Forum Upgrade

[retailworld]

This evening, between 21:00 -21:20 we upgraded the forum, which caused a small amount of downtime, for which we apologise.

The update was needed for several reasons, but shortly we will be implementing some new features - please see below for the full release details (many of these are admin features in this release):


Here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights:

Social group discussions
Social group categories
Private message sorting and filtering
Private message history
Quick edit for newer types of content (visitor messages and picture comments)
Social group icons
Social group transfers
Private message quick reply
Private message throttling (limit messages sent over a time period)
Private message reporting
Profile privacy (limit blocks to a subset of users)
Lightbox navigation
Thread prefix permissions
Dismissible notices

[retailworld]

We have started to implement some of the above features, as well as updating some template changes to improve the site.

We will be making a number of changes to the user control panel as well, which should make it easier to use.