Obvious changes that would be hard to miss (and really don't need to be stated, tbh, but w/e):
- New forums/subforums! (Bug Reporting now has Online Errors, Fatal Errors, and Battle Errors; Online Play is a new Pokemon Reborn subforum; The Samaritan's Speakeasy is a new Etcetera subforum; Trainer's Journal is now called General Discussion; Community Announcements and Redemption League subforums are now gone)
- Q&A system implemented in On the Hunt and Site Inquiries
- List of field effects is gone (as Ame said would happen), since it's replaced by a new feature in the game
- More options in textbox (e.g. just press quote button or spoiler button instead of having to use brackets)
- Notifications pop up instead of just waiting for you to press Notifications to see all of them
- Recent posts and Birthdays return on the right side of the forums (think Birthdays are listed in alphabetical order?)
- Creating or commenting to statuses gives you a textbox, so you now have all the functionality you would as if you were posting something (quoting, spoiler-ing, bolding, etc.)
- Usernames are colorcoded (Yellow = Ace, Orange = Supporters, Green = Developers, Blue = Staff, Red = Global Mods, Purple = Admins)
- You can remove upvotes
Less obvious features:
- You can now select directly the text in a post that you want to quote
- idk if this was the case before, but aces' rep limit is 10 per day
- I don't think Aces can lock/unlock their own topics anymore? When I tried to unlock one of mine, all I could do was choose to delete it or not
- You can link a member in your status/post by using an @, like this: @Fumble
- Minimum limit in searching is removed (you can now search words that are less than 4 letters or use numbers/special characters)
- You can put a reason for editing a post (I don't remember Aces and below being able to do that before)
- To gain Ace, you have to have 1000 Exp, be registered for a year, and submit an application to the Samaritan's Speakeasy (Exp awarded for good deeds, answering questions, earning rep, etc.)
- You can change your display name once per month in Account Settings if your account is 3 months and older
- You can change your title in Edit Profile
- You don't seem to be able to change/remove your vote from polls, which kinda sucks, because you can't update your vote if a poll has been updated :c
Minor features:
- You can set your birthyear on your profile all the way to 1866/67 if you wanted (so max age is 150 rather than 100)
EDITS:
- IT'S SNOWING
- Leaderboard was a thing and then it got taken down zzz