¶ Summary
Donor release of the new UGX-Mods Forum with many new improvements and features. It has been almost a year now since the last update and a lot has happened since then!
¶ Important highlights from this release
New registration process (not visible / activated yet)
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Preparations for Social Login - soon you can authenticate / link some 3rd party accounts like Twitter, Facebook, Steam, ...
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Mail check for admins and registration mail status for fresh registered users
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CKEditor major improvements, features and fixes
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Added autocomplete for emotes, users and keywords
Type in @username to create a link to an user
Type in #UGX to create a link to our homepage
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Type in :nyan: to see autocomplete of emotes in action 🙂
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Added Gallery and Slider, now you can embed images like a pro! (in the non-beta version it will simply show all images as an fallback)
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Added auto linking, type in www.ugx-mods.com and it magically turns into a link 👍
Added some new buttons which were missing
Option to switch to small, extended and advanced editor.
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Better media embed option, with caching support!
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you need to manually add it now , by clicking the "Insert Media Embed" Button
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Insert emotes has finally a recent used list
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ReCaptcha instead of answer + question / annoying unreadable images
Styling of all major pages - enjoy nicer pages
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Many improvements to mobile version
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including improved Navigation & Dropdowns (go check it out on your smart device 🙂 )
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timezone instead of timeoffset - the time is always your local time now, even during DST (daylight saving time) 👍
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Added support for Gravatar ( https://gravatar.com ) - just select it in your settings (be aware that it won't be shown in the non-beta version yet!)
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Added search below navigation + ability to go to advanced search
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Fix topic sorting 😁 yay
New forum boards child display
- New login popup, simply click the login button
- Share & Subscribe Widgets for forum posts and news
- New shiny improved usercard - it works on all avatars now!
¶ Full Changelog
¶ All tickets for this release
| Key | Summary | T | Created | Updated | Assignee | Reporter | P | Status | Resolution |
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| UGXSMF-248 | Style: Reminder, Code Activation & Password recover pages |
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Jun 02, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-245 | Fix it: navigation code & login |
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May 18, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-243 | Better mobile sub menus |
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May 17, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-239 | "Welcome" box on the homepage |
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Apr 28, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Andy King |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-238 | Improve usercard styling |
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Apr 27, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Andy King |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-237 | Resolve typed urls into links |
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Apr 24, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-236 | [new] bubble hover style |
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Apr 10, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Andy King | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Fixed |
| UGXSMF-235 | Insert Quote has <br/> instead of newline |
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Apr 09, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Fixed |
| UGXSMF-234 | Usercards with same ID don't show in correct location on page |
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Apr 06, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Andy King | Andy King |
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Done | Fixed |
| UGXSMF-233 | Footer zindex is higher than dropdown menus |
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Apr 06, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Andy King | Andy King |
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Done | Fixed |
| UGXSMF-232 | White border shouldnt be on submenu hovers |
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Apr 05, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Andy King | Andy King |
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Done | Fixed |
| UGXSMF-229 | Implement recent emotes in CKE |
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Mar 28, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Alexander Diller |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-223 | Notification popup styling |
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Jan 26, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Michael Hillcox [X] | Andy King |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-222 | Notification counter should match the other button counters |
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Jan 26, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Michael Hillcox [X] | Andy King |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-221 | PayPal Banner missing on PayPal page |
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Jan 25, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Luke Houben |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-218 | num_results for search is always 0 |
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Jan 14, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Andy King | Andy King |
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Done | Fixed |
| UGXSMF-217 | Footer Redesign |
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Jan 13, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Michael Hillcox [X] |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-216 | Search page design needs to be updated to design standard |
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Jan 12, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Alexander Diller | Andy King |
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Done | Done |
| UGXSMF-215 | Tool for quick scroll |
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Jan 06, 2017 | Sept 27, 2017 | Unassigned | Michael Hillcox [X] |
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Done | Won't Do |
| UGXSMF-213 | Remove "Simple Machines Latest News" from Mod CP |
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Dec 26, 2016 | Sept 27, 2017 | Michael Hillcox [X] | Michael Hillcox [X] |
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Done | Done |
¶
Known issues
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Supported Browsers / Devices
- Currently only Firefox & Chrome has been heavily test.
- Internet Explorer 11 & Edge has been partially tested.
- There was no extensive testing on mobile devices yet
- We need your feedback if something isn't working on your device
- There are (apparently) still some annoying issues with CKEditor. We spent a lot of time to improve it, so keep reporting issues!
- Alerts not fully working, well fix and update it for the next version for sure!
- Navigation message and alerts "bubbles" are misplaced.
¶ Special Thanks
I ( Alexander Diller ) would like to thank (in no particular order):
- Andy 'treminaor' King and Luke 'Lukkie1998' Houben for some development support, feedback, testing & reporting in their spare time.
- Mikey (who left Q1 2017) for some general improvements.
- My girlfriend ❤️ who was responsible for many icons (many self made by material design), testing and helped me with design issues + feedback.
- Everyone who is still excited about these great changes, it's been a long time and finally it's getting somewhere!
¶ Whats next?
We await (your) community feedback now ❤️ While working on additional improvements and features, the feedback from the community will be put together into more frequent updates.
It has been a busy year and there will be soon progress on other Applications & Services again - stay tuned!