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I thought I'd throw this topic out for a general "where is..." or "how do you..?" kind of deal and that I'd start it off with a few things in particular you might notice that are different. A lot of you have not been on the forum in a while and may have missed the upgrade I did at the Center. I'm copying this post from there to lay out the new shit. Editor Features Image Embedding If you're used to copying and pasting images or pasting links into img tags, know that all you need to do now is paste the link to the image and the board will automatically insert it into your post. Very convenient. For example, paste this: https://i.imgur.com/LYreeIu.jpg Get this (also you can grab the corners of pictures to resize them if you like ): Video Embedding Embedding has even more options. In general, pasting a link to a video or whatever will embed that thing onto the page. Paste a link to Youtube, wait a second, and the Youtube video will appear in the post editor box for you. Emoticons If you haven't noticed already, emoticons will start filtering after you type the first colon in the emoticon and a few letters. You can click the emoticon and it will instantly insert it. Also worth noting...for some inexplicable reason, they're case sensitive. So that's kind of annoying. I might make separate ones for colon p and colon P as well as xd and XD for that reason. Double Click Items in Editor You can edit settings for things in the editor by double clicking on them (except for embeds). I used this to edit the properties of the code box above as well as the properties on an image. Could be handy. Quote Embedding If you want to quote a post with a quote in it and have both quotes, highlight everything and then use the "Quote This" button to quote it all INCLUDING the quote. If you just hit the Quote button itself, it will not include the quotes in the post. Activity Feed Create Activity Streams You can create your own custom activity feeds AND then you can set that as the default that appears on the top right of the page next to the nav bar breadcrumb. Go to Activity > My Activity Streams -> Create New Stream While editing your stream there is a button there to make it the default. This will also translate to the open folder icon in mobile view. I used the "Follow" buttons at the top of each forum to make a view that only shows topics from forums I followed. This is good if you don't want to see things from say, the sports forum, all up in your feed. Manage Followed Content Also if you do end up messing with the "Follow" buttons, you can edit all the preferences in one place by going to the user menu up top with your name and going to "Manage Followed Content" Settings Avatar Change your avatar by going to your profile and clicking the "Profile Photo" image on the bottom left of your avatar. Not immediately obvious. Signature Change your signature by going to the top left, clicking your name, then going to Account Settings > Signature. In a stroke of actual logic, there is also a setting here to disable viewing signatures. You may also hide individual's signatures by clicking the X to the right of the signature area. You may also hide ALL signatures from the same place. Notifications I recommend taking a look at all your notification settings here. There are a few new ones and some others got reset (like getting a notification when someone reacts to your posts). Skin Selector Look for "Theme" at the bottom of the forum to change your theme. I forgot to enable the Nostalgia skin for everyone and just turned that on a few minutes ago. Background Image (Nostalgia Skin) You can change the background from a blank black background to one of the built in background images by clicking the "Change Background Image" icon at the end of the left side of the top bar. Misc Closing Polls I've added the ability for you to CLOSE a poll thereby allowing the topic to remain open but at the same time letting you stop votes in the poll. I don't not believe this function existed on the older version. Search The new search not allows queries of less than 4 characters. You can search for short words and have them included and it will even try to branch out and match parts of words or pluralize them. Should work considerably better. ISO Button This button is used to see all posts in the current topic by the current member. Extremely useful if we do Mafia. I created this feature out of thin air! ENJOY IT!!! That's all I can think of right now off the top of my head. If you have more questions, ask away. No requests here, keep those in the other topic. This is strictly for Q&A and not for spam (let's keep this neat so people can reference it). I will try to incorporate any additional questions and answers at the top of this post to make it easier for newcomers.