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Today, we're showing you some exciting changes to Notices that we're bringing to you in XenForo 1.5: Displaying an image With the introduction of the above option it is now possible to display an image on a notice. You can either display the current visitor's avatar or provide a path or URL to one: This addition should help draw more attention to your notices. Visibility options It is currently possible to hide notices with relative ease using some custom CSS. You can still do this to have tighter control, but the new option makes it even easier. The exact breakpoints will depend on the properties set on the style used. Floating notices In XenForo 1.5 there are now two types of notices. Block notices behave in the familiar...

Account security has become a hot topic recently. There are seemingly endless stories about password databases from popular sites being leaked. Because password reuse is common, we've started to see brute force login attempts using these leaked passwords. Maintaining account security has become a big priority. To help this, we've added a few new features. Two-Step Verification Two-step verification, also known as two-factor authentication, requires you to provide two pieces of information to login. The general form is expressed as "something you know and something you have". "Something you know" is your password. "Something you have" is the new part. You may have seen this with other services, such as Google accounts. If you're...

Today we'll be talking about some smaller improvements that we have made in XF 1.5 which have been heavily requested. Ability to disable trophies globally The above option appears below the Trophy list in the Admin CP and in the User Options option group which makes it easy to switch off the Trophy system. When disabled, trophies will no longer be awarded, nor will the UI display anything that mentions trophy points. The "User Title Ladder Field" will automatically switch to "Messages" if trophies are disabled. No "Most Points" tab on the Notable Members page. No Trophy Points stat on the visitor panel... ...or the member card. Threads with the latest posts in the sidebar In XenForo 1.4 we introduced the "New Profile Posts"...

Compared to profile posts themselves, profile post comments have been missing tools for user interaction and moderator management. XenForo 1.5 sorts this by adding an array of new, but familiar, functionality to profile post comments. This screenshot should give you a good idea of some of the changes :) Ability to like profile post comments This is actually specifically one of the most popular suggestions and is pretty self explanatory. Profile post comments now support the like system. Of course if someone likes your comment, you get an alert just as you would expect: And we have also added support for comments appearing in the News Feed / Recent Activity: Soft deleting profile post comments Until now the only way to remove...

Welcome to the first Have You Seen thread for XenForo 1.5. Over the next few weeks, we'll be posting more of these to show you how the new features in XenForo 1.5 are going to work. We expect to install XenForo 1.5 on XenForo.com for initial testing by early July, with a public beta process to follow. Today, we're going to look at the responsive admin control panel. XenForo 1.2 made the public-facing components fully responsive, supporting screen sizes from desktops and tablets of varying sizes to phones. The admin control panel remained designed solely for full-size desktop screens. If you were in a pinch and needed to make a change in the control panel on your phone, you could, but it was far from efficient as you zoomed in and out...

Welcome to XenForo 1.4. As we are nearing a beta release, it's now time to upgrade XenForo.com and put the new code through its paces. Once we're happy with the state of it, an unsupported beta version will be made available to all customers with active licenses. However, there are still some other improvements to discuss in 1.4. Over time, you may see tweaks that haven't been explicitly called out or adjustments to features that have been shown in previous Have You Seen's. Forum option: moderate new threads and replies separately Previously, forums could only be set to moderate all posts or none. This option has now been split to give you the option to control moderation of new threads and new replies separately: As before, users...

XenForo 1.4 continues to add tools and enhancements to help your moderators and administrators to manage your users and their content. Today, we're looking at inline moderation enhancements, 'author alerts', the 'Like' removal tool and the reply ban system. YouTube | Vimeo

XenForo radically improves the ability of your users to reply in a concise, accurate and intuitive way. Watch the video to find out how. YouTube / Vimeo Update: in answer to a question about whether or not this works across multiple pages / threads... YouTube / Vimeo

As with many of our previous releases, XenForo 1.4 is adding more options to help prevent spam from being posted on your forum. Our focus here is mostly directed towards preventing automated bot registrations. Additional CAPTCHA Types Out of the box, we now support a number of additional CAPTCHA providers: Text CAPTCHA -- this is a service that provides Q&A style CAPTCHAs like "Which of 47, sixty two, 18 or 59 is the smallest?". Essentially, this isn't really different from the built-in Q&A CAPTCHA system, except this system has a large number of questions built already -- over 180 million. Q&As are potentially easier to solve for humans and have fewer accessibility issues, but the trade off is that they can possibly be machine read...

XenForo 1.4 includes a complete and extensible implementation of the Sitemap XML standard, allowing for optimised indexing of your site by search engines. for like SEO and stuff... Watch on Vimeo As always, please don't post suggestions in this thread, but rather use the appropriate suggestions forum.

XenForo 1.4 includes a handful of useful improvements to help you manage and monitor the user upgrades you have set up on your system. Watch on Vimeo I'm attempting a new recording system with this video - the main thing you should notice is the improvement in audio quality, but if you have any other comments do let me know. However, please don't post feature suggestions in this thread, even if they are directly related to this system! Any features suggestions should be posted in the appropriate feature suggestion forum so that they can be properly assessed and catalogued.

Today, we have some more improvements coming in XenForo 1.4. Individually, these features are not big enough to dedicate an entire HYS thread, but some of them have been heavily requested nonetheless. Limiting watched content notifications to active users As you can probably work out from the screenshot, if this option is enabled, users that have not visited recently will not receive (or be considered for) alerts and emails from content they watch. This is mostly done for performance reasons. However, you can probably assume that if a user doesn't visit your forum for a long period of time, they aren't interested in the content they're watching and are unlikely to return. Stopping emails to them may prevent an invalid spam report...

Today, we have a video showing upcoming improvements to the XenForo help system, and a new way to surface profile posts. View on Vimeo My apologies for the sound quality, I'm hoping that some new audio gear will be arriving before I record the next one of these. Just a reminder: Please do not post suggestions in this thread (even if you feel they are related). Use the dedicated suggestion forum so they can be tracked; suggestions made in this thread are unlikely to be implemented.