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

As someone mentioned earlier, you might want to submit a suggestion for a "Page 1, 2, 3...44" post links after each thread, or maybe even just a "last post" or "most recent post" link under each thread.  When you view Unread Content, this feature is no longer displayed.  It might be something you can turn on as well.

The app works well again...

 

20 minutes ago, exciter1 said:

As someone mentioned earlier, you might want to submit a suggestion for a "Page 1, 2, 3...44" post links after each thread, or maybe even just a "last post" or "most recent post" link under each thread.  When you view Unread Content, this feature is no longer displayed.  It might be something you can turn on as well.

The app works well again...

 

This is my biggest complaint so far

submit this for a fix

i can't find a way I can do that

3 hours ago, Elkkthunder said:

This is my biggest complaint so far

submit this for a fix

i can't find a way I can do that

The "blue star/dot" for going to next unread post in the thread is still there... But yes sometimes the page markers were nice.

Grrr...even when I "Clear all" i keep getting the same test notifications every time I view the site. I'm not logging out, just opening up new chrome windows when I come back to browse. I've even tried clicking the block notifications pop up, but I'm still getting this issue.

Edited October 28, 201510 yr by BrickStanley74

I put this in the site update threat, but my new content settings aren't savying. I make and save a new stream and it reverts back to previous settings everytime.

51 minutes ago, rcdb1984 said:

I put this in the site update threat, but my new content settings aren't savying. I make and save a new stream and it reverts back to previous settings everytime.

Just to clarify, when you select your custom stream under Activity -> My Active Stream, it is resulted in the default stream being shown on screen and not based on the settings you saved ?

9 hours ago, BrickStanley74 said:

Grrr...even when I "Clear all" i keep getting the same test notifications every time I view the site. I'm not logging out, just opening up new chrome windows when I come back to browse. I've even tried clicking the block notifications pop up, but I'm still getting this issue.

I think you are talking about the little icon you see in the corner that pops up for alerts.  Just give me a little time with this and I will explain everything on what we will do with it.  I needed to get the scripts out there for setup.  Just ignore for now.

5 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

I think you are talking about the little icon you see in the corner that pops up for alerts.  Just give me a little time with this and I will explain everything on what we will do with it.  I needed to get the scripts out there for setup.  Just ignore for now.

There was a time when I could not clear this yesterday, but was able to do it at night.  

I actually like that little bell.  It saves me from scrolling up to see notifications

6 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

There was a time when I could not clear this yesterday, but was able to do it at night.  

I actually like that little bell.  It saves me from scrolling up to see notifications

 

11 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

I think you are talking about the little icon you see in the corner that pops up for alerts.  Just give me a little time with this and I will explain everything on what we will do with it.  I needed to get the scripts out there for setup.  Just ignore for now.

Thanks, Jeff. Consider it ignored. Like Darth, I too like the idea of it...although every time I see the Bell it makes me want to run out and grab that 4th meal :) 

25 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

There was a time when I could not clear this yesterday, but was able to do it at night.  

I actually like that little bell.  It saves me from scrolling up to see notifications

Just a note, the little bell icon has nothing to do with the forum.  I will explain more over the next day or so. Just waiting to get s few things setup.

On the "view unread content" page, is there any way to make the click/tap targets bigger for opening a thread's unread content? It actually works okay on a computer, but web access on mobile is pretty tricky and sometimes takes me multiple tries to tap on the dot.

43 minutes ago, Darth_Raichu said:

Just to clarify, when you select your custom stream under Activity -> My Active Stream, it is resulted in the default stream being shown on screen and not based on the settings you saved ?

I have a default setting. I make a new stream. Save it as "my stream" it's not saved, don't know where to find it, and it reverts back to the previous default setting.

9 minutes ago, kahuka said:

On the "view unread content" page, is there any way to make the click/tap targets bigger for opening a thread's unread content? It actually works okay on a computer, but web access on mobile is pretty tricky and sometimes takes me multiple tries to tap on the dot.

I will ask them if the main link can take you to the latest post instead of the dot.  Not sure what they will say to that.

The dots are pretty sizable though.  This is a screenshot from my iPad, i will look at my phone later.

7 minutes ago, rcdb1984 said:

I have a default setting. I make a new stream. Save it as "my stream" it's not saved, don't know where to find it, and it reverts back to the previous default setting.

This is where you will find it

8 minutes ago, rcdb1984 said:

I have a default setting. I make a new stream. Save it as "my stream" it's not saved, don't know where to find it, and it reverts back to the previous default setting.

Ok,If you are using desktop browser (ie not mobile), You should see a tab on the top called "Activity".  It is to the right of "Browse".  

If you click on "Activity" it will expand with other options like "All Activity", "My Activity Streams", etc.  Click on "My ACtivity Streams" and it should open up a drop down with a list of streams you can select.  Yours should be listed under "Custom Streams"

All, The forum upgrade has improved the iOS app's speed. Give it a try.

Anyone else using Chrome and constantly getting a browser tooltip/popup near the address bar asking them to Allow or Block notifications?  It continues to show up if I hit Allow, Block or the "x" to close.

I haven't had a chance to play around with everything yet but best thing so far being the forum is fast again compared to the former version that was speedy for a while but in those last couple of months ended up taking an eternity to load the main page and some of the topics also. I spot the little bell dangling in the corner and soon as some notifications come in I'm sure it will be useful. Right now it's just sitting there and seeing it I feel like I should be expecting a phone call. Ha.

Yup, lightning fast now. It's awesome!

With this site update, Ive noticed my brickfolio is still in Aussie dollars, but the valuations are wrong as they are now generated using eBay USA site and prices. I was wondering if it can be corrected.

2 hours ago, ED-209 said:

With this site update, Ive noticed my brickfolio is still in Aussie dollars, but the valuations are wrong as they are now generated using eBay USA site and prices. I was wondering if it can be corrected.

The forum has nothing to do with the price guide.  I just switched my brickfolio over to AUD for both the dataset and currency and it is reporting the Australian prices and totally different than that US prices.

Is the "recent posts" coming back to desktop or is it gone for good? That was really handy...

4 minutes ago, dcdfan said:

Is the "recent posts" coming back to desktop or is it gone for good? That was really handy...

I am not sure I follow?

7 minutes ago, Jeff Mack said:

I am not sure I follow?

Under "Forum Home" I would see "recent posts" on the right side. Occasionally in the past it would disappear but it's now been gone for hours. Now I see "Hot Links" in its place...

 

Edited October 29, 201510 yr by dcdfan

It's there, not sure why you are not seeing it right now.  Anyone else not seeing it?