- The obvious one is the forum style. We've (finally) abandoned the "eye bleeding" red style that we've used since these forums first opened. This was created by wolferacing and based on an old style by raph666, so they deserve the credit. It's also mobile-friendly! Go ahead and resize your browser horizontally to see what I mean.
- On the back-end, we're now on the latest version of phpBB (3.1.6). This add more neat features and allows flexibility in terms of extensions and style modifications.
- There is a new Thanks for Posts feature that you may have seen on other forums. On each post, you'll see a familiar thumbs-up icon that looks like this
. This will give a "Thanks!" to the poster and show a list of thank-ers below that post.- There is a new Best Answer feature too. A topic starter can now mark a particular reply post as the "best answer" and this will show up near the top of the topic to help future users. The icon to mark a post as such looks like this:
. This is currently only enabled in Tech Support, FOF Mod Discussion and Support, and Forum Talk forums.- The old karma system has been abandoned and replaced with something better: reputation (points). This number is the sum of Thanks and Best Answers from the two above-mentioned features. Old karma values have been reset, so everyone gets a clean slate. There will also no longer be negative values.
What we'd like from you:
Let us know your input! Questions, comments, criticisms, ideas, etc. Also be sure to let us know if anything isn't working or if something just doesn't look right or isn't working right.
Another special thanks to wolferacing for his help and hard work during the upgrade.
Next up, new moderators!
Enjoy!
