Forum Software Updated!

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With the move to a new web server, I'm now able to clear a backlog of updates needed for the forum. The forum is now running the latest version of xenForo, version 1.5.2, upgraded from 1.3.1. Most importantly, a bunch of security patches were applied to tighten up things and keep the hackers at bay. From a user's perspective, there are some new goodies, including the ability to "tag" your posts. I've added tags identifying the body of water to a couple of recent posts to demonstrate. With tags, threads can be selectively viewed and searched. If you're only interested in Lake St. Clair, you can search on content only having that tag.

To read more about tagging see https://xenforo.com/community/threads/thread-tagging.100267/ .

To read about other new functions now added see: https://xenforo.com/community/forums/have-you-seen/ looking for threads identified with XF1.4 or XF1.5.

If you find something else that's of interest (or now broken) please post here.

 

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I've added a couple of "Prefixes" to the Classified and Fishing Reports forum. Threads in these forums can now be prefixed with values and also filtered on these values. For example, if all you care to see are fishing reports click a thread with that prefix and the list will be filtered to show only threads with that prefix. Same thing in the Classifieds Section; you can set a prefix of 'For Sale' and switch it to 'Sold' if you unloaded your stuff.

 

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Changes to replying to posts is one new major change... for those interested here's a link to a video from the xenForo development team