Site News Introducing Post Macros & Updated Video Portal!

Hi everyone! This has been a busy past couple of days for KH-Vids, with a new style and our annual Castle Oblivion event. This is a feature I wanted to launch with the former, but we had some troubles with the installation that prevented us. I'm sure you can all forgive such a short delay.

For those who were with us during our vBulletin days, you may recall our Canned Replies or Post Templates feature. Basically what they allowed you to do was save certain text/formatting, which could then be automatically inserted into your threads and posts. We lost that feature when we moved to XenForo last year, but we're now proud to finally bring it back!

You can edit your macros like you would any other part of your profile or preferences, or just click this link. On the Macros page, you can hit the Create Macro button at the top right. Save your macro and you're good to go! From this page, you can also edit or delete existing macros.

When you've created a macro (or macros), there will be a new dropdown box where you can select the macro to insert on your posts. The macro will be added to the text input field, and you can do what you wish with it. If you don't want to use the macros functionality, the dropdown won't appear at all, so don't worry about it cluttering up your page.

You are allowed up to 10 macros at a time, though Premium Members get an extra five (15 total). I would like to remind everyone that macros are not intended to allow you to use the same (or similar) replies over and over again, particularly within the introduction section. Any user seen doing this will be contacted by the staff for spamming and face the necessary consequences.

Now, onto the Video Portal!

We've updated our video portal to the newest version, which brings a lot of fixes and improvements. Some of the changes:

• Performance enhancements & bug fixes
  
• Submissions: We now support submissions from not only YouTube, but also 1UP, DailyMotion, GameSpot, GameTrailers, Justin.TV, Metacafe, NicoVideo, Revision 3, SoundCloud, Twitch.TV, uStream, Veoh, and Vimeo. If there's another site you upload to a lot, feel free to let us know and we'll look into adding it!
• Responsive design to fit in with KH-Vids 8.0
• Every media/playlist listing page can now be sorted by a myriad of extra sorting options. Including date, most views, likes, comments, etc.
• There is now a new Trending sort option. This trending sort is similar to the Popular sort, except that it penalizes older views. It basically lists recent popular videos.
• There is now a "Your Media" subsection on the media subnav. Users can now view a summary of media/playlists they have created and run batch processes on them. Users can also bulk add media directly into a single playlist with these pages.
• High quality thumbnails
• Playlists now have views and likes counters
• Playlists can now be made public/private/unlisted. Naturally, private playlists will only be viewable by the owned user, and unlisted playlists will not appear in the public listings.
• Keywords no longer have their own static pages. Instead, Keywords act as "filters" in all existing listing pages. You can add keywords; multiple if you wish, to filter results.
• and much more!

We've had users report issues with the Video Portal tab leading you to a Page Not Found error. Users experiencing this issue should clear their browser cache and, if that does not work, their cookies as well.

If you need help or more information, please ask.

Any questions or troubles, feel free to ask. Enjoy!

 

FINALLY

I've had my BBCode memorized for over a year now, copying and pasting it to each individual post. But at last I can be free of the burden.
Thank you, MistyMighty. Thank you.

 

Updated OP to include a huge update to our video portal. Didn't want to clutter the news forums with our hard work~

 

I read 'Macros' as 'Macarons' for a split second and was terribly confused.

Anyway, I think it'll a very much welcomed back change. I can hear the RP section cheering with joy faintly in the shadows of the forum.

 

Unfortunately we've not yet worked out a way to have KHV send you macaroons. Maybe in a few years.

 

Ever since I started formatting my posts it's been a real burden having to either find a specific hex color or even just to pick one of the editors pre-selected choices. Now that I don't have to do that every single time I make a post I'll have more time to ... what do you do with free time again?

 

Am i the only one who thought of macronutrients?

Got that yesterday actually but now it works just fine.

 

I couldn't be certain what the problem is without looking at the template (I'm assuming it's something with the OverlayTrigger class) but you can right-click the link and choose to open in a new tab (For Chrome). It's not just you. I can't left-click the link either.

-Snow Queen