Upcoming Forum upgrade

Emoji:

Let's face it, emoji are awesome. From the smartphone in your pocket to your forum we'll be using Twitter's open source emoji pack to provide you a massive host of emoji/smiles options in v6. You can check out the upcoming options here: twitter.github.io/twemoji/2/test/preview.html which includes 1661 total emoji images! Additional smiles/emoji images will of course be available to add at the forum owners discretion.

Additional Gender Options:

It seems like a couple of times a month we get the question in support "Why don't you guys offer more than two gender options on signup?" Well, ask no more! We plan to introduce a 3rd gender option, "Other / Decline to State" which will be available at the v6 launch. Once ProBoards v6 is available, this new option will become available to users during registration, and existing users will gain access to the feature when going to edit their profile.

We feel that this feature both provides a great option for people that do not specifically identify as a particular gender, but also for others looking to have more privacy by not disclosing their gender to the rest of the forum. As always you can use custom profile fields to add in even more options on the forum itself if you wish.