Forum Update April 2021

[jks9199]

Folks,
You might notice a new look and some changes. The team at Forum Foundry has updated the Xenforo software and shifted some security settings. You shouldn't notice much of a change, but let us know if there are problems.

Jks9199
Administrator

 

[John G]

Folks,
You might notice a new look and some changes. The team at Forum Foundry has updated the Xenforo software and shifted some security settings. You shouldn't notice much of a change, but let us know if there are problems.

Jks9199
Administrator

The site should also be considerably faster as it is now using HTTP/2 and some additional caching/compression techniques.

 

[_Simon_]

Awesome, thanks for the heads up!

Do you know if the forum is still enabled on the Tapatalk forums app? It's my primary way of accessing MT, it doesn't appear to be working on there at the moment... thanks

 

[Deleted member 39746]

Wait, its finally been made a HTTPS site, huzzay.

 

[dvcochran]

The new appearance looks good; industrial.
As far as functional communication is concerned loosing the agree button makes no sense. Clicking 'love' when I agree with someone is simply wrong. And rather creepy.
Hopefully all the backend changes make it an easier/better site to maintain. Just don't forget about how people communicate.

 

[Xue Sheng]

I'm so confused
But it looks good

 

[Gerry Seymour]

The new appearance looks good; industrial.
As far as functional communication is concerned loosing the agree button makes no sense. Clicking 'love' when I agree with someone is simply wrong. And rather creepy.
Hopefully all the backend changes make it an easier/better site to maintain. Just don't forget about how people communicate.

Agreed.

 

[Xue Sheng]

The new appearance looks good; industrial.
As far as functional communication is concerned loosing the agree button makes no sense. Clicking 'love' when I agree with someone is simply wrong. And rather creepy.
Hopefully all the backend changes make it an easier/better site to maintain. Just don't forget about how people communicate.

Admittedly I'm confused when it comes to the new layout, but I don't see love or agree anywhere

 

[Steve]

Admittedly I'm confused when it comes to the new layout, but I don't see love or agree anywhere

It's like FaceBook, where you sort of click on the like button and some additional options become available. Choices are like, love, haha, wow, sad, and angry.

I guess it's up to us how we choose to reinterpret those.

 

[dascrow]

Awesome, thanks for the heads up!

Do you know if the forum is still enabled on the Tapatalk forums app? It's my primary way of accessing MT, it doesn't appear to be working on there at the moment... thanks

No, there have been some security issues with Tapatalk in the past and we will no longer support it. However, the new software update provides a much better mobile experience.

 

[Xue Sheng]

It's like FaceBook, where you sort of click on the like button and some additional options become available. Choices are like, love, haha, wow, sad, and angry.

I guess it's up to us how we choose to reinterpret those.

Thank you, I don't do FaceBook, so I had no idea, thanks

 

[Steve]

Thank you, I don't do FaceBook, so I had no idea, thanks

To be clear, I don't "LOVE" your last post, but options are limited.

 

[dascrow]

To be clear, I don't "LOVE" your last post, but options are limited.

I'll see if we can add some more options there.

Also the new upgrade now offers quite a few emojis that can be used.

 

[Gerry Seymour]

I'll see if we can add some more options there.

Also the new upgrade now offers quite a few emojis that can be used.

If options exist, I’d personally like to see the old options there. Some new ones might be welcome, but we’ve mostly become accustomed to using the previous reactions to communicate here.

 

[dvcochran]

To be clear, I don't "LOVE" your last post, but options are limited.

And you know, in screen development adding 'agree' as an icon choice is about as easy as it gets.

 

[Monkey Turned Wolf]

A smaller issue; the top 10 posters of the month on the home page was changed to top 10 posters of all time. Which is pretty static and doesn't really give us any info about who's been active this month.

 

[_Simon_]

No, there have been some security issues with Tapatalk in the past and we will no longer support it. However, the new software update provides a much better mobile experience.

Ahh that's a shame.. was handy having all my forums on there.. all good I'll get used to it. At least I have other options apart from just 'Like'!

 

[Tez3]

It looks good, easier on old eyes.

 

[dvcochran]

One other observation. On the old platform it was very easy to tell what alerts have and have not been read. On the new platform there is no was to tell. Am I missing something?

 

[_Simon_]

One other observation. On the old platform it was very easy to tell what alerts have and have not been read. On the new platform there is no was to tell. Am I missing something?

On my phone it shows a little circle on the bottom right of each alert, if it hasn't been read it'll be black, otherwise it's see-through (all the ones in this image are see-through/already-seen alerts)