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Offline Akomine (OP)

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VC Forum Updates - 10th May 2015
« on: 10 May 2015, 03:25:49 AM »
Forum Update Changelog:
10th May 2015
1. Added "CLAAN - Clickable Login Avatar & Name"
      - Avatars and names in top left of forum now clickable, take you to your profile.


2. Corrected forum top title from Villagecraft to VillageCraft.

3. Removed the SimpleMachinesForums logo from the top right of the forum.
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4. Added "ENotify"
      - You are now notified of replies to your posts and PMs in real time. Notifications appear in the top right of the forum.


5. Courtesy edit time limit extended.
      - Editing posts within 5 minutes (up from 2 minutes) of posting them will not show that the post was edited.

6. Changed Invite-Only forum board "After Dark General Disco" to "After Dark Anonymous [NSFW]"
      - All new posts are anonymous be default.

      - All old posts have been moved to After Dark.
      - Edit: this isn't working correctly, board disabled for now.

7. Added "Simple Audio Video Embedder"
      - Posting links to media such as youtube now automatically embeds it into your post (no need to use embed share code, just the regular link):
      - Skip to 5:58 for a cool Pink Floyd song :)


8. Added "Better Profile Menu"
      - Makes the dropdown profile menu more useful.
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9. Enabled the Calendar feature on the forum.
      - Decent calendar that you can post events to.
      - Currently Staff and MPs can post calendar events. Might open this up to everyone after testing.


10. Added "Enhanced PM System"
      - Cleans up interface by sorting personal messages into simple categories (read, unread, sent), and gives some customization and the ability to create folders.
      - All sent messages are now by default saved to your Outbox (you used to have to check 'save' every time).
      - You can now edit and remove a sent message if the recipient(s) have not yet read it.
      - You can choose different PM view options should you want to.
      - New forum accounts are blocked from PMs for 24 hours to avoid spam abuse.

11. Added "Original Poster in Topic View"
      - Adds "(OP)" After someone's name if they are the original poster of that thread, similar to Reddit and other forum sites.


12. Added "Search Focus Dropdown"
      - Adds the ability to search the thread you are in, the board you are in, the entire forum, or Google.
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13. Added "Semasa - Surfer's Live Local Time"
      - The clock in the top left of the forum is now live rather than static (used to require page refresh to update).

14. Added "Working top level links for drop menus"
      - Fixes some top-level (rather than drop-down) buttons on SMF to do what you'd expect them to do, rather than having to choose a button from a drop-down menu.

15. Added "Party Llamas"
      - This feature will be known to all, soon.
      - Llamas.
« Last Edit: 10 May 2015, 03:44:13 PM by Akomine »

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Re: VC Forum Updates - 10th May 2015
« Reply #1 on: 10 May 2015, 04:30:16 AM »
Oo, fancy.
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Re: VC Forum Updates - 10th May 2015
« Reply #2 on: 11 May 2015, 12:35:41 AM »
Fan-fucking-tastic choice in music, my good man.