We’ve updated the forum software up to a much newer version of Invision Board which includes a lot of new things such as a new private message conversation system, notifications, a "Like" feature, an advanced text editor, and more! It’s a great update over the previous old version of Invision Board that we were previously using.
Along with this, the home site has gotten a massive overhaul to match the new version of the forums. The design is a lot more modern and clean, and we paid a lot of attention to making things as fluid as possible.
But, there are a lot of new features that are on the new site as well!
- Quests now have genre labels to help describe their gameplay style.
- People can post comments on quests as well as ask questions on how to beat it.
- Reviews effectively have no limit on length and can be updated.
- You can reply to reviews/comments.
- You can receive notifications of people responding to any of your content.
- Quests can have YouTube videos attached to them.
- PureZC database entries use a new rating scheme.
- People can feature quests to be displayed on the home site.
Here's an example of notifications you might receive.
There’s also a gigantic new feature: quest projects.
What are quest projects? Simply put, they’re an enhanced version of the hosted quest project forums that have a lot of extra features. Not only can you post updates to your quest project, you can also upload screenshots and demos, invite other people to be staff members on the project, and discuss the quest privately with those staff members.
People who are interested in a quest project can then follow that quest project. When they’re following the quest, they can see any new updates to that quest project in their quest project feed. You can also receive notifications regarding quests you’re following if you so desire.
Basically, you can think of these quest projects as a combination of the hosted quest project forums, a file host, and Facebook. It’s a great resource for anyone wanting a place for their quest.
Here's what a quest project page looks like.
For people who already have a topic or hosted quest project forum for their quests, we can migrate your topics to the quest project. One thing to note is that if you open a quest project for your quest, you will no longer be allowed to use the hosted quest project forum for that quest. Also, hosted quest project forums are slightly broken (which will be explained in more detail later), so I highly recommend people switch to the quest projects.
If you all have any questions, about the site, you might want to check out the site help and quest project help pages. While you can ask questions here, they may get lost, so you can also ask questions in the Assistance and Propositions forum. If you find bugs, please post them in this thread if they're minor or in the Staff Dropbox if they're major. Tagging these topics would be really helpful, too. Finally, if you want to test out features of IPB3, you can use the test forum.
Finally, I would like to give special thanks to people who really helped out through all this.
- Nick for helping organize a lot of the staff action, testing the site while I was developing everything, and for putting up with my constant pestering of asking how things looked.
- Rambly for testing out the site before its release (and allowing me to user her account for testing).
- Bagel for creating the new logo and graphics for the site.
- The rest of the PureZC staff, the retired staff, and Saffith for their help in testing the site.
- The five beta testers: Magi, Jared, Sepulcher, Anthus, and Linkus. All of them were very helpful in finding bugs and giving advice.
- Everyone in the PureZC community. Thanks everyone for bearing with us while getting this new site made and uploaded.