New Muppet Central Forum Features

[Phillip]

The following posts focus on changes to forum function.

Alerts in favicon

When new alerts or unread conversation messages are available, the site icon (shown in your browser title bar) will have a badge added to it, showing that there are items waiting to be viewed.

 

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Member tooltip

Our member card has been replaced with a new member tooltip, which appears on the first hover or click on a member's name. A further click will load the member's full profile page.

 

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New Member List

The old member list page has now been replaced by an all-new, member statistics system.

 

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Push Notifications

We now have push notifications for your computer or device and they can be managed on your account page. As you would expect with push notifications, you do not necessarily need to be viewing the forum when the notification is received, nor does the browser even need to be active. Naturally, clicking on the notification will take you straight to the content.

Unfortunately for reasons beyond our control (read: it's Apple's fault) the list of supported devices and browsers notably exclude Safari on macOS and any iOS-based browser.

You can also see that, just like alerts, we have provided a mechanism for you to be able to opt out of receiving certain push notifications. You may want to get forum alerts for everything, but only be notified by your browser for the things you find important. This is all within your control.

Manage your notifications:

https://muppetcentral.com/forumtest/account/preferences

 

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Alert read marking

Going straight to the content from wherever you are on your device is certainly convenient, but given that push notifications essentially represent forum alerts, it would be somewhat inconvenient to have to mark those as read too.

Therefore when you now visit content which you have previously been alerted to, the corresponding alert(s) will now be automatically marked as read.

 

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Content bookmarks

We've tried to make it super easy to find new content you've not yet read, and re-engage you with content you've already interacted with, however, it's very common to read a post and desire to come back to it later. Now clicking the bookmark icon on any message will instantly bookmark that content.

Your bookmarks are available no matter where you are on the forum. Simply click the bookmark tab or icon to see a list of your bookmarks.