New Features and Fixes Aug 17, 2011

[Cynthia Mosher]

The latest new features and fixes:

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:

 

(click image to magnify)

 

Standard view:

 

New view:

 

 

 

You can enable it in your profile settings here: 

 

Things to note:

• This setting defaults to off. You may enable it in your profile.
• 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. 
• The logged-out thread list page will always use the older, less compact layout because it contains more rich text info.

 

 

Editor Work:

 

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 image chooser in the admin panel now lets you input an image URL instead of forcing you to upload a file (featured content tool was the main pain point on that).
• 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
• In some cases users who modified their posts-per-page setting could not switch back to the site default value. That's fixed.
• Other minor fixes, nips, tucks and performance improvements.