Collimatrix Posted February 7, 2017 Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 I thought I would put this where everyone could see it, since we've finally started doing meaningful changes to the forum, it would be good to document them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 7, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 7, 2017 February 6, 2017 The chat feature, while popular, was seriously misbehaving. Furthermore, every time it misbehaved it would automatically send an email to Sturgeon's email. So I've disabled chat until we can find a long-term fix. This could take some digging. The built-in chat function that comes with Invision 4.x will be disabled anyway on May of 2017. So we'll have to find some sort of add-on chat software. In the meantime, we still have the SH teamspeak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 9, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2017 February 9, 2017 There was a small patch to the software which included some updates to chat. I tested it a bit, and have turned chat back on as it seems to be behaving now. LoooSeR and Zyklon 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 February 22, 2017 Added a "who is online" bar to the bottom of the forum, just like it was before the 4.1 update. Belesarius 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 February 22, 2017 Added favicon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Donward Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 Oh. Hey. There's a stylized "S" on the tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Belesarius Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 1 hour ago, Collimatrix said: February 22, 2017 Added favicon. WTF is favicon? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted February 22, 2017 Report Share Posted February 22, 2017 17 minutes ago, Belesarius said: WTF is favicon? That little S in the browser tab. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 24, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 24, 2017 February 24, 2017 The forum now supports embedded facebook posts. Simply copypaste the URL of the facebook post into your forum post: And the forum software will automatically embed it. Use this newfound power wisely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted February 28, 2017 Author Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 February 27, 2017 I've been trying to figure out exactly how the embed function works, and what will work and what won't work. Sadly, the exact limits of the functionality are not documented anywhere that I have found yet. Embedding from Youtube, Facebook, Twitter and Imgur definitely does work. I have also enabled Google Plus One, Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Stumbleupon, and Pinterest, but haven't tested any of these yet. Embedding from College Humor, GfyCat, Hulu, Instagram, SoundCloud, Ted, Spotify, Vimeo and Vine are also enabled by default, but I haven't checked all of these. Possibly other things work too; I never turned on an option for embedding imgur albums, nor is it listed anywhere, but it does embed. One thing I have discovered is that mobile.twitter URLs will not embed correctly. This is easy to fix; just lop off the "mobile." part, and it will embed just fine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T___A Posted February 28, 2017 Report Share Posted February 28, 2017 15 minutes ago, Collimatrix said: I have also enabled Google Plus One, Digg, Del.icio.us, Reddit, Stumbleupon, and Pinterest, but haven't tested any of these yet. Reddit embed works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2017 March 10, 2017 Invision 4.1 added a bunch of features that are turned on by default, and I'm still figuring out what they all are and what they all do. I am slowly going through the list and playing with them, not because I think they are the most amazing features in the world, but because I want to see what they are and how they work. One that seems to have some value is acronym expansion. The forum has a hidden list of acronyms that will automatically be underlined, and if you hover your cursor over them an expanded definition will pop up: NERA Another thing has supposedly changed, but I have not tested yet is that you should be able to add an unlimited number of tags to your posts. Previously it had been limited to 10. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 10, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 10, 2017 March 10, 2017 I have re-arranged the links in each forum subsection so they take up less room. Xlucine and LostCosmonaut 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2017 March 22, 2017 If you want to embed a video from a website that does not auto-embed into your post, here's how you do it: 1) Hit the "source" button in the upper left hand corner of the editor. 2) Paste the embed code for the video. 3) Hit "source" again to toggle it off, and proceed to write the rest of your post. If you just paste embed code in the normal editor mode it turns into horrible HTML vomit and doesn't embed properly. I don't know why, it just does. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bronezhilet Posted March 22, 2017 Report Share Posted March 22, 2017 I'm not seeing a source-button anywhere. I saw it on the previous forum software, but it vanished with the update. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 22, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2017 Whooooaaaahh. Good catch, thank you for telling me that. OK, sorry folks, ignore what I just said. The "source" button only exists for administrators, and for good reason. It isn't just limited to embedding videos, it allows posting of raw HTML of any sort. Obviously, I am not the world's best administrator, but even I know that turning this forum into everyone's HTML sandbox is a bad idea. I will check to see if there is a more fine-grained option in the Admin CP to allow embedding non-supported videos, but I doubt it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 March 23, 2017 I have added three new and useful emoticons: Sturgeon, T___A and Zyklon 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 23, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 March 23, 2017 Changed the default return key behavior to go to a new line rather than starting a new paragraph. It was driving me nuts. Sturgeon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxn Posted March 23, 2017 Report Share Posted March 23, 2017 Oh thank god I'm not the only one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 I cleaned up the top bar. There were a number of redundant and unused default items that I deleted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted March 31, 2017 Author Report Share Posted March 31, 2017 March 31, 2017 Added a number of links to the various links list, mainly suggestions from the forum nobility. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted April 3, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 3, 2017 April 2, 2017 Added several buttons to the editor. These are subscript and superscript (useful for writing chemistry and mathematical equations), remove formatting (so when you copy-paste text it doesn't look strange), spoiler, undo and redo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Collimatrix Posted May 2, 2017 Author Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 May 2, 2017 Chat service was discontinued by Invision, so I removed the button. We are still considering replacements. What does everyone think of Discord? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sturgeon Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 Seems OK Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ApplesauceBandit Posted May 2, 2017 Report Share Posted May 2, 2017 I suppose it's nice that right after I reluctantly installed discord, I've been given more things to do in it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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