Hello guys,
Most of you know I've working on a new forum for the past week, I'm happy to say everything is almost ready (not public yet) but I'm far enough along that I'm willing to share where I'm at right now:
- The forum and its features/design are fully implemented and running locally
- The forum has all the features you'd expect, if if exists here then it's included over there (quote, multi-quote, likes, warning system, polls, announcements.... etc)
- An advanced tagging system for posts is included.
- The forum has a fully featured notifications/subscriptions system.
- Multi-factor authentication is included for extra security (via auth apps or email).
- The design is responsive and works on all form factors from Laptops to tablets and mobile devices.
- The forum is built only for discussion of Bioware games, no other games or companies.
- Off-Topic is here to stay.
- It'll be hosted on a cloud server, I promise it'll run as fast as the forums here and no ads will ever be included.
The final design in both dark and light themes is below:
An example forum post (one of my threads here):
Here's a screenshot of the current site rules (I'm going to be hands off when it comes to moderating except for the first few weeks), moderators will be chosen from amongst yourselves and you'll have a say in it... and for those of you wondering, I used the forum rules here as a template, copied and pasted a few things and used some other site rules a guideline as well.
Stuff yet to be done:
- Creating the French section (nobody contributed a translation yet).
- Uploading to the cloud server and stress testing for a few days.. I expect I'll launch on the week of the 15th of August.
One last thing to say: I'm quite aware of the alternatives and I respect and appreciate everyone's effort but the fact that half of them are hosted on free boards and the other half are actually home to other communities is what's keeping me from joining... ultimately I think only a couple of projects will keep going, whichever those are best of luck.
Edit Aug 19th: site has launched, you can visit at https://the-refuge.net
OP before modification.
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