A Jumpin JForum Day to y'all. That's right. It is now
five years since we went live with the JForum software here at the Ranch. You can read about
past years features here. To celebrate, we have some shiny new features for you complements of Jaikiran and Jeanne.
Last year, we
introduced cows for JForum Day. Click on your profile to see how many cows you've earned over time or in the last 30 days. Or check the
leaderboard to see who earned the most cows in the last 30 days. (It's a bit loaded right now because over the weekend we gave all active moderators and those with the title of Rancher enough cows to get them to 5.) But do keep those helpful posts coming and earn some of your own.
Ok. So what's new?
1)
The Rattlesnake Pit - We have a new forum for political, controversial or "too meaningful for MD" topics. It requires 5 cows to post, but anyone can read. See the
policies for the new forum.
2)
Flags - See a
thread you wish had an answer or more discussion. Or more attention in some other way. The flags might look like blue ! to you. (that's because they are.)
If you have a single
cow, go down to the bottom of the thread and add a flag. You can add one flag per cow you've earned. If the question gets answered and marked as resolved, you'll get your flag back. Or you can manually remove it to give it to another thread. You can go to your user profile to see what threads you have flagged.
Don't have any cows yet? You can still benefit from this feature. You can view the
top flagged threads overall. Or you can check any user's profile to see which threads they have currently flagged.
3)
New look and feel - Last year on JForum Day, we unveiled one page of the new look and feel (beta view.) It wasn't quite ready so we hid it away in a drawer. It's back this JForum Day. You can see the following pages in the beta view:
Topic (posts page)LeaderboardRecent topicsTop flagged topicsHot topicsBookmark list
Thoughts on the new features? Share here.
Let's see if anyone notices that I posted this 4 hours before JForum Day officially starts. Sneaky.