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Finally, the new forum board software is in place! Whilst the new software is going to take some time to bed down, tweak and get used to, it offers many advantages over our old versions, making WSF more fun and interactive for our users. More on that later...
Over the next few weeks you will notice various changes to the WSF Site. One of the first things you will notice on the Forum pages is a new “Drop Down” navigation bar. This gives users easy access to all of the site features including all of our articles, blogs, marks, tips and features.
As part of an overall upgrade of the entire site we have totally replaced our content management systems that look after all of the articles and blogs. The new software is now in place and we are working extensively on a new, easier to use, space efficient WSF. The homepage will become less cluttered and easier to navigate, placing an emphasis on new articles and features.
We are going to re-look at our entire article archive and replace and modify features to be more modern. With widespread broadband use and our extensive and ever expanding digital image library – we feel we can do our articles more justice visually than we have before. Watch out for these new features soon.
Anyway...to the Forum!
Firstly, our forums have had some re-organisation. The General forum is now back – use it for its intended purpose and don’t abuse it please! The Announcements and Help Forum has become Help and Suggestions. The European forum has now come out of “The International Angler” and is now a standalone forum on its own.
The WSF Forum has plenty of new tweaks, tools and widgets for use by our members. The new forum software is designed to increase user interaction and to promote friendship and “social networking”. Below is a list of tweaks and additions to the new WSF Forum.
Tags! Each thread has a more relevant and robust tagging system. Threads can now be tagged with phrases and keywords which enable subjects to be found quicker.
Thread Prefixes: Over the next few weeks we will be adding thread prefixes to all of the “New Thread” pages. This will enable you to categorise you threads with words that describe what the thread is about. For example if you thread is a question, there will be an option of labelling your thread thus. We are working on “prefix” labels at the moment. If anybody has any suggestions, let us know!
Friendships: You can now form friendships with other web site users and have them shown on your profile page as “confirmed friends”. If you have ever used Facebook or Bebo, you’ll have seen this system in action before.
Public Messaging: Whilst you have always been able to Private Message each other, you can now Public Message too! This system enables you to posts public messages on each other’s profile pages, and opens the door for multi user conversations between friends.
User Picture Galleries: Whilst we have had a standalone gallery for a while, WSF now incorporates a picture gallery for each user. This will mean the eventual discontinuation of the old gallery in preference to “User Albums”. The Pictures and Albums setting can now be found in your User CP under the title Networking: Pictures and Albums. Picture Albums can be set to public or private and all public albums can be visited by clicking the “All Albums” link on the forum NavBar. Brand new images to the gallery are also displayed at the bottom of the Forum Homepage.
Social Groups: Members can now create social groups of likeminded individuals. This is designed to increase the social cohesion between various groups that are formed on WSF especially for clubs and anglers who regularly fish together. Social groups can be created for any topic you wish provided it’s all legal and above board. Each group also has its own public messaging system and the ability to add images to the group from members’ own image galleries.
All New Profile Page: The profile pages for members have been re-designed in order to integrate a better social networking aspect to the forum. The page presents information in a cleaner and more logical fashion and divides the information up into manageable chunks. The interface is now tabbed which will help members navigate around each other’s profile pages better. The new page will show who your friends are, your photo album, any useful or profile information, your group memberships and various other widgets to help you get the best from the forum.
Users can customise this page to their own style including changing fonts, colours, borders and background images.
Image Attachments: All image attachments will now show in a Light Box instead of the users being re-directed to another page. This is a very cool feature for catch reports and we are now considering opening up the full storage potential of the server to make sure you can upload images of a reasonable quality and size. We acknowledge the present rules are a bit limiting!
Avatars: Avatar sizings have now been increased to 150px X 150px. You will need to upload a new Avatar to this size spec if you wish to take advantage of the new Avatar size.
Important: For you to get the best out of these new features we would recommend that you update your e-mail addresses to your most current e-mail address. All of your friend notifications and social group invitations will be sent via e-mail. You can do that here.
Above are the main new features of the software. There are plenty of other changes too numerous to mention here but you will no doubt notice them as you make your way around the new software changes.
All settings for the above items can be found by going into your User Cp.
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