Yes we will have a new message board upgrade starting here tonight at roughly 10PMCST and they generally last up to 6 hours.
New Features
Updated Features
New Features
- Native emoji support
- Use real emojis in thread titles and post content from your favorite device
- Light / Dark style themes
- User-selectable font scaling
- Modernized profile popups / pages
- Mouse-over (or tap on mobile) usernames to see new User Profile card
- Click/tap on card name to go to new User Profile page
- Unread alert & conversation icon/count in browser tabs
- Number of unread alerts/conversation messages in title text
- A red dot over the tab icon indicates at least one unread item
- "What’s New" content menu
- New forum navigation menu with additional ways to find new and unread threads and posts
- Automatic url summary blocks
- Pasting in a url (that isn't an embed) into a post will auto-create a box with title, thumbnail, and summary (if available from the destination)
- "Quick Thread" new thread tool
- A new box at the top of the thread list for quickly typing in a title and composing a new thread all at once without leaving the page
- Last Post avatar shown on forum lists
- See avatars in thread and forum lists for the most recent poster
Updated Features
- Enhanced embedding from other sites
- More (and better performing) embed types for sites like Twitter, Facebook, reddit, etc.
- Drop the url in the text of the post and it will auto-embed if recognized
- Optimized mobile experiences
- Tap-optimized interactions
- Layout and style tuned for smaller displays
- Lots of additional streamlined functionality
