By
Pillock
Welcome one and all to the new home of average transport.
Most of the forum will work exactly how you expect it to, but there's a few differences which will hopefully make your life easier. We'll add to this first post as other things become apparent or we find new options, seriously it's like getting out of a Fiesta Bonus and into a Sierra Ghia with all these new buttons.
Reading posts
You can hover over a thread title to see a pop-up and choose either first post, or latest post to quickly preview it without clicking into it
As before, you can click the star or circle to the left of a thread title (star is if you've participated, circle for threads you've only read) to go straight to the unread post
Composing posts
If you want to only quote a few words from someone else's post, just highlight the words with your cursor in their post and you'll get a "Quote" popup rather than having to quote the whole lot and delete the extra test (Thanks Stanky!)
Tags and Prefixes are somewhat different to the old version! A "Prefix" is what appears at the start of the topic title on the forum, and tags appear at the end
You start by entering one or more tags. Seperate them by just pressing enter to finish that tag and start a new one.
You can then optionally choose one of them to be the prefix by selecting it in the drop-down
Default behaviour seems to be that it will automatically select the first tag as the prefix, so it appears twice. Looks crap but it's a "feature" for now. Deselect it if you want....
Image linking and embedding
You now don't need [ img ] tags around pictures from elsewhere on the web. Simply paste an address that ends in .jpg or .png etc and it will automatically embed it
If the image address doesn't end in .jpg or .png try clicking the "Insert other media" button below the text entry field and paste the address in there.
When using the file uploader to embed your own photos from your computer, you can just drag them onto the bar below the text entry area. Once you've done that you can click the plus icon on the photo to embed it anywhere in the post (put your cursor where you want it to go first)
If you've already used an image somewhere, it doesn't need to be reuploaded. Click "insert other media" and choose "existing attachment" to browse all the images you've ever uploaded.
If you don't want the image embedded inline, you can press ctrl-Z to undo (or use the link that appears at the bottom of the compose window saying "use link instead" for a few seconds after it embeds) and it will go back to the old behaviour with just the address of the image
Searching
To find your own content, instead of “My Content” you can use “Search My Activity” which is at the top right of the forum. It’s sort of notifications and all sorts rolled into one but there’s Posts and Topics as sections in the left hand menu
Tags and prefixes are clickable to search for other similar content.
If you click on Activity on the main menu, there's a detailed search for your own content, member lists (separate tab) etc.
Signatures, Display Name, Email address
Click your username at the top right corner, and select "Account Settings"
Edit your signature, display name or email address there.
You can also turn off seeing other people's signatures
Note signatures don't display on mobile devices to avoid taking up too much room
Reactions
The "like" button is gone, and Reactions are here instead. You've got like, thanks, sad and confused.
No, you can't like your own posts
Notifications
The forum seems to default to "Follow topics I reply to" which is the same as Old Autoshite, however....
The default behaviour is also to email you notifications. Oh no! That's a lot of emails.....
Click the Notification Bell at the top right, and choose Notification settings.
The four options for notification frequency let you summarise things into one email. The top option doesn't specifically say "emails" as the type of notification can be controlled in the next step.
Scroll down and you can toggle emails or notifications for each of the different events (like someone replying to a topic you've followed etc).
You can also turn the notification sound off in that screen if you're thinking of perving over Austin Allegro Equipes (yeah, that picture) at 3am in bed.
By Pillock
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