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***Important Website Changes Coming in 2024!***

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    Hey guys! You might notice some new things popping up on the forums recently. Just testing out a few new features. Hoping I won't regret any of this. :laughing:

    For starters, there is a new "Up Thread" button next to the "Post Reply" button on the reply box down here. What this will allow you to do is to bump threads to the top of the "latest replies" list without needing to actually make a post lol. It will work the same way as if you posted a reply.

    And speaking of "latest replies", I've added a new box up at the top of the pages here for a quick visual of all the recent posts on the forums. This can be seen on all of the pages of the site. :)

    There are a few others things I've added too, such as "Users Who Are Viewing This Thread" that just simply shows you who is currently viewing a thread.

    If you guys should stumble across any issues, or something that doesn't work that used to work, etc etc. Please do not hesitate to let me know here ASAP. Thanks! :)

    Let me know what you guys think.
     
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    Oh and I almost forgot, you can now opt to comment on individual posts, instead of making a completely new reply. Will show a quick example on this post here.
     
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      This is a test example of a post comment! :)
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      Not sure if we actually need this feature, but it's here anyway lol.
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    BTW guys, I just added a "dark" theme for this forum. You can get it by following these screenshots.

    Scroll down to the very bottom of the page here, and you should see something that looks like this.

    Click on "UI.X" as illustrated by the pointing red arrow in this screenshot:

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    You'll then get a screen that looks like this.

    Click on "UI.X Dark" as illustrated by the pointing red arrow:

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    You should then get the dark theme for StonkForums after you do all of that. Let me know what you guys think! :p

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    Whoops! I think I might’ve botched the forum newsletter earlier today lol. It was supposed to be a mass e-mail to all the members of this site linking the most active threads around the forums, however before I could actually get around to set it up and write up the newsletter, it had already dispatched the e-mail to everyone. Yikes lol. Apologies for that guys! I’ll get it right on the next one.
     
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    ...looks like this got sent out a second time today. :horse:

    really so sorry about that you guys! i've disabled the forum newsletter for now until i've gotten around to configure it properly.
     
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    One final update here for this week guys. I've created a second "home" page on this site. Why a second one you may ask? This one will be a stripped down version of our primary home page. Basically, it will be a page that doesn't include all of the different page widgets that we have on our main home page.

    You'll notice that there are now 2 "home" tabs up at the top of the navigation bar. Click on the second home tab as seen in the screenshot below with the red arrow pointing, to get to the simple and clean version of the home page.

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    At the moment this doesn't have much except for the 15 most recent thread replies.

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    Additionally, the same 15 most recent thread replies has also been added to the Forums page. Simply click on the "forums" tab up top on the navigation bar and scroll down to the bottom of the page to see it. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks!

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    Hey guys, if someone can do me this quick favor, I'm testing out another chat program that fully integrates into this forum. However, I'm thinking about using this one as like a technical support chat for the forums.

    At the very bottom of the pages here can anyone see something that looks like this?

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    If yes, are you guys able to click on it and does it open the chat page for you? If also yes, are any of you able to type and send messages in there?

    I'm really curious to see if that actually works for all of you. It would act as a nice little secondary chatroom for this site, especially to give me a heads up in case there are any issues on the forums.

    If someone can just test that out for me would be amazing. Thanks! :)
     
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    Site updates are done for now guys. Please let me know what you guys think of everything so far. And also if any of you happened to find something that isn’t working anymore that once used to post them in here if you guys won’t mind.

    I hope I haven’t overwhelmed any of you with all of these site updates lately.
     
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    I see it. Won't open for me
     
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    Hmm weird stuff. I just tested this out on a test account now and it seemed to work fine on my end.

    Did clicking on chat not expand the chat window at all? I’d be curious to see if either @Gerb or @stock1234 have this working on their end also.
     
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    Getting better and better Cy :thumbsup:
     
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    Thanks big time for that @stock1234! :D

    So I know I said I was done messing around with things, but I just felt compelled to test one more thing out for the site.

    How cool is this one?

    I can now add the daily poll to the right sidebar of the pages here that will allow people to cast their votes from any page on this site.

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    (Just tested and seems to work fine! :p)

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    BTW, I completely forgot to ask you all this, but what do you guys think about having that right sidebar inside of the thread also? Does that look really weird or is it okay? It might take me some time to warm up to it, but it I think it's kinda growing on me a bit. Thoughts?
     
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    We can try it and see how it works for everyone :)
     
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    The poll is very cool :thumbsup:

     
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    Oh and finally, what do you guys think about this right above the reply box down here?

    It's a real-time view of the markets. Not sure if that's a bit too excessive though.

    Think I'm just about done for real this time with messing around with this site. Yikes LOL.

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    Whoops, I just realized something. This might not actually work really well for us since I require members to also "post" their votes to the threads. They can access the thread from clicking on the thread title on the poll box, but I'm not sure if that will help much since it's still an extra click. That quick poll is mostly for the super lazy person who doesn't want to click on the thread and post their vote lol. But, I don't normally add votes to my members record voting spreadsheet unless someone has posted their vote to the thread. Hmm..
     
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    BTW, I was meaning to check up on this one with you over the weekend, but was busy working on the site lol. Any luck with getting a response back from Avast yet? It would be really devastating for me personally if they never get back to you, since it seems like Avast is the only thing standing in your way now from being able to access this site from your computer. :(
     
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    No they didn’t get back to me. I might try to post on the forum at some point and see if they will respond over there :thumbsup: Thanks for checking Cy
     
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    Still a good idea, would be fun to check the polls results and see if majority gets it right for the day even some of them don’t post their votes on the thread :thumbsup:
     
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