Hi,

As you can see, we've overhauled the forums. There are a ton of new features and enhancements. Here is a quick summary...

  • AJAX is used in a number of places, most notably when you are previewing a post or using the Quick Quote option. This means that you can preview and submit your post without having to wait for the page to reload one or more times.
  • There are topic previews when you hover over forum topics.
  • A "shout box" for live chat between forum users (this is a real-time chat window that anyone who is viewing the forums can see, and any forum member can use
  • Most Recent topics section allows you to quickly and easily view recent posts, threads, and unanswered posts within a certain time period that you specify (last 24 hrs/48 hrs/7 days/30 days).
  • There is a new file manager for uploading avatars, images, and attachments with your post.
  • The layout is fluid, and adapts very well to both high and low screen resolutions.
  • GUI is improved, making first-time registration, logging in, navigation through the forum, etc. much more intuitive.
  • Markup panel is improved, allowing easier formatting of posts. e.g. highlight text and press Bold button.
  • Right-hand sidepanels include interesting information such as a Shout box, Top Posters list, Forum Stats, PG Music News, and Calender of events. This can be disabled in your user profile settings.
  • Images can be posted without having to host them on another website.
  • Forum search feature is improved. Full Text indexing on search data.
  • Ability to watch topics/forums and be notified by email when there is a new post.
  • Private messages have become Private Topics so the whole history of the conversation can be viewed.
  • There can be introduction blocks at the top of each forum.
  • Youtube videos can be embedded in posts (media button in the markup panel)


Enjoy!

Andrew
PG Music Inc.