Site developement progress and some FAQ stuff
Let me see if I can quickly answer some of these questions...
thanks so much Andrus
anyone can chime in - what does it mean to "follow" someone?
If you hover over a members avatar you can click to "follow" that member. At that point you can click on "What's new from the Nav Bar in the header, then click on "Your news feed", and you will see a list of what the people you follow have posted, as well as the ratings that they have issued.
At this point, The only thing I miss from the old board is the “sort by thread start time” option. There’s an option to sort by the first message but I’m not sure that has the same effect. Other than that I’ve been really happy with everything. Still learning though of course
I am not sure either. I still don't know all of the inner workings of this platform. I run into something new and unexpected every day. However if the sort doesn't work in the same manner, I can put it on my to do list. If then it is possible to incorporate without costing an arm and a leg, I will either do it, or get it done.
For some reason, starting yesterday, threads in which I haven't viewed the latest post are no longer bold for me. Any idea what could have happened? Or is it not just me?
You might see stuff like that happen while we are developing the site. Like for example, I changed the settings on what requisites a post as Trending. That could have caused a cache dump of sorts. I also changes the home URL to the news page and made other tweaks. I am not clear on what causes that sort of thing to happen, as I am no expert on how caching works, I am just stating that you can expect weirdness for a while.
Excellent work my friend.
I can only imagine the work your team is putting into this colossal endeavor.
Thanks Swampy! But my development team amounts to two people, and one of them is me.
I think the site is pretty nifty so far. I have zero complaints, but I do have a question. Will more GIFs become available? I’m fine either way. Thanks Andrus for everything
Not sure that I understand the question. Do you mean Giphy Gifs (That's a 3rd party service) or Avatars? If the latter, the media section has tons of them. A lot of which are no longer in use. Quite a few are duplicates that were uploaded by different members so they have different names. Still... there are a bunch!