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Night mode is still in there. I just don't use it myself. Checked it out whilst testing though to make some visual changes.

Okay, so how's this for a colour button? You just need to add the = and whatever colour code you want to use.

Not managed to get a colour selector working - especially not one that will work on mobiles correctly. So at the moment, this is the best I can do.

EDIT: I've got it to include the =# now so you just have to add in whatever colour code is required.

Now, what you can do (currently as well) is to use it in simpler terms, as some colours accept the name of the colour.

[color=red]red text[/color]

works the same as:

[color=#f00]red text[/color]

I second Fish's comments.

Okay, so one big change is with videos. The [youtube][/youtube] tag is now depreciated. The video tags that have been in the BBCode Toolbar for a long time does exactly what the YouTube ones did as well as adding the Daily Motion and Vimeo clips. So was really pointless still having a YouTube one. You can also no longer just use the end code of a youtube URL - needs to be the whole thing. You also need to now put YouTube videos within video tags in order for the video to show.

Basically, I've been having to add them in myself with every change to the software and it's a mix between "I can't keep doing it" and "there's no need to". So if you're posting a video, remember to use the video tags.

The colour button is now added to the toolbar. You just need to remember to add in the colour code that you want to use. I can't see this becoming a colour picker, and if you look at the toolbar on a mobile device you'll see why, it just wouldn't work. But at least you have a colour button now 🙂

The board uses emojis now instead of emoticons. On Chrome they look odd, as Chrome doesn't fully support them for some reason. Other browsers do, and mobile devices do. It's not a problem to change them back to emoticons, it's an easy change in the admin area, but generally emojis look nicer. There's no button for them any more either - for the same reason as there's no colour picker, just wouldn't work on a mobile. You can see which ones work in the help section which you can find by clicking your user icon in the top right of the main menu. Or it's here - http://www.4wforums.com/help.php

Spoilers look a lot nicer - I will be looking at adding this to the toolbar as well, as it is a good one.

The 'New', 'Active' & 'Unanswered' are down the left hand side now, not at the top. So they are still around, just in a different place.

I need to come up with a new default avatar - if anyone has any ideas feel free to let me know.

PM's now flash, as mentioned previously. You'll even notice it when on a mobile, so there's no need to drop the menu down just to check, as you'll know.

Er, I think that's it other than the very obvious change in look and what I've mentioned in a previous post.

Hadn't noticed that. Will look into that then, as its always nice seeing on the forum list which ones contain new posts, without having to go through each one.

EDIT: Ah, just noticed that they work the same as sub forums. The background changes colour. I will look at a more obvious way to show this though.

At first glance on mobile this upgrade works great. Everything stands out more and tapping links around the screen is easier too. Great job Ben.

I like the upgrades, just still have to do some tricky navigation in terms of being logged in - I personally sign in from the Users list, then go from there - some pages will show  logged in right away - the index page almost never is - and others don't / must be navigated to in a series of preceding page views. Hard to explain. Also notice going to the nest post in a thread tends to give me a logged out page.
Edit: this was all true before upgrade too. On mobile especially but laptop too.

You sign in from the users list? If you're not logged in, there's only two ways to do it - through the home page just underneath the 4W Forums text, or the login button on the top right. Both of those options now give you a 'keep me logged in' option as default.

What browser are you using? Is it set to delete cookies when you close the browser? Is your browser set to save cookies? The login is stored in a cookie, only time I've known anyone to have an issue staying logged in was because of their cookie settings.

I'm trying to reply to a PM and whenever I try to hit submit it's telling me I've "left the conversation." Whassupwidat?

I'm trying to reply to a PM and whenever I try to hit submit it's telling me I've "left the conversation." Whassupwidat?

When sending a new one or when replying in an existing conversation?

Replying.

Comment errors
chux4w has left the conversation.

Well it works on my local machine. Just not when it's on the server... hmm... interesting.

I managed to get one reply to your test PM, but a second gives me the same error message. Weird.