Version 6.7.5 Released - Forum Updates & Much More!

[GL_Support]

Greetings,

We have just released Version 6.7.5. This release contains major forum improvements, some much needed DKP export options, and quite a few subtle but important usability enhancements. Usability improvement is a major release goal through the end of September (and longer if needed) along with focused and important forum enhancements. We were going to call this release 6.8, but in the interest of controlling the ever rising release numbers we've changed it to 6.7.5.

Version 6.7.5 Release Notes

Major Changes

Forum Read Flags

The forum read flags have been completely overhauled. You should see much better usability from the read/unread flags. Most notably logging out and into the site will not immediately clear you unread flags.

With this changes it will be more important to use the "Mark all forums read" option at the bottom left of your forum index page so that you don't have unread posts hanging around. This will allow you to clear unread posts once you know you've read the ones you care about.

Note: This change means that any existing "read" information isn't being used. So, when you login the first time you will have a bunch of "unread" posts that you have actually read. You can use the "Mark All Posts" option at the bottom of your Forum Index to clear them out. From then on the flags will behave as you expect.

I fullly expect these changes will take a touch of getting used to. I am also very confident that it is a much more usable system. We welcome any feedback, but the real benefits afforded by these changes may take some using of the system for you to notice. Particularly if you often login multiple times in a day and don't want to have to read every new post every time you login or risk missing one.

Roster Auto Imports

Roster Auto Imports are now working for subscription sites. Character auto-imports will be turned on in the next release. These changes required a fairly fundamental change to our approach to the auto updates which is why these changes took longer than we had hoped.

Customization

The Basic Customization options have been refined and distilled down. The new page allows for an effective, but focused, set of customization options that should be more intuitive for the average user. The more advanced options are still available. This new page allows you to change: Navigation & Sub Navigation Links, Widget Links, Content Links, Widget Titles, Content Titles, Widget backgrounds, Content Backgrounds, Widget text color, Content Text color, forum links and forum quote links. After observing user behavior and receiving feedback we determined that those items comprised the "basic" customization and fit better with how people perceive the site.

Templates

Dark Age of Camelot

This template has been asked for a lot, so a simple DAoC template has been added.

Eve Online

5 new Eve Online templates have been added. They include one general template and 4 faction specific templates (Minmatar, Caldari, Gallente, Amarr). These templates include Eve styled widget headers and Eve styled forum icons

Final Fantasy XI

Another FFXI template has been added with more Final Fantasy XI styling (as opposed to FF styling).

Enhancements

* All logins that originate from a guild site should now take the user to the guild site's login page if the login is incorrect. There were a few instances where users were still being taken to the main Guild Launch site. This has been fixed.

* The "Guild News" widget is now a full blown widget. This means you can configure it with different forums and different date ranges and different Member vs. Non-Member visibility if you want.

* Vimeo embeds are now available in the forums.

* Multiple pools can now be exported at one time into the DKPmon data file. There is also some sample text for the example.lua files so that you can name your in-game pools the same as the pools on the site more easily.

* When a site is transferred the unclaimed characters for that guild will now be transferred to the new admin.

* Permission groups now have improved navigation so you can configure the permission group without as much clicking.

* The timezone is now shown on calendar times.

* There is now a YouTube widescreen embed option.

* An indicator that height and width is required for Flash banners is now on the site

* The Guild Roster profile upload limit has been increased to 800k

* The Admin widget has been removed. All of the functionality available on the widget is available in other locations in the Admin area

* CSS loading has been improved to reduce "white flashes"

Bug Fixes

* A CAPTCHA validation issue that was allowing some posts to go through without a CAPTCHA has been fixed.

* An issue causing some Warhammer servers to not be found when uploading a character profile has been fixed.

* Some shoutboxes were referencing an incorrect stylesheet, this has been fixed.

* The YouTube embed now correctly shows the Fullscreen option

* Poll permissions have been fixed

* An issue where video embeds in Wiki and custom pages were not editable without messing up the video embed has been resolved.

* A couple of typos have been fixed. Character uploads no longer have an Italian accent.

* The Raid Progression widget now formats itself better when in the center

* FileFront videos can now be embedded again using their embed code and wrapping it in the FileFront tags.

Performance

* Some queries have been optimized for performance

[Mithoron]

ZOMG, is there a charge for pure awesomeness?

[~Katz~]

So, the upgrade today wiped out all of our customizations... any way to get them back or do we have to start all over?

Nevermind....they are back now. :P

[GL_Support]

[GL_Support]

[~Katz~]

Wow you guys are fast. Thanks for the amazing support...You guys rock!

[Tasburath]

Is the ability to sign up folks for raids by signing up groups they are a part of still on your list by chance?

[GL_Support]

[Mobstersinc]

The "View More Emotions" button seems not to be working. Sorry to be picky

[GL_Support]

[Mobstersinc]

I'm using the latest FireFox Version, was working prior to the new release. The option is on the left of what I'm writing now under the main Emoticons. I added extra Emoticons a while ago.

[Agate_dotp]

I used to read my guild's forums using the "View posts since last visit" link, but it's gone now. I guess that makes sense, since the forums no longer care about when your last visit was.

But I really need to have a list of threads with stuff I haven't read yet. I decide whether I need to read something based on the topic title, which isn't visible on the main page.

Help!

[Mithoron]

[~Katz~]

The "view posts since your last visit" button seems to be gone. Oh No....my favorite button. :P

[GL_Support]