The new forum software has rolled out, and we are all very excited about the new changes! As IPB moves their support to 3.2, so too do we upgrade the forum with some of the latest features, bug-fixes and more that will make the forums even better than before. We will continue to make minor adjustments to the site in the coming days, so expect such changes to pop up from time to time.
Listed below are many of the updates included in today's upgrade - take a look!
Writ 2.0.2
- Social Networking - You can like your favorite articles on Facebook, twitter, and Google +
- Rate Articles - Vote for your favorites articles to let our authors know how great it is
- Watch Articles - You can now track articles and watch them for updates.
- Active Topic Block - This replaced the recent post block which gives a more accurate recent post history.
- Forum Filters - Now filter by your favorite forums on the active topic block.
- Tons of Bug Fixes - We fixed a ton issues that many site leads and users were facing.
- Stability improvements - We wanted writ to run a bit easier on a site, so we fixed up a ton of things to do just that.
- Improved Account Merger - We improved our system just a bit
- Newsletter Signup - You can now sign up for the Curse Newsletter
- Stability Improvements - Tidy up the code means the site will run it better
- Youtube Subscription - You can now subscribe to the Curse YT channel
- Stability Improvements - The video system was a little bloated, so we made it run a little bit better on the site.
Huge update.. lots of changes..
2) BBCode support (a.k.a. shortcode) seems to have been removed in this version. IPB isn't a normal forum software, so this problem might not be on Curse.
3) The good part is the Curse integration. Very useful, when traveling across Curse sites, and very similar to WordPress.
Ruined everything about my post on my map, f**ked up my signature, removed the videos from my post, scrambled all my formatting, the videos disappear when i edit the post, it is laggy as hell, it doesn't register some of my typing, makes my profile comments look like i posted them, wont let me load the interface, uses WAY too much memory, and i cant see who is viewing my post. FIX IT PLEASE!!!!!!
Im ashamed you would call this an upgrade.
Glad to see Recent threads and Notch's tumblr on the home page.
Like many others, i was stressed with the fact that my thread OP looked like a syntax tornado had just been there. But after finding the cleverly hidden 'edit' button and saving the post, everything pretty much seemed back to normal. For the most part I was able to save my whole post without too much trouble. It looks almost like it did the day before except one thing. I cant seem to get Horizontal Rule to work. Its one of the things that you dont realize how important it was to you until its gone. I know its just a freaking line, but it makes things look so much neater and organized. Is anyone else having this problem? Should i just learn to live without it? LOL
-LK
IPB ftl.
I keep triple-posting!
Please fix this, It's really annoying!
As for technical problems, I miss having a profile picture and an avatar. Now I can only have one pissed off homicidal creature to represent myself, rather than two. Also, I re-cropped my avatar, yet it appears messed up when displayed. I'd rather just have separate images so that this sort of thing wouldn't be problematic.
EXCUSE ME, it means you have to edit EVERY. SINGLE. POST. you made with URLs and pictures. Think about it. Also, I have to re-upload and crop my goddamn profile picture now since you swapped the places with the User Profile image and the Forum Post image and it can't upload my rectangular profile picture! Please know that not everyone is always going to like every single of your updates!
No, stating that it loads faster does not automatically outweigh everything bad about this update.
*Clap Clap Clap Clap Clap*
You may be the second best ranter on the forums (after me, of course :P).
-More lag!
-Failed page loads!
-502 errors everywhere!
-Ugly new look!
And best of all, when you try to load a normal page, you get a compressed version!
Enjoy your new software!