Print Page - Site Overhaul of UGX-Mods is here!

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 :ugxmods_blue: :parrot: :epic_win:
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 :rainbow:
Connect and authenticate with your social accounts, like Twitter, Facebook, Steam, etc.
- Discord connection with our UGX Discord (https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/display/UGXLDEV/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
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 (https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/s/en_GB/7109/b3b701b9e2252507726313c2d8313cd50ef12760/_/images/icons/emoticons/sad.png) (https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/s/en_GB/7109/b3b701b9e2252507726313c2d8313cd50ef12760/_/images/icons/emoticons/sad.png)
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
New landing page available under https://www.ugx-mods.com (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 (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

(I probably forgot a few things - it's 2 am - forgive me)

You can read the latest changelog (and all others from the paste) here: https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/display/UGXMODS/UGXSMF+v0.8.0-beta (https://confluence.ugx-mods.com/display/UGXMODS/UGXSMF+v0.8.0-beta)

Thanks for your support, be sure to let us know what you think!

I'm personally happy that this milestone has been completed now.

UGX-Mods should be future proof now, bringing you a lot of new improvements and features + modern web standards.

Greetings on behalf of the remaining UGX-Mods team

Alex 'Delta' Diller

Quote from: RadimaX on September 10, 2018, 10:15:22 pm

the site still says:
UGX Chat Moderator (4x) under
UGX-Mods - Staff
but we dont have chat anymore:D

Yes but Discord qualifies as a 'Chat'.

ah i though that was for ugx-mod website without a chat, did not know 4 of the same people moved on to monitor discord :P should go on there more often tbh

trust radi to bring up the big issues

UGX-Mods

UGX-Mods => Announcements => Topic started by: Delta on September 09, 2018, 11:39:35 pm