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New forum features

Post by Eugen »

I have added extensions to the stock forum to add the following features:

1. Display recent threads on the main page
2. Thank you for the post button, sort of like a Like button (see upper right hand side of each post, next to the Quote button)
3. National flags; every user can choose a flag which will be displayed next to their avatar
4. Tapatalk functionality so you can add our forum to your tapatalk app
5. Auto-resize images on the server. This is a time saver. You don't have to resize images before uploading them, they will be resized to 1280 pixels width and proportional height
6. Preview thumbnail of images to be uploaded, and ability to rotate them upon upload.
7. Ability to embed youtube and vimeo videos in your post. There are two buttons rightly named youtube and vimeo, which, when you're posting, will insert in your post a BBcode like this

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[vimeo][/vimeo]
or

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[youtube][/youtube]
then all you do is copy the video IDENTIFIER from the youtube or vimeo link. The identifier is usually the last string of characters after the equal sign in the case of youtube. Example for youtube: if this is the link to your video

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nDqh3226a78

then the video IDENTIFIER is nDqh3226a78, therefore to embed this video in your post you do this:

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[youtube]nDqh3226a78[/youtube]
Same thing for vimeo, for this vimeo video link

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https://vimeo.com/458668111
you would insert the following in your post:

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[vimeo]458668111[/vimeo]
Example vimeo here:
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Re: New forum features

Post by Eugen »

8. From the beginning I decided that a color scheme based on Power Red and Desert Sunset would be best for a Case forum. Took me some time to find the hex values for these shades, and then to modify the theme colors. Still haven't finished, but at least you know why color may be changing from time to time.
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We had two reports of people trying to create new accounts and the image verification was too difficult to read. Never mind that two spammers got past it already the stupid image verification :13:

Therefore, I changed the verification to be question and answers. Should be much easier for us Case people!
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Cleaned up a bit the smilies existing smilies, added describing emotions to those we kept, and added a few from a site I used to be admin on long time ago and I liked, like :cheers: :drink: :smash: etc. enjoy!

I'll look into making some tractor smilies :D
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Post by Eugen »

Courtesy of our own Spike :smash: , the Case creeper guy smiley: :creeper:

hang tight, now we know how to make our own smilies! :drink: :cheers:
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Re: New forum features

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Thanks Spike the creeper guy is Amazing!
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Post by Eugen »

A new smiley:

:446cart:

Needs a little more work, but it's not so shabby like this either.

Featuring one of Spike's 446 tractors and that nice Case garden cart!!! :smash: :smash: :smash: we're on a roll here! :spin: :cheers:
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Re: New forum features

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A small improvement, I think. Don't know how many of you noticed that the Attachments tab from posting was Power Red. I thought it was not really fitting the theme, so I have changed it to Desert Sunset. Small things. :canada:
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Post by Eugen »

I've installed an extension to mention users by username like this @Spike188 should receive a notification that I mentioned him in this post. Difficult to mention Tim because he uses a character that I don't have on my keyboard :headbash: But I can mention @MattA and @Gordy and @DavidBarkey and @Chad and @Eugen

To mention someone you simply write the character @ and start typing the username, and it should show user names that start with that letter.

I'm excited about this feature because it would be nice to say something that you know should attract someone's attention. Let's see if this works, as I haven't tested it yet. :D
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Re: New forum features

Post by relu »

Hey @Eugen did you get a notification?
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