Hey everyone. I’m Beth, and I oversee all of our college communities for SB Nation.
This Thursday will be a big day for our community: we’re moving our comments to a new platform, developed especially for SB Nation. By then, all our college communities will be moving to the new platform, and I’m excited about the change.
Some of you may already be familiar with this new platform as we began rolling it out to our NFL sites in 2020, and brought it to some of our college communities last year. This latest launch will mean the entirety of the SB Nation network will be on the same comment platform, which we have worked hard to regularly update in order to provide new features for SB Nation communities specifically. We have also worked hard to implement changes to the user experience based on community member feedback.
Why this change? We’ve been using the same commenting platform for over a decade and it’s time for an upgrade. The old system is brittle, and prone to outages. It’s not built for the modern web, and even just maintaining it gets tougher every year.
Nobody likes change, but this is a necessary one, and it brings real improvements that’ll make our whole commenting experience better.
In the new system, you’ll see features that we’ve wanted to add for years, including:
Easier embeds (just paste the Twitter/YouTube link)
Easier rich text shortcuts (control-B for Bold, control-I for italics)
Email notifications when someone replies to you
See who’s Rec’d your comments
Better flagging options and strong anti-abuse controls
A GIF library for easy image posting
Mute commenters you don’t want to see
Easily find the most Rec’d comments
Plus a whole host of features that we’ve kept because they make our communities special, such as new comment highlighting, color changes with high Rec counts, Z key scrolling, external image embeds, sarcasm font, and much more.
This platform has been built specifically for SB Nation communities…
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