6-6-18, 09:11 PM
(This post was last modified: 6-8-18, 08:22 PM by SaintLuther. Edited 2 times in total.)
Forums Upgrade 2018
Over the past couple months the forums have been rebuilt from the ground up to achieve several goals:
- Updating the base software for improved security and features
- Making future upgrades and additions significantly easier
- Maintaining the current theme while making improvements to it where needed
A non-exhaustive list of changes and improvements to the forum are as follows:
- Latest version of forum software now being used
- We previously had a nearly 2 year old version with many security vulnerabilities
- We previously had a nearly 2 year old version with many security vulnerabilities
- Forums are fully encrypted
- All connections to the forums are encrypted, end-to-end
- Non encrypted connections are not allowed
- Insecure image embeds in posts have been converted to links to maintain full encryption (they will be converted to secure embeds where possible)
- The FBI can't track your forums activity anymore
- All connections to the forums are encrypted, end-to-end
- Theme improvements
- Many minor improvements to HTML DOM and CSS have been made
- Style of the forums doesn't break at weird resolutions
- Looks more consistent on mobile (although still needs a lot of work)
- Scrollbar disappears when not needed (Although rare, the scrollbar would stick around when there was nothing to scroll)
- Static images are cached for a much longer time, making browsing much smoother
- Many minor improvements to HTML DOM and CSS have been made
- Chatbox improvements
- You can now click smilies and have them directly inserted into chat
- You can scroll down in chat infinitely.. no more 50 message limit
- Unread chatbox messages are marked
- You can now click smilies and have them directly inserted into chat
- Automention improvements
- Should now work everywhere. Chatbox, posts, comments, etc...
- See a preview of the user's avatar who you are mentioning
- Optionally mention users based on their ID so if their name changes, the mention will also
- Should now work everywhere. Chatbox, posts, comments, etc...
- Username style improvements
- Usernames should be styled properly in many more places including "newest member" and the welcome block in the top right.
- Usernames should be styled properly in many more places including "newest member" and the welcome block in the top right.
- Improved thanks system
- You can now thank and unthank posts
- List of users who thanked a post look much nicer
- View how many unique posts a user has been thanked for
- About 300 reputations (mostly negative and for @Cactus) have been removed because they conflicted with this new system
- You can now thank and unthank posts
- Avatar Changes
- About 1600 avatars have been added to the gallery
- Upload limit has been increased to 256KiB
- Maximum resolution set to 128x128
- Remote avatars are not allowed (images from imgur, etc.) for security and performance reasons
- About 1600 avatars have been added to the gallery
- User/Profile improvements
- Overall, user profiles have a nicer layout
- View a list of the user's referrals
- View a list of posts they have been thanked for
- View a list of posts they have thanked
- This should go without saying, but the buddy list isn't broken af anymore
- Signature tab hidden if they don't have one
- Ability to change profile privacy settings
- Same comment moderation system
- View a list of other user's warnings
- Cost of name changes goes up 10k each time (instead of a flat 50k). First one is free
- Steam ID is synchronized and cannot be changed yourself
- Added reputation levels
- The signature of banned users now displays their ban reason and duration
- Overall, user profiles have a nicer layout
- Forum, thread, and post improvements
- When you have read everything in a subforum, the parent forum will also be marked as read if there aren't other unread subforums/threads
- More information is displayed at the top of threads like users currently viewing it, total views, and replies
- Added fast quote. Highlight a section of a user's post then select the fast quote button (next to reply) to only quote that section of a user's post.
- If a user was warned for a post, a red banner will display the reason and warning level given for it
- A better spoiler tag
- No more thread ratings (really pointless before)
- Reputation level displayed in author area
- When you have read everything in a subforum, the parent forum will also be marked as read if there aren't other unread subforums/threads
Discuss these changes on the changelog here.