Announcement Welcome To The New BYC!

[Miss717]

We found the issue (it's requiring members to be active with at least 100 posts). We're working on fixing that.

Looks like it's fixed. Just got awarded my 2-6 year anniversary trophies. Thank you.

 

[Elpinks]

Totally new here and trying to Create an article, but there is no "Create Article" button for me. Am I so new that there is content unavailable to me yet? We have an awesome coop to share and I cant figure out how to do it.
Thank for any help!
Erin

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First off, THANK YOU for your patience as we've gone through a tremendous conversion process. We've been working on this monumental project for months, and while we hope we've been able to cover all the big stuff, there's still a lot to do!

If you have any problems or issues, PLEASE look in this new troubleshooting section for people having the same problem. If you don't see a topic on the problem you're having, we ask that you start a new topic with as much detail as possible.

Here's a quick video tour of the new BYC:

Logging In:

We've kept your login and password the same. You can go here to login to your account. If you have problems accessing your account, try resetting your password. If you still can't get in, contact us (make SURE you use the email address you used to signup!).

We Kept Your Nice Things:

You'll see that we've transferred as much of your "stuff" as possible... not an easy task with millions of posts, tens of thousands of articles, and hundreds-of-millions of images. The stuff we moved includes:

• Topics / Threads (now called discussions)
• Posts (now called "messages"
• Images
• Private Messages (now called "conversations")
• Signature
• Topic / Thread Subscriptions (Watched Threads)
• Forum Subscriptions (Watched Forums)
• (If you notice anything missing, please see if others have reported here, if not, let us know with a new topic here.)

About You:

There are two main sections about YOU. They include:

• Your Profile Page (anyone can access). This has stuff like general info about you, posts you've made, etc.
• Personal Details (only you can access). This is where you can edit all your settings like your signature, contact info, and all your site preferences.

Where To Do The Things:

We know there are tons of areas you visit every day on BYC (ya, we know you love it here... so do we), so here are some areas you should check out:

• The Discussion Forum
• BYC Articles Section, including the Learning Center, Chicken Coops, etc.
• Chicken Breeds & Product Reviews
• Galleries and Albums

New Things To Learn:

• How do I upload pictures?
• What are "Trophies"?
• New "Members" page
• ???

Mobile BYC:

We recognize that about 65% of our visitors are on mobile devices! That being the case, we've been trying to focus even more on making sure the new BYC is very mobile friendly. Of course, it's VERY hard to program a site with lots of features to work perfect for every device combination of phone, tablet, computer, browser, version, etc., but we'll do the best we can!

Some New Features:

A few cool things on the new system include:

• A better mobile experience
  
• Easy image uploads
  
• The ability to sort threads by "most liked"
• The system automatically saves a "Draft" of your messages every 30 seconds!
  
• User Trophies
  
• Automatic smilies: Type : ) (without the space) and automatically get
  
• Multiple ways to upload images, including copy/paste & drag/drop
• Awesome "quote" / reply functionality
• Cool new navigation (floating top menu bar and the "quick to top / bottom" arrows to the bottom right of each page)
  
• Spellcheck works proper now! No need to right-click on red squiggled words.
• You can now see when your GFM will expire and you will be notified in advance!

Some Changes:

There are unfortunately a few things we're losing or being changed:

• Private Messages: We discovered that the old system didn't "delete" your messages, but just hid them. So in our quest to import as much stuff as possible, that included all these deleted PMs. So, if you want to clean out your PM's, you can use the "select all" option at the bottom of each page, and delete all the PM's you want removed. (or just leave them... we don't mind storing them).
  
• Ovations: They are no longer "weighted", it's now a 1-to-1 relationship. Also, we unfortunately weren't able to keep ovation comments
• Lists: Unfortunately the new system doesn't support lists
• "Who's viewing this thread": We're working on adding this feature

 

[sassysarah]

@Elpinks , to create a article, click what I've got marked on the pic. Then u should see this.

On the side. It says "create article" click it then create it!

 

[Elpinks]

Thank you! I think there was a glitch before or something. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to add pics and content to create my article.

 

[sassysarah]

Thank you! I think there was a glitch before or something. Now I'm just trying to figure out how to add pics and content to create my article.

To Add Pics To Your Article, Just Click The "upload A File" Button

 

[sassysarah]

Click "upload a file" to post pics

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

An important reminder:

As a way to deter spammers, we require that new members have at least a couple of posts in our community forum before they have access to create an article. We suggest that all new members start a simple “introduction” thread and/or reply to a few other threads. At that point they’ll automatically have access to the feature to create a coop page.

Here’s the direct link to create a new introduction thread: https://www.backyardchickens.com/forums/new-member-introductions.44/create-thread

 

[Toothpick]

Forgive me if this has been asked in this thread - Are we using XenForo now? It looks like it. I'm an admin on a large wet shaving forum and we recently migrated to XenForo. I like it so much better.

I know how much work migrating a site this large is so my hats off. Thanks for the hard work!

 

[Nifty-Chicken]

Are we using XenForo now

Yup, it was a lot of work, but we're finally (and happily) using a pretty modified version of Xenforo

 

[BYCforlife]

It was hard to get used to, but now that I have figured it out this layout is great!