Thanks for bearing with us while we get the new upgrade running. I'm pleased to say it's all gone smoothly so far!
Clearly the look and feel has changed and hopefully you will be able to find your way around the new layout. Most things are reasonably self explanatory. Here's an overview of the bigger changes and known quirks...
Clearly the look and feel has changed and hopefully you will be able to find your way around the new layout. Most things are reasonably self explanatory. Here's an overview of the bigger changes and known quirks...
- Your Profile
Your avatar should have transferred however the new forum is able to handle a higher quality version so you might want to re-upload it again (or change it). In a similar manor to Facebook you can also add a banner to the header of your profile. Just click on your username at the top right then click on your name again in the pop-up box. - Media
There is now a dedicated section for media (from the main menu). We hope this will be a better place to store photos and videos rather than them getting lost in the main forum. It also displays in a gallery form. There are already some categories to see how it goes such as the "Photos showcase". You can view and comment on photos too. Once a few people have added some to this we'll review how well it's working and make changes as required. In addition to the pre-set categories, you can also add a personal album. - Uploading Photos
The photo uploader is now far better! You can upload up to 10 files with larger limits than before and you now have the ability to place images in any part of your post as well as re-size them in a more intuitive way. You can still add images from an external source but there is now much less need to do so. - Post Likes
Unfortunately it has not been possible to transfer over the 'likes' from the old forum so it's a fresh start on that. However there are now more choices such as love, haha, sad and angry. - Mobile Friendly
The site is now fully mobile friendly so you can use the normal site on your phone or tablet. We've had to remove Tapatalk I'm afraid as it's not supported by this system. - Video
Similar to the old forum, if you post a YouTube (or similar) link to a post, it will automatically embed (show the video rather than just the link). However, any old ones will not show up as videos (just the link). The solution to this is very manual so the mods will be sorting out some of the more recent posts to correct them over the coming weeks.
Although the forum can handle uploading of videos directly, we've chosen to turn that off due to the huge amount of server recourses it uses. It might be something that we look at in the future.
