It's a new dawn, it's a new day, it's a new year foooooooooor me... (sorry, I'll turn off the karaoke machine)
Well, it's been a few weeks since I last pontificated on where things are going, and thought it would be nice to get on with this again
Since then it's been busy, but mostly lots of little improvements rather than huge things...
* Bug fixes, lots of squishes.
* Various things we're not using any more but that are still lurking in the code got cleaned out.
* Copyright year - we know this is a problem with people wanting the footer to be updated every year even when the software doesn't update, and then when we do do an update it doesn't always get pushed out to the footer because of languages. So finally we fixed that nonsense
* Closing/unignoring/reopening reported posts now gets logged in the moderation log.
* The memberlist now says 'name' instead of 'username'. It's the little touches.
* When viewing the list of topics in a board, let's use that board's description for a meta description.
* When adding/removing people on your buddy list or ignore list, show a nice message to indicate changes have been saved.
* The board index code got overhauled; it's now easier for mods to add things to the info centre.
* When making thumbnails, SMF now uses a slightly higher quality than before - not significantly larger files but visibly improved.
* Integration functions have stronger support for classes.
* Group requests are now logged; before, closing a request (either by accepting or refusing) would delete the request, now all the request history is logged, including who approved/refused a request and if it was refused, for what reason.
* After posting from quick reply, the default is now to go back to the topic instead of to the board listing. (This will be applicable for new installs; upgrades will not touch the settings applied)
* For folks still using WAP2/imode, the unread/unread replies links are now up top rather than at the bottom on the board listing.
* When deleting an account, the option for deleting an account or deleting all the user's posts are made clearer.
* Quick reply is no longer configurable as an option, it's just always on. Keep it simple
* The default theme now uses HTML5 rather than XHTML. This will require us to go through and do a thorough review of the theme, but this isn't a bad thing.
* We don't have the 'hot topics' functionality any more - we did experiment with making it more visible but in the end it just worked out better just to remove it entirely.
* The default date format is now shorter - for English, for example, instead of 'January 10, 2014, 02:30:00 AM', it now uses 'Jan 10, 2014, 02:30 AM'
* The 'resize avatars with JavaScript' and 'resize avatars with HTML' option is gone. If you don't allow external avatars, or that you set it to download and resize external avatars, nothing has changed. But if you previously told it to use HTML or JavaScript, the option is now replaced with a 'resize in the user's browser', i.e. CSS. A simple tweak but worth doing.
