Forum changelog
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2023 2:23 pm
I've decided to start a thread to track the changes; I usually list them as announcements and then delete old announcements as new ones come up, but I wanted someplace to store a history.
April '23
April '23
- Changed The Garden description to include general discussion rather than 'offline' discussion.
- Moved The Garden to the top of the Discussion category.
- Changed The Atrium board title to The Gazebo.
- Moved The Atrium forum to a new category.
- Renamed the Webweaving board to Computer Lab
- Changed Computer Lab description to include discussion of hardware & software.
- Combined Forum Meta Discussion board with The Yesterweb board.
- Changed Net Café board title to Internet Café.
- Added emojis to board titles.
- Shuffled some misplaced topics to their appropriate boards.
- Enabled Quick Reply on all boards, which shows a basic reply field at the bottom of every thread.
- Updated to latest version of phpBB - if you encounter any errors or bugs, create a post in this board about it.
- We have added a new rule to the forum regarding self-promotion. You can read more about it here.
- The posting guidelines have been updated with a new item: create descriptive topic titles.
- Forum links going out to other websites will now open in a new tab automatically.
- We have spoiler tags! See this post for more details.
- We now allow Gravatar links as avatars, see this post for more details.
- We have made all categories except for the "About" category require login to view the posts, after targeted off-site harassment and monitoring of our members.
- Post reactions have been added to the forum. Users can disable reactions on their own posts in the User Control Panel.
- SmartFeed has been added to the forum.
- Changed Forum Meta Discussion and Webweaving from subforums to top-level forums.