Coming Soon: Message board software upgrade

[Chris McLaughlin]

I'll sticky this tomorrow but I know sometimes people actually gloss over those threads so I'm making it a "normal" post for now:

This is a heads up that our message board is slated for an upgrade, tentatively scheduled for late Tuesday night/Wednesday morning (probably around 1 a.m. EST on that early Wednesday morning). Rivals is planning to do a few upgrades (site by site) each day.

During the upgrade, the board will be totally offline. The upgrade could take hours, so not sure if it'll be up and running by sunrise or not. The larger the forum archive, the longer it will take.

The Mississippi State site already has the upgrade. You can toggle light/dark mode via user preferences.

https://mississippistate.forums.rivals.com/forums/the-bone-yard-free-board.10/

New Features

• Native emoji support
  • Use real emojis in thread titles and post content from your favorite device
• Light / Dark style themes
• User-selectable font scaling
• Modernized profile popups / pages
  • Mouse-over (or tap on mobile) usernames to see new User Profile card
  • Click/tap on card name to go to new User Profile page
• Unread alert & conversation icon/count in browser tabs
  • Number of unread alerts/conversation messages in title text
  • A red dot over the tab icon indicates at least one unread item
• "What’s New" content menu
  • New forum navigation menu with additional ways to find new and unread threads and posts
• Automatic url summary blocks
  • Pasting in a url (that isn't an embed) into a post will auto-create a box with title, thumbnail, and summary (if available from the destination)
• "Quick Thread" new thread tool
  • A new box at the top of the thread list for quickly typing in a title and composing a new thread all at once without leaving the page
• Last Post avatar shown on forum lists
  • See avatars in thread and forum lists for the most recent poster

Updated Features

• Enhanced embedding from other sites
  • More (and better performing) embed types for sites like Twitter, Facebook, reddit, etc.
  • Drop the url in the text of the post and it will auto-embed if recognized
• Optimized mobile experiences
  • Tap-optimized interactions
  • Layout and style tuned for smaller displays
• Lots of additional streamlined functionality

 

[W-S HerdFan]

Sounds great Chris!

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

Sorry for the very late note here, but the next round of site forum upgrades will be delayed until Tuesday.

WIth the last round of upgrades, there have been a few cases of log-in issues that engineering is working to fully understand, and they'd like to resolve that before moving forward.

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

Just got the word that the changes are a go for tonight.

I'll un-sticky this thread to allow for feedback/issues/likes/dislikes from users through the next couple of days.

 

[W-S HerdFan]

Chris - looks great! MUCH better color contrast. Like

 

[Chris McLaughlin]

Chris - looks great! MUCH better color contrast. Like

Try the dark mode. Seems to be a hit. Also, hovering over or pressing down (on a mobile device) on the like button gives you additional options to react to a post.

 

[W-S HerdFan]

Try the dark mode. Seems to be a hit. Also, hovering over or pressing down (on a mobile device) on the like button gives you additional options to react to a post.

That is better....

 

[herdinatl]

Try the dark mode. Seems to be a hit. Also, hovering over or pressing down (on a mobile device) on the like button gives you additional options to react to a post.

How do ya switch to dark?

 

[extragreen]

How do ya switch to dark?

Go to the top left of the screen and click on the 3 white bars.
Scroll to the bottom and click on Settings.
Toward the right and on top will say Rivals light.
Change it to dark.
Click on save.

 

[Herd-in-ATL]

Go to the top left of the screen and click on the 3 white bars.
Scroll to the bottom and click on Settings.
Toward the right and on top will say Rivals light.
Change it to dark.
Click on save.

So is the "dark mode" feature only available for mobile devices? I'm currently viewing via my PC and don't see any kind of additional screen setting options.
Thanks.

 

[JudgeDD]

So is the "dark mode" feature only available for mobile devices? I'm currently viewing via my PC and don't see any kind of additional screen setting options.
Thanks.

On my browser the Dark/Light mode is located all the way at the bottom of the screen on the left.

 

[extragreen]

So is the "dark mode" feature only available for mobile devices? I'm currently viewing via my PC and don't see any kind of additional screen setting options.
Thanks.

The directions I gave you works on my pc. After choosing "dark", did you click save?

 

[Herd-in-ATL]

Hey guys thanks for the help. I found it at the bottom of my Chrome browser page.