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Hello everyone, As you may have noticed, the forums have now been upgraded. Please use this thread to provide any feedback you might have. Best regards, BohemiaBeck

Hello, Check back here and provide feedback to this thread for forum issues and updates. Since the forums migration from vBulletin to IPB a couple of weeks ago we have been busy resolving issues and making improvements. I know for some of you it has not been as quick as you want, but thank you for your understanding and patience. Rest assured the web team is continuing to address issues and make improvements. Please know that the main purpose for the migration was for special back end support for the unified BI account system. The unified account system is used in the store, for new games and for all future features and services intended for the community. If you don't see your issue here, provide your detailed feedback in a reply in this thread and we will be sure to address it. Also, if you feel that an issue that now appears in the fixed list is not fixed in the way that you desire, please provide such feedback for discussion. While we cannot guarantee that every request for changes will be implemented, please know that we fully respect all of your viewpoints and concerns of how the forums function and how you like to use the forums. We will make every reasonable effort to review, asses and implement the features and functionality you desire. Here are issues/suggestions we are tracking(not in any particular order): 821. Issue with IE after long inactivity on post edit, logout - constant page refresh 800. Missing ability to state a reason when displaying the "Edited by" text. 760. Email notification per subscribed thread. Currently email is on or off, then per thread is all, daily or weekly. 757. Login takes user to front page, should stay on page user was browsing after login. 680. Search functionality limited to four characters or more only. Looking into performance issues by adding at least three characters or more. 679. Community groups from previous forums, migrate and add functionality to new forums. 678. Go to latest unread post(small blue dot icon) not on locked thread(small lock icon in way) 622. Ability to export PMs as xls. (archive conversation - export PM to email available) 898. Friends list, can hover over name but more clear interaction options, like send PM should be visible. 906. Vote on own thread(stars at top). 573. No inheritance in forums selected via "Filter by forum" in New Content. 584. Set the amount of posts to be displayed per page. Display user signature only once per page. 604. Ignore signature popup is clipped. 570. Missing badge display in posts for supporters. Currently badges are only displayed in the Profile page. 569. Tapatalk functionality / compatibility 581. Mark threads/indication if BI staff have replied. 580. Custom Syntax highlighting of code. 912. Threads with polls light up as unread every time a vote is made. 679. Missing the Community groups from the old forums. 913. Missing bottom panel showing server time, etc. 914. Missing ability to set format of time and date. To 24h, american date formatting, etc. 586. Themes dark / light color UI theme choices 920. Improvements to the mobile version. Navigation of very large threads. 926. post shortcut link not working correctly when add link to a post content(posts in large thread) Have grab page URL + add ?=p(postid) to url manually 927. Import subscriptions users had from old forums 928. Option to create folders for different subscriptions 2053. Notification when someone directly quotes your post Issue/suggestions not repeated or under investigation to gather proper requirements: Links to latest posts are malformed for not logged in users. They lack the ?view=getnewpost parameter. Only the link to the date (such as: Yesterday, 14:50) has that parameter. (- might be related to 926.) Fixed issues/suggestions: lowercase username issue. If your username has become all lowercase, you can resolve this by changing your username at account.bistudio.com after you login, go to account.bistudio.com change your username in the top left corner save changes in the bottom right corner click on logout go to forums.bistudio.com and logout(again) After those steps, after you login again, your username should now have the proper case that you saved it as. Missing button to easily insert videos in posts. There are a couple of ways you can embed videos. 1. Use the blue/green icon between the eraser icon and the "Font" dropdown, to insert media. Select Media and insert the video URL. The following video sites are currently supported:YouTube, MySpace Video, GameTrailers, YouTu.be, Vimeo, Dailymotion 2. use these tags to directly write in the embedded media in your post: Member title editable. Now functions as the rank based on # of posts like previous forums. Group name and member titles dupe display issue. Right-clicking an image displays the picture instead of showing the browser's context menu. Profile: Social links can now be edited by user. Upload of image file for avatar, basic function, limited size and format issues. Missing sub-forums for editing OFP. Users can edit their own ban reason. Legacy url links to forums. Internal server error issue on logins. Page resets to front page in middle of reading posts. The private message limit was way too low, now increased. Width of threads/post and content too narrow, now for x1920 displays. Quotes within post same color as post, not noticeable, now in higher contrast. Font color too light, Font size too small, not enough contrast for reading. Like this on own post. Email notification not properly configured. Private message save draft issue, was high concern when initial PM limit was so low, PM limit now increased. Missing ability to easily create nested lists. To nest a list press the "Increase Indent" button. Inconsistency in the number of the displayed page when browsing through page numbers. It's too easy to get "trapped" inside a quote when editing one. Share page on social media, incorrect meta data and thubnail image. Subscribe to thread functionality. Video player rendering in user signatures. Display of 0 warnings on user profile/avatar. Report a post needs more distinction. Better separation of posts Archive PM conversation link broken, now sends email. Author of thread indication within thread on his/her posts. Profile: social links with proper link(e.g. Twitter username link, not just plain text). Profile: edit social links section clean up, removal of dead services, clean up edit page UI. Signature size limit match previous forums Multiquote limit at 10 quotes, can select more but then get error message, increase limit or display error on 11th quote add. Like button location and discussion on having or not having this functionality.(closed) When writing post, in edit field, font styles and link format bleed into the blank space after the word or line break. As in: underscore strikethrough link etc.(closed) Too much vertical space used at the top of the page. Set the amount of posts to be displayed per page. Display user signature only once per page.(closed) There's a hard limit of 10 maximum images per post. This limit seems a bit too strict. Dailymotion videos Post # and share link icon next to post date and time(ideally on right) Quote or multiquote buttons after "Reply with more options" or "Full editor", while writing post. Login issues with Adblock, Adblock Plus, uBlock must be disabled. Horizontal scroll bar in post from < Code > content in post Removed old no longer used secondary Location field from your user profile. Removed display of own warning points for user.(only moderators can see) Member since display on post bio. Only shows up on the profile card when you hover over username. Emoticons / smileys too limited compared to the previous version. :cheers: Best regards, BohemiaBeck

For some reason, my profile an 'interests' field that's filled in. (It's weird as anything, I suspect it's automatically taken the data from somewhere - Facebook perhaps?). If I go to my profile settings, I can't delete this interests field. There is another interest field I can edit (that's blank), but if I put anything here, I end up with two interest fields on my profile. How can I remove these 'interests'?