If you’re a long-time member of our community, you may have already noticed that our observations part lookings a little different as of today: We are upgrading our comments and adding some of your most-wanted peculiarities, like GIFs and emoji. It may take us a few cases dates to roll out the changes across all our material sheets, so satisfy acquittal our dirt if you’re encountering some missing observes or faults.

Now some of the improves and differences:

GIFs are back! – Many of you have much to say, but sometimes you exactly want to react to some good information via a cute animal reaction of your selection. Merely made the GIF button in the comment box to search GIPHY’s huge database of personas. You can also upload a usage likenes( eg: if you want to share a screen cap from video games ), but please note that uploaded images are submitted to moderator approval, so they can take a bit longer to appear.

Emoji support( and added formatting) – You can repeat, spawn rolls, and included emoji to your affixes. When working a desktop web browser, select the emoji icon in the comment box to find and place emoji. On mobile, emoji are accessible from your virtual keyboard.

Better strands – Discussion weaves are collapsed by default We hope this will make it easier for you to find the strands that interest you, while being able to avoid weaves that don’t.or example, you could post a spoiler forewarning in the first meaning in a thread and include the your spoiler-y items in your replies. Yarns also now display which user the response is directed at.

Better sorting – There are three ways to sort criticisms: Best( enormous for people who don’t check observations daily and want to find interesting discussions more rapidly ), Newest( enormous for frequent commenters who don’t want to miss a thing ), and Oldest( for people who can’t live without seeing that guy who ever affixes “first! ” ).

Better upvotes- You been in a position to understand who upvoted your remark. You can upvote your own comment like before( why not !), but remember that everyone’s in on it now.

New user criticisms moving – You can now easily investigate a user’s other mentions by clicking on their username( or view your own, if you want to gaze upon your works ). When you click on your own mentioned, you can also see your total number of likes. Don’t want people to see your posting history? Select “privacy” from the establishes icon and turn “private profile” on.

Reporting and blocking alterations – The option to mute a user has moved to the right side of a person’s post. Hit the three dots and you can report a comment( which will too conceal it in your commentary flow) or subdue a consumer so you no longer have to see their posts.

New notification tools – Notifications are accessible from the “bell” icon right above the comments box. We are working on lending notifications back to the site header at the top of the page as well. There are also now email notifications. If you merely miss your peace and quiet, reached the paraphernalium icon and turn them all off. Or customize what email notifications you want.

New key shortcuts – If you want to post a comment without reaching the Send button, merely made COMMAND+ RETURN on a Mac, or CMD+ ENTER on PC.

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There is still other new details like investigating an indicator when someone is replying to you, an update to the design to make it easier to read and work better on your phone, and a faster, more reliable commenting experience on slower ties-in.

We will be working with our comments platform partner, OpenWeb, to further enhance the experience over meter, so cause us know what you think and what pieces you’d like to see lent in the future.

Whether today is your first criticism or ten-thousandth, we’re aroused you’re now. If you haven’t once, check out our community guidelines: Have fun. Don’t be planned. Feel free to criticize minds , not beings, and report bad demeanor.

We hope you experience researching out GIFs in the comments below, and if you have questions or notice glitches, feel free to post them below as well!

Read more: ign.com