It's been a busy week. The big changes are a redesigned member profile, new editor tools for posts and comments, and a long list of virtual airline updates. Here's what changed, biggest items first.
Member profiles, redesigned
Profiles have a new layout.
- Your photo, name, headline, location and join date sit in a panel beside your content, with Follow and Message buttons right there. Your airlines (with your role in each), your community standing and your support links sit below it.
- Up to four headline numbers (addons, downloads, flights, posts) sit at the top, and most of them open that section when you click them.
- The tabs for liveries, flights, routes, posts and friends only show up when you have something in them. The overview shows a preview of each, with a View all link.
- The page has a navigation chart background that follows your theme: dark ink on paper in the light theme, pale lines on a night chart in the dark theme.
- Names are links now. Wherever you see someone's name in a tracked flight (the list, the flight header, the live map), in a message thread, on an airline discussion post or on a forum thread, it takes you to their profile.
Better posts and comments
The editor has new buttons.
- You can mention a member. Pick someone and they get a notification with a link to what you wrote. It works in comments, forum posts and virtual airline discussions, and when you edit a post only the people you newly mention get notified.
- You can link an addon or flight plan. It shows up as its share card, a picture with the name, creator and key numbers. Flight plans never had a share card, so there's a new one that shows the route, distance and flight time.
- You can link a virtual airline. Drop in an airline's card, or link a tracked flight, job, event or scheduled flight. Those links scroll to the item and highlight it.
