<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', 'sans-serif';color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><strong>Overview<br/></strong>Forums 4 (the March release) was a complete rewrite of the user interface. The goals were mostly focused on performance, but most other areas of the user interface were re evaluated as they were rewritten.<br/><br/><strong>Enhancements<br/></strong>Vast Performance and responsiveness improvements, in some cases increases up to 50%. Most pages improved around 25% or so<br/>Fixes for globalization Issues, longer strings in many languages would simply break the user interface<br/>Updates to Top Answerers lists showing the number of answers contributed in the last 30 days<br/>Enabling moderator features such as “Mark as Answer” in thread preview<br/>New lighter weight editor<br/>Entire threads shown in thread preview<br/>Visual queue for incoming live updated threads<br/>Question and Answer pairing display in thread view<br/>Moved My Links to right rail bringing content higher in the screen<br/>Enable unauthenticated page views to increment the thread view counts<br/>More visible Helpful Voting user interface<br/>New treatment for most icons<br/>Fixes for some edge cases for My Threads list of threads<br/>Fix to enable category scoped searching, searching from a single category page<br/>User feedback for events that take time (posting, expanding a thread for preview)<br/>Ability to select category listed forums for move thread<br/>Fixes for some users inability to subscribe to live alerts </span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', 'sans-serif';color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><strong>New Features</strong><br/>New “My Settings” page displaying participation  and additional preferences<br/>Ability to disable tag clouds, live updates <br/>In-line replies in thread views<br/>Ability to save favorite forums to “My Forums” <br/>Aggregate view of favorite “My Forum Threads”</span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', 'sans-serif';color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><strong>Other Changes<br/></strong>Page Based Moderator Tasks -  moved from previous “sliding div” to their own pages<br/>Dialog Based Moderator Features  - simple alert dialogs for sticky and delete actions<br/>Thread and Flat View is now a My Settings preference (user setting), not a forum setting<br/>Queuing implementation for some thread moderator actions, thread locked while queue in process</span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', 'sans-serif';color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><strong>Deprecated Features<br/></strong>Removed filters on thread page<br/>Persisting expand collapse state of category pages is not yet implemented<br/>Auto updates on category and thread pages</span></p> <hr class=sig> Community Forums Program Manager© 2009 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.Sat, 23 May 2009 16:11:31 Zcd763ed2-49d8-4680-bff5-72683df5b0a1http://social.expression.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/announce/thread/cd763ed2-49d8-4680-bff5-72683df5b0a1#cd763ed2-49d8-4680-bff5-72683df5b0a1http://social.expression.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/announce/thread/cd763ed2-49d8-4680-bff5-72683df5b0a1#cd763ed2-49d8-4680-bff5-72683df5b0a1Brent Serbushttp://social.expression.microsoft.com/Profile/en-US/?user=Brent%20Serbus<p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', 'sans-serif';color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><strong>Overview<br/></strong>Forums 4 (the March release) was a complete rewrite of the user interface. The goals were mostly focused on performance, but most other areas of the user interface were re evaluated as they were rewritten.<br/><br/><strong>Enhancements<br/></strong>Vast Performance and responsiveness improvements, in some cases increases up to 50%. Most pages improved around 25% or so<br/>Fixes for globalization Issues, longer strings in many languages would simply break the user interface<br/>Updates to Top Answerers lists showing the number of answers contributed in the last 30 days<br/>Enabling moderator features such as “Mark as Answer” in thread preview<br/>New lighter weight editor<br/>Entire threads shown in thread preview<br/>Visual queue for incoming live updated threads<br/>Question and Answer pairing display in thread view<br/>Moved My Links to right rail bringing content higher in the screen<br/>Enable unauthenticated page views to increment the thread view counts<br/>More visible Helpful Voting user interface<br/>New treatment for most icons<br/>Fixes for some edge cases for My Threads list of threads<br/>Fix to enable category scoped searching, searching from a single category page<br/>User feedback for events that take time (posting, expanding a thread for preview)<br/>Ability to select category listed forums for move thread<br/>Fixes for some users inability to subscribe to live alerts </span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', 'sans-serif';color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><strong>New Features</strong><br/>New “My Settings” page displaying participation  and additional preferences<br/>Ability to disable tag clouds, live updates <br/>In-line replies in thread views<br/>Ability to save favorite forums to “My Forums” <br/>Aggregate view of favorite “My Forum Threads”</span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', 'sans-serif';color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><strong>Other Changes<br/></strong>Page Based Moderator Tasks -  moved from previous “sliding div” to their own pages<br/>Dialog Based Moderator Features  - simple alert dialogs for sticky and delete actions<br/>Thread and Flat View is now a My Settings preference (user setting), not a forum setting<br/>Queuing implementation for some thread moderator actions, thread locked while queue in process</span></p> <p class="EC_MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:'Calibri', 'sans-serif';color:#1f497d;font-size:11pt"><strong>Deprecated Features<br/></strong>Removed filters on thread page<br/>Persisting expand collapse state of category pages is not yet implemented<br/>Auto updates on category and thread pages</span></p> <hr class=sig> Community Forums Program ManagerFri, 24 Apr 2009 03:26:46 Z2009-06-22T21:05:07Z