From Rivals.com boss Eric Winter...

[VaPrepsRod]

Proud to share that we have been given the green light to flip the switch on the new message boards TONIGHT.

During Migration from old to new all of your Premium and Free Message Boards will be READ-ONLY from approximately 9 p.m. PT to 3 a.m. PT.

The Main Board and all of our other National Boards (click here) will be up and running during these hours - so if you want to give it a test run, you can do so there.

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.

7. Improved navigation and search: quickly jump to the first unread post in a thread or to the top and bottom of each thread. Advanced search features include by keyword, date or thread title.

 

[DinwiddieProud]

It all sounds pretty exciting, and will make for some easier navigation and posting. I hope you are up to the zillions of questions that all of us technologically challenged individuals will have. Maybe one of the threads can be FAQ's?

 

[VaPrepsRod]

Originally posted by DinwiddieProud:
It all sounds pretty exciting, and will make for some easier navigation and posting. I hope you are up to the zillions of questions that all of us technologically challenged individuals will have. Maybe one of the threads can be FAQ's?

Here is the Help section.

 

[wikki]

Great improvements. Another thing that I would liked change is before, I could click on someone's name or number of post and it would give me all their replies or post, now all I get is the rival page.

 

[anon_vu6vqwsr4nf3b]

Hallelujah! And a "Like" system, nice! Very similar layout to my favorite boards, vcuramnation.com, probably uses the same engine. Hopefully more posters will come. The only thing I would change is the color scheme, the tan/gold doesn't go well with the blue to me, and makes things a little hard to read.

 

[anon_vu6vqwsr4nf3b]

@VaPrepsRod are the forums still going to change to be sorted by area instead of 1A, 2A, etc.?

 

[VaPrepsRod]

@VaPrepsRod are the forums still going to change to be sorted by area instead of 1A, 2A, etc.?

Still being discussed. No movement on anything until after the school year (maybe July) and certainly nothing during my vacation that month