Starting around 11 pm tonight (8/26) Rivals.com is going to be rolling out a new message board format here on Panther-Lair.com. It's not a complete overhaul, but there will be quite a few bells and whistles added/upgraded, so it will take a little time and if you try to access the board at some point overnight, you may not be able to get to it. Everything should be up and running by the morning.
As always, we'll probably have a few bumps in the road, but we'll figure those out together. We're not the first site to undergo this change; others have done it and they've lived to tell the tale. If you run into an issue, reach out to me and we'll see if we can get it fixed.
Here are some of the things that will be coming to the boards.
New Features
Updated Features
As always, we'll probably have a few bumps in the road, but we'll figure those out together. We're not the first site to undergo this change; others have done it and they've lived to tell the tale. If you run into an issue, reach out to me and we'll see if we can get it fixed.
Here are some of the things that will be coming to the boards.
New Features
- Native emoji support
- Use real emojis in thread titles and post content from your favorite device
- Light / Dark style themes
- User-selectable font scaling
- Modernized profile popups / pages
- Mouse-over (or tap on mobile) usernames to see new User Profile card
- Click/tap on card name to go to new User Profile page
- Unread alert & conversation icon/count in browser tabs
- Number of unread alerts/conversation messages in title text
- A red dot over the tab icon indicates at least one unread item
- "What’s New" content menu
- New forum navigation menu with additional ways to find new and unread threads and posts
- Automatic url summary blocks
- Pasting in a url (that isn't an embed) into a post will auto-create a box with title, thumbnail, and summary (if available from the destination)
- "Quick Thread" new thread tool
- A new box at the top of the thread list for quickly typing in a title and composing a new thread all at once without leaving the page
- Last Post avatar shown on forum lists
- See avatars in thread and forum lists for the most recent poster
Updated Features
- Enhanced embedding from other sites
- More (and better performing) embed types for sites like Twitter, Facebook, reddit, etc.
- Drop the url in the text of the post and it will auto-embed if recognized
- Optimized mobile experiences
- Tap-optimized interactions
- Layout and style tuned for smaller displays
- Lots of additional streamlined functionality
