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Clean cache and reload. New forum is here!

We finally uploaded the long-awaited Forums update. Try and and let us know if you find any issues.

Note that we have exactly the same Forum for the next version of Dolphin (7.0.3), so do let us know your impressions.

So, the new Forum...

This update brings a lot of improvements, visible and less visible. Some of the most notable:

1. New "Home" page that shows "Recently Updated Topics", wich seems to be the most convenient way to follow Forum updates.

2. Renewed "Forum Index".

3. Horisontal layout.

4. Moderation Features - moderators can hide/move topics and hide individual posts.

5. Speed. We removed more of the unnecessary AJAX effects, improved layout and some code pieces to make forums work faster.

6. Back button functionality improvement.

7. Possibility to re-order Forums and expand them by default in Groups

8. Delete entire Topic.

9. Focus to tinymce editor when quote link is pressed.

10. No-edit after some time.

11. Signatures.

12. RSS feed for recently updated topics.

13. New default icons.

14. Google-like loading indicator.

15. File attachments.

You will also find some smaller changes and fixes, and they're still coming. We have a few little things in the pipeline that we plan to add during the week.

Enjoy the new Forums!

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Stuart038
Looks good, just one caveat! Is it possible for the Index Menu to remain when I click a forum such as Dolphin 7 (Ajax would be good) I hate it when the entire screen redraws...
houstonlively
Stuart... don't make me hurt you.
houstonlively
How about adding pagination to 'My Topics'
Andrew Boon
Pagination in the post and "My Topics" are not included yet, but we are working on them.
houstonlively
Any chance of ever having subcategories?

HTMLPurifier... instead of a different post filter than the rest of the site?
Andrew Boon
Subcategories - yes, eventually. So far we haven't considered this issue as pressing.

HTMLPurifier - yes, planned.
Stuart038
The Forum needs to automatically refresh, this is a must.
Stuart038
HL, you are a card :-)

(English saying, it means you are funny)
houstonlively
Stuart... learn to hit F5. Learn it... love it.... live it. Soon you'll forget all about the useless ajax, that is now gone.
jctwebsites
Awesome work BoonEx! Thanks! One of the things I ask for was an extended recent post feature...and looks like I got it! It will definitely make using the forums a whole lot easier! Keep up the great work!
dolphin_jay
I vote for photo insert option. meaning i really dont feel like uploading a photo to my domain and then have to insert into a post from my domain... You can upload photos to every module in dolphin. Might as well include this for forums.

I suppose file attachment will have to do if i must.
Andrew Boon
File attachments and/or Dolphin's photos module may be used for that. For now, I think that maintaining one more photos repository for Forum uploads, plus functionality to make thumbs, rescale, convert, etc. would be too much.
hd4real
Looks good. Definitly an improvement. Keep it up.
theguypc
NOOOOOOO - ME WANTS MORE AJAXIFICATIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

A "Please Wait" screen with a countdown timer for any thread updates would be nice too. ha ha
zigojacko
Does it let you re-order sub forums?
Andrew Boon
Yes, you can now re-order groups.
Nathan Paton
I come here today with blind hope. I have not been disappointed. This is bittersweet.
Nathan Paton
Edit: Sigh... I see you still haven't fixed the editors. I highly recommend testing your website with Opera.
Andrew Boon
We're updating the editor now - this is one of the things that are still coming.
mods4dolphin
Forum looks nice and loads faster. The new options look good.

Here's my suggestions going forward:

I think style needs to be changed and make it look more lively.
Secondly, I think all the main forum categories should be in the middle like before and recent topics underneath it.

Thanks for the great work and software :)
Zarcon
Finally, A way to moderate the forums :)

Thanks for the updates !
killerhaai
It looks already some better, but I prefer at the moment a externallly phpbb3 system. sorry Andrew.
Most Of my customers need special member forums for diffrent levels and I don't so this will be happen in Orca/
124c41plus
I'm with dolphin_jay. Need a photo insert option to insert photo directly into post.
DeeEmm
Will the upgrade from orca old to orca new be transparent???

IE will you be changing URLS again??
Will you be transferring all data over too??

Personally think that there is still some way to go. Will be interested to see how the new integration is executed

/DM
Andrew Boon
Upgrade of forums in Dolphin should be simple - same URLs, same DB. Just a new page and added functionality.
 
 
 
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