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Happy New Year 2019

by Delta
7 years ago (January 02, 2019, 05:07:05 pm)

We wish everyone a Happy New Year 2019! :fireworks:

2018 was great!

Although the UGX-Mods team (the few remaining ppl) stepped back from zombie modding,
we still love to see so much user generated content and activity in the modding scene.
Outstanding tools, amaizing maps,helpful tutorials and Q&A across the web - you guys rock!

The new UGX-Mods site overhaul is finally released and we hope we can grow bigger in 2019 with more cool features and improvements. :thumbsup:

UGX Launcher

Our anticipated goal to release the UGX Launcher

in 2018 was not possible due to personal events and of course the work on our site overhaul, but we are very optimistic that 2019 will be a great year with the release of the UGX Launcher which will finally replace the UGX MapManager and allows us to support and maintain the application as long as people are actively using it.

Activity

Over the past two years we noticed less activity and this year we try to find solutions to bring back the good old times. If you have a great idea or want to help us -> let us know!
On the other side: we are close to 500k registered members (crazy!) and we will hit it this year for sure.

Thank You

A big thank you goes to our site and chat moderators - we wouldn't be here without them!
Of course also a big shoutout to our V.I.P's (former UGX-Mods members / partners / etc.), our lovely Donators

and of course every single user who are with us and keep this community alive. Thank you :heart:

2018 was great but 2019 will be even better!

UGX-Mods Team

Merry Christmas 2018

by Delta
7 years ago (December 25, 2018, 09:00:53 am)

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Hello beloved members,

It's this magical time of the year again. :christmas_tree:
So many sales and your pockets are empty already. :money_with_wings:
Play some christmas / winter maps and fight against the undead!

We hope you all have a great time, many presents, good food and a lot of fun.

Have some great winter holidays with the ones that matter to you most :heart_decoration:

UGX-Mods Team

Site Overhaul of UGX-Mods is here!

by Delta
8 years ago (September 09, 2018, 11:39:35 pm)

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Current State:
Most of the issues have been resolved by now. We will monitor the situation and will do further improvements and optimizations if needed. :dolphin:

The Forum / Site has some critical issues atm.The most dramatic one is the 502 error thrown by Cloudflare due to most likely our server.I assume it's performance related and my hopes are to find a solution during the weekend.

If you encounter issues a simple reload should most likely fix it. - I know: not perfect - but thats what you get when a single developer is responsible for everything and only a small testing group checked the beta site out.

Hey guys,

after over two years it's finally here, our site overhaul.
It was a long and stressfull journy and we are happy to finally share this project with everyone.

Please forgive us if there are some issues in the next few days, we will monitor the site and might hotfix issues which we simply couldn't find in our Closed, Donor & Open Beta

Most noteworthy changes compared to our old site:

List of major features and improvements

New HTML5 theme which is responsive and mobile ready (now you can browse on your phone without issues!)
New HTML Text Edtior (CKEditor) for creating and editing your topics and replies.
- New gallery and slider options for images
- Easy media emebed with iframely, simply paste a link into the editor and magic happens
- Autocomplete for emotes and widgets (try to type in : ) or #UGX and see what happens)
- Full Emoji support :thumbsup: :heart_eyes:
  & new emotes :parrot:
Improved registration process for new users
- Better client side validation (in general this effects many areas)
- Email validation (no more typos and support requests)
- Email registration check → we let you know about your status of your email
Beautiful HTML emails with nice links
Connect and authenticate with your social accounts, like Twitter, Facebook, Steam, etc.
- Discord connection with our UGX Discord. Link your account and sync your forum groups with your Discord Account
  
  (you'll also receive the UGX Member role in Discord)
New Avatars and Usercard functionality
- shows online state of user (green or red for online / offline) - in the future we want to extend this with the UGX Launcher.
- click on any avatar to show the Usercard, to get more information about an user.
- more avatar visibility! Yup we added support for your avatar to be displayed in many new places on the site.
Forum Index improvements
- Child Boards can be viewed and entered directly from the index
Message index improvements
- Preview of posts without navigating to the post (first and last message are shown)
Personal Messages improvements (mostly design)
Adding our very own blog which UGX-Mods doesn't use yet due to not enough time atm
User Interface improvements
- new modern blue look
- Custom dropdowns, checkboxes and radioboxes
- better error, info, warning display
Offline mode & better caching
- smaller total load helps to reduce bandwidth
- in case you go offline the site shows a nicer offline site (great for mobile devices on the go)
Alerts
- receive alerts & desktop notifications for subscribed boards / topics and other actions
- The sound and the desktop notification can be disabled in your settings!
SEO improvements
- link any ugx-mods.com url in Discord and such to show a nice preview. Forum posts actually show the first image if available
- nicer URLs (with page title, etc.)
- (lot of internal work has been made)
New landing page available under https://www.ugx-mods.com which will unite all our sites and with information about UGX-Mods.
UGX Roadmap at https://www.ugx-mods.com/roadmap
GDPR improvements
- privacy settings
- export personal data
- overhaul of our Privacy Policy and Cookie Policy
System improvements
- automatic error reporting