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Testing The New Sonic Blast!
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Testing The New Sonic Blast!
Lighthead > 09-05-2026, 11:02 PM
We are testing out a new version for the forum which can be found here: https://sonichq.net/community
You will still be able to use everything as is here as well and everything will stay synced! However over time the older MyBB software may get phased out.
Please feel free to report any issues or bugs here or things that you think are missing! -
RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
BananaPocky > 09-06-2026, 10:40 AM
Welcome to the new Sonic Blast
We've rebuilt the front end of the board. Everything you already have is still here — your account, your posts, your PMs, your post count — but there's a lot of new stuff sitting on top of it. Here's what's changed.
It's faster to get around
Clicking a thread no longer reloads the whole page. It swaps out the content instead, so moving between threads and channels is quick.
The site also remembers where you were. Scroll halfway down the feed, wander off into a forum, come back — you'll be right where you left off instead of at the top again.
Threads scroll continuously rather than making you click through pages.
A news feed
The front page now shows recent activity from every channel in one place, so you can see what's happening without visiting each forum. Threads can carry tags, and clicking a tag anywhere on the site narrows the feed down to just those posts.
Chat
This is the big one. There are now live chat channels alongside the forums, plus direct messages.
DMs are your real forum PMs — send one here and it turns up on the board, and the other way round. Nothing is separate or duplicated.
Chat comes with a GIF picker (search, trending, and your own saved favourites), over a thousand emoji sorted into categories, and image attachments.
Paste a link and it fills itself out with the page's title, description and thumbnail. Paste something from YouTube, TikTok, Vimeo, Spotify, SoundCloud, Twitch, Dailymotion or Streamable and you get the actual player, right there in the conversation.
Posting
Replies take image attachments now, as many as you like. You can add them in several goes rather than picking them all at once, and remove any before you post.
Bare links turn into links by themselves, and a pasted image address shows the picture instead of the address.
Profiles and photos
Your profile has grown. There's a journal you can write entries in, a guestbook other members can sign, followers, and photo albums.
There's also a community gallery that pulls together images from threads, journals and albums, with a proper photo view that has comments and lets you flip through to the next picture.
A community wiki
Any signed-in member can write and edit wiki articles. Articles attach to a thread and can have sections, images and a contents list. Links to an article show a preview when you hover over them.
For moderators and admins
Moderators can edit and delete posts, delete threads, move them between channels, pin them, lock them and manage their tags — all from the thread itself, no separate control panel.
Admins have a member manager for searching members and handling renames, emails, password resets, usergroups and bans, plus drag-and-drop reordering of channels and categories.
A note on how this fits with the board
This runs on top of MyBB rather than replacing it. Posts, threads, accounts and PMs are the board's own — anything you do here shows up there.
A few things are ours alone and won't appear on the MyBB side: chat channels, journals, albums, the wiki, tags, and link embeds.
Anything broken or strange, post it in this thread and we'll take a look. -
RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
Kyng > 09-07-2026, 03:35 PM
Nice work - looks very fresh and modern
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Hopefully all will go well in testing, though I haven't run into any issues with it yet
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RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
Josiahblaze > 09-07-2026, 04:16 PM
Looks pretty good so far. I'm just testing out a comment right now. -
RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
BananaPocky > 09-07-2026, 05:42 PM
Thank you so much, You Guys! That means a lot. Lighty spent a lot of time on the design and I put my true vision of what would make a great app into the development of this.
Glad you like it.
... We vibe coded this!
That means we used AI, and we can do pretty much anything with it super fast.
(as long as we don't need to wait a few hours for more credits)
So... we are willing to consider any suggestions you may have for improving the experience! -
RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
NeoMetallix > Yesterday, 05:54 AM
This is looking good so far. -
RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
NeoMetallix > Yesterday, 05:56 AM
So everything syncs to the MyBB too? Ah yes, I see! Great work @lighty! Oh tagging does work! Nice. -
RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
Josiahblaze > Yesterday, 08:59 AM
NeoMetallix Wrote:So everything syncs to the MyBB too? Ah yes, I see! Great work @lighty! Oh tagging does work! Nice.
Well, it somewhat works.
I clicked on Lighty's name in the tag you sent, and it took me to a page saying "no such member". See what happens when you click on it. -
RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
NeoMetallix > Yesterday, 10:00 AM
Josiahblaze Wrote:> NeoMetallix said: So everything syncs to the MyBB too? Ah yes, I see! Great work @lighty! Oh…
Yes, same for me. We will see how easily it is to fix. -
RE: Testing The New Sonic Blast!
BananaPocky > Yesterday, 12:46 PM
It appears tagging nonexistant members seems to make a successful looking tag!
His username is "Lighthead".
I will fix.
EDIT: Fixed!