The new Forums are real.

YAY Xenforo! Congratulations for this decision. I LOVE Xenforo!

 

I was just about to ask what the hell is with all that spam stuff and are you guys gonna do something about it, nice to know that you're staying on top of things.

 

Looks neat, I like the message previews and what looks like the ability to `like` and `follow`.

 

If it cuts down on the spam, it will be well worth it.

 

Looks awesome. Can't wait.

 

Very much looking forward to it myself

 

I hope their is improved searching capabilities... cause searching within threads right now is... not good.

 

Neat!
Are we going to get thread rating too? That would help out filter out the junk in wip.

 

Yeah... I don't even use forum's search engines, they never find what I want. But using google works so well. I think it's probably why most forums don't focus on improving their own search engines.

 

you shouldn't have said anything. now we will just have topics every few days of 'when the *(#)$ is the *#%)%#) new forum gonna be *^#$ done yet??' lol

 

Don't forget dark themes please......

 

Good deal! Looks pretty sweet.

 

Is the new forum out yet?

 

For me personally only the spammers was a real usability problem. I always loved and cherished the professional and non-cluttered feel that the forums transferred from the actual product it was promoting.

i'm wondering what (visual) consequence does "liking a thread" have ?

Because for me personally the super straight to the point design of the unity forums were a quite huge part for me enjoying it.
To me all these social/gamification forum features of following and likes are complete and useless bogus.
Makes me quite sad to see something like that included in here. I can already see all the "*liked*" posts incoming.
That profile preview picture with "trophy points" and "warning points" and "Likes you've received" makes me sad panda also.

I feel old and grumpy :/

 

Looking nice and sharp!

So... WhenIsTheNewForumComingOut.com ?

 

lol

 

YAY! Look forward to seeing it. Thank you for the update.
Gigi

 

Is there a BAD kind of tingle? or even a mediocre tingle? How about diagonal tingles?

 

2!

 

Hopefully the transition to the new forums will go smoothly

 

I love the liking and thread preview features.

Looking good! Good job!

 

Soo....when do we can get the new forum?

 

Alright thanks for clearing that up, Aurore, I shall have enough time to get accustomed to it, from now on

 

Yay, thank you Aurore and web dev team for making this happen. I'll bet the moderators will be all celebrating soon.

 

Oh yeah hoping spam won't fill up my inbox so much

 

I quite like the idea of the likes and warnings because i don't see that as a social networking thing i see it as a good check on how credible someone is. Kinda sneaky but possibly useful for evaluating asset store product authors

 

I disagree. It's not always well implemented, but when it is, it's actually incredibly useful. Facebook, for example, is pointless in its "Likes". However, take reddit, for example. Its comment upvote/downvote sorting makes the comment section more useful than the linked article half the time. In 90% of cases I go first to reddit comments and see what the top-rated comment is, and the top-rated comment usually takes note of whatever the headline either overlooks or is trying to mislead about. It's a huge time saver - headline plus top comment lets me know with a high degree of accuracy whether the link is worth my time.

I'm not saying that the new forum software will implement this in as effective a way, but damn, I'd love it if it could.

 

I don't visit or use reddit, it's too complicated for me
But yeh, that's why I said "for me". Numerous others have voiced their enjoyment of a like system like that in here, in the past, before.
I just like to read without getting distracted

 

Will we finally get a thread search feature that isn't from 1999?

 

Have you never watch Spiderman or read the comics? I thought Stan Lee was big in all of Europe not just Germany.

Anyway, I'll be glad to see the spam posts gone. Bizarre that spam evolved from a SEO tactic to something trolls use to annoy.

I'll be glad if I can turn on swear word filters and image filters. Which would mean the SW would have to allow the uploader to rate image content as sexual, nude, violent, gory, well those 4 mostly or maybe the forum SW will have Google 'Safe Filter' type technology. Yes, I'm grown up and that's why I like grown up choices.

 

Search was much better in 1999 then the current forum's search which is something like running grep through an ls -ltR.

 

Was hoping it was going to http://www.discourse.org/ Pretty slick one by Jeff Atwood who made stackoverflow initially. It hasn't been out a ton of time and is made in Rails/Ruby but some nice features while keeping the old school forum love. Maybe they will make a Node.js one or other platforms.

 

Great news, XenForo rocks

Good job Unity Community!

 

F*** yeah UT

 

One question - how does it behave on mobiles?

 

Looks awesome!
But will it be able to migrated all of our old posts and threads over?

 

I don't know about the others but most of the time the only time I will "like" a post is to give acknowledge when someone replies to one my posts without actually having to reply back to them, I have a weird affinity for treating a forum like an IM and thus feel the urge to reply back otherwise I'll feel like I'm being an a-hole.

...must resist urge.

Give me an extra trophy and I'll send you a box of choc chip cookies.

Does this include replies ?

 

Will we be able to turn off the mobile display and use the full site if we want to? I much prefer to to not have to have the crippled experience on my tablets or phones.

 

Mobile screenies look nice, cheers!

 

But does it support PBR and GI?

 

For one day can you replace all the forum icons with a picture of David Helgasons head?

 

Mobile screenshots look great

 

:/
Sorry, I've heard that before many times and it's never true. Mobile responsive sites just suck, plain and simple, they're always dumbed down and actually less useable (and typically more full of showy crap that makes them sluggish and terrible scroll regions) than the normal site on mobile devices. Please please please have the devs add the option to not use a responsive version.