Ok the time has arrived where we start looking at upgrading the forum software! So many people have rightfully been asking for changes here and the site is now in a position to act on those upgrades. Here is some background, I've been working on these backend upgrades for several years and they've been in place and running for as much as long. Notably you've seen them in action with the iOS App, but they are present here as well. If you noticed some performance improvements over the years, its because of those changes. Now it's time to take the App's full fledged backbone and put it in full place for the web version and today marks the first public preview of that!
This change opens up endless possibilities of what can be done, but it has been a complete re-write and re-thinking of everything so there are a lot of things that work and a lot more that does not work. The goal for this first preview is to fix everything that is broken and then add back in the things that are missing followed by adding in the new features.
In the next post I'll setup a tracker post to help organize a TODO list for known issues or things being worked on so we don't clutter the thread with repeated comments on the same thing. But if you notice the tracker post doesnt fully describe a problem you are seeing by all means please make another post and let me know
As our first start we have implemented two of the BIMMERPOST sites, which are the original two sites so it is fitting to start fresh right where it all began:
https://www.e90post.com/beta
https://www.m3post.com/beta
Now aside from some visual touchups the big new things we have are a totally new search engine. The search engine is accessed from the top navigation bar. There will be an advanced search engine forthcoming, right now I am just playing with algorithms to see what works and what doesnt, so please feel free to try out the search engine and give feedback if you think the results are good/bad/otherwise. For sure advanced search that will give more results and fine tuned filtered will be introduced. Next there is an all new editor that gives you more control of how posts look and more true to what gets posted. It has many possibilities for us to add new elements.
And finally, as a general reminder this is a very early beta version so it's actively being worked on. You might suddenly see things break or change that because I'm essentially working on this place so you might be viewing the site during such a change
This change opens up endless possibilities of what can be done, but it has been a complete re-write and re-thinking of everything so there are a lot of things that work and a lot more that does not work. The goal for this first preview is to fix everything that is broken and then add back in the things that are missing followed by adding in the new features.
- Fix what's broken (bugs)
- Add missing features
- Implement new ideas
In the next post I'll setup a tracker post to help organize a TODO list for known issues or things being worked on so we don't clutter the thread with repeated comments on the same thing. But if you notice the tracker post doesnt fully describe a problem you are seeing by all means please make another post and let me know
As our first start we have implemented two of the BIMMERPOST sites, which are the original two sites so it is fitting to start fresh right where it all began:
https://www.e90post.com/beta
https://www.m3post.com/beta
Now aside from some visual touchups the big new things we have are a totally new search engine. The search engine is accessed from the top navigation bar. There will be an advanced search engine forthcoming, right now I am just playing with algorithms to see what works and what doesnt, so please feel free to try out the search engine and give feedback if you think the results are good/bad/otherwise. For sure advanced search that will give more results and fine tuned filtered will be introduced. Next there is an all new editor that gives you more control of how posts look and more true to what gets posted. It has many possibilities for us to add new elements.
And finally, as a general reminder this is a very early beta version so it's actively being worked on. You might suddenly see things break or change that because I'm essentially working on this place so you might be viewing the site during such a change
