The How To Use The Forum Thread
With the new forum comes new functionality comes new BBCodes.
MEDIA
Images will remain the same, a simple [img][/img] tag is all that's needed. However, we're looking into adding support for HTML5 Gifs such as .gifv, gyfcat and such therefore this tag is subject to change.
Video has changed. With support for more sites than youtube, the tag is now [ video ]. This supports most websites including Facebook (for a list of supported websites click the insert video button in the advanced reply section). Simply paste the whole URL within the video tags.
Example:
PHP Code:
[ video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P43msx0y3rA[/video]
will produce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P43msx0y3rA
SOCIAL FUNCTIONS
With the new board we've added some extra functionality.
Some of you may be noticing a bar down in your bottom left that looks like this;
http://i.imgur.com/rAvvqJI.png
(If you don't have this bar, you can adjust this in your Settings > Notifications.)
There are 3 functions that have been added
1) User Tagging
Tagging a user works similar to any social media site like Facebook or Twitter. Simply type @InsertUsernameHere in your post which will notify the user of your comment and link it through their activity feed.
2) Quote Notifications
Ever want to take a quick peek back to see whether the conversation you were having earlier has extended? Speed up the process by being notified that you've been quoted. If you don't wish to be notified, simply go to your Settings > Notifications and disable them.
FEATURES INCOMING
-PM Formatting to make long quote sessions more readable - DONE
-Points System to interact with Reputation - DONE
-Multiple Account Prevention + Anti Spam - DONE
-Advanced Quick Reply
-Awards System Done
-Automated Post/Thread of the Month Nominations
BUG REPORTING
I know it's decorum on this forum to piss and moan if something's broken but this place is new so if you could just inform me of any bugs you find via PM, that would be appreciated. TY.
REQUESTS
- What would you guys like to see? Make suggestions and I'll see what can happen.
High Quality Gifs Can Now Be Embedded
Thanks to my googling and SvN's actual talent we can now link high quality gifs!
[gyfcat]TallNeedyBuckeyebutterfly[/gyfcat]
At the moment there are a couple of services that do this. One would be GYFCAT (you'll recognise them by their weird URLs made up of random words)
To embed a gyfcat link here simply take the random word generated like www.gyfcat.com/HilariousCoarseDrongo and but [gyfcat] tags around it to get:
[gyfcat]HilariousCoarseDrongo[/gyfcat]
Then there's ImgUr's gifv service. To do this take the random assortment of numbers and letters like http://i.imgur.com/inc7SbI.gifv (or webm) and put [gifv] tags around it to get:
[gifv]inc7SbI[/gifv]
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Those viewing on mobile simply need to tap the gif for it to load to help save on your data plan.
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Thanks to SvN. Enjoy.