Under the hood improvements (TESTERS NEEDED)

Recently we have been working on a big set of improvements to the way certain parts of YLF work. Most of these changes are under the hood, but you will see some improvements on the surface too, including...

New fields in the profile
More email notification options
Improved private messaging

That last one, improved PM, is the biggest change you'll see. Essentially, PM in the future will behave just like the rest of the forum. So, for example, you will be able to add photos to messages. It will be like having a private forum between you and the people you're exchanging messages with.

Unfortunately we won't be able to import messages from the old system into the new one, but we will give everyone a month with both systems available.

For the last couple of weeks we have been running the new YLF code on our staging server, newlookfab.com. But we'd like to do more testing with more people before we launch it on YLF. If you would like to help with the testing, please send email to feedback@youlookfab.com.

11 years ago

CocoLion

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Veteran

These improvements sound exciting! I just sent you an email, I'm happy to help with testing.
Denise

Jem

I'd be happy to help too, if I can.

Meredith1953

I'm in if you need beta testers.

Sylvie

Greg,

Not sure if this is the right place, but I had a forum enhancement suggestion. It would be really cool if people could tag others in their forum posts, similar to a facebook tag or on Ravelry. Sometimes a forum conversation goes like this.

A: What do you think of these shoes?
B: I have those shoes, they're great.
A: What size did you wear B? And what color did you pick?

If B never comes back to the thread, then they miss out on answering that question. If A could tag "B" when asking their question, B would see it as a notification when they are logged into the forum.

I have no clue how much overhead this would be for the forum - it might be too costly in terms of database storage and processing time. We always have the option to PM a member with a specific question, so this is definitely in the "nice to have" category.

I'm happy to beta the current enhancements as well if you're not full up already.

-Sylvie

Deborah

Thanks Greg sounds good. I'm pm ing you now:)

Greg

Administrator

That's a nice idea Sylvie, and definitely doable. What has stopped me from doing it in the past is that people would have to refer to each other in the post by login name, which is a little confusing.

But maybe it is worth overcoming that little complexity because I agree it would be very useful.

There is one new thing in the imminent changes that addresses this partially. You will be able to tell the forum to send you a notification whenever someone replies to a thread that are participating in.

For the testing, can I use the email address associated with your YLF account?

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