NEW MESSAGEBOARDS
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quick head's up
that Rivals.com launched a brand spanking new "National"
Message Boards early Thursday morning. Starting at approximately 9 p.m.
PT
Wednesday night, Rivals.com began the process of migrating data for the
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that the migration is
complete (approximately 4 to 5 hours with no major complications), the
new Rivals.com
"National" Message Boards are live and ready for your
enjoyment.
The Rivals.com team intends on launching the new Message
Boards across every site
in the network (including VirginiaPreps.com) this coming Monday
night/Tuesday
early am.
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are some of the new
Features & Benefits for the
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Rivals.com Message
Boards:
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are a
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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
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have a modern,
secure and actively maintained framework built for speed &
stability
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will be no limit
on Thread History, so you can reference old topics or replies at any
time
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is Private
Messaging, Social Profiles and Rich(er) Content - embeddable video,
embeddable
Tweets, etc
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now can set up
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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
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Feed you'll
be able to see all of the topics, users, and content that you wish to
follow.
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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
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posts and
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quoting is
set up so that you can always follow the conversation with a user
forgetting to
quote.
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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.
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you will notice a pinned post titled: "Help! How Do I ... for
the
New Rivals.com Message Boards." Click on that link and you will have
numerous threads walking you through everything you need to help make
your
Message Board experience a truly fun and dynamic one.
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you for being a
Rivals.com subscriber. Your loyalty to Rivals.com and its local
publisher sites
is one of the reasons we continue to have the strongest community in
the
business.
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more Product enhancement
announcements in May ... and more to come after that.