UGX-Mods

UGX-Mods => Announcements => Topic started by: Delta on May 24, 2018, 11:16:30 pm

Title: UGX-Mods Forum Open Beta is LIVE! and GDPR ready
Post by: Delta on May 24, 2018, 11:16:30 pm

Hello community,

Today is an exciting day for us. We have finally released our new UGX-Mods Forum as Open Beta to everyone.

Simply head over to https://beta.ugx-mods.com (https://beta.ugx-mods.com/) to get started - be sure to give us feedback (see below) so that we can improve it before it goes live on our main domain (production).

Please note: Your user settings won't be carried over, so beta and non beta (production) won't share the same settings.
This also effects some forum settings and statistics like total forum user count and such.

Other than that, Beta and Production share the same data and you are free to use Beta as long the Open Beta goes.

You can also share beta links, once we move out we simply redirect the links to the correct site (https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/s/en_GB/7109/b3b701b9e2252507726313c2d8313cd50ef12760/_/images/icons/emoticons/heart.png)

Before we dive into the major changes, let's talk about you and your privacy first!


GDPR | Your privacy

You probably received dozens of emails about
Privacy Policy (https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/display/UGXMODS/Privacy+Policy) changes and such. Well we updated our as well!
We refined it and made it more transparent. We also respect the EU GDPR and apply the changes and features to everyone including non EU citizens.
We face one big issue: Currently only
https://beta.ugx-mods.com (https://beta.ugx-mods.com/) has these changes!
We try to get out of the Open Beta as fast as possible but we believe it will take up to two weeks before we can do that.
If you have any GDPR related concerns, simply use
https://beta.ugx-mods.com (https://beta.ugx-mods.com/) which has all changes to comply with GDPR already.
We most likey will refine our Privacy Policy further and require your consent soon again - we are no experts ;)


Major changes in Open Beta

The work began 2 long years ago and we added and improved a lot since then. Here some major highlights but there is a lot more:
If you are interested in all changes, read all changelogs here (https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/display/UGXMODS/Changelog) or on our website in the changelog sidebar (footer and header).
We are waiting for your feedback / issue reports now, simply checkout the ugx-beta-feedback room on
Discord (https://discord.gg/VUKdSFR) or on our Forum https://beta.ugx-mods.com/forum/ugx-mods-beta-forum/98 (https://beta.ugx-mods.com/forum/ugx-mods-beta-forum/98) and let us know about your issues or feature / improvements requests.

You can also write here directly on this announcement. :)

We evaluate your feedback and put it into our
development roadmap (https://beta.ugx-mods.com/roadmap). Hopefully you are excited with the new forum and everything works out smoothly.
That would mean that production would be soon ready for the new forum theme.

It has been a long journey for me (Delta) and I'm personally very excited to share with everyone my work (https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/s/en_GB/7109/b3b701b9e2252507726313c2d8313cd50ef12760/_/images/icons/emoticons/heart.png)