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Forums 4 - Release 1 - March 27, 2009

Discussion générale Forums 4 - Release 1 - March 27, 2009

  • 2009. április 24. 3:26
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    Overview
    Forums 4 (the March release) was a complete rewrite of the user interface. The goals were mostly focused on performance, but most other areas of the user interface were re evaluated as they were rewritten.

    Enhancements
    Vast Performance and responsiveness improvements, in some cases increases up to 50%. Most pages improved around 25% or so
    Fixes for globalization Issues, longer strings in many languages would simply break the user interface
    Updates to Top Answerers lists showing the number of answers contributed in the last 30 days
    Enabling moderator features such as “Mark as Answer” in thread preview
    New lighter weight editor
    Entire threads shown in thread preview
    Visual queue for incoming live updated threads
    Question and Answer pairing display in thread view
    Moved My Links to right rail bringing content higher in the screen
    Enable unauthenticated page views to increment the thread view counts
    More visible Helpful Voting user interface
    New treatment for most icons
    Fixes for some edge cases for My Threads list of threads
    Fix to enable category scoped searching, searching from a single category page
    User feedback for events that take time (posting, expanding a thread for preview)
    Ability to select category listed forums for move thread
    Fixes for some users inability to subscribe to live alerts

    New Features
    New “My Settings” page displaying participation  and additional preferences
    Ability to disable tag clouds, live updates
    In-line replies in thread views
    Ability to save favorite forums to “My Forums”
    Aggregate view of favorite “My Forum Threads”

    Other Changes
    Page Based Moderator Tasks -  moved from previous “sliding div” to their own pages
    Dialog Based Moderator Features  - simple alert dialogs for sticky and delete actions
    Thread and Flat View is now a My Settings preference (user setting), not a forum setting
    Queuing implementation for some thread moderator actions, thread locked while queue in process

    Deprecated Features
    Removed filters on thread page
    Persisting expand collapse state of category pages is not yet implemented
    Auto updates on category and thread pages

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