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Keywords: games, website
Some new features have been added to the website this week that make it much easier to communicate.

Take a look at any game, and you'll now see that instead of a Reviews tab, there should be a Discuss tab. Now, reviews aren't the only way you can talk about a hub entry: You can leave comments too. Authors can decide if they want to restrict comments to just BYOND Members or even turn them off altogether, but by default comments will be available for anyone to use. This can be a great way to discuss new changes in the game, schedule upcoming online sessions, or whatever. You can even just leave a note to say how much you like it.

The same kind of thing is now available for blogs, too. If you add the new Blog Comments box to your layout, users can leave comments for you. You have the option of making comments private, so people who leave comments will only see their comments and any replies you make.

As part of this change, non-Members are now able to subscribe to comment threads of posts that interest them.

Another change to comments you'll see now is that when you want to navigate to older comments, you don't have to reload the whole page. That's our shiny new AJAX in action. To make it easier to see how far along in the comments you are, comments have numbers next to them now. If you want to hide those or change the way they look on your blog, you can create a style for .comment_number in your site's CSS.

Speaking of things you can add to your Member site, for a little while now another new box has been available: The My Medals box. With it, you can proudly display the medals you've won in your favorite games. What's life without a little one-upmanship, right?

Have fun making the most of these new features!
The discussion section is an excellent idea, great for the community.
The Blog Comments box sounds like it will have a bunch of great uses, especially since it can be made private!

I'm sure there will be some abuse, but once that gets ironed out, this will greatly increase the activity on the site!

Nice work :)
I'm #3! whooooooo

The comment numbering and navigation without reloading the page are pretty exciting for me. Those were two things I've been wanting for comments.
Also when I click save after adding a comment, it doesn't show my added comment.

Fail.

*Kisioj had that "my medals" box before anyone...he's such a spazz.
IcewarriorX wrote:
Also when I click save after adding a comment, it doesn't show my added comment.

Fail.

*Kisioj had that "my medals" box before anyone...he's such a spazz.

I'm not spazz <.<

Wow more power to the nonmembers.
These are great features. ;0
The AJAX isn't working for the comments.

I tested on this blog post, it doesn't go back.
These new features are awesome! It's nice to see all the new features such as medals coming out so fast. Keep the good work coming :)
Yes, I rather enjoy these discussion areas alot. especially the fact that the hub owner can delete noob posts.
Fugsnarf, reloading the page makes you comment again.
What's that? I don't see anything =p
That's because you deleted it silly and no need to respond, we're already flooding the blog post.
I think it's neat, but eventually there will be abuse.. just like every system.
They can't abuse if you keep track over it and delete the stupid things.
Fugsnarf wrote:
They can't abuse if you keep track over it and delete the stupid things.
True; but spamming it..
I like it!
This will be good, and both bad.

Too bad I have no reasons on how it will be good and bad.
For some reason this idea rubs me completely wrong... I can't put my finger on it, but it feels as if there has been a growing amount of counterproductive features being developed and published to the hub. *sigh* Maybe, I just miss old BYOND days when the hub had literally one purpose -- Title Page w/ Link.
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