What's in the upgrade?

[Akimbo]

There is nothing on those formats that make it stand out as a hyperlink.

I only discovered it today because I let my mouse pointer linger over it and noticed the locations switched to underlined. There are tons of new "mouseover" features in this upgrade that are hard to discover with a touch-interface.

Since posting this, I have found a few more that I should add:

FAQ - Mouseover Pop-up Windows

Mouseover Pop-up Windows Mouseover is also known as mouse hover, pointer hover, and hover box. It means letting mouse pointer linger over mouseover-enabled elements without clicking any mouse buttons, which triggers a small window to display. Thumbnail Mouseover Mouseover a thread title and a...

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[Miyaru]

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Is this a new feature? I just noticed that the location is a hypertext link. Clicking on it opens a tab or window your browser with the location shown in Google Map.

I added that on request (topic in support forum I think).
It used to be present in XF1.5

 

[rongoodman]

I'd still like to see some way of blocking out sections of the forum which I have no interest in viewing, such as Diving News and Media. It didn't work consistently in the old software, but at least it worked part of the time.

 

[Akimbo]

I'd still like to see some way of blocking out sections of the forum which I have no interest in viewing, such as Diving News and Media.

I posted a request to xenForo that would allow members to opt-out of individual forums but I have no idea if they will act on it.

Forum opt-out

Our board has just under 500 forums. They range from forums for wannabe divers to the most advanced. The problem is that the New Posts views are clogged with posts with that some members only understand every third word and others are way too basic. User interface-wise, it could be a checkbox at...

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