We loaded the latest release this week and here is what's in it:
Forum and Thread URL Optimization
We are making some changes to our URLs, so you may notice that they look different. Any bookmarks you may have will automatically redirect This is to make our URLs shorter and prettier for SEO benefit, concision and readability.
Compact Thread List Page
There's a new forum preference (available from your profile or the forum "preferences" popup) to make the thread list or subforum page more dense. It removes the last post preview from the page and makes the thread title column wider, resulting in a denser presentation that will pack more threads into the same real estate. Here's what that looks like:
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Things to note:
- This setting defaults to off, so you will have to turn it on if you want to use it.
- The on-hover previews are all still there in both views
- We tightened up the mini-pagination bars in BOTH views (they were larger than they needed to be)
- Clicking the timestamp in the last post column will take you to the last post.
- This layout change does not affect Buy Sell Trade forums in any way.
We heard from power users that what they really wanted was an easy way to peruse the active threads and find one to jump into, making maximal use of their screen space. We hope you like this solution!
Editor Work:
We tightened up two things in the BBCode Editor:
1) There are now on-hover tooltips over the buttons so you know what they are.
2) Text will stay selected through button-pushes. You can select a word and press bold AND italic without having to reselect it.
Other Goodness:
- The back button will behave more reliably in Buy Sell Trade forums as you paginate and navigate.
- Classifieds featured in signatures will now show the correct currency symbol
- Cleaned up the edit post history view, making it more readable for certain posts.
- Other minor fixes, nips, tucks and performance improvements
