Christopher Marks Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 After years in the making, I am excited to announce that Nano-Reef.com will be launching a new community website on February 16th! Our new website is familiar and yet all new at the same time. There are a myriad of new features, but the biggest ones are: Fully featured access for tablet and mobile device users! Our new site can scale to all screen sizes, transforming automatically to the most appropriate navigation for your device, all while providing the same features and control as the desktop site. No more dumbed-down mobile view! An all new WYSIWYG post editor that automatically embeds linked content from an array of sources like Youtube, Flickr, Instagram, Vimeo, and so much more. Just paste a link and you will see the content automatically embedded into your post before you even submit it. You will also be able to drag and drop photos for upload, as well as upload photos right from your mobile devices. No more clumsy BBCode needed, but you can still use it if you really want! A robust notification system that can extend to your desktop computer's system notifications, offering notifications when someone posts a response to a topic you've subscribed to, mentions you in a post (with new @username tags!), sends you a message, posts on your profile page, and so much more. Fully customizable, you'll get the notices only that you want, even if you're not currently viewing the site. New profile pages that you can personalize with a header image and post personal status updates, as well as post public messages to other users on their pages. A new live activity stream showing all new topics, posts, likes, and images shared with the community. Best of all it is fully customizable, you can create your own activity streams to filter only the specific forums and content that you want to follow. A new robust search engine to help you find the exact content that you're looking, by forum, topic, or even our gallery and articles. We'll be giving up our Google based search. In order to facilitate the migration of our 16 years of community data, the website will be temporarily offline starting Wednesday evening, February 15th at approximately 8 PM EST. While the data is being moved and upgraded to be compatible with our new website, this existing website will be available in a 'read only' mode, so you can browse existing posts and messages, but new posts and messages will not be allowed until the new website is live. I will be working through the night to get the new website ready to launch later in the day on Thursday February 16th. Downtime should be far less than 24 hours, but please plan accordingly. When the new website goes live on Thursday you will need to log in again with your current password. All of our posts and topics will be there just as they were before, and your old bookmarks and links will continue to work too. I've been squashing bugs with a beta test website in advance of the final website upgrade, so I am anticipating a smooth transition, but I'm sure there will be a few bugs left to fix once we're back online. Your help and patience during this time is appreciated! 35 Quote Link to comment
natalia_la_loca Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Fantastic Can't wait to try it out. 1 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 exciting! love the new features, especially the advanced notifications 1 Quote Link to comment
lkoechle Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 very exciting! 1 Quote Link to comment
gone_PHiSHin Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 glad to hear this! I mostly use this site through my phone since my laptop crapped out, so this should make things a lot easier! 1 Quote Link to comment
Mariaface Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Note to self. Don't read anything during the day on Wednesday so I have plenty to browse while the site updates 5 Quote Link to comment
fishfreak0114 Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 So excited! I use NR almost solely on my phone so this sounds pretty awesome! 2 Quote Link to comment
Scorched Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Great to hear Chris. I've been here so long I remember when you updated to this current format some 10 years ago. Its by far my favorite forum website and layout. I look foward to the new one. 1 Quote Link to comment
Mariaface Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 ...Oh my goodness, tomorrow's my N-R anniversary. 3 Quote Link to comment
Michael_Price Posted February 13, 2017 Share Posted February 13, 2017 Looking forward to the Advanced Search Option combined with Google! Our new site can scale to all screen sizes, transforming automatically to the most appropriate navigation for your device, all while providing the same features and control as the desktop site. No more dumbed-down mobile view! +1 Awesome! 1 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 I can't wait! And thank you Christopher for all your hard work on this site. It's a labor of love and it shows in the quality of the site 5 Quote Link to comment
braaap Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 What the hell am I going to do that night?! UGHHHHHH. 4 Quote Link to comment
RIP Sebastian Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 N-R is going to be down for 24 hours?!?!?! I'm gonna get the shakes. 7 Quote Link to comment
RotaryReef Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Awesome! Looks like i need to make plans for Wednesday night.. 3 Quote Link to comment
Sancho Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Very cool... can't wait! 2 Quote Link to comment
Christopher Marks Posted February 14, 2017 Author Share Posted February 14, 2017 I'm really excited for everyone to finally see it! Here's a look at the homepage from a mobile phone view, you can see how the mobile navigation works. 7 Quote Link to comment
ninjamyst Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 I hate the current mobile site. I always switch to full version when viewing mobile. Can't wait for the new version! edit: love how Stella's paintings are featured...hahah. 4 Quote Link to comment
fishhands Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Well im in. I havent even used a computer in about a yr. Almost forgot they were relevant.? 1 Quote Link to comment
Oceanbox Designs Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 Great news Chris! Can't wait to see the new site. 1 Quote Link to comment
Sancho Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 I really excited for everyone to finally see it! Here's a look at the homepage from a mobile phone view, you can see how the mobile navigation works. ok so where can I read more about genas 500g aquarium? 3 Quote Link to comment
teenyreef Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 You have to go to the super secret N-R test website. It's the only place where Gena posts about her super-secret 500g tank 4 Quote Link to comment
SouthFlorida_Tron Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 ?????? 1 Quote Link to comment
tetraodon Posted February 14, 2017 Share Posted February 14, 2017 looks great, first badgerandblade gets an upgrade, and now nano-reef. what am i going to do for 24 hours 1 Quote Link to comment
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