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Hi Friends!

As you all hopefully know, we're huge proponents of always making your experience here at BYC even better!   While the VAST majority of our time and resources is focused on stuff you don't see (server upgrades, software fixes, keeping spammers out, moderation, etc.) we also love to add features to BYC that you can use play with every day.  smile

With the support from our Sponsors , Golden Feather Members, and Platinum Poultry Members we're able to keep this fantastic site running, but we're also able to keep making improvements and keep up with the amazing growth of our wonderful community.

Well, we've been listening to your ideas and suggestions  and now our to-do list is now about 5 zillion pages long.  tongue2

We've been evaluating all of your suggestions.  We try to find balance between the cost and complexity of making changes with the overall benefit to the the entire community.  Imagine trying to make changes to a system that has 76,000 users and hoping all of them will like the changes... 
th  (not an easy task)

We're happy to announce that we've been able to prioritize and choose a handful of really cool new features and updates which we hope that 75,980 of you will like (yes, we know that about 20 of you will can never be pleased... you know who you are!)  wink   

Over the past few days we've had a really amazing programmer do a ton of work on the forum software.   There were about 32 items on our list of fixes and updates (some pretty significant) that have been checked off!   Most of these were fixes that you'll hopefully never see... stuff like bug fixes that were causing errors, and optimizations that will speed up the forum, hopefully even when we have over 1,000 peeps on at the same time

A handful of  updates have just been applied to BYC that we think are pretty cool... features that you'll hopefully use every day!  I was originally going to just announce the changes, but I thought having a "BYC New Feature Treasure Hunt" would be way more fun!  big_smile

So, go through the forum and try to pick out the updates and changes we just made!   

TWO RULES:

1)  GFMs have already been notified of some of these changes so they are not eligible to post about the ones I've already shared with them!!!  (there might be 1 that they don't know about which they can post if they find )

2)  Please only one submission per person!


---------- UPDATE:   All Member Facing changes have been found! ----------------------

1) Ability to search within your own PM's (When in you PM Inbox, there is a "Search " link in the main menu to the left)
2) PM's that have you've replied to are now marked as such in your PM Message List
3) Easier page navigation:  Previous and Next links,  "Go To" page jump
4) You can now embed YouTube videos into posts
5) We've removed all of the BSA listings from the "Show unanswered posts " link at the bottom left of the index!
6) When reporting posts you can now select the reason for the report from a drop down (very helpful for our moderators).

Oh, and while we try to do a lot of testing on these changes, we can't test every single browser, computer, etc. setup.  So, if you notice any bugs or problems with the updates, please let us know ASAP!

Rob - Married to my wife Emily for 12 years and have two daughters, 9 and 6.  Home to four hens
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post #2 of 157

Is the search function in the messaging new?  And it looks like you can review your inbox now while you're reading a message - don't remember that before . . .

life is good.
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 
          ~Samuel Johnson
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 
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post #4 of 157
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Originally Posted by BirdNut 

You can jump to specific pages! http://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?pid=5542136


x2 !!!!! Thats what I was going to say! Great addition!!!!!

"You can't help that. We're all mad here."The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

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"You can't help that. We're all mad here."The Cheshire Cat from Alice in Wonderland

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post #5 of 157

I see 2 easy ones, but I think I'll keep my mouth shut. I'm not sure what you notified gfms about.


BTW- Way cool

Oh! I see Birdnut posted one of the ones I saw

Imp

 

 

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

 

       ― Chief Seattle

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If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

 

       ― Chief Seattle

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post #6 of 157

You can search for specific PMs in your messages, too!

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 
          ~Samuel Johnson
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 
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post #7 of 157

wee

I can't get the message search to work, though.  I've tried several search terms, and none of them found anything.  hmm

The awesomeness of a movie can, under normal circumstances, be easily calculated by counting the number of cars destroyed and multiplying that figure by the number of witty comebacks issued by major characters. The Avengers is a very high ranking movie on this scale.

"Harrison Ford is the President of the United States" is the perfect movie tagline.
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The awesomeness of a movie can, under normal circumstances, be easily calculated by counting the number of cars destroyed and multiplying that figure by the number of witty comebacks issued by major characters. The Avengers is a very high ranking movie on this scale.

"Harrison Ford is the President of the United States" is the perfect movie tagline.
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post #8 of 157

Just found a couple more. I see searching in PMs already mentioned.

Imp

 

 

If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

 

       ― Chief Seattle

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If all the beasts were gone, men would die from a great loneliness of spirit,

for whatever happens to the beasts also happens to the man.

All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the Earth befalls the sons of the Earth.

 

       ― Chief Seattle

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post #9 of 157
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Originally Posted by Kooshie 

wee

I can't get the message search to work, though.  I've tried several search terms, and none of them found anything.  hmm


It says "no results" or what exactly are you searching for and exactly what happens?   Any error messages?   What browser and version are you using?

Rob - Married to my wife Emily for 12 years and have two daughters, 9 and 6.  Home to four hens
Nifty-Stuff.com | TheEasyGarden.com  | SufficientSelf.com | BackYardHerds.com
Upgrade to a Golden Feather Membership - Check Out BYC on Facebook

Having Technical Problems?  See here!

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Nifty-Stuff.com | TheEasyGarden.com  | SufficientSelf.com | BackYardHerds.com
Upgrade to a Golden Feather Membership - Check Out BYC on Facebook

Having Technical Problems?  See here!

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post #10 of 157

I have IE 7, and mine isn't working either. It says, "No results" even though I'm searching for PMs that I'm positive I still have.

These new features are really cool, thanks!

Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 
          ~Samuel Johnson
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Kindness is in our power, even when fondness is not. 
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