1. A General Overview of the New Forums

The first thing you'll probably notice is that the sidebar has disappeared completely. Instead, the links from the sidebar have been added to the new dashboard's menu bar. The image of your current avatar, your gold count, and any notifications (such as for PMs, friend requests, etc.) are now located in the upper right hand corner.



When viewing threads, you might notice two new buttons found in the bottom right corner of every post. These are new features available in vBulletin you might want to become familiar with.



The first new button next to "Quote" is the Multi-Quote Button. By clicking this, the button will turn red, indicating you've marked that post for multi-quoting. You can then mark all of the other posts you wish to quote by clicking this button in the corresponding posts. For the final post you plan on quoting, just click the regular Quote button and it'll take you to a normal reply page which includes all of the posts you quoted in separate quote tags. (IMPORTANT: The order of the quotes in your new post is determined by what order you click the Multi-Quote button, regardless of the chronological order of the posts.)

Clicking the second button will zoom you down to the bottom of the page for a Quick Reply. You've probably already noticed the Quick Reply textbox; this lets you make a post without loading a new page to type the message (you'll still be taken to a confirmation page when you post though). Note that you need to change your Message Editor Interface to Standard or WYSIWYG under My Account-->Edit Options before you'll see the coding box like I have in the image below.



The system is relatively the same, but for those unfamiliar with the "!" button, clicking it will let you report a post. Please report any posts you see in breach of Menewsha's site rules and describe the issue clearly so that a moderator can deal with it right away.