Forum Upgrade
Posted by: Ryan Latham on 22 November 2015
Dear Forum Members
This is an advance notice that there will be some significant changes happening to the site architecture as our forum provider is upgrading their platform. Of course with all changes some will be welcome, others will feel less familiar and may initially feel alien to regular contributors, please rest assured we have been working hard to migrate as much consistency as possible, and think we are very close. Luckily the new structure does provide plenty of admin tools and design flexibility, so your feedback on this thread will help us to fine tune as needed post launch.
This Upgrade is scheduled to occur - December 2nd, 2015 between 11:00 AM and 9:00 PM Eastern Time (Some disruption should be expected)
So what will be different?
The most important overall change for community members is that the site is fully responsive now. That means that no matter how you access the community, you will have a great experience that automatically adjusts to the device and screen size (no app download required)… with no loss of features.
If you blog or use our clips module, you will also notice an improved interface… and for blogs especially if you use our new Title Image feature, the posts can be much more visual.
Here is a little more detail on some of the site improvements as part of the upgrade.
Responsive Design: Say goodbye to a separate "mobile site" that was missing features and looked nothing like your main site, a new responsive platform where the interface automatically adjusts to each user's device, with no loss in features.
Navigation Menu: With responsive design, the navigation has to be much more flexible, and as result site navigations menu is automatically adaptive.
Title Images: Version 2.0 enables much more visual content. Title images are now supported for blog posts, audio clips, and file clips.
Video and Audio Download Option: Hoop.la now supports downloading video and audio files (excluding clips embedded from 3rd party sources like YouTube), There is a new user permission that controls whether who can download video/audio.
Widget Enhancements: Widgets have been greatly improved. The management of widgets on a particular page is simplified and there is a brand new Manage Widgets control panel, used for managing your custom widgets and embedded widgets (widgets embedded on outside sites). You can now create an embeddable widget in your control panel without having to display it somewhere on your site, as well. The "View All" links at the bottom of widgets have also been made more accurate, to reflect the parameters of the specific widget.
Kind regards and thank you for your continued support.
Ryan Latham
Director Marketing and Communications
Christopher_M posted:Hi David, Thanks for replying. I think the basic problem is that my MacBook was new in 2007 and, I'm guessing, nobody at Hoopla or the BBC or The Independent, say, expects anyone to be using gear this old. On the BBC site, I don't get the pictures. Often I can't access galleries on newspaper sites. Here on the forum, when I click on take action to be able to quote, nothing happens. When I use my Dell pc laptop at work, I get all these things. Also the forum looks a lot better on the work laptop. I'm not techy. I've spent out recently on a replacement used screen for the MacBook, a new screen cable for it because the old one had worn since it is built into the hinge, and a new 'solid-state' hard drive (disk?). So I'm feeling a bit stupid, thinking I should probably have just put the money into a new macBook, the way Apple would have liked. Hope that paints the picture. Best, Chris
Join the Old Codgers Club Chris.
My ThinkPad is a hand-me-down from my daughter (I bought it for her when she started university in 2005). You are right, Computer geeks look at it like something out of the Ark !! and can only suggest I buy this year's latest offering from Apple 