Hi everyone,

I'm pleased to announce that we've added a bunch of new bbcode formatting options to the forums. You can now change the color and font size of your text. You can also insert images into your posts, and make links active with the url tag. Here's a list of the bbcodes we currently support:

Bold face:
[b]Bolded text[/b] makes Bolded text

Italic:
[i]Italicized text[/i] makes Italicized text

Underline:
[u]Underlined text[/u] makes Underlined text

Monospaced text:
[code]Monospaced text[/code] makes

Monospaced text

Insert image:
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7c/Go-home.svg/100px-Go-home.svg.png[/img] makes

Links:
[url]http://www.google.com[/url] makes http://www.google.com
and
[url=http://www.google.com]takes you to Google[/url] makes takes you to Google

Colored text:
[color=red]Red[/color] makes Red, most standard color names will work. Hex color codes like color=#123456 are also supported.

Font size:
[size=big]Big text[/size] makes Big text. Options are small or big, or a number from 8 to 20 for the font size in pixels.


IMPORTANT NOTE ON BBCODES

We hope you will enjoy these new formatting features. However, we ask you to follow the following guidelines:

URL links that are being used to promote other websites will be removed immediately. No advertising or self-promotion is allowed on the mingle2 forums, and posters who violate this rule will be suspended or banned.

IMG links that link to controversial/disturbing/offensive images will also be removed immediately and the poster will be suspended or banned. No nudity, obscene gestures, suggestive photos, or images of illegal activities are allowed. Images must be PG-13, NOT rated R or X. We will be very strict on this policy, and violators will be treated harshly.

Please use the new codes IN MODERATION. Users who abuse the new codes by using them excessively in an annoying posting style will be warned and could lose their privileges to use the codes or post on the forums at all. We'll be somewhat lenient on this, but we just don't want people abusing the codes to make very difficult to read/annoying posts. Please be polite in your use of the codes.

Most of the new codes will work in your mail messages as well. However, the URL and IMG codes will NOT work in mail messages. This is because we are concerned that spammers and other bad users will abuse the codes, and that they will be more difficult for us to police in mail messages. The other new codes, like font size and color, will work fine.

Thanks everyone! Hope you are all enjoying the site.

p a s t e

MAIDUGURI, Nigeria -- Nigeria's home-
grown Boko Haram group, newly
weakened by a multinational force that
has dislodged it from a score of
northeastern towns, reportedly pledged
formal allegiance to the Islamic State of
Iraq and Syria (ISIS).

I could not care less about these new "features". Who cares about color and size of text.

====bb codes cribsheet ====bb codes cribsheet ====

Note: all codes bracketed are in lower case
Use brackets where parens are indicated
Undo or end codeset in another set of brackets
after *yourtext* by adding / (forward slash)
and repeating the chosen letter or word

(b)old=bold
(i)talics=italics
(u)nderline=underlined
(code)=monospacing ABCDEFAaBbCcDdEeFf

ABCDEFAaBbCcDdEeFfmonospacing

(color=):
white-whitewhite
orange-orange
yellow-yellow
red-red
green-green
blue-blue
indigo-indigo
purple-purple
brown-brown
black-black
teal-teal
tomato-tomato
firebrick-firebrick
darkred-darkred
skyblue-skyblue
royalblue-royalblue
darkblue-darkblue
orangered-orangered
crimson-crimson
limegreen-limegreen
seagreen-seagreen
deeppink-deeppink
pink-pink
coral-coral
burlywood-burlywood
sienna-sienna
chocolate-chocolate
sandybrown-sandybrown
silver-silver
gold-gold




no code-standard text size
or
(size=x) x='number' 8-20 inclusive, or 'big' for arbitrary larger text:
8-eight-eight 9-nine-nine
10-ten-ten 11-eleven
12-twelve 13-thirteen
14-fourteen 15-fifteen
16-sixteen 17-seventeen
18-eighteen 19-nineteen
20-twenty


Hope this all works.