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immamac

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There is a pretty large patch that we will be applying tonight/tomorrow night 

I omitted the admin area improvements. Braintree payments will help use something else other than paypal for donations/subscriptions.

Major New Features / Enhancements

  • Post Before Registering
  • Animated GIFs
  • New Email Features:
    • Email Statistics
    • Email Advertisements
    • Unfollow Without Logging In
  • SEO Improvements:
    • Improved pagination with page number now in path (rather than query string) and unique page titles for paginated pages.
    • Improved use of canonical tags.
    • Improved handling of empty containers and profiles to reduce soft 404s.
    • Improved JSON-LD markup, adding @id tags and fixing URLs for comments.
    • Removed page output hidden by JavaScript.
  • Performance Improvements:
    • Added Lazy Loading for images, which will speed up page rendering.
    • Added HTTP/2 support with prefetch/preload.
    • Added support for Brotli compression.
    • Improved default profile photos to use inline SVGs rather than generated images, which will speed up page rendering.
    • Improved browser caching of pages served by the guest page cache, which will reduce the number of requests reaching the server.
    • Improved handing of session data for guests to reduce database reads for guests.
    • Optimized images to reduce file size for faster page rendering.
    • Other minor performance improvements to reduce database queries and fix unnecessary code execution.
  • Commerce Store Filters allow customers to filter products by price, review, stock, or custom admin-defined filters.

Core

  • Added setting to display user group formatting in more areas (see 6 New Micro Features).
  • Added less intrusive browser notification prompt in Notifications menu (see 6 New Micro Features).
  • Added ability to show sidebar blocks to only certain types of devices (see 6 New Micro Features).
  • Added ability for club owners to reorder the navigation tabs (see 6 New Micro Features).
  • Added ability for announcements to be linked to an URL or be a title only (see 6 New Micro Features), improved consistency in how announcements are shown in different areas.
  • Added a new UI for attachments, showing a box with some information about the file, rather than a plain line (see Turbo charging loading speeds).

Commerce

  • Braintree Gateway including support for PayPal (with recurring payments), Venmo, and cards. Deprecates some PayPal features.
  • Added ability to target bulk mails to members who have spent certain amounts.
  • Added sidebar widgets for best sellers, latest products, product reviews and a featured product.

Removed Features

  • Removed EmojiOne-style emojis due to licensing issues.
  • Removed Gravatar support due to privacy concerns and performance issues.
  • Removed the name of the content (e.g. topic) from the “Next Unread” link which could consume significant server resources on large communities.
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immamac

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so good news and bad news. 

I reached out to the forum software people and they said that it wasn't a flag, however I can re-enable it by writing a plugin and they are going to give me the code snippet so we should have it back this weekend.

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6 hours ago, Sabalo said:

At the bottom of the page, the link to the next unread topic doesn't identify that topic. Is that change intentional? Permanent?

yeah, that was a feature not a bug. Apparently on big sites it was causing major slowdowns, but it should be back

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On 2/27/2019 at 12:24 PM, immamac said:

There is a pretty large patch that we will be applying tonight/tomorrow night 

I omitted the admin area improvements. Braintree payments will help use something else other than paypal for donations/subscriptions.

Major New Features / Enhancements

  • Post Before Registering
  • Animated GIFs
  • New Email Features:
    • Email Statistics
    • Email Advertisements
    • Unfollow Without Logging In
  • SEO Improvements:
    • Improved pagination with page number now in path (rather than query string) and unique page titles for paginated pages.
    • Improved use of canonical tags.
    • Improved handling of empty containers and profiles to reduce soft 404s.
    • Improved JSON-LD markup, adding @id tags and fixing URLs for comments.
    • Removed page output hidden by JavaScript.
  • Performance Improvements:
    • Added Lazy Loading for images, which will speed up page rendering.
    • Added HTTP/2 support with prefetch/preload.
    • Added support for Brotli compression.
    • Improved default profile photos to use inline SVGs rather than generated images, which will speed up page rendering.
    • Improved browser caching of pages served by the guest page cache, which will reduce the number of requests reaching the server.
    • Improved handing of session data for guests to reduce database reads for guests.
    • Optimized images to reduce file size for faster page rendering.
    • Other minor performance improvements to reduce database queries and fix unnecessary code execution.
  • Commerce Store Filters allow customers to filter products by price, review, stock, or custom admin-defined filters.

Core

  • Added setting to display user group formatting in more areas (see 6 New Micro Features).
  • Added less intrusive browser notification prompt in Notifications menu (see 6 New Micro Features).
  • Added ability to show sidebar blocks to only certain types of devices (see 6 New Micro Features).
  • Added ability for club owners to reorder the navigation tabs (see 6 New Micro Features).
  • Added ability for announcements to be linked to an URL or be a title only (see 6 New Micro Features), improved consistency in how announcements are shown in different areas.
  • Added a new UI for attachments, showing a box with some information about the file, rather than a plain line (see Turbo charging loading speeds).

Commerce

  • Braintree Gateway including support for PayPal (with recurring payments), Venmo, and cards. Deprecates some PayPal features.
  • Added ability to target bulk mails to members who have spent certain amounts.
  • Added sidebar widgets for best sellers, latest products, product reviews and a featured product.

Removed Features

  • Removed EmojiOne-style emojis due to licensing issues.
  • Removed Gravatar support due to privacy concerns and performance issues.
  • Removed the name of the content (e.g. topic) from the “Next Unread” link which could consume significant server resources on large communities.

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On 2/28/2019 at 3:46 PM, Sabalo said:

At the bottom of the page, the link to the next unread topic doesn't identify that topic. Is that change intentional? Permanent?

 

On 2/28/2019 at 9:56 PM, immamac said:

so good news and bad news. 

I reached out to the forum software people and they said that it wasn't a flag, however I can re-enable it by writing a plugin and they are going to give me the code snippet so we should have it back this weekend.

 

On 2/28/2019 at 10:04 PM, blacklab said:

yeah, that was a feature not a bug. Apparently on big sites it was causing major slowdowns, but it should be back

Any good news on this front yet? 

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Does the include fixes for Tapatalk? It’s extremely slow to load the initial page these days. It’s fairly responsive once you are on a thread or forum, but it takes a while to load unread and participated threads.

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Okay the new board is nicer, good job!
However, it's borking in and out... a few times I get the 1995 text-only indentation look, but a few clicks and it morphed into the nice one with Bevo in the background.

Assuming that 1) stuff is roughly the same and/or 2) anything not (or new features) will be/are posted here soon.

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