Fortree Forums 3.0

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Welcome to Fortree Forums 3.0! It's been a while since we've posted anything in the announcements board really, but we've just finished upgrading to Xenforo 2.3 which includes a number of different changes, and I've made some silent tweaks to our server over the last few months, so it's a good time to go over all of that now... Though I'll sound rather boring compared to @Chaos Black who's quite good at getting people hyped up

There's no doubt some withstanding issues, but these will be ironed out over the coming weeks.

Changelog​

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• Upgrade to Xenforo 2.3
  • Password-less logins with Passkeys
  • "Trending content", where various content types are algorithmically showcased
  • Light/dark variant system for styles
    • All themes except the 3.0 ghost theme have been disabled until they've been rebased against XF 2.3
  • WebP support - all avatars, profile banners, attachments, avatar frames, postbit presets, and sparkles have been converted to the modern WebP format for lower filesize and improved quality.
  • Deprecation of jQuery, resulting in faster pagespeed for the user
• 3.0 revamp of the 2.5 Ghost theme
  • Improved color ratio for accessibility
  • Various QoL improvements
  • Many CSS & template cleanups
  • Uses 'Miui' as its overall font
• Removal of Credits / Shop addons
  • Users can now instead unlock "user styles" such as username effects, through the regular post rank system
    • Badgless: Can ignore others' user styles
    • Stone badge: Can change profile blocks
    • Dynamo badge: Can change avatar frame
    • Heat badge: Can change custom title style
    • Balance badge: Can change postbit style
    • Feather badge: Can change post style
    • Mind badge: Can change tooltip style
    • Rain badge: Can change username style
• Upgrade to PHP 8.2
• Activation of Redis cache
• Many cloudflare, SEO, caching, and general performance/structure improvements

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Known issues / todo​

• No "Trending content" homepage
• Forum comments are disabled
• Restore the following themes
  • FF1.5 Light Mode
  • FF1.5 Dark Mode
  • FF2.0
• Only the top 2 userbanners should display
• Style Suite: Profile styles do not support our theme correctly

Completed​

• Badge list is not in a grid
• Profile blocks can trigger server errors on certain pages
• Font Awesome icons are duplicated / broken on certain pages (e.g. style settings)
• No overflow menu on mobile view
• Footer stats can look squashed on mobile
• Not all user style assets have been optimized to webp
• Showdown replay videos don't work correctly
• "About" section of profiles is too squashed
• Offline users do not have greyscale avatars
• Node list is misaligned on mobile view
• Addon Update Notifier callbacks are being blocked
• Migrate custom CSS out of extra.less
• EvalError: call to eval() blocked by CSP when clicking 3-dots icon in profile post widget
• Convert smilies to WebP
• Convert badges to WebP
• Convert reputation images to WebP
• "White confetti" sparkle is broken
• Alerts dont auto-refresh
• Longevity meter doesnt work
• Daily goals arent always recording
• "About" blocks on member profiles can look squished

 

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FF1.5 Light Theme has been rebased, and is now available for selection from the style chooser in the site footer.