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[Stuart Wright]

This is a closed thread containing updates made to the forum.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Today I added a couple of new trophies. You get 3 points for adding an avatar and 3 points for adding a Showcase.
Here are all the trophies.
Trophies accumulate to change your user title.

Title	Points
New Member	0
Member	5
Active member	25
Well-known member	45

 

[Stuart Wright]

Welcome to MGEVs.com on Xenforo 2.2.
2.2 adds a collection of great new features, including the ability to repurpose forums as article repositories, a new way to encourage guest users to register, a progressive web app and a completely redesigned rich text editor. Check out the following list for some highlights (opens the Xenforo website):

• Forum and thread types system (we will be using the poll, Q&A and article thread types on most forums)
• Updated rich text editor
• User profile banners
• Username change requests
• Search forums
• Forum SEO controls
• Writing before registering support
• Progressive web app
• Activity summary emails (this overlaps with the weekly digest addon which we use to send out emails containing the most popular topics every Saturday)
• Style archive import and export
• REST API additions
• Profile post attachments

This is not an exhaustive list of what's new in 2.2, and you can read more about the above and other new changes/improvements features in the Have you seen...? forum at Xenforo.com.

 

[Stuart Wright]

This morning the forum software was upgraded to 2.2.2.

XenForo 2.2.2 and Add-ons 2.2.1 Released

XenForo 2.2.2 Released Maintenance time! XenForo 2.2.2 has hatched, fledged and is ready to fly the nest directly to your community via one-click upgrade. In addition to the changes listed below, 2.2.2 has some invisible changes to improve performance, stability and compatibility with the newly...

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[Stuart Wright]

Saturday 26th December 2020 the dealer map went live.
Monday 28th December the process of adding the dealers for the UK, Denmark and Australia was completed.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Added the MG dealers in Norway to the dealer map.
Finished adding the rest of the European dealers listed at Home - MG Motor Europe

 

[Stuart Wright]

New Zealand dealers added to the dealer map.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Giphy support is now officially enabled. When composing a message, find the GIF button and then search for the gif you wish to add. Type an emotion, for example.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Irish dealers added to the dealer map.

 

[Stuart Wright]

Had a play with MySQL (it's as fun as playing DOOM) to automatically update all dealer discussion threads to add a link at the end of the first post of each thread which points to the dealer's entry on the map.
It took an hour and was interesting. Editing each one manually to add the link would have taken more than a day and been soul destroying.

For my future reference:

SELECT concat('https://www.mgevs.com/maps/13/hotspots/',lower(regexp_replace(REGEXP_REPLACE(title,'[^a-z\d\s ]',''),'[ ]+','-')),'.',hotspot_id),
LEFT(substring_index(thread_url,'.',-1),length(substring_index(thread_url,'.',-1)-1))
from xf_hotspot

UPDATE `xf_post` set message = concat(message,'\n\n[URL=\'https://www.mgevs.com/maps/13/hotspots/glyn-hopkin-east-london.8\']View on the dealer map[/URL]') where position = 0 and thread_id = 826;