I just noticed that Jim Becker has a nice new huge avatar. Also, I noticed a few more features, such as Tags and My profile looks different. I think we are still in Beta testing for 3.7.
What new features have you noticed?
Dewey
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I just noticed that Jim Becker has a nice new huge avatar. Also, I noticed a few more features, such as Tags and My profile looks different. I think we are still in Beta testing for 3.7.
What new features have you noticed?
Dewey
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"Everything is better with Inlay or Marquetry!"
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No beta testing...the new software is loaded. But Aaron has not gone through all the new stuff yet. Some new things are quite visible. Others are not.
Jim
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dude!!!your photo is huge!!!!in mine i look like some kind of bug... how'd you do it????Originally Posted by Jim Becker
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The method of viewing attached photos is something I really like.
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All,
Please feed this thread with new features you notice and we can use it for reference.
Jim... how do you do that HUGE avatar?
Dewey
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I don't intend to beat it into the ground, but are you referring to...um... the visibility of your um... new... avatar?
Member
I also noted the new photo albums you can access through the User CP. Check out Steve Schlumpf's... looks great. Also, when you lookup a member, the layout of that person's page is different.
Moderator
It's not huge. The new limit is 100x100 and 39kb for avatars. What I do hope is that folks leverage that to make their avatars clearer...I doubt that I'll keep the "James Bond" look up, but it's been a nice chance to see what can be done with a head-shot photo in the larger size. All I did here was cut the shot out of a photo, cleaned it up, resized (97x100 in this case) and blurred the background before saving as a GIF for an even smaller file size. That file is under 6kb due to the way GIFs are constructed.
Last edited by Jim Becker; 05-20-2008 at 10:49 PM.
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Here is the short list of new features. We will have more information on what is new and how it is configured here in a few more days.
* Inline spam management & prevention
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
* Notices system for navigation bar
* Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration
The FAQ (on the menu bar) provides information about some of the new features.
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Last edited by Keith Outten; 05-20-2008 at 11:15 PM.
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On the avatar size feature, Contributors have the option of the larger avatar size in their UserCP.
Jim
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Kieth,
Sounds like a lot more than I thought.
Will we be receiving technical manuals for refernce?
Dewey
Dewey
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Dewey,
The new FAQ on the blue menu bar has some information about the new features. I am like you spending time to try and figure out how the new stuff works.
I think that there is so much to learn that it will be awhile before a majority of our Community get accustomed to and start using many of the new features.
A technical manual would be appreciated but we didn't receive one
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