XenForo 2.0 and what to come

[Ralle]

Recently the developers of our forum platform XenForo announced version 2.0. Have a look around that site and get a feel of what's changed. What I think will matter most to you are the following:

Emoji (utf8mb4) support
If you run a version of MySQL that supports utf8mb4, you can convert your tables (through a script) to use that to allow emojis to be used in posts: ️️ Currently, the underlying emojis come from the OS/browser so they may differ between visitors.

New rich text editor
We're using a new rich text editor. This system is more actively maintained and easier to customize to fit our needs.

Member tooltip replaces member card
Clicking a username will now take you directly to the user profile rather than creating an overlay. Hovering a username will instead bring up a tooltip with similar information to the existing member card. (There may be implementation changes to this for touch devices.)

Attachments shown in previews
When previewing a message, any embedded attachments will now be displayed (instead of a "view attachment" text placeholder).

There are many changes. When this update is released, I will probably spend a few months updating our own addons to support this new version. I just figured I would show you something from the future .

 

[StoPCampinGn00b]

TL;DR some pretty basic stuff for the common user. Nothing that screams out awesome to me, but yay for updates!

 

[Cherrymage]

Good

 

[Deleted member 219079]

Unread alert/conversation indicator in favicon, title tag

Oh yes

Moderators may now ban users directly (by permission)

Oh fuck

Edit: And those likes will promote PC atmosphere which rewards self censorship.

 

[KILLCIDE]

Dynamic letter avatars based on user name
If you haven't specified an avatar, you'll get a dynamically colored avatar using the first letter of your username. This helps distinguish users that don't set a custom avatar.

Praise the lord. I can't even recall the number of times I've mistaken a user for double posting.

 

[Chaosy]

Retina (2x) avatar support

Yay!

 

[Trigger.edge]

Hey Ralle, share your Xenforo addons :V (Obviously you will not )

 

[Ralle]

Haha! Never! I have actually considered trying to make a bit of money by publishing the chat. I dunno though.

 

[Super99Mont]

I think that so, thanks for your sharing.

 

[Skycraft]

I thought the website looked different.

 

[Ralle]

@Skycraft, what do you mean? We aren't running XenForo 2.0 yet. You should have a look around the linked site to see what is to come. Or have you been inactive since June and not seen this site?

Love Dungeon Keeper by the way.

 

[Skycraft]

@Ralle, well it's looking different since I was last here.. looks like you finally managed to incorporate a bit of change! Only took you 5 or so years

 

[Ralle]

Yeah, so short time . The old codebase was made back when I was completely uneducated. I couldn't touch it without feeling disgust .

Anyway, coast this site and then the one I linked at the top and give feedback. Perhaps some of it could go back to the XenForo developers if something is really bad.