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I wanted to highlight some of the great new features of the forum software:
Contents of this long post:
1. Private messaging system
2. Instant notifications
3. A new improved way to alert moderators
4. Following people and creating your own news feed
5. New ignore feature
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1. Private messaging system.
In terms of key new features, you can now invite extra people to an ongoing PM conversation, and you can now attach files to PMs. Please see this post for more details about how to use the new PM system.
2. Instant notifications, also known as "push notifications".
You can now get instant notifications when someone replies to a PM, when someone @mentions you, when someone likes one of your posts, the list goes on. You can change your settings to get notified for only the things you care about. The notifications will arrive in your browser even if you are not on Pharmacy Reviewer at the time, and they are instant!
To turn on notifications, click the link which should appear at the bottom of your screen when you first log on to the new forum. Here it is in Firefox:
Alternatively, go to your preferences by clicking your username and then the preferences menu link, and enable "push notifications" there. Then you can scroll down the same preferences screen to select exactly what you wish to receive push notifications about.
I HIGHLY recommend this new push notifications feature!
3. Alerting moderators.
You can now alert all the moderators to a post by simply typing @Mods. This will alert me, Kerry, Tinmuning, Pat and Remi, all at the same time and whoever is online first can investigate. You can also report posts, as in the old forum, and again we will all be alerted to the post report. If you feel that a post has broken the forum rules it is much better to report the post as it will disappear while it is being moderated and we can deal with it more systematically.
4. Following people to create your own personalized news feed.
You can now "follow" people whose posts you find interesting. Their posts will show up in your own personalized what's new feed called "Your news feed"
Everyone who was in your friends list in the old forum will have been transferred to the list of people you follow. The difference with the old forum is that you can follow anyone, you don't need to be friends with them or ask their permission to follow them. In this way it is more like the "follow" button in Facebook, or Twitter, than the "Add friend" button in Facebook. I hope this will create an even more connected forum and new friendships. But in the event you do not want someone to follow you, you can choose to ignore them.
5. There is now a mutual ignore feature. If you ignore someone you can also block the person from seeing your posts and writing you PMs. I hope this will not be widely used but it is an option which gives you more control.
Any questions related to the above or other aspects of the new forum software please comment below.
Contents of this long post:
1. Private messaging system
2. Instant notifications
3. A new improved way to alert moderators
4. Following people and creating your own news feed
5. New ignore feature
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1. Private messaging system.
In terms of key new features, you can now invite extra people to an ongoing PM conversation, and you can now attach files to PMs. Please see this post for more details about how to use the new PM system.
2. Instant notifications, also known as "push notifications".
You can now get instant notifications when someone replies to a PM, when someone @mentions you, when someone likes one of your posts, the list goes on. You can change your settings to get notified for only the things you care about. The notifications will arrive in your browser even if you are not on Pharmacy Reviewer at the time, and they are instant!
To turn on notifications, click the link which should appear at the bottom of your screen when you first log on to the new forum. Here it is in Firefox:
Alternatively, go to your preferences by clicking your username and then the preferences menu link, and enable "push notifications" there. Then you can scroll down the same preferences screen to select exactly what you wish to receive push notifications about.
I HIGHLY recommend this new push notifications feature!
3. Alerting moderators.
You can now alert all the moderators to a post by simply typing @Mods. This will alert me, Kerry, Tinmuning, Pat and Remi, all at the same time and whoever is online first can investigate. You can also report posts, as in the old forum, and again we will all be alerted to the post report. If you feel that a post has broken the forum rules it is much better to report the post as it will disappear while it is being moderated and we can deal with it more systematically.
4. Following people to create your own personalized news feed.
You can now "follow" people whose posts you find interesting. Their posts will show up in your own personalized what's new feed called "Your news feed"
Everyone who was in your friends list in the old forum will have been transferred to the list of people you follow. The difference with the old forum is that you can follow anyone, you don't need to be friends with them or ask their permission to follow them. In this way it is more like the "follow" button in Facebook, or Twitter, than the "Add friend" button in Facebook. I hope this will create an even more connected forum and new friendships. But in the event you do not want someone to follow you, you can choose to ignore them.
5. There is now a mutual ignore feature. If you ignore someone you can also block the person from seeing your posts and writing you PMs. I hope this will not be widely used but it is an option which gives you more control.
Any questions related to the above or other aspects of the new forum software please comment below.
