advanced_forum 6.x-2.0-alpha2

This alpha seems to be working pretty well. I'm using it on Coulee Region Online with only minor issues. At this point, I can tentatively recommend it for production sites with the caveat that you test it thoroughly first. Remember that alpha releases are still subject to potentially radically changes so make sure to keep good notes on any customizations you make to make it easier to port them to the next release.

Upgrade notes:This release is a huge jump from Alpha 1. If you are using this on a production site, it is very important that you test the upgrade on a dev site. Make sure you delete the old directory before untarring the new one to clear out unused files. Some settings have changed so you will want to check the settings to be sure everything is still how you want it.

Full list of changes since Alpha 1:

#627808 by Michelle: Account for inconsistency in nodecomment's handling of the comment anchor link.
#492794 by Michelle: Rewrote code that determines what AF applies a style to.
#586652 by Michelle: Removed modification to $submitted.
#568422 by Michelle: Removed 'My topics' view and made 'My posts' much better.
#568422 by Michelle: Made 'My posts' view use forum topic list style
#561448 by Michelle: Fixed problem with active forum topics topic titles not linking.
#542998 by Michelle: Moved user picture handling to Author Pane.
#561448 by Michelle: Cleaned up all the views except user topics/posts and the searches.
#510772 by Michelle: Added form alter so AF's OG topics view can be used as a group's RON.
#561448 by Michelle: Made unanswered topics view make more sense.
#545590 by Michelle: Removed dependency in CSS on markup being within a #forum div.
#538344 by merlinofchaos: Added view of a user's topics.
#537822 by Michelle, stephthegeek: Added forum-topic-title class to title in topic listing. Also fixed spacing on items in topic listing.
#551548 by Michelle, crea: Added check to make sure links array isn't empty before iterating through it.
#537018 by bas.hr: Removed typo extra . in class name.
NOISSUE by merlinofchaos: Add a sort widget for the forum topic list that utilizes the tablesort headers.
NOISSUE by merlinofchaos: Add a time period plus role exclusion to the most active poster pane.
NOISSUE by merlinofchaos: Add a "most active poster" block and a view of "My forum posts" to easily follow what a person has posted.
NOISSUE by Michelle: Fixed notices.
#413494 by Michelle, snufkin: Added support for commend edited message in the post template.
#479124 by Michelle: Merged some topic list preprocessing into advanced_forum_get_topics and cleaned up topic list when views is not enabled.
#528480 by Michelle: Added extra divs around topics / latest user on statistics for seperate styling.
#436084 by MGParisi: Reduced size of some Blue Lagoon images.
#537018 by Michelle: Indented subbody of statistics in Naked and removed indenting from Boxy/Cloudless Day
#537018 by Michelle: Added a margin to the right of the post reply button on top of topics to Naked.
Put padding around .forum-post-content and .forum-post-title in Naked.
Added boxes around .forum-top-post-footer and .forum-topic-navigation in Boxy.
Made post number white on Boxy and Blue Lagoon.
Added odd/even table shading to Boxy as well as borders around the TDs.
#537018 by Michelle: Added span around 'subforums' label so it can be styled.
Made .forum-table a generic class for both types of tables and added .forum-table-forums and .forum-table-topics.
Made classes in forum tables more specific.
#518110 by Michelle: Documented the chunk of code in the post .tpl there to keep the new markers from being cached.
#524592 by Dave Reid: Added email to fake user object sent to Author Pane on comments for anon users.
#534816 by Michelle: Made sure all classes / IDs were forum specific.
NOISSUE by Michelle: Added a page preprocess to add a variable "forum_page" when a page is either the main forum/ pages or a node that can go in the forums.
#497450 by Michelle: Fixed not working image replacement on node links.
#537018 by Michelle: Made Cloudless Day Stacked the default style since it's the nicest one.
#525206 by Michelle: Fixed error with search results template not being found.
#531572 by Michelle: Fixed error that caused incorrect 'new posts' amounts on forum overview.
#267859 by Michelle: Bypassed core forum list preprocess to avoid running forum title thru check_plain twice and also remove redundant code.
#502466 by neclimdul: Mark as read improvements.
#510772 by Michelle: Added group topic list view and outer template.
#534816 by Michelle: Changed top anchor to forum-topic-top to avoid conflicts with some themes.
#527020 by merlinofchaos: Panelize advanced forum. This introduces a "task" or a system page
for Panels for the forum page. It introduces 3 default handlers
for that page which cover the top page, a forum container page
and a forum topic list page. It includes a bunch of panels/ctools
plugins in order to cover all this content and makes it possible
to change the layout and easily add/remove content to these pages.
#533818 by merlinofchaos: Allow styles to use preprocesses.
#520758 by merlinofchaos: Allow forums not in containers to have a fake container so they still render okay.
#497450 by Michelle: More work on the text replacement images.
#523422 by Michelle: Fixed wrong location variable name.
#523942 by Michelle: Normalized table widths on forum listing.
#520694 by Michelle: Improved layout on narrow themes.
NOISSUE by Michelle: Many small changes to styles, fixing layout, markup and style, making Naked nakeder, etc.
#523958 by merlinofchaos: Added new style Cloudless Day.
#525460 by Michelle, robertdjung: Removed extra slash from CSS path.
#523958 by Michelle, merlinofchaos: Small change to stats borders in CD.