As you may have noticed, the PC World forums were down for a little while today, as we upgraded to a new version of our software. We are squashing a few bugs, and please leave a comment here if you discover any more.
Here's some new stuff you can do in the upgrade:
1) Embed YouTube videos. All you have to do is type { youtube } (with no spaces) before and after the YouTube id. (it is case sensitive, btw -- make sure that youtube is in all lowercase.) For example, if I wanted to share this video that is currently making its way around our office (http://youtube.com/watch?v=FrYRY6kx550) I would just put FrYRY6kx550 between the code above (again, all with no spaces).
Voila!
2) Embedding Content Similar to the new YouTube embed, you can now embed the content of one document into another. The code to do this is
{ embedcontent:id=documentid } with no spaces . Here's an example:
How to Turn Off Forum Email Notifications
Step 1: Sign in to PCWorld.com
Step 2: Click "Community" or go directly to http://forums.pcworld.com
Step 3: Go to "Your Stuff" and into "Preferences". Set all Email Notifications to "No".
Step 4: Go to "Your Stuff" and to "Email Notifications". Click the box to the right of all notifications you have already set, and then press "Remove Selected Notifications". Do this until all are cleared.
Once you have done this, you will get no more notifications of updates to message board threads.
You can get the ID for a document by navigating to the document, then noting the last number in the URL. This will usually look like DOC-<document_id>.
3) Set Your Default Tab In the old system, when you clicked on a forum, you were automatically sent to the Overview tab, which may or may not be what you wanted. Now, you can set a default tab in each forum (so it can be different by forum) and it will automatically open to that tab for you when you click on it. I do encourage you not to set the Discussions tab as your default in most forums, as I really want everyone to use and read content from blogs and documents -- I would suggest the Overview tab or the All Content tab. But it's up to you.
4) The new Overview Tab In the old system, the Overview tab was what it was -- and lots of us thought it wasn't that great. I can now customize that tab on a per forum basis to put more stuff there for you. I'm going to be working on these over the next few days. They are really easy for me to change, so if you think another arrangement might be better, please let me know.
Those are the major things.... and of course, there are more admin goodies for me under the hood.
Again, please let us know what you think and if you see any bugs. Thanks!
