Post by Mr. McMahon on Mar 12, 2016 20:55:13 GMT
Hi guys
Just to keep you all up to speed, since the effort was made to revive DXX we have been playing about with some new features, trying them out, making sure there are no conflicts etc, and have now rolled out some of them board-wide.
First off, not much of a feature as much as a site update, we will be requesting / accepting affiliations once again. We have a brand new affiliates table, and having gone through all previous affiliate requests realised none of the sites were still active. Therefore, our single affiliate at the time of writing is the provider of the d-xx.co.nr URL, but more will come soon.
Secondly, it's now easier to PM all staff than ever before. When entering your messages and creating a new one, in the "Recipient" field simply type "staff", and myself, Assassin and Justin will all receive the PM in one go. Again, nothing major there, but a nice little update to make life that little bit simpler.
There are now collapsible categories on the home page. This is just so you can effectively hide any categories that don't particularly interest you, as if things go to plan there may be some more categories in the near future.
The two biggest updates are primarily the long overdue return of the karma system - I know this had been here originally but the code was out of date and no longer worked, so with much tinkering it was eventually restored in all its glory - with the familiar Exalt and Smite buttons. There is a limit of one karma action per hour at present though, so choose wisely. This limit will probably be reviewed in future depending on how things go.
Finally, as mentioned here, we have a new gallery system in the Graphics section to make your artistic abilities really shine through with some wonderful auto-formatting. Just click "Create Gallery" in the Graphics board and upload some of your work and it should compile them all into a one page portfolio basically - nifty. Give it a go.
We would like to thank you all for continued patience and participation while we continue working to get DXX up to date and improved - it's an endless work in progress, and we are always open to suggestions so please feel free to do so in the Suggestions board. We are presently trialling a few more ideas and may release them board-wide if they prove as good as hoped - a great thing about this version of Proboards is that staff can try these things out while keeping the forum open, as opposed to before when it would have had to go into Maintenance Mode etc.
Thanks again - it's been great talking to you guys again.
Cheers
DXX Staff
Just to keep you all up to speed, since the effort was made to revive DXX we have been playing about with some new features, trying them out, making sure there are no conflicts etc, and have now rolled out some of them board-wide.
First off, not much of a feature as much as a site update, we will be requesting / accepting affiliations once again. We have a brand new affiliates table, and having gone through all previous affiliate requests realised none of the sites were still active. Therefore, our single affiliate at the time of writing is the provider of the d-xx.co.nr URL, but more will come soon.
Secondly, it's now easier to PM all staff than ever before. When entering your messages and creating a new one, in the "Recipient" field simply type "staff", and myself, Assassin and Justin will all receive the PM in one go. Again, nothing major there, but a nice little update to make life that little bit simpler.
There are now collapsible categories on the home page. This is just so you can effectively hide any categories that don't particularly interest you, as if things go to plan there may be some more categories in the near future.
The two biggest updates are primarily the long overdue return of the karma system - I know this had been here originally but the code was out of date and no longer worked, so with much tinkering it was eventually restored in all its glory - with the familiar Exalt and Smite buttons. There is a limit of one karma action per hour at present though, so choose wisely. This limit will probably be reviewed in future depending on how things go.
Finally, as mentioned here, we have a new gallery system in the Graphics section to make your artistic abilities really shine through with some wonderful auto-formatting. Just click "Create Gallery" in the Graphics board and upload some of your work and it should compile them all into a one page portfolio basically - nifty. Give it a go.
We would like to thank you all for continued patience and participation while we continue working to get DXX up to date and improved - it's an endless work in progress, and we are always open to suggestions so please feel free to do so in the Suggestions board. We are presently trialling a few more ideas and may release them board-wide if they prove as good as hoped - a great thing about this version of Proboards is that staff can try these things out while keeping the forum open, as opposed to before when it would have had to go into Maintenance Mode etc.
Thanks again - it's been great talking to you guys again.
Cheers
DXX Staff