some finishing touches Krista & I will be working on later this week but for the most part...is lookin' good my friend.
The biggest thing you may notice that we'll fix is relating to text. We no longer have the code that makes all letters automatically lower case so upper case letters are back to being used. We'll be correcting any text that is all lower case & some of the fonts need to be enlarged or made bold etc etc. The point is, if it's relating to the text on the forum, ignore it for now unless it's causing a really big issue.
Now, for the neat changes!
- News feed - You can click through the dang thing now rather than waiting for something to pop back up! Enough said.
- Participated threads - On the right side of your screen above the cbox is a handy little feature that keeps track of threads you have participated in, and it will say "New" whenever there is a new reply in one of them. Very handy for those who forget about their threads.
- Owls(PMs) - As you may have noticed, private messages are now called owls. Any new owls you send/receive will also now show up in a thread style. No more going back and forth to check what your previous messages said.
- Creating a thread/reply/owl - Whenever you create a new message you will notice the area where you enter text has changed up some. The BBCode is like the old style that shows all your code. Click Preview, and without ever leaving your page, you see exactly how the text will look. You can also type in the Preview mode if you don't care to see the actual code at all. Admin related things like sticky & lock, are now in the little gear box drop down. Also, some of the codes have changed from what they used to be so double check before posting.
- Avatars - The size of avatars is now set to 150x150 and as you may have noticed, there's a little something more. You can now create your own avatar like my Voldemort! To do so, go to Profile,Edit Profile, then under Proboards Avatar is a link to edit your avatar. Then you just have to make sure to save it right. Pretty neat for those who don't have a celeb for their play-by.
- Social features - You can now have a status for your character that will show in your mini & micro profiles, and follow people/make them your friend. All available under Profile.
- Money - We have a new monetary system! It will award you 10 galleons for a new thread, and 5 galleons per reply. For now, it will be similar to our old system. The Plugin for it is still under construction & will be for a while but a few things the creator is hoping to add to it in the future...
- a bank you can deposit galleons in so they will collect interest if you're active enough. (this one is already possible but it's buggy so we're going to wait a bit.)
- donate/loan money
- lottery(!!!)
- events where you lose or gain money
- investing- Non-thread pages(future) - By this I mean, certain things like the rules will no longer be in a thread format. To see an example of what I mean click here. This is technically something we can do now but sadly the custom page maker is messed up and it lags baaaaad. That's a proboards issue we have no power over so I don't know when these will be made.
I have tested the board in Firefox, Chrome & IE and have seen no browser issues. Should you find any issues with anything, or just need help with something, reply to this thread and I'll do my best to assist you. Many updated boards have had trouble with error messages and the board lagging so please mention that if you experience it.