First, let me apologize for the downtime in the forum we just had.  I was not expecting that.  I thought I was doing a quick maintenance release to get ready for this 4.1 update of the forum.  I guess they just pushed the 4.1 update and luckily it went through without any errors.  One cool thing you will want to do is allow the browser notifications.  I think it is very cool if you are active in the forum.  Below is a large list of updates in the release.  The activity stream is also a big update.  You can no configure multiple streams for yourself to get the information you look at most often.  

Key Changes

Changes and New Features Include:

• New menu structure and drag-and-drop menu manager
  • Ability to have two menu levels
  • Option to create both custom-link menu items and embed preconfigured menus
  • Preview before publishing
  • All menu items support group permissions
• Discovery system that allows for both admin and user created Activity Streams
  • Admin-defined streams always visible to users. Users can edit and save admin streams to create their own, custom copy.
  • The main show-all stream automatically tells you when there is new activity
  • Users can create custom streams
  • User streams can be shared but viewer will only see content based on their permissions
  • Filter options include:
    • All content or specific apps. Some apps support further refinement into categories or content-type.
    • Unread content
    • Ownership
      • Content I posted in
      • Content I started
      • Content by specific members (user can create a list)
    • Content I follow
      • Areas I follow
      • Specific content I follow
      • Posted by members I follow
    •  Time Period
      • Any time
      • Since my last visit
      • Specified number of days
      • Specific date range
  • Activity Streams that reference features not available to Guests such as unread tracking and follow system will auto-hide
• Option to serve images via a local proxy script (useful for SSL sites)
• Option to globally disallow remote images in posts
• Ability to preview email template wrapper
• Version number in AdminCP header
• Selective quoting to highlight a bit of a post and quote just that
• Pages application enhancements
  • Now installs with better default content to help new users
  • Pages menu manager removed in favor of Suite-wide menu manager. Upgrade system will attempt to preserve menu items.
  • Blocks
    • New blocks
    • Members block, Blog comments, Blog List, Download comments, Download reviews, Poll block
    • commentFeed/itemFeed based widgets have date limit (today, 7 days, etc)
    • RecordFeed has a customisable title
    • Calendar widget has a calendar selector to restrict events to specific calendar(s)
    • Better selectors for open/pinned/featured selection
    • External Widgets: Ability to add blocks to other websites via generated iFrame code
  • Pages
    • Larger editor box when editing/creating pages
    • More tags in sidebar when editing/creating pages
    • Custom error page configurable
  • Fields
    • Simple relational field added
    • Ability to place fields above or below record content
    • Simple Name: Value display format added
  • Media Manager
    • Ability to upload media for use within Pages pages, CSS, templates and blocks
    • Compatible with designers mode
  • Templates
    • New templates for when viewing the record homepage as 'articles'
    • Ability to export and import templates to share with other IPS4 communities
• Gallery application enhancements
  • New upload image process
  • Images and movies are submitted to the same upload field
  • Image reviews
• Editor updates
  • Uses div-mode which is much faster and more reliable. Clicking into the editor is now pretty much instant.
  • Auto-linking and member mentions to use new APIs for better reliability
  • Quotes, code boxes, and spoilers can be dragged and moved and there is no more "red line"
  • When cmd/ctrl right-clicking: options to remove or break-out of quotes, edit links and edit image properties
  • Pasting asks if you want to convert to plain text
  • Totally new code plugin with syntax highlighting as you type
  • Option to make enter behave as a new line rather than with spacing
  • Editor is responsive, and ability to have small editor show in areas with less space
  • Member @mentions in posts can now be selected by tab key
• Upgrade process
  • New upgrade process where new files are downloaded and installed automatically when possible.
  • Option to set email address for notifications when an upgrade is available
  • Banner shown to admins on the front end when an upgrade is available. It can be dismissed except for security updates.
• Design and interface enhancements
  • Improve typography for titles
  • Better contrast for user-entered text (posts/comments/etc)
  • Brighten background colors
  • Pre-select text in when share popup is opened
  • Make positive/negative colors consistent across all uses
  • Better hover highlighting of 'blended' links
  • Better styling of mentions in posts (both the username, and the menu to select a user)
  • Better contrast for ipsAreaBackground
  • Flatten the default photo image
  • Checkbox/radio buttons now use custom styling, giving themers more control of their style
  • Improve popular/selected post styles
  • Change popular post icon to heart for consistency with likes
  • Make date a permalink for sharing
  • Improve sidebar contrast and block styles
  • Remove tab bar 'stretch' option and use CSS approach
  • Improve attachments dialog
  • Add more IDs to the user bar template for hook use
  • Add X to close mobile nav menu
  • Upgrade FontAwesome to 4.4
  • Select messages for multiple deleting in messenger
  • Make leaving a conversation clearer
  • Improve warning panel in user profiles
  • Move content status icons (pinned, hidden etc.) to start of row
  • Improve cover photo so it automatically puts it into position mode after uploading
  • Android title bar inherits theme header color
  • Added date uploaded to Downloads version dropdown
• Browser notifications for completed actions (such as large file uploads)
• Option to prompt users to re-consent to Terms and Conditions and/or Privacy Policy when you change them in AdminCP
• Search
  • The main search box defaults to the app you are currently browsing unless you are on home page where it searches all
  • New default interface
  • Results now highlight and skip to search term in preview
• Retina emoticons
• Ability to uncheck all when adding Moderators in AdminCP
• Instant Notifications
  • Receive notifications via your Browser Notifications of new Personal Messages and anything in the notifications menu
  • Intelligent auto-polling that only polls when needed to reduce server traffic
  • Browser local storage used, to allow for cross-communication if you have multiple tabs open to further reduce resource use

Yeah i'm not seeing it either.

I don't see it either.

Ok, well maybe you are not cool enough   I will looking into it now.  But it should be there 

Not sue if this has anything to do with it

"Sorry, there is a problem

Something went wrong. Please try again.

Error code: EX1054"

37 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

Ok, well maybe you are not cool enough   I will looking into it now.  But it should be there 

Ha, probably. I see all of the other widgets like latest topics, blog articles, etc. (and in Firebug, I can see it's just literally not there and not just hidden or bad css)

Ok their tech support is looking into it.  Looks like that EX1054 error and that Latest Posts widget might be related.  For now the widget is totally disabled, so the error will hopefully go away.  I will let you know when I hear something.

Recent Posts widget is back on main page.  Looked to be a conflict with the Groups app again and I have notified the developer of that app to see if they can address it.

4 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

Recent Posts widget is back on main page.  Looked to be a conflict with the Groups app again and I have notified the developer of that app to see if they can address it.

Most awesome! Thanks!

Anyone else having no luck using the app on Android? All I get is "Connecting to server..." and eventually it just times out.

Its up to date and tried uninstalling but nothing changed. 

Same here, no luck with the app on andriod platform. However Jeff did mention on another post that he is working on it with the other developers.  we just have to be a bit patient and wait it out. Meanwhile checking and replying on the computer interface is all we can do at the moment.

I created another topic on their site to let them know.  I also sent a PM to the admins, so hopefully I will get some sort of resolution.  Right now the site is running on the latest updated version and their app is running on the latest version.  Not much more I can do until they tell me something to change or update their file.

Can we get a fast button to get to our most recent activity stream instead of going through four clicks each time to get to preferred preferences 

I am not sure exactly what you mean. You can set a default activity stream.

Never sure on where to post this... or whom to email.

The link has been broken for months....

Hover over 'Lego Discounts' and click the Daily Deals (Members only forum) and you get... the following broken link.

Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at www.brickpicker.comhttp.

    Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com instead of www.example.com
    If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
    If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

(the walmart and target links are fine under the merchant discount pages)

easy fix though

Edited November 5, 201510 yr by thekragle

im just saying it takes a lot of click to get to my default stream. i was wondering if we could put that star back up top right like before

2 hours ago, thekragle said:

Never sure on where to post this... or whom to email.

The link has been broken for months....

Hover over 'Lego Discounts' and click the Daily Deals (Members only forum) and you get... the following broken link.

Server not found

Firefox can't find the server at www.brickpicker.comhttp.

    Check the address for typing errors such as ww.example.com instead of www.example.com
    If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network connection.
    If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

(the walmart and target links are fine under the merchant discount pages)

easy fix though

This is fixed

15 minutes ago, rcdb1984 said:

im just saying it takes a lot of click to get to my default stream. i was wondering if we could put that star back up top right like before

you can send a note to the forum developers.  There is already a huge thread on their forums that i started about this, but I highly doubt anything will be done about it.

3 hours ago, rcdb1984 said:

Can we get a fast button to get to our most recent activity stream instead of going through four clicks each time to get to preferred preferences 

Can you describe how you're getting there exactly?

For myself, I have the community.brickpicker.com link saved.  When that loads, I only have to click the "View New Content" button, and I've got the list of topics that have had new activity since I last logged in. 

I guess you could say it's two clicks, since I'm clicking on my saved link, and then clicking on "View New Content."

40 minutes ago, rcdb1984 said:

im just saying it takes a lot of click to get to my default stream. i was wondering if we could put that star back up top right like before

Just create a custom stream, change it to however filtering you want, and SAVE it as DEFAULT.  This custom stream will replace "View NEW Content" link on the top right

got it, didn't know that little green thing was for default. on your phone you cant tell 

To illustrate:

1. Create custom stream

2. Customize the filter to your heart content.  Do not forget to NAME and SAVE the new stream

3. Choose your new custom stream (the name should be displayed on top left).  To make this your default stream, click the grey circle on the right of the name/title.

4. Note when you click the circle it turns green.  Also note the name of your stream replaces "View New Content" on the upper right

Darth - Those are beautiful circles and arrows!

And though they're awesome, have you ever considered using Jing?

5 minutes ago, gregpj said:

Darth - Those are beautiful circles and arrows!

And though they're awesome, have you ever considered using Jing?

Why should I limit my work of art ?

4 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

Why should I limit my work of art ?

You're using work of art rather loosely...  or going for strong imaginative appeal? ;)

work of art

noun

noun: work of art; plural noun: works of art

1. a creative product with strong imaginative or aesthetic appeal.

6 minutes ago, gregpj said:

You're using work of art rather loosely...  or going for strong imaginative appeal? ;)

work of art

noun

noun: work of art; plural noun: works of art

1. a creative product with strong imaginative or aesthetic appeal.

Exactly

On 4-11-2015 16:04:24, boxofcorey said:

Anyone else having no luck using the app on Android? All I get is "Connecting to server..." and eventually it just times out.

Its up to date and tried uninstalling but nothing changed. 

Same here