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doublehelix
Guest
I thought it might be helpful to see a summary of features that had been requested and are now present in this new community platform.
For the forums
For Article Comments
We continue to work out the bugs as well. Thank you for your patience.
-dh
For the forums
- Personal messaging has returned, and the login box has been altered to show you when you have new messages.
- You can now go to the first unread post in a thread via the
- Each post has its own dedicated link.
- With one click you can see what the newest posts are throughout the board.
- You can mark forums as read.
- Thread views are visible.
- Hard returns do not result in an automatic double line space, and hard returns in quoted material is maintained.
- Page numbers for any thread with two or more pages is visible on the thread index level.
- There are polls and more emoticons.
- BBCode is used over HTML.
- You can adjust the timezone to suit your own.
- Avatars are larger in the forums (they are still 60x60 in article comments).
- There is a Who's Online function, indicated by an "Online" band on a user's avatar area, visible within a thread.
- You can tell how many registered users this site has via the statistic line toward the bottom of the forums (you can also see total posts, total topics, and the newest member of any board).
- Colors have been toned down with greys and blues.
For Article Comments
- You can now reply to a comment, and it will appear indented (threaded comments) by one level.
- There are additional sorting options, 3 – oldest, newest, most recommended. The default is by oldest.
- Avatars link to profile pages.
We continue to work out the bugs as well. Thank you for your patience.
-dh