Here's a rundown of new features on the forum:
- WYSIWYG editor to provide an intuitive user interface to those users not familiar with BBCode.
Click the "A" button when making a post to switch to this view, also can be enabled by default in your profile. You can also "pull down" the posting box to make it longer, this makes it a lot easier to edit longer posts.
- File based caching for a performance increase on all forums regardless of whether an accelerator is installed.
Tech speak for the forum should be faster and have less downtime.
- Option to ignore certain boards in profile.
Lets you ignore boards on the forum, great for people who don't like the Back Table or have no interest in the Parade Ground. Please be careful with what you ignore though as you might end up missing something you wish you hadn't!
- Mail queuing system to stagger the sending of emails to improve performance on large forums.
In the past we have wanted to send out newsletters or emails to the site members, however this has been impossible because our host limits the number of emails sent in an hour and so trying to send something to all 6500 of you would crash the site. Now we can set up the site to only send out X number of emails per hour and reach everyone without any issues.
- Personal messaging improvements including ability to automatically sort incoming messages and a variety of display options.
More options for your PMs!
- Custom profile fields to enable administrators to add additional member fields from the administration center.
Lets us have more information shown in the profiles. Right now I have put in a "Bio" section. If anyone has other ideas for things to add just let me know here.
These are just the main changes that affect site members, there are also lots of other great administration upgrades that will allow us to work more efficiently and improve the site even more.