Hello everyone! So, we had an hour or so of down-time this morning so we could do some final work on DB to complete the forum update. This has now been done and we have some new features:
And that's about it! Hope you like the changes and aren't too sad about the trophy situation!
1) On the main page, forum nodes can now be collapsed and expanded and this will be remembered through cookies across sessions (but not devices). If you never look at the Community forums, for example, these can simply be collapsed using the widget on the right of the node. Now, I have enabled this thinking that it would be useful for those users that don't like the Latest Posts section at the top, but unfortunately it doesn't seem to get applied to that!!!! I'm looking into why this is and how it can be fixed, and hopefully I'll be able to apply it there too in the near future...
2) FULL EMOJI SUPPORT! We now have a full set of emoji available from the "Smilies" button in the Rich Text editor. It's a minor thing, but I felt it was important that we had it as emojis really are a part of everyday online conversation.
3) The return of the dreaded DISLIKE BUTTON. Yes, we have added in a dislike button to the reactions for posts. I know this is something that a lot of people aren't happy about, but I do feel that it's important to be able to register dislike over someones content or behaviour, and it is offset by the fact that the Love reaction is worth 2 likes... That said, we WILL NOT TOLERATE ABUSE OF THIS REACTION, so use it sparingly and only when it is justified. I don't want to see revenge dislikes for negative comments on games, or dislike spamming on a user because they happen to hold an opinion you disagree with. I should mention that the points are awarded as: Like and Ha-Ha are +1, love is +2 and dislike is -1... the others are all 0, so "neutral" (each reaction should now have its value beside it, to clear up any ambiguity... Thanks @Alice for the CSS!)
4) I promised trophies and/or badges for users after this update, but sadly it's not going to happen at the moment. The built-in Xenforo trophy system is pretty bad and I've been looking at addons that create a better and more fun system. However, for various reasons, none of the ones available are applicable for the GMC and so it'll have to wait for now. This doesn't mean it'll never happen, just that it's not going to happen right now.
And that's about it! Hope you like the changes and aren't too sad about the trophy situation!
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