Holy shit I went way too long without installing any forum updates. I’ll try to stay on top of that a little better.
Updates to this software usually introduce some new options and the defaults don’t always work for us, so let me know if you notice something weird and I’ll take a look.
Here’s a quick rundown of some new features that we have:
Spoilers
For spoilers, in addition to the “Hide Details” feature we’ve been using, there’s a new option on the gear menu called “Blur Spoiler”. Just mouseover the blurred section to unblur it some, and click it to completely reveal it, like so:
OU sucks
Navigation Menu / Sidebar
You may notice the new navigation menu off to the left. It is visible by default, but you can collapse it with the menu button in the top left if you so choose. On mobile devices, at the bottom of the menu is a button to toggle between this default “computer mode” (which is more friendly for larger screens like computers and iPads) and a “phone mode” (more friendly for smaller narrower screens) where the menu is hidden and the button is moved to the top right.
There is a “Categories” section where you can customize what categories (e.g. TZ, GZ, etc.) you get links to. By default you get pretty much all of them.
There is also a “+” button at the bottom where you can add your own links section. You can use it for your own personal bookmarks, like specific Astros reporters’ social media, or a “boss button” that loads your work e-mail, or anything you want. I’ve added a “Quick Links” section for everyone that has some stuff I thought might be useful, and am open to suggestions on what to put there.
Chat
There’s a new chat feature. You can show the chat window by clicking the chat bubble in the top right. It can either live at the bottom of the window or you can expand it to fill the whole window. Obviously there’s nothing set up in there right now, but I’m kind of wondering if we can move GameZone discussion there since a chat room is probably more appropriate for faster-paced stuff like live game commentary. We can also archive chat history to a forum thread for safe keeping. Maybe that’s something we can try during a few ST games.
I was playing around with the chat feature on my IPhone and I saw we can create channels, which could obviously be used like the GameZone. My question is it appears you can invite 20 users to a personal channel you create. Is there going to be a way to invite all site users to a game chat?
That’s currently the limit for user-created chat channels. Admins can create channels that everyone can access. Everyone should be able to see a GameZone channel now.
I’m confused. Sometimes the site tells me there are unread topics, but none are highlighted, including topics to which I have posted in the past. It’s almost as if my most recent post isn’t recent enough I’m considered as not interested in the topic. What am I doing wrong?
This is a weird one because y’all are the only two to report this problem. It’s worth checking your tracking settings in your account preferences (click your user icon in the top right → click the person icon). These are my settings and I haven’t had this problem:
I think these notifications take place when a GameZone thread from last year in which you have posted is archived. That’s what it appears to be when it happens to me. I noticed it last year and again this year when the archiving of those threads started to take place.
I made a GameZone chat channel in case anyone wants to try it for the last few spring games. You can find it by clicking the chat bubble in the top right corner of your screen.
