>>311406
You are in for a long read. From /u/ alone:
- New board asset added: The overboard symbol. Now every BO can choose a little icon to represent their board on the Overboard. I suggest picking a Mascot quickly in the face of this new information.
- Captcha has now a messenger system attached to them. New Global options added for the daily captcha (Inactive in the beta). Serveral new options board options for captchas added.
- 2ch style pagination added
- Overboard, i.e. the very feature that HW had to give up on this software will come back and it now contains entire threads
- Auto updater improved: Page titles now update to reflect new posts since last time page was focused. Thin, dotted line will appear below the last post you've seen when streaming updates out of focus.
- Board CSS improved. You can now borrow CSSes by entering /boardname/ into the borrowing option.
- BOs can now determine how long a post may be at maximum (default is 2048 characters)
- Post hovers and back links added. Welcome to the year 2012, Infinity-Next!
- Back links now update with the Streamer
- We are going to keep the 8ch catalogue Next has now a primitive 8ch style catalogue
- Board diplomacy added. Since the new back links also consider site wide back links, Josh added the option to black and white list boards from boards from back linking
- No more uniform forced Anon: BOs can now toggle the subject and author line separately.
- Admins can now close Boardsettings. Locked settings honestly report their status to non admins.
- 'Much better panel! Jesus Christ on a BMX; Vichan's panel is such a hulk motherfucking dick cheese!
To all this comes:
-Much faster posting. Your shit comes up immediately with the push of the new reply button.
-Laravel for powering the formatting and text rendering(?). This has more than just red text and bold, itallic and spoilers. It has also tables, red text of various sizes, code blocks for various languages, AA blocks, bullet points and a lot more shit that isn't even documented.
-better board list. Besides the popular board you also have list of recently active boards.
-better tag system
-No more failed uploads. Next loads up your stuff before you even post.
-Music file support. Next converts your MP3s into a free format if I got it right.
-Better captcha by Hotwheels himself. It has more fonts, is easier to solve for humans and harder to solve for machines.
Not in yet but planned:
-Fuzzyban: No more stupid CP. With this 8chan will be no safehaven for CP.
-Hash & spam databases: Adblock for image boards with a Opt in option for all instances of next.
-custom embeds. With this the dream of having finally the possibility of embedding everything is no longer a dream.
-Site-specific donotion systems. No more faggots going after a Hotwheel's shekels.