Upgraded Forum

NorioDS

Finally! Upgraded the forum so we're keeping up with the latest version.

This version brings us:

Working search in the header.
Formatting buttons when you type your replies.
Tags can have icons (I'll add those in over time.)
Mark posts as "read" right from your notifications.

Most of the other changes are behind the scenes. They hope to get to a "stable" version this year which will hopefully mean private messages will come soon after that.

Known issues

~~The polls extension didn't upgrade properly. This will be fixed.~~ Fixed.
~~Emoji's aren't working. Probably fixable.~~ Fixed.

domhatch

Well played that man!

ChrisParryPhoto

Looking good

NorioDS

Polls are working again. Took some work in fixing the database tables but it should be all good now!

NorioDS

Looks like emojis are working again 😃

NorioDS

Images are working again 😃

NorioDS

Ok, so while the image uploads are working, the image loading isn't working. The images are hosted on Amazon AWS S3 and their SSL certificate is broken for some reason.

Hang in there, it should resolve itself. In the meanwhile, you can do this to see images:

Right-click an image (or where you know there should be an image).
Open it in a new tab.
When you get a notice that it's not secure, click to ignore that (or whatever the option is).

That should make all forum images work for you for now. (And when Amazon fixes things on their side, images will still work fine for you 🙂

NorioDS

Just noticed something nice in this new version. When you select text to Quote for a reply, it's way more reliable now. I used to have to very carefully select the text and sometimes it wouldn't work unless I did it "just so".

Not true anymore. I can even double-click and triple-click words to select a word or paragraph and it still works.

Good stuff! They're definitely getting closer to a stable version.

NorioDS

Cleaned up the tags on the left a bit.

Before:

After:

A bunch of categories (or tags) went inside "General Guitar" and others. So if it seems like a category is missing, you can find it here:

https://community.guitartalk.co.za/tags

V8

Loving the new way search works...soooo much better!

And the updated emoji's too 👍️ - but then I would 😛

Nice work N - thanks!

NorioDS

V8 Glad you're digging it 😃

I'm definitely enjoying it more, too!

NorioDS

I've implemented a temporary fix for images until an official fix is ready.

So any images you upload will automatically work, now. Enjoy 😃

V8

NorioDS Nice! Thanks Norio!

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NorioDS
Thanks, can you play as well as you can do magic with computers? If so, you deserve a recording contract, big car, cigar, girls, etc., just like Lynrd Skynrd said!