XF 2.1 Is there a list of new features from a member's perspective?

[Brendan Burgess]

I am upgrading from 1.5 to 2.1 today and I would like to give our users a list of the new features. They are not interested in the admin control panel or other stuff going on in the background. So what will they see?

Better display on mobile phone
Easier to do tables
Better searching
This new box for quick starting a thread?

Brendan

 

[ŽivaAkcija]

see here https://xenforo.com/community/threads/welcome-to-xenforo-2.132146/

and here https://xenforo.com/community/threads/whats-new-in-xenforo-2-0.133426/

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Thanks Z
the links in the first one don't work.

The second is a very old thread and a lot of the features are for the site administrators.

I want to put up a thread on my site for the users telling them what new features they have.

Brendan

 

[jeb35]

Have you seen...?

This forum spotlights some of XenForo's interesting features. Spotlights on features in upcoming releases will be posted here.

xenforo.com

Anything with the 2.1 thread prefix in the beginning is what you want to look at it, so the first 10 threads.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Again, I want to stress that I want to communicate with our members how xenforo will help them. Giving them a link to the likes of this is of no value to them.

JSON conversion

Traditionally we have always used PHP's built-in serialization features as a way to encode data arrays as strings for database storage. Although there are still some benefits to using serialization, we have updated most of our schema to use JSON going forward.

 

[Ozzy47]

Again, I want to stress that I want to communicate with our members how xenforo will help them. Giving them a link to the likes of this is of no value to them.

You need to go through those and compile your own list to post for your users. There is nothing around like you are after.

 

[ŽivaAkcija]

i also want know what he try to say?

 

[Brendan Burgess]

There is nothing around like you are after.

OK ozzy

Thanks for that. Saves me searching for something which does not exist.

If I get around to compiling it, I will post it here.

Brendan

 

[Brendan Burgess]

OK, I have started compiling it here

Interesting new features

 

[Kirby]

A much improved Search Function

In 2.1? Where did you get that? Nothing did change there since 2.0

You can start a thread with one fewer click - just start typing in the top box on each forum
There is a list of Unanswered Threads
Much better and easier to use on mobile phones

Those features/changes were done in 2.0, not 2.1

New User features in 2.1

• Emojis
  2.0 did already support the use of Emojis, but it just used whtever the OS did support, eg. plain unicode.
  XF 2.1 did add support for consistent display via EmijiOne or Twemoji
• Markdown
• Tables
• Bookmarks
• Video upload
• Editor for profile posts
• Push notifications
• Reactions
• Image/Attachment attributes (size, alt)
• URL unfurling
• Per-Post sharing

Changes since 2.0

• FA 5

As an admin, you can also reconfigure the editor toolbar which in turn will affect users.

 

[Brendan Burgess]

Hi Kirby

That is a very useful list. I must investigate what some of them mean e.g. "URL unfurling".

I meant changes from XF 1.5 to 2.

Brendan