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Site Updates - What's New?

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This thread will be used to announce all site updates.

1 May 2017 - Like System
A Like System has been introduced to allow you to add 'likes' to posts. This feature functions in a similar way to how it does on other popular websites. It allows a user to express their appreciation for another user's posts (and nope, you cannot like your own posts!). User profiles state how many 'likes' a user has attained and there's even a list of users with the most likes. You can remove your 'like' from a post, should you wish to do so, by pressing the same button. Users receive notifications when they receive likes for their posts.

To like a post, simply press the Like button on the top right of the post:

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2 July 2016 - Enlarge Posted Images & 24 Hour Activity Stats
Two new extensions have been added. From now on, you will be able to enlarge high resolution images just by clicking on them. An extension has also been added to show statistics for board activity in the last 24 hours.
More updates can be viewed below:
10 June 2016 - UK Defence & Aerospace Industry Section
A new section has been added to the Equipment section. The new UK Defence & Aerospace Industry section can be used to discuss all those products developed by the UK defence and aerospace industry, but not used by the British Armed Forces.
17 April 2016 - Enhanced Polls
An extension has been added to make polls a little more flexible and interesting.

Some of the enhancements include:
  • The ability to abstain from voting and directly view results.
  • The option to display how users have voted.
  • The ability to limit voting only to users which have posted in the thread.
  • The ability to vote incrementally.
  • The ability to order options by number of votes.
16 December 2015 - New Style ("Basic")
A bright and spacious new style has been installed ready for you to use. Simply go into User Control Panel > Board preferences > My board style and select Basic.

Another addition is spoiler tags which can be used to hide content in your posts. Use them as you would any BBCode on the forum, like so:

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[SPOILER]Part of your post here[/SPOILER]
16 December 2015 - Updated Board Software (3.1.6), and Location Flags
Today, we updated the board's software from version 3.1.3 to the latest version, 3.1.6. The new version brings in a series of bug fixes and security enhancements.

We also introduced Location Flags.

Locations on the UK Defence Forum will now be represented with flags, instead of user-inputted text. Every user on the forum will need to select a flag within the Profile options of their User Control Panel. There are 244 flags to choose from.
16 December 2015 - New Style ("Basic")
A bright and spacious new style has been installed ready for you to use. Simply go into User Control Panel > Board preferences > My board style and select Basic.

Another addition is spoiler tags which can be used to hide content in your posts. Use them as you would any BBCode on the forum, like so:

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[SPOILER]Part of your post here[/SPOILER]
19 September 2015 - Quick Reply / Quick Quote
An extension has been added that enables users to quickly highlight and quote text. To use it, simply highlight some text and click "Insert quote into Quick Reply form" when the little pop-up appears.

This extension also added a Quick Reply form at the bottom of each thread. As of 20 September, this box is now toggle-able.
23 July 2015 - Tapatalk
The UK Defence Forum is now compatible with Tapatalk which should make browsing on the go much easier.
29 May 2015 - New Site Layout
The site has undergone a minor layout adjustment. Due to the high number of equipment threads, we decided to split the Equipment section into several service-specific sections. We hope this way you will be able to find your desired equipment threads more easily.

We have also merged the Photos and Videos section with the Equipment section, so users are now free to use the equipment threads to share images and videos, as well as for news and discussion. All non-UK Defence image threads, which were in the Photos and Videos section, have been moved into the Off-Topic section.

Should you be confused as to where to place a thread, just throw it into the General Discussion section (if it's UK Defence-related) or the Off-Topic section and a member of staff will move it to where it needs to be.
17 May 2015 - New Style ("we_universal")
In celebration of reaching 300+ members and 1,000+ posts we have decided to introduce a new style to the forum. This is a special thank you from the staff of the UK Defence Forum to all those who have registered and contributed to our forums.

"we_universal" (that's the name of the style) has been installed as default, but if you wish to revert back to the original style you may do so by going into your User Control Panel and switching from "we_universal" to "Elegance" within Board Preferences.
2 May 2015 - External Links
External links within posts should now open in new tabs when clicked.
1 May 2015 - Polls, Embedded Media & Favicon
As of today, all users should be able to create polls. To create a poll, you must first create a topic and then click on the "Poll creation" tab. Clicking that will bring up a bunch of options on how to create and attach a poll to your thread.

Secondly, we have introduced a new media embed extension to the forum, which supports literally hundreds of websites, including Twitter, Tumblr, YouTube and Liveleak. It can be used to embed Flickr galleries, photos, videos, Tweets, and much, much more. To use it, just simply paste the URL to the content into the reply box and the board will automatically embed it once you hit Submit.

Some of you may have also noticed that our site now has it's own favicon (that's the little image which displays next to the website's URL).
As always, if you encounter any problems using any of the board's features, please send a private message to an Administrator.

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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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17 April 2016 - Enhanced Polls
An extension has been added to make polls a little more flexible and interesting.

Some of the enhancements include:
  • The ability to abstain from voting and directly view results.
  • The option to display how users have voted.
  • The ability to limit voting only to users which have posted in the thread.
  • The ability to vote incrementally.
  • The ability to order options by number of votes.

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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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10 June 2016 - UK Defence & Aerospace Industry Section
A new section has been added to the Equipment section. The new UK Defence & Aerospace Industry section can be used to discuss all those products developed by the UK defence and aerospace industry, but not used by the British Armed Forces.

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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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2 July 2016 - Enlarge Posted Images & 24 Hour Activity Stats
Two new extensions have been added. From now on, you will be able to enlarge high resolution images just by clicking on them. An extension has also been added to show statistics for board activity in the last 24 hours.

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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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1 May 2017 - Like System
A Like System has been introduced to allow you to add 'likes' to posts. This feature functions in a similar way to how it does on other popular websites. It allows a user to express their appreciation for another user's posts (and nope, you cannot like your own posts!). User profiles state how many 'likes' a user has attained and there's even a list of users with the most likes. You can remove your 'like' from a post, should you wish to do so, by pressing the same button. Users receive notifications when they receive likes for their posts.

To like a post, simply press the Like button on the top right of the post:

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22 September 2018:

UKDF Style Released
A new UKDF style has been released to the forums. It's based on a style called Quarto by PixelGoose Studio. Two variations of this style are available, a lighter one and a darker one. Likes and country flags aren't compatible as yet, but may be in the near future.

Automatic Avatar Resizing
Users can now upload avatars of any dimension and have them automatically resized by the forum.

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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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8 November 2018:

Registration Changes / Spambot Countermeasures
Due to an ever-increasing number of spambots getting through our previous spambot countermeasures, I've implemented the following measures:
  • New forum accounts will require admin approval before they're activated. Admins will now be able to reject spambot accounts before they're given access.
    • Due to the fact admin approvals aren't instantaneous, I've decided to open up a small portion of the forums to Guest accounts, so they can enjoy some content whilst their accounts are under approval. Guests can only read posts; they can not post any content of their own and cannot view user profiles.
  • Additional questions have been added as spambot countermeasures during registration.
  • Previous spambot accounts are to be purged.

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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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Small update - I’ve been made an administrator in order to help with day to day management of the forum. While I don’t claim to know much about the topics discussed here, I will be here for any moderation or technical queries so please feel free to contact me if needed.
For any general site or moderation queries, please feel free to PM me.
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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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Just to let you all know, the site is currently undergoing a bit of maintenance so may be on and off for the next few hours. We hope you'll be happy with the results at the end of it!
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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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The following BB codes have been added (not sure how The Armchair Soldier ever missed some of them... men :lol:)
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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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18 November 2021 - Forum Software Update, New Style
Beth wrote:Hi all,

As I'm sure you've now noticed, we've spent some time upgrading the forum software as well as giving it a cosmetic overhaul.

With any maintenance always comes the chance of error, so if anything appears out of place or isn't working correctly, please let us know. One notable point is that the likes system is currently disabled due to the extension being outdated for the latest forum software version.

We hope you enjoy the new-look forum and we thank you for your patience while the work was carried out. If you have any questions or suggestions please feel free to post.

Thanks,
Beth & The Armchair Solder
Discussion topic: viewtopic.php?t=1151

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Re: Site Updates - What's New?

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23 November 2021 - Link Previews
Newly posted URLs will now generate a preview box, as shown below:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/2 ... b-alliance

This will not apply to links posted before this post.

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3 January 2022 - Return of the Like Feature
The Like feature has been re-added after being removed temporarily due to compatibility issues with the new board software. The only downside is all likes have been reset to 0 as I wasn't able to transfer the old ones over.

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