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[Glenn]

Hello!
Once again we've upgraded the forums to give you more options and a better experience. Most of the changes you'll see are minor, the biggest change you'll notice is that the speed of the forums is faster. This was no small feat, as the entire backend essentially needed to be rebuilt, while remaining seamless to you.

That said, there are few new features noteworthy of mentioning:


Reputation Enhancements
Our forum has featured a reputation system since last year, allowing members to give positive or negative reputation to posts.

In the last update, we enhanced this by adding a new way of viewing the reputation system, in terms of "liking" content as opposed to giving reputation, which is a more common social feature on websites today.

In this new release, we're adding two features to utilize the reputation system in content discovery.


Reputation in user's profile
We've added a new tab to the profile which allows you to see both the content that the member has most recently liked, as well as content the member has made which has been most recently liked.

The tabs at the top allow you to choose which application you want to view content from (forums, pictures, calendar, etc), and also toggle whether you want to see reputation given or reputation received.

Content with the highest reputation
In addition to the profile tab, we've also created a new page (the link to which appears in the footer next to the top posters, etc.) which shows the content which has the highest rating, or has been liked the most. Just like on the profile tab, you can toggle between which application for which you want to view the content.


Misc Enhancements
With every release, we like to spend some time identifying areas which can be improved slightly, and small feature suggestions we can use. This release is no exception, and I wanted to highlight just some of the smaller enhancements we've made to make the forums more powerful and easy to use.

Login autosave
In the update last winter, we introduced a login popup box when you click "Sign In" to make logging in faster. Previously, some browsers would not automatically fill in your username and password like they normally would.

We've changed the way this is loaded so that this is no longer the case. It still works exactly as it did before, except browsers will now be able to autofill your login details.

Emoticons in sigatures
Emoticons (smilies) are now supported in signatures.

Also Tagged With
We've introduced a killer new feature "Also tagged with". This pairs up perfectly with the tagging system to show a list of topics that share tags from the current topic. The matches are forum wide, so it doesn't just return matched topics from the forum you're in.

If you tag a lot of topics up, they'll now show cross referenced below the topic. This makes it easier to find similar posts and topics, especially when you’re researching specific subjects.

I hope you enjoy these new features!

Glenn

[preach4bass]

Thanks!

[Fishing Rhino]

What, no flapper doodles?

[Glenn]

What, no flapper doodles?

Oh yes, they're there...just hidden behind the berfud muddles.

[tomustang]

Cool, Warning Points

[Traveler2586]

Thanks Glenn, I have no idea just how much work all that was for you (I'm a hardware guy, not a software guy) but it's greatly appreciated.

Next time around, do you think we could have a button in the edit box for "favorite smilies" where we can save the smilies we use the most?

Or is there some way to do it now that I don't know about?

[Long Mike]

That's a great idea Eric. I hate having to scroll through hundreds of smilies to find the one I want.

[Raider Nation Fisher]

Thank ya for the work you put into the site. It's greatly appreciated.

[Sfritr]

Thanks for continuing to make BR the leader... It is greatly appreciated by the vast majority of us members. Myhats off to you all

[tomustang]

That's a great idea Eric. I hate having to scroll through hundreds of smilies to find the one I want.

there is the show-all pop-up below the scroll

http://www.bassresource.com/bass-fishing-forums/index.php?&app=forums&module=extras&section=legends

[outdoorsman110]

I FOUND MY NEW FAVORITE SMILIE!!!

[Traveler2586]

there is the show-all pop-up below the scroll

http://www.bassresou...section=legends

Ya, I know, but it's a pain and too time consuming to scroll through when I want something. Just wish there were a way to put my fav's on the smiley bar under the edit window. Some people can remember, and type, the name of the smiley but that's akin to remembering a bunch of passwords
I'm hoping Glenn can add it to the wish list for the next rev. (hint)

[tomustang]

Found mine

[tomustang]

Ya, I know, but it's a pain and too time consuming to scroll through when I want something. Just wish there were a way to put my fav's on the smiley bar under the edit window. Some people can remember, and type, the name of the smiley but that's akin to remembering a bunch of passwords
I'm hoping Glenn can add it to the wish list for the next rev. (hint)

I know what you mean, on other forums I use to memorize the code for certain similes

[Siebert Outdoors]

Its running faster. Thanks Glenn!

What does Warning Points mean?