As you might be able to tell from some of the visual changes, we just updated our forums to the latest version of Discourse. This update gives us:
A Cleaner, Sexier Style
You can see the style improvements all around the forum, just take a look!
User Directory
A user directory at /users which lets you see where users are on a variety of sortable metrics, including read time, posts, and days visited.
More Flexible Invites
You can now invite existing users to a topic, not just new users via email
Better Performance
You should see better performance on the client with a Ember 1.11 upgrade which offers a 30% speed boost!
New and Improved Polls
We now have easy poll features that you can use in your topics.To make polls just format them like this:
[poll]
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C
[/poll]
You can then get things like this:
Which Runner Faction is Sexiest
Multiple
If you want to allow multiple choices, you only need to add ātype=multipleā to the tag, like so:
[poll type=multiple name=multiple]
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C
[/poll]
This will produce the following poll (note the help text)
- Option A
- Option B
- Option C
Number
This 3rd type of polls is about numbers. It can be used when you want to grade or rate something.
If you use the following syntax:
[poll type=number name=number min=1 max=10][/poll]
It will automatically generate a list of numbers from āminā to āmaxā, and the result of the poll is the average of all of the votes:
[poll type=number name=number min=1 max=10][/poll]
Anyway, those are the main changes from this upgrade.
Let us know what you think!
