Site Upgrade!
- Thread starter Ojai Sam
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Ojai Sam
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The upgrade is complete! We are now running Xenforo 2.0, the newest and (IMHO) best forum software on the planet. Here is a list of some of the new features:
Greatly-enhanced mobile-friendly style
The new XenForo 2 style is the first thing you will notice in XF2. The entire style has been redesigned with a fresh new appearance, but also with mobile browsing at the forefront of the design. When the viewport shrinks, on-page content shrinks, shifts and reorganises itself automatically to optimise the browsing experience for small displays.
A sticky header automatically activates when the window is scrolled, allowing the most important navigation controls to remain available at all times.
Emoji support
All textual content in XenForo 2 now supports emoji, from message text to forum titles.
Retina avatar and smilie support
Avatars and smilies now support high-DPI imagery, allowing for a crisp, high resolution display to match the text on displays that support 2x resolution graphics, such as Apple's retina displays.
Enhanced message editing
Rather than opening an overlay, editing messages is now done entirely in-place, with the content of messages replaced by a full-fledged message editor that allows the complete range of editing and posting actions, including attachment management.
Alerts in favicon
When new alerts or unread conversation messages are available, the site icon (shown in the browser title bar) will have a badge added to it, showing that there are items waiting to be viewed.
Member tooltip
XF1's member card has been replaced with a new member tooltip, which appears on the first click on a member's name. A further click will load the member's full profile page.
Attachments shown in previews
Content previews, such as those seen when hovering a thread title on the thread list page, now include attachments for a more complete and integrated preview experience.
What’s New and Find Threads
To aid in content discovery, XF2 includes a brand new 'What's new' system, which can fetch new content from all sources across the system, including threads and posts, profile posts, media items and resources. Additionally, a new Find threads system provides quick links to unanswered threads (with no replies), threads you have started, and threads in which you have posted.
New media embedding features
The BB Code Media system has been significantly enhanced, and now supports embedding Facebook posts, Tweets, Instagram photos, Reddit posts and comments, Spotify and Soundcloud tracks, albums and playlists and a whole host of others. (This was done with an addon before).
https://twitter.com/XenForo/status/872074244825526273
The integration of oEmbed support allows almost any media to be embedded simply by pasting a link to the media within a message.
Quick thread
Quick Thread is a brand new system for XF2. Above the list of threads on a forum page you will find a title entry box. Focusing this box and starting to type a thread title will load a quick message editor, in which you can post the content for the first post of your new thread. Hitting the save button will then post the thread, leaving you on the forum page rather than redirecting you to the thread page. This makes the process of creating a new simple thread extremely quick and easy.
Please post any problems over in the Bugs thread and we will squash them pronto.
Enjoy the new look!
Greatly-enhanced mobile-friendly style
The new XenForo 2 style is the first thing you will notice in XF2. The entire style has been redesigned with a fresh new appearance, but also with mobile browsing at the forefront of the design. When the viewport shrinks, on-page content shrinks, shifts and reorganises itself automatically to optimise the browsing experience for small displays.
A sticky header automatically activates when the window is scrolled, allowing the most important navigation controls to remain available at all times.
Emoji support
All textual content in XenForo 2 now supports emoji, from message text to forum titles.
Retina avatar and smilie support
Avatars and smilies now support high-DPI imagery, allowing for a crisp, high resolution display to match the text on displays that support 2x resolution graphics, such as Apple's retina displays.
Enhanced message editing
Rather than opening an overlay, editing messages is now done entirely in-place, with the content of messages replaced by a full-fledged message editor that allows the complete range of editing and posting actions, including attachment management.
Alerts in favicon
When new alerts or unread conversation messages are available, the site icon (shown in the browser title bar) will have a badge added to it, showing that there are items waiting to be viewed.
Member tooltip
XF1's member card has been replaced with a new member tooltip, which appears on the first click on a member's name. A further click will load the member's full profile page.
Attachments shown in previews
Content previews, such as those seen when hovering a thread title on the thread list page, now include attachments for a more complete and integrated preview experience.
What’s New and Find Threads
To aid in content discovery, XF2 includes a brand new 'What's new' system, which can fetch new content from all sources across the system, including threads and posts, profile posts, media items and resources. Additionally, a new Find threads system provides quick links to unanswered threads (with no replies), threads you have started, and threads in which you have posted.
New media embedding features
The BB Code Media system has been significantly enhanced, and now supports embedding Facebook posts, Tweets, Instagram photos, Reddit posts and comments, Spotify and Soundcloud tracks, albums and playlists and a whole host of others. (This was done with an addon before).
https://twitter.com/XenForo/status/872074244825526273
The integration of oEmbed support allows almost any media to be embedded simply by pasting a link to the media within a message.
Quick thread
Quick Thread is a brand new system for XF2. Above the list of threads on a forum page you will find a title entry box. Focusing this box and starting to type a thread title will load a quick message editor, in which you can post the content for the first post of your new thread. Hitting the save button will then post the thread, leaving you on the forum page rather than redirecting you to the thread page. This makes the process of creating a new simple thread extremely quick and easy.
Please post any problems over in the Bugs thread and we will squash them pronto.
Enjoy the new look!
