Xenforo 2.1 Upgrade

[Art Andrews]

We have been running on Xenforo's 1.5 software for quite some time. In the interest of improving your user experience while visiting this community, this weekend we upgraded the forum software to the new Xenforo 2.1 software. This was not a migration event, but it is a major upgrade and we chose to do it for a number of reasons including:

• Increased site speed and load times, especially on mobile
• Improved user interface (UI) and user experience (UX) for desktop and mobile
• Many improved mobile-friendly features
• Emoji support
• Retina avatar and smilie support
• Improved navigation
• Improved message editing
• Alerts in favicon
• Limited push notification
• Dark Theme

 

[Brokk]

Super smooth on mobile! Loving it...esspecially Dark Mode

Thank you

 

[Art Andrews]

Super smooth on mobile! Loving it...esspecially Dark Mode

Thank you

A dark theme has been requested for a long time but we weren't in a position to easily provide it. Now that we are... I suspect many people will switch to it.

 

[MinuteFett]

A dark theme has been requested for a long time but we weren't in a position to easily provide it. Now that we are... I suspect many people will switch to it.

Hey Art! Any idea on when push notifications will be up and running?

 

[Art Andrews]

Hey Art! Any idea on when push notifications will be up and running?

They are running now. Refresh and you should see a notice at the bottom of the screen requesting you enable them.

 

[Brokk]

Can confirm, at least on my mobile chrome browser

 

[MinuteFett]

Ahh ok, probably not working on safari. But I’ll be downloading chrome just to get push notifications lol.

 

[Art Andrews]

From Xenforo: “Unfortunately for reasons beyond our control (read: it's Apple's fault) the list of supported devices/browsers notably exclude Safari on macOS and any iOS-based browser.

"But I have an Apple device, will you support push notifications another way...?"

Unfortunately, this is unlikely. Although Apple devices represent a significant number of mobile users, the current approach other browser vendors are taking is standardised (meaning Apple devices could be nearly automatically supported in the future), free and seamlessly integrated with your browser. Any other approach, be that a separate app, or a third party service would, frankly, be a sub-par (and potentially expensive!) experience.

The overall solution is simple, but it is down to Apple/WebKit to take on board and implement. According to the WebKit Feature Status page, if there are any features missing you can reach out to @webkit on Twitter or contact the webkit-help mailing list. Consider doing that today to help them understand why push notifications are important for your forum ”

 

[stormtrooperguy]

Safari keeps getting worse and worse. One of these days I'll have to jump over to Chrome.

In the meantime though I love the upgrade. Loads fast and looks clean!!

Though it's weird that it's wrapping my name with the y on a second line

 

[Kdogg211187]

Will the option to "jump to first unread post" in a thread be re-implemented? I noticed that went away.

 

[clown3y]

I'm a huge fan of usability updates. Thank you!

 

[PropReplicator2]

Love the new dark mode. Used the site last night on my laptop and just got on today and noticed the change. Wicked! Thanks Art!

 

[Scimitar]

Will the option to "jump to first unread post" in a thread be re-implemented? I noticed that went away.

Looks like it automatically happens when you click the thread title. There's also a button at the top of the thread too.