Greetings to all members as we open a new chapter
The 18th milestone in the success story
of India Forum
Each little step that we have taken has brought us closer to many milestones. We celebrate our progress, big or small, as we move forward, hand in hand with our buddies in IF.
We don't wait to reach the end result or the outcome, it is not the end that matters because every year we set our goals higher n higher. What matters is where we stand today while always remaining in harmony, unity and progress.
The first step was when a post was created as a blog for Jassi Jaisi Koi Nahin by Vijay Bhatter on 09 Dec 2003 @ 06:29 AM … that’s the time our India forums came into being .. ..and we have crossed many a milestones since then.
With more than 1.2 Millions + registered members (as on August 2021), India Forums is the #1 entertainment discussion forum covering the latest news, gossip and events of the television and Bollywood industry, provides a unique platform to more than 4.4 Millions of unique audiences
Started as a simple blog, India Forums is now a home for all the Television and Bollywood buffs around the globe, an ultimate online discussion hub that connects audience from all over the world to Indian Entertainment industry. Our forum has also branched out to several other sections like Fan Clubs, Debate Mansion, Fan fictions, Sports, Quiz and much more.
24th Apr 2019 @ 07:13 AM we migrated to new site our new address: INDIAFORUMS.COM with a new look.
This is the result of the love and devotion of a large body of dedicated men n women. So let’s pause to admire and celebrate the milestones we achieved, as we prepare for the road ahead .
Come, join me, my dear friends, as we take a walk through the corridors and revisit some of the
Salient features of the new site …
- Our Internal Site Search instead of Google Search
- Users can now login / signup using their social accounts like Facebook / Gmail / Microsoft which makes the whole process of logging in easier.
- Two Factor Login where one can further secure their account using Google Authenticator app.
- We have now categorized our site in 3 main categories: Tv / Movies / Digital. We have also further added categories under them based on the language they are coming like Hindi / English.
- Faster browsing experience.
- Optimized for Mobile.
- Clean interface for best user experience.
- We are removing comments for Celebrities and replacing it with Discussion Topics so that its more organized. Members will be able to tag the celebrity and it appears under Celebrity Profile
- If there is no dedicated forum for a particular show one can still have discussions around it and it will show under that show Discussion Tab.
- Users will be able to see all the critics rating under one page and they can even give their rating and based on which we will show you the computed average of that movie. That would make it a very fair way to rate a movie.
Interesting changes to our username policy.
New facilities at new site are …
- Usernames can consist of lowercase and capitals (Ex: VijayBhatter)
- Usernames can consist of alphanumeric characters (a-z A-Z 0-9) - Ex: VijayBhatter121
- Usernames can consist of underscore and hyphens (Ex: Vijay-Bhatter or vijay_bhatter)
- Cannot be two underscores, two hypens or two dots in a row
- Cannot have a underscore or hypen or dots at the start or end
- Length of the username to be between 4-15
- Special Characters NOT allowed (like $ ~ ! # % ^ & *)
Tagging members is an exciting facility
Friends we can tag other users on a post and invite them to be part of that discussion.
The users whom you have tagged will get notification.
Just below the post there is an option to Tag Users. You need type the username and select the correct one. That would tag the user.
Points to remember:
1. Newbies cannot tag users.
2. Some users may have restricted the tagging feature to Buddies only or completely Off from the settings. So you cannot tag those users.
3. You can only tag maximum 5 people in one post.
4. Once you have tagged someone you cannot add or update the list. Since we do not want this to be misused.
Smart pagination and highlighting popular topics
are the new changes we have made recently:
- We have added Smart Pagination for Forum Topics / Posts.
- Celebrity Search option is now added on the Celebrity directly.
- Popular Topics (in the last 24 hours) is displayed in the Forum Main Page and also one can check all the popular topics on IF at https://www.indiaforums.com/forum/populartopics
- Users who have not yet registered as members can also now post comments on articles/videos. They just need to validate their email once.
The launch of User Badges feature.
Badges are tied into accomplishments or various activities, and they are something a user aspires to attain and has to earn. At the same time, it identifies that user as someone who has achieved a certain level of activity and made contribution to the growth of India Forums and showcases this achievement to other users.
I am sure by now you all must have noticed the new shiny badges under several users as we have processed all the past activities and assigned badges accordingly. 😊
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Member of the month Badges
4 new badges which will be awarded every month to the member for:
- Most Comments (counts comments which are 5 words or more)
- Most Posts (counts posts which are 10 words or more)
- Most Liked (person who has received maximum reaction on Posts)
- Expressionist (member who has given most reactions on posts)
Website satisfaction surveys
We have recently started a Site-wide Website Satisfaction Survey where members have to answer 4 simple questions.
These surveys help us get insights which we might miss out otherwise. And we planning to integrate them in our system to get them regularly from our members in a very non-intrusive manner.
Your response stays anonymous.
The Updated Private Message system
- Now users can delete PMs from Outbox
- Users when they delete PM from from Inbox won't affect the senders outbox and will still be accessible.
- If you have lost your PM from Outbox due to the receiver deleting from Inbox is restored.
Users can Star a particular PM which they feel is important. Also note Starred PM cannot be deleted unless they are Unstar so that you do not lose out important PMs accidentally.
Users can sort their PMs in different folders. So lets say you want to save certain PMs to a folder named "Important" or "Buddies" and may be "Spam".
Question & Answers Topics
So if a user has a question they can select the Topic Type as "Q&A" while creating the topic. And users can start posting their comments or answers.
Vote up Topics
Basically its simple topic where members can vote up a post and it will be sorted based on the most votes first basis. Some of the application of this topic are:
- Banner contests where other users can get vote up .
- Ideation topics where users can help us discover most requested features to the top.
Ladder groups have been maintained
Mainly based on the feedback we have been getting from our members on the new Ladder Groups has been quite encouraging.
0 - 49 Newbie
50 - 199 Groupbie
200 - 999 Senior Member
1000 - 2499 Goldie
2500 - 4999 Dazzler
5000 - 9999 IF-Rockerz
10000 - 24999 IF-Sizzlerz
25000 - 49999 IF-Stunnerz
50000 - 99999 IF-Addictz
100000+ IF-Achieverz
Social media embedding becomes easier
Now we can easily embed Social Media posts. And the process is also very simple. No need to remember any BBCode. Simply paste the link in your post. It will automatically embed the same when you post. We currently support the Top 4 social media sites.
- Youtube
And second news is about Quote Notification. So now you will get a separate notification when someone quotes your post.
Signature feature with hyperlink, images and video support activated
New feature this time is that we are bringing HTML5 MP4 video links also using a new Forum Code ie. [VIDEO]full-url.mp4[/VIDEO].
Normally we see MP4 hosted on Giphy that can be used and we encourage users to use Videos instead of heavy GIF as they are faster and takes less download time. Just ensure its a direct URL to the MP4 file. We will soon get a Tutorial on the same.
In order to make sure that our user experience is great through out we have put certain reasonable restrictions:
- Only one Hyperlink can be added
- Only one image / video can be added.
- Forum signature height is restricted to 200px and going beyond that will push the signature inside a scroll.
- Signature box only allows URL / IMG / VIDEO Forum codes.
- One can use Emojis like 😀
- Images needs to be .jpg / .gif / .png
- Video currently supports .mp4
- All links should be https only.
Celebrity Discussion forum
Now members can Create topics on your favorite celebrity and it will appear on their profile page under "Discussions" tab.
Quiz section has been added
Members have fun quizzing others and participating in the quizzes in our brand new section . Quizzes are on any topic under the sun , not just entertainment eg GK, Geometry, Botany etc .
Topic Maker gets more control on their thread
A new feature where our Topic creator gets more control on their topics and at the same time helps us in keeping spam/abusive/MID post reply in check.
So we have come up with a solution where we give our Members (Senior Members and above) on the topics they have created the option to Hide posts by Newbies which they feel is not appropriate/abusive and against IF Code of Conduct.
It also gets logged in our Report Log so that the moderator can review the same and take action accordingly.
India Forum prohibits sexually explicit material on this site .
This is regarding the information you post on the India-forums Website and that you provide to other Users, your India-forums profile must not include any photographs containing nudity, or obscene, lewd, excessively violent, harassing, sexually explicit or otherwise objectionable subject matter.
Reactions feature to IF News Articles
is an interesting new addition , which will be replacing our existing Like feature.
Our site readers now have more ways to react to an article and not just limited to a simple like. And interestingly even site visitors who have still not signed up can also react to articles.
We do allow users to post 3 reactions to each article. So you can react with Awesome, Nice and Loved emojis on the same article.
Link Preview feature for Forum Posts enabled
Members will continue to share the links as they used to and we will automatically replace the URL with the details of the link. The same way how we have social links embedding feature.
However in order to prevent certain users from slowing down the page we have restricted this to posts which has less than or equal to 3 links in a post. If link count is higher than that we will disable the embedding feature on that post.
Example:
Forum Post Reaction
is a new feature, which has replaced our old “Like “ feature.
Our members now have more ways to react to a post and not just limited to like:
👍🏻 ❤️ 🤩 😂 😲 😢 😡
⭐️These are in brief few of our latest achievements
That
“It is the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) that those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.”
Charles Darwin
credits :
Tags n dividers by Sevenstreaks
Data collection n WU by Sutapa
Proofread by Viswasruti
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