forum announcements

Hello, As we are currently running a beta version of the forum software, there are some new features. However, the new version has caused problems with the Tapatalk API, and thusly, both connections from Tapatalk and the WindowsForum.com mobile application are currently bugged. We do not have a...

Good evening! As November has arrived, we have good news. The forum software has been updated to include the following fixes and changes: Workaround a Firefox bug where the Flash uploader shows as an opaque white box. Support redirects in the image proxy and link title conversion process (while...

Hello! You may think that September was a slow month, but that was not the case! In fact, here on the forum, so many changes were made, it was hard to keep posting them all! We are aggressively using PHP 7.1 release candidate and will be updating it until its release. This should result in a...

Hello! Some new features are in! Intelligent Search Completion added History of last 50 threads viewed added You can now see top 100 threads by viewcount for an individual forum Number of alerts can now be seen in your browser's tab, even if you are away from that tab. Ban reports, after many...

We have been performing heavy maintenance tasks on the server, and to eliminate potential downtime in the future, this included moving drives, partitions, and all sorts of data around (and trying to shrink XFS partitions through extremely unusual workarounds). This has resulted in an unusual...

Hello! The core web server software has been updated. XenForo has been updated to 1.5.9. This will include better support for PHP 7.1. Media, Resources, and Elasticsearch interface updated. Latest version of the WindowsForum Mobile app was published. Many other under-the-hood bug fixes and...

Hello! PHP has been updated. The core web server software has been updated. Similar Threads, Defer JS, and many other modifications were updated. Latest version of the WindowsForum Mobile app was published. Elasticsearch was updated, which should improve search engine response time. Optional...

Release notes with updates for both forums have been made public at Windows 8 Forums. Click here to read over these changes.

If you received a message indicating some posts were deleted, this was an accident. Thousands of posts were removed that have been soft deleted. Soft deleted posts are posts that still exist in our database, but typically can only be seen by moderators. We keep all deleted messages in our...