Announcement New version of the forum software (XenForo 1.4)

[Second Summer]

As you may have noticed, yesterday I upgraded the forum software. If you blinked, you may have missed it, as the forum was offline for less than 2 minutes. This is considered a "major" version upgrade, although there aren't a whole lot of new features or changes for regular users. However, moderators now have the option to ban someone from posting in particular threads, so they are pretty excited

Changes and new features for users, to the best of my knowledge:

• "Online status indicator" displayed on the avatars in threads.
• Changes to quoting, multi-quoting and selective quoting - see updated "How-to" here.
  
• A couple of new options when creating new threads
• Author alerts for moderator actions - moderators can trigger an alert with a short message when they moderate your posts
• Different way to stop watching threads and disable email notifications for watched threads. (Note to self: Update How-to.)
  
• Slightly different display of user statuses on the main page

Mostly the upgrade improves the quality of the software and incorporates features that were previously only available in third-party add-ons. So I've been removing some such add-ons, including the one I developed myself for unwatching threads....

So this is now quite a solid forum software, probably the best one available!