Bravo on the New BCF!

[NutmegCT]

Congratulations on the great new format and appearance. This was a *ton* of work, and we appreciate all you're doing.



Tom M.

 

[Brooklands]

It looks great Basil, and I no longer have to turn off my VPN to log in. Great job.

 

[DavidApp]

The new look is great. Like all changes it will take a little getting use to.

Thank you for all the work you put into keeping this site up and running.

David

 

[Boink]

Looking good (but notice, likely still to resolve, that emojis in my tag-lines aren't there).

 

[maynard]

Nice job, Basil

 

[Bob McElwee]

Thanks for all your hard work, Basil. I'm stumbling my away around to get familiar with the new format.

 

[John Turney]

Looking good. Thanks for your work!

 

[vping]

Liking the new look so far. Only been to the Pub and will have to check out the rest of it!!

 

[anarchy99]

Apparently I got trophies on the new site... winning!!!

 

[Basil]

Thanks guys! I'm like a kid with a new toy!

 

[NutmegCT]

hmmm - looks like we lost our "thanks given" and "thanks received"?

(Also ... what are "trophies", and how are they given and used?)

Thanks.
Tom M.

 

[Gliderman8]

Tom, I think you use the "Like" button on the lower right side of the posting dialog box.
And, we get our Trophies at the BCF bowling alley

 

[NutmegCT]

Thanks Elliot. Any idea what "reaction score " and "points" refer to? Those show up when you hover over username at the left of the post.

 

[pdplot]

Had to overcome a little resistance to anything new or different, but so far, so good. Easier to post pictures too. Good job.

 

[Basil]

Trophies (Yes, I know it's silly)​

Trophies add a light gamification element to the forum. They allow me to define certain thresholds and criteria for when a user is awarded a trophy and the associated points. The top trophy point earners are then displayed in the notable members list.

When defining a trophy, I can specify the number of points it is worth and the criteria that is required to receive it. Once a user meets that criteria, it will be automatically awarded. Note that once awarded, a trophy will not be revoked, even if the user no longer meets the criteria.

If I delete a trophy it will remove the points from any user that has received it.

Reactions (Hover over the like button and you will see a pop-up that shows the current "reactions". I'm using the defaults now, which the image below shows how many reaction points each "reaction" gets.​

Reactions allow users to express the emotion they feel towards a piece of content with a simple click. The most basic reaction is Like, with which everyone who has not been living in a cave for the past decade or so is familiar.

Multiple reactions can be defined, such as love, sad and wow, each of which may be defined to be a positive, negative or neutral reaction.

Each reaction type may be assigned a reaction score. For example, Like is given a score of (positive) +1. If ten users 'like' a post, in the absence of any other reactions, its reaction score will be 10. Reactions may also be assigned neutral (+0), negative (-1) or custom scores depending upon their use case. Very similar in concept to our old "Thanks" system (similar but different).

 

[Basil]

Had to overcome a little resistance to anything new or different, but so far, so good. Easier to post pictures too. Good job.

As with anything new it will take a little time to get used to.

 

[vping]

I've been through several versions and am so far really enjoying this. Very easy to navigate and do stuff. Clicked on a pic and love how you have so many options.
Even pasting a snippet is easy.

 

[JPSmit]

just great - wow!

 

[glemon]

This is working great, admit to getting older and grumpy about change, this is really painless. I used to have to go back into desktop mode on my phone to look at anything besides topic headings on the forum, now I don't have to. Just posted a pic for fun, it was easy! Sadly NOT my car.

 

[waltesefalcon]

Looks good Bas. I'm liking the new format so far, it's much easier to use from my phone.