As part of our continuing mission to bombard the Bungie.next Beta with your better salvos of feedback, we’ve deployed another update. If you take a deep inhale, you can smell the fresh code. It smells like… victory. In keeping with our pledge to keep you slightly briefed on our grand conspiracy to reinvent your home in our domain, a list of the more apparent changes are found below.
First, some highlights for this new version. Here are the fixes we think you’ll be most excited about…
[b]Throw your voice into a specific Forum Category.[/b] We’ve added some structure to the party, thus preserving the unique discussion parlors that you’ve come to know and love. Forum Categories are exclusive buckets of conversation – so you’ll only be able to pick one. They can be selected from a dropdown menu as you draft a Topic. Yes, there’s a reservoir for The Flood. You still have the ability to apply tags to each post, but you won’t be able to use the official tags that drive the Categories.
[u]Please Note[/u]: Older topics will still straddle multiple categories. New ones won't.
[b]We’re dark (again) bro.[/b] One or two of you may have mentioned that they missed the smoky aesthetic of the old and busted Bungie.net. We can’t imagine why, but we love you way too much to let such polite feedback float away on the breeze. To turn out your respective lights, visit the Display options on the Settings page under your profile. That should hold you over until the end of the beta.
[u]Please Note[/u]: You may find holes in the new dark theme. Keep Calm and Report to #Feedback.
[b]If you crave every last detail[/b], here’s the rest of the changes (some large, some small):
-you can now filter the Activity feed by the people you’re following
-the Social feed on the front page displays the entire entry
-the autocomplete no longer returns duplicate users
-email addresses are now a hidden value on your profile page
-when you sign out of your account on the profile page, it goes away
-links on the careers page have been fixed
-fixed the display for all time latest topics
-the navigation bar for the mobile view scrolls when zoomed in
-Ninjas can edit replies to official posts
-a new menu for Display Options is available in Settings
-the reply button now appears when you access a forum reply via permalink
-issues with capitalized file extensions for embedded have been fixed
-the FORUMS link at the top of the display leads to the Categories menu
-forum titles are now active links that refresh the Topic index
That’s all for now, and that’s enough. This was not the first to update to Bungie.next. It won’t be the last. We’re still tinkering with the controls on the bridge, and there are still items on your wish list that are being made real. Some fixes just take longer than others.
Keep the chatter coming. Let us know how the new changes impact your experience.
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chabang
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I think the FORUMS banner should go back to what group you were viewing, not to the categories page.
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Edited by A 3 Legged Goat: 1/25/2013 12:47:59 AMYes! This is almost exactly what I posted about the other day. Way to go guys!
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Edited by CAMMCAM: 1/25/2013 12:51:47 AMNinja's can edit posts now!! <3
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deej chrome no longer works on here!!!
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New theme. <3
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Thanks Bungie Team!
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I can feel the butthurt wash away from the forum-goers.
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Thanks for the update DeeJ!
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Edited by A 3 Legged Goat: 1/25/2013 1:03:43 AMFor some reason when I save my Display settings, the marks I've checked do not save. Is this a bug on your end or mine? EDIT: Working now. Not the best but it certainly makes it easier on the eyes. Thanks Bungie!
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My "Go Dark" keeps unchecking after saving.
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Edited by Spawn: 1/25/2013 3:07:16 AMThanks for the update. I'm liking the category sorting already! Also, I think you forgot one: The PM box and notification box is much larger!
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Edited by Coup de Grace: 1/25/2013 12:55:19 AMThis is absolutely amazing. The "going dark" option feels like a bit of a placeholder, like it was just kinda thrown together in a couple minutes or so, but I love it. I also love the new "Categories" option, since it keeps hashtags while at the same time giving the forum better organization. The only thing I can honestly say that I would prefer is for the order of posts to take a step back to its original form. Maybe not completely, but a step. It was nice seeing posts in chronological order- being able to read a thread like a story or a record of a conversation. Oh, and a way to re-arrange your followed tags on the left.
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Thanx DeeJ!
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Edited by Hatima: 1/25/2013 12:57:44 AMThank you for the increase in font. I can now read my messages. And "Go Dark" is awesome!!!!!!!
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Awesome.
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It's weird going back to the dark theme after using the white one for the past couple of weeks. Thanks for the info DeeJ.
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Simply amazing. Thanks for the great update DeeJ, and the rest of the webteam.
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Dark theme works everywhere but here. Odd.
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Hooray!! Things are getting better.... And make the ODST Trophy an avatar option!!!!!!!
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This is delicious!
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Edited by ChorrizoTapatio: 1/25/2013 1:04:23 AMAwesome, thanks for the mobile scrolling. It was need. The dark background and subforums also rock!
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YES. YEEEES. DARK BACKGROUND. SUBFORUMS I love you guys. Keep on rockin'
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Darkness won't work for me. It keeps unselecting it. Also, let it be known that I am now better than DeeJ by a factor of 7 minutes. In every aspect of life.
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Cool, the updates are appreciated. Can't wait for the fix on the "last reply" value though. It very rarely correctly displays the correct name of the person who replied last. It, at least for me, seems to display the name of the person who was replied TO as the person who replied last.
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This is nice. Welcome back to the Septagon bloaks! Thanks webteam. Who do I make out the check too?