On Thursday August 6 at 10 pm pacific time, BeaversEdge.com will undergo a forum upgrade. The higher-ups at Rivals presented this new forum to me last week, and I'm VERY excited about it.
I know no one likes change. Some people didn't like when we moved from the old message boards from about six years ago to what you're seeing currently, but these forums are just objectively much better. And I strongly believe that you all will like the new update.
Our message board host is the same, but we'll be upgrading it to a newer software of it.
Important: If you run into any issues with the upgraded forum, please email me at beaversedge1@gmail.com or post below in this thread.
Here Are The New Features
Updated Features
I know no one likes change. Some people didn't like when we moved from the old message boards from about six years ago to what you're seeing currently, but these forums are just objectively much better. And I strongly believe that you all will like the new update.
Our message board host is the same, but we'll be upgrading it to a newer software of it.
Important: If you run into any issues with the upgraded forum, please email me at beaversedge1@gmail.com or post below in this thread.
Here Are The 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
