
Donut Team: November 2018 Website Update (6.0)
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Hey everyone,
Changelog
Overall Design
Updated the navbar.
Updated the design of posts to be neater.
Updated the forum sidebar to be neater.
Updated the Discord

Hey everyone,
Changelog
Overall Design- Updated the navbar.
- Updated the design of posts to be neater.
- Updated the forum sidebar to be neater.
- Updated the Discord page to use more Discord colours.
- Updated the registration form.
- Updated from Font Awesome 4 to Font Awesome 5 Pro.
Forum Home
- Added a button on topic listings that allows you to jump to the latest reply. This button only shows up on topics that have more than one page.
- Added unread markers to topics. This is based on both accounts and your IP Address. Because this is a new feature, all topics you've already read will be marked as unread. We've disabled this feature temporarily to correct an issue.
Forum Topics
- Added Open Graph to forum posts. You will notice post embeds are a lot nicer in Discord, Facebook and Twitter. (Preview)
- Added the ability to collapse posts.
- Updated the new topic form to allow blank bodies. This only applies to the original post, not replies.
- Added the ability to subscribe to topics.
- Added the ability to mark a topic as a spoiler.
- Added the ability to set a flair for a topic.
- Changed the way topics are recorded.
- Added the ability to report posts.
- Added the [Spotify] BBCode tag.
- Added the [Soundcloud] BBCode tag.
- Added the [Steam] BBCode tag.
- Added the [Spoiler] BBCode tag.
- Added a banner to show you that you're not on the last page of a thread to prevent replying without knowing the full context.
- We've reworked how post edits have been made, meaning some posts will no longer show edit status.
Post Editor
- Added the "YouTube" editor button.
- Added the "Spotify" editor button.
- Added the "Soundcloud" editor button.
- Added the "Spoiler" editor button.
- Added the "YouTube" editor button.
- Added the "Center" editor button.
- Added a check to prevent you from navigating from the page when you're writing a forum thread.
Notifications
- Added this feature.
- Notification types
- You will now be notified when a thread you're subscribed to is replied to by anyone.
- If multiple people reply and you had not read the previous notifications, it will show up as "Multiple people"
- If you reply to your own thread, you will not be notified.
- If you unsubscribe from a thread, the past notifications will still exist and not be deleted
- You will now be notified when a user subscribes to you.
- In the future, we may consider adding a setting for this if there is enough demand.
- You will now be notified when we take action against a post you reported.
- You will now be notified when a thread you're subscribed to is replied to by anyone.
Profiles
- Added the new profiles.
- Added the ability to subscribe to users.
- Added the ability to view your total karma score on your profile.
- Added online statuses.
- Added recent activity feed.
Forum Most/Least Upvoted Topics
- Added this feature.
Forum Most/Least Viewed Topics
- Added this feature.
Forum Karma Leaderboard
- Added this feature.
Forum Most/Least Responded Topics
- Added this feature.
Forum Discovery Feed
- Added this feature.
Forum Subscriptions
- Added this feature.
Support Page
- Added this page.
Recently Played
- Moved "Recently Played" into its own section, found under "More" on the navbar.
Design Settings
- Added the ability to enable post preview. (Experimental)
- Added the ability to switch back to a classic design (1300px max).
- Added the ability to switch to a "fluid" design, which makes fit to your monitor.
- Added the new "Dark Theme." (Experimental)
- Added the new "Classic Theme." (Experimental)
- Added the new "Big Green" theme. (Experimental)
- You may now hide avatars in the thread listing.
- You may now hide flairs in the thread listing.
- You may now set the thread listing to a compact mode. (Experimental)
- Added the ability to opt-in to experimental features.
Search
- Added a dedicated search page. You can search users, downloads, forum topics and community submissions.
Performance
- Added a new loading method that speeds up the website 2.3x in testing. If you're interested in what we're doing, you can read this article by thisbythem.com: thisbythem.com/blog/super-fast-page-loads-with-pjax/
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where images could not be centered.
- Fixed an issue where the links on the bottom of the most and least responded topics pages would take you to the homepage.
- Fixed an issue where pressing the middle mouse button on a topic would open the post preview.
- Fixed an issue where banned users could log in to Cards Against Lucas if they were previously signed in.
- Fixed an issue where the title of a post would get mixed in with the post's statistics.
- The YouTube BBCode tag no longer requires the video ID. You may also use a youtube.com or youtu.be link.
- The cookie banner now only shows up in European countries that require it.
Removed
- Removed the members page, please use the search page. Rational: twitter.com/DonutTeam/status/969487299238137856.
- Removed the custom context menu that plagued the editor. You can now use your browser's spellcheck again. This creates other issues, but the ability to use spellcheck is very important.
- Removed the forum search.
- Removed the steam link found in profiles.
Known Issues
We're currently working on fixing some issues that we did not notice while testing:
Boards are showing up in the incorrect order.This is now fixed.Private boards do not show up for people with permission to view them. For now click "More > Private Topics"This is now fixed.- Previewing spoiler tags in the editor is not currently working.
Sincerely,
Jake Andreøli