Hey BassResource fans,
I wanted to let you know that I’ve updated the forums to include a few new features and enhancements. Note that you may need to clear your cache and/or refresh your browser in order to see the new features.
The Best Answer Feature
The nature of our forums invites questions such as “how to” or “what’s the best” type of questions. These forums often generate a lot of topics with many replies and it can often be confusing for other readers to know which reply definitively answered the original question. The update comes with a brand new 'best answer' feature. This enables the topic starter, moderators and admins to mark a post as the best answer.
Now a typical question topic will show when the best answer has been flagged. You'll also notice that at the top, a small excerpt of the post is shown with a button to go and read the full post. This is useful for when the best answer may be on a different page than the one you're viewing.
Looking at the forum view, you'll see that the answered topic has a badge that when clicked takes you to the flagged post.
You can also quickly filter the forum list to remove answered or unanswered topics. This will be handy when searching on common questions!
I hope you enjoy this new feature. I know that it's been requested many times and I’m very pleased to include it!
Editor improvements
The editor (what you use when posting topics) has now been completely rewritten to increase stability and to remove random, annoying bugs. This is very exciting because it also eliminates hundreds of lines of code, thus speeding up the forums. We've also taken the time to improve several other elements within the editor: Code Boxes The code box has been improved to allow you to select the code format (HTML, Javascript, PHP, etc) and a starting line number. Tabs and spaces are also preserved correctly.
Live Previews When adding quote and code boxes, the editor will now preview them live.
I’m confident that by rewriting the editor and parsing engines, posting will be much more stable and reduce those annoyances which can sometimes crop up when writing complex posts.
Miscellaneous Enhancements
Share a single post A common feature request has been the ability to share a single post. You might want to share a great reply to a topic on Facebook or perhaps email a link to an interesting post to a friend. You can now do this by clicking either the post number or the little share icon to the right of the post number. This brings up a new modal window.
Editor Pasting A lot of the time you find that you just want to paste plain text into the editor so you don't have to then remove formatting such as background and font colors. We've made this an option from within the editor via the new Options icon (far right on the screen shot). You can still paste as rich text by clicking on the relevant paste button on the top right section of the toolbar.
I hope you like the new features!
Note that you may need to clear your cache and/or refresh your browser in order to see the new features. Also note that if you're having any issues, please clear your cache and/or refresh your browser.
