phonescoop.com
Site update
This weekend, we launched an update to the site.
The big change is promoting "OSes" from just a few small forums to more prominent pages on the site, which - in addition to forums - include pages for related news.
As part of this change, we also changed how we list single-vendor OSes like iOS and BlackBerry. We're now treating them the same as multi-vendor OSes, instead of considering them "proprietary". (The way the smartphone market has evolved in the past few years, I think this makes the most sense going forward.)
A slew of other changes have been rolled out in this update (and in smaller updates earlier this month.) The highlights are:
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The big change is promoting "OSes" from just a few small forums to more prominent pages on the site, which - in addition to forums - include pages for related news.
As part of this change, we also changed how we list single-vendor OSes like iOS and BlackBerry. We're now treating them the same as multi-vendor OSes, instead of considering them "proprietary". (The way the smartphone market has evolved in the past few years, I think this makes the most sense going forward.)
A slew of other changes have been rolled out in this update (and in smaller updates earlier this month.) The highlights are:
- The main Forums page has a new look, making it easier and faster to get to the most
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I noticed that the forum search option is not available in the OS specific forums. It is in other forums, such as the Lounge, phonescoop.com, etc. Is this a feature you accidentally omitted, or did you intentionally leave it out?
Just curious.
Just curious.
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The forum search option is available in the forums that existed pre-facelift. The iOS and BlackBerry forums, though, do not have the forum search option, as they are new to the site.
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It's an automatic feature of the code that the search box doesn't appear for a given forum until there are enough messages in that forum that you'd need a search function.
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