IGN Boards Changelog

[Jetbo]

Tuesday January 14, 2020 - Part 1
- Launched new boards

- Moved from https://www.ign.com/boards to https://www.ignboards.com​

- Upgraded from Xenforo 1.4 to Xenforo 2.1.X​

- New GUI. Includes dark and light themes. Light themes can be individually set or set to change with your browser dark/light mode.​

- Fixed all known rich text editor and attachment bugs​

- This website works on your mobile device now! (removed Tapatalk)​

- Change your avatar at https://www.ign.com/account/settings​

- Supports gif avatars​

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Tuesday January 14, 2020 - Part 2
- Enabled browser based notifications
- Fixed IGN logo not showing on Firefox browsers

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday January 16, 2020
- Enabled s9e media add-on. This allows for media to be displayed and played within your post.

 

[Jetbo]

Sunday January 19, 2020
- Performance and DDOS mitigation updates

 

[Jetbo]

Tuesday January 21, 2020
- Database performance updates

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday January 23, 2020
- Fixed EU login issue where EU-based users would not get logged in
- Enabled global username styling add-on
- Updated Xenforo dependencies
- Search functionality fully restored

 

[Jetbo]

Friday January 24, 2020
- Fixed inconsistent user session experience

- User sessions are now cookie based and users must have cookies enabled in order to use this website​

- Fixed issue where the wrong login screen would show up in some scenarios
- Fixed header issue on mobile devices where the header wouldn't span the whole page width

 

[Jetbo]

Tuesday January 28, 2020
- Fixed 404ing register button on the "Welcome" message
- Applied a security patch
- Updated favicon

 

[Jetbo]

Wednesday January 29, 2020
- Image upload file size limit changed from 512KB to 5MB.
- Adjusted caching rules for authorization pages. It will hopefully alleviate some login issues.

 

[Jetbo]

Friday January 31, 2020
- Released a gray "classic" theme
- Added some max bounds on ads to keep the screen from going off view
- Fixed more logins issues

- Header overflow​

- New user registrations​

- Enabled @Mention alerts

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday February 13th, 2020
- Updated s9e Media add-on
- Added extra admin controls
- Fixed various /members/ routes

 

[Jetbo]

Wednesday February 19th, 2020
- Enabled Lazy Load Image add-on
- Enabled Known Bots add-on

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday February 20th, 2020
- Enabled some EXIF support. This should fix image orientation issues.
- Fixed the "Change My Avatar" dialog to show the correct instructions.

 

[Jetbo]

Tuesday February 25th, 2020
- Added more gender selections in the profile settings. DM me if you want a different one up there.
- Added preferred pronoun text-box in the profile settings.
- Removed "Contact Details" fields that don't exist anymore (like AIM)

 

[Jetbo]

Wednesday February 26th, 2020
- Added breadcrumb at the bottom the page
- Changed homepage URL to point to boards instead of ign.com
- Added the Gamer Profile add-on. You can now add gamertags.

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday February 27th, 2020
- Fixed some styling issues with Gamer Profiles

 

[Jetbo]

Friday February 28th, 2020
- Added Nintendo and Uplay to Gamer Profiles
- Enabled Profile "Status" Posts

 

[Jetbo]

Monday March 2nd, 2020
- Updated s9e Media add-on
- Updated Known Bots add-on
- Improved mobile Gamer Profile styling

 

[Jetbo]

Wednesday March 4th, 2020
- Added social links to the footer

 

[Jetbo]

Friday March 6th, 2020
- Performed database maintenance

 

[Jetbo]

Tuesday March 31th, 2020
- Updated to latest version of Xenforo. This includes numerous bug fixes.

- Read more about the updates here: Xenforo version 2.1.5, 2.1.6, 2.1.7, 2.1.8​

- Updated s9e Media add-on
- Updated Global Name Styling add-on
- Updated Enhanced Search add-on
- Updated base UI.X add-on
- Added UI.X Pro admin

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday April 2nd, 2020
- Updated avatar parsing to disallow images with ports and images from tinypic.com

 

[Jetbo]

Tuesday April 7th, 2020
- Allow longer avatar URLs

 

[Jetbo]

Monday April 20th, 2020
- Updated UIX add-on
- Updated UIX Nodes add-on
- Updated s9e Media add-on
- Updated Known Bots add-on

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday April 30th, 2020
- Added Google Translate option to bottom of the page (experimental and might go away) Was disabled.
- Updated to latest version of Xenforo. This only included a security fix.

 

[Jetbo]

Friday May 1st, 2020
- Added new "International" emojis that were pulled from the Brazil forums.

 

[Jetbo]

Monday May 4th, 2020
- Moved "International" category emojis to the "Xenforo" category.
- Added new "International Classic" emojis that were pulled from the Brazil forums.



- Update "Classic" emojis with a few extra

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday May 7th, 2020
- Added a forums for feature requests https://www.ignboards.com/forums/feature-requests.80329
- Updated some forum icons

 

[Jetbo]

Friday May 8th, 2020
- Elasticsearch maintenance

 

[Jetbo]

Tuesday May 19th, 2020
- Added Giphy add-on

 

[Jetbo]

Tuesday May 26th, 2020
- Added "Thinking" reaction

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday May 28th, 2020
- Applied a security patch

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday June 11th, 2020
- Updated to latest version of Xenforo

 

[Jetbo]

Friday, June 12, 2020:
- Updated Lazy Image Loader add-on
- Updated s9e Media add-on
- Updated Known Bots add-on

 

[Jetbo]

Wednesday September 30th, 2020
- Updated to latest 2.1.X version of Xenforo
- Fixed a security issue
- Elasticsearch maintenance

 

[Jetbo]

Thursday October 1st, 2020
- Updated s9e Media add-on
- Updated Known Bots add-on

 

[Jetbo]

Tuesday October 20th, 2020
- Updated to latest 2.1.X version of Xenforo

 

[Jetbo]

Monday October 26th, 2020
- Updated the database to the latest version

 

[Jetbo]

Wednesday October 28th, 2020
- Uploading a new avatar on IGN account settings will now update boards avatars without needing to logout/login

 

[Jetbo]

Wednesday November 4th, 2020
- Small change to avatar workflow

 

[Jetbo]

Monday January 4th, 2021
- Updated s9e Media add-on
- Updated Known Bots add-on
- Updated Giphy add-on
- Added Optimized List Querie add-on

- This should help page load times when trying to load really old threads​