User blog:Kirkburn/Technical Update: August 17, 2016

Here are the latest technical updates at Wikia. Keep in mind that our system updates happen every Tuesday and Thursday - today's notes are for tomorrow's site update. Also note that we change hundreds of tiny details every week, so these are just the highlights.

Notable Changes
Recent mobile app updates are listed on Apps Technical Updates, and detailed site CSS-related updates can be found at http://report.wikia.net
 * Discussions categories will become available, which are analogous to boards in the Forum.
 * Admins can create and manage categories within Discussions.
 * Users posting a new discussion will be required to choose a category before completing the post.
 * Readers will be able to filter the post list to show only specific categories.
 * Admins will be able to manage the square "community avatar" image in the Discussions desktop layout.

Questions? Comments? Feel free to leave them below. And if you have additional bugs to report, please send them to us via Special:Contact.