The following is a list of updates to the forums. We also will be doing some more updates soon to enhance navigation and the ability to find what you are looking for easier.
Discussions
- The correct answer to a question is now featured at the top of the discussion, along with links to view it in context and see answers marked Helpful
- Admins and Moderators can mark a specific response as the Correct Answer
- The asker can mark their own reply as the correct answer from the discussion view (they do not get points for this)
- The entire community can now give feedback on what's useful in a discussion by Liking individual replies
- Inline mini-RTE form for replying to discussions when in threaded mode
- All replies happen inline (no new page load to reply)
Ratings and Liking
- Configure ratings and/or liking on any content type
- Like content and individual comments/replies
- See who liked content
- When rating, write a review that will be added to the comments with the rating
- New Top Liked and Top Rated widgets
- It's now easier to search, find, and navigate on tags
- Authors and editors can now tag content without going into edit mode or generating a new version
- See Popular Posts from the blog you're reading on blog overview and blog post pages
- Authors now have the option to make minor changes to blogs that won't send email update notifications
Content
- Members now have site-wide control over threaded vs. flat comment and discussion views (set in User Preferences)
- Everyone gets a voice with Liking on individual comments
- Users can now add Reviews when they Rate content that are displayed together in the comments section
- Comments now support selecting or uploading a new image
- Sleeker, refreshed comments UI
- Preview of first page of attachments (similar to activity stream view)
- Link function includes an option to toggle selection of content types to search
- Individual users can choose what information others can see on their profiles based on whether and how they are connected
- Users can preview how their profile will look to Friends and Connections, Colleagues, Registered Users, or Everyone
- Add attachments in reply by email
- Reply by email to Bookmark comments
- Pagination is now included at the top and bottom of lists
- Changing pages now brings user focus back to top of the new page
- The user's preferred number of results in search is now sticky
- Optionally enable pagination on document and blog comments
- Improved caching and page load times
No option to add an attachment and change the FONT (size, style, etc.) in the reply box . One has to go to advanced editor to do it
This doesn't work while replying to a blog post.