I have played around with them and they are a nice upgrade. There are so many features they have in store to add down the road and the new codes and board can be updated and tweaked easily. The old boards were stuck in 2005 and there were no updates they could do to them.
It took me a few days just because I was so used to looking at the old boards. But there are a lot of nice features and more coming. Below is a message from Eric Winter the head of Rivals about the launch.
During Migration from old to new all Premium and Free Message Boards will be READ-ONLY from approximately 11 p.m. PT to 5 a.m..
The Main Board and all of our other National Boards (click here) will be up and running during these hours - feel free to go over there and play around if you want to get a feel for what the new boards will look like.
Here are some of the new Features & Benefits for the new Rivals.com Message Boards:
1. They are a responsive design; meaning, they were designed for desktop, tablets and mobile - all in one design and all at the same URL. No need to go to a different address to get the proper version for your device
2. They have a modern, secure and actively maintained framework built for speed & stability
3. There will be no limit on Thread History, so you can reference old topics or replies at any time
4. There is Private Messaging, Social Profiles and Rich(er) Content - embeddable video, embeddable Tweets, etc
5. You now can set up alerts and follow users so you don't miss replies to topics you're participating in or miss great posts from your favorite users. In your News Feed you'll be able to see all of the topics, users, and content that you wish to follow.
6. Dynamic quoting system so what you select within a thread can be quoted without copying and pasting any code. You select what you want to quote and click Reply over that selection, and it will be put automatically in your reply. You can quote multiple posts and automatic quoting is set up so that you can always follow the conversation with a user forgetting to quote.
It took me a few days just because I was so used to looking at the old boards. But there are a lot of nice features and more coming. Below is a message from Eric Winter the head of Rivals about the launch.
During Migration from old to new all Premium and Free Message Boards will be READ-ONLY from approximately 11 p.m. PT to 5 a.m..
The Main Board and all of our other National Boards (click here) will be up and running during these hours - feel free to go over there and play around if you want to get a feel for what the new boards will look like.
Here are some of the new Features & Benefits for the new Rivals.com Message Boards:
1. They are a responsive design; meaning, they were designed for desktop, tablets and mobile - all in one design and all at the same URL. No need to go to a different address to get the proper version for your device
2. They have a modern, secure and actively maintained framework built for speed & stability
3. There will be no limit on Thread History, so you can reference old topics or replies at any time
4. There is Private Messaging, Social Profiles and Rich(er) Content - embeddable video, embeddable Tweets, etc
5. You now can set up alerts and follow users so you don't miss replies to topics you're participating in or miss great posts from your favorite users. In your News Feed you'll be able to see all of the topics, users, and content that you wish to follow.
6. Dynamic quoting system so what you select within a thread can be quoted without copying and pasting any code. You select what you want to quote and click Reply over that selection, and it will be put automatically in your reply. You can quote multiple posts and automatic quoting is set up so that you can always follow the conversation with a user forgetting to quote.
