new features in next upgrade

[eFestivals]

There's another upgrade coming to the forums very soon. The upgrade has been released today, but there's work that needs doing with it before it can be installed here.

Changes and New Features Include:

• Discovery system that allows for both admin and user created Activity Streams
  • Admin-defined streams always visible to users. Users can edit and save admin streams to create their own, custom copy.
  • The main show-all stream automatically tells you when there is new activity
  • Users can create custom streams
  • User streams can be shared but viewer will only see content based on their permissions
  • Filter options include:
    • All content or specific apps. Some apps support further refinement into categories or content-type.
    • Unread content
    • Ownership
      • Content I posted in
      • Content I started
      • Content by specific members (user can create a list)
    • Content I follow
      • Areas I follow
      • Specific content I follow
      • Posted by members I follow
    •  Time Period
      • Any time
      • Since my last visit
      • Specified number of days
      • Specific date range
  • Activity Streams that reference features not available to Guests such as unread tracking and follow system will auto-hide
• Ability to preview email template wrapper
• Selective quoting to highlight a bit of a post and quote just that
• Gallery application enhancements
  • New upload image process
  • Images and movies are submitted to the same upload field
  • Image reviews
• Editor updates
  • Uses div-mode which is much faster and more reliable. Clicking into the editor is now pretty much instant.
  • Auto-linking and member mentions to use new APIs for better reliability
  • Quotes, code boxes, and spoilers can be dragged and moved and there is no more "red line"
  • When cmd/ctrl right-clicking: options to remove or break-out of quotes, edit links and edit image properties
  • Pasting asks if you want to convert to plain text
  • Totally new code plugin with syntax highlighting as you type
  • Option to make enter behave as a new line rather than with spacing
  • Editor is responsive, and ability to have small editor show in areas with less space
  • Member @mentions in posts can now be selected by tab key
• Design and interface enhancements
  • Improve typography for titles
  • Better contrast for user-entered text (posts/comments/etc)
  • Brighten background colors
  • Pre-select text in when share popup is opened
  • Make positive/negative colors consistent across all uses
  • Better hover highlighting of 'blended' links
  • Better styling of mentions in posts (both the username, and the menu to select a user)
  • Flatten the default photo image
  • Checkbox/radio buttons now use custom styling, giving themers more control of their style
  • Improve popular/selected post styles
  • Change popular post icon to heart for consistency with likes
  • Make date a permalink for sharing
  • Improve sidebar contrast and block styles
  • Select messages for multiple deleting in messenger
  • Make leaving a conversation clearer
  • Improve warning panel in user profiles
• Search
  • New default interface
  • Results now highlight and skip to search term in preview
• Retina emoticons
• Instant Notifications
  • Receive notifications via your Browser Notifications of new Personal Messages and anything in the notifications menu
  • Intelligent auto-polling that only polls when needed to reduce server traffic

No Longer Included

• Areas such as View New Content, My Content, My Followed Content, Status page and so on are replaced by the new Activity Streams