Happy New Year everyone!
As you probably noticed, the forum looks a bit different now. We have upgraded to XenForo 2 and you can now enjoy some new features.
Noteworthy changes
Still important facts
Since we doubled down on attachments, we have saved a lot of resources from dying due to expiring links or hosting sites going offline. We currently have 20-30k attachments on Otland, providing great number of resources for you to download not worrying about dead links.
The next problem to tackle seems to be massively dying images. We have all those downloads (of website layouts, maps, datapacks) but all the screenshots are often dead. That's a problem - obviously - as you don't know what you're downloading. We may address it by enforcing using a specific reputable image hosting site, such as imgur. Attachments are not always the best way for that purpose - a lot images are too large and they are not compressed/resized via attachments.
Near future
XenForo 2.1 will be coming out soon and will bring us a lot of more changes, including bookmarking posts and desktop notifications. We will be getting that upgrade as soon as it comes out.
Updates
As you probably noticed, the forum looks a bit different now. We have upgraded to XenForo 2 and you can now enjoy some new features.
Noteworthy changes
- There is a new skin (style) of Otland and it is very mobile-friendly. We will likely stay with this one because alternatives for XenForo 2 are not convincing, nor needed.
I am aware that many of you would like to see a "dark" theme. Unfortunately, there are no good quality dark themes possible. If anyone has design skills allowing them to redesign the default style for darker colors and the effect would be aesthetically pleasant, we want to hear from you! - Keyboard Shortcut System
- M - Open the visitor menu
- , (Comma) - Open the inbox/conversation menu
- . (Period/full-stop) - Open the alerts menu
- / (Forward slash) - Open the search menu
- ALT+Z - Open the style chooser
- ALT+X - Open the language chooser
- ⌘+ENTER (Mac) or CTRL+ENTER (Windows) Submit the current form while in a <textarea> element (normally, ENTER will submit any form, but while you're in a <textarea>, the ENTER key simply inserts a new line)
- keys 1 to 0 will activate the corresponding tab (or tab menu) from the primary navigation strip, while ALT+1 to 0 will activate the corresponding item from the sub-navigation strip.
- Improved code syntax highlighting. It should work for all languages that are commonly used around here, including Lua, and now looks better.
- Emoji support ✍
- Search functionality was improved
- Added time-based relevancy filter. Newer content will be slightly preferred but keep in mind that a lot of "very old" (>5 years) content is still very relevant and useful today.
- Added stemming for English language and automatic handling of accents (which should help other languages for search).
"Best Answer" functionality in Support board is currently unavailable. We may or may not bring it back (share your thoughts!).- The tags no longer appear on the forum view (AKA thread list). This may or may not come back.
It was initially added for better visibility of "attached" tag. Not that all content is using attachments, it's no longer needed. Attachments currently don't show a link to a scan on Virustotal. That will come back soon.
Still important facts
Since we doubled down on attachments, we have saved a lot of resources from dying due to expiring links or hosting sites going offline. We currently have 20-30k attachments on Otland, providing great number of resources for you to download not worrying about dead links.
The next problem to tackle seems to be massively dying images. We have all those downloads (of website layouts, maps, datapacks) but all the screenshots are often dead. That's a problem - obviously - as you don't know what you're downloading. We may address it by enforcing using a specific reputable image hosting site, such as imgur. Attachments are not always the best way for that purpose - a lot images are too large and they are not compressed/resized via attachments.
Near future
XenForo 2.1 will be coming out soon and will bring us a lot of more changes, including bookmarking posts and desktop notifications. We will be getting that upgrade as soon as it comes out.
Updates
- Best Answers and links to Virustotal scans are available now.
- Added Discord field to user profile instead of some useless old ones
- Added line numbers to [code]
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