Nearly six months ago, CBS acquired Scout Media and after a thorough review of Scout’s platform and technology, it was determined at that time to do a comprehensive overhaul and move Scout to a new platform. The biggest reason for the change: stability. Scout’s current infrastructure is unstable, challenging to maintain and difficult to build features that users have been requesting for years.

The implementation by the engineering team has been in the works for the last six months and today we’re excited to unveil our new platform. It’s still the same team sites, staff, content and communities - we’re just on a better, more stable and scalable platform that sets us up to develop and add new features going forward.

This is the first step in a long-term plan by CBS so there are some features that are under development, but there are many others that we immediately pick up at our new home.

Green envelopes: This is the one message board enhancement we are most excited about. Here’s how it works. If you read a topic that has 10 replies and then come back hours later to the same topic on the message board that has 50 replies, when you click on the green envelope on that topic, it will take you directly to where you last left off in a topic. You’ll never have to remember which posts you’ve read in a popular topic, the system remembers for you with the green envelopes.

Archive of photos, video and quotes on forums: Any photo, video or quote that you save or upload to a message board post will be available for future use. You’ll never have to search for your favorite meme over and over. Once you add it for the first time, you’ll be to re-use with a click of a button.

Article-forum integration: Comment on articles without having to go to the message board. Replies to an article on the message board will also appear under comments on the article and vice versa.

Forum posts archive: The new platform allows us to now archive older forum topics and most content so you’ll be able to re-visit topics from a few years ago. For message board topics older than 13 months, you’ll be able to read, but not reply when they are in their archival state.

Photo galleries: The new platform now gives Scout publishers the ability to create photo galleries and slide shows so you can see the latest images from your experts in the field.

Crystal Ball: Team and national recruiting experts now have the ability to make predictions on where your school’s top recruiting targets will likely end up. You’ll be able to see all of the latest predictions for your school’s prospects along with every recruit who has a prediction for the school that you cover.

Decommitment tracker: For the 2017 recruiting cycle in football, there were approximately 800 decommitments. Now in addition to tracking commitments, we keep a historical archive of decommitments nationally and by school.

Scheduled commitments: Who’s the latest recruit set to announce his decision? There’s a landing page to show the latest schedule of commitment announcements. On player pages, there will also be a countdown clock to the prospect’s decision.

All-time commits: Take a historical look at your school’s highest ranked commitments since 2000 and see where your current commitments rank among those players.

These are just some of the additions you’ll see on the new Scout platform and don’t worry, all articles and media have migrated to the new platform along with forum posts from the last couple of years.

Also if you have an account with any team site on the Scout network, it has been securely transferred to the new platform.

CBS combined its Scout and 247Sports user databases, and so while the majority of users should have no problems signing in with their existing username/password to the new site, there are a limited number of registration conflicts for certain users (dual registrations, shared usernames, etc.). Those users will get a clear notification when they sign in for the first time on the new site, with an explanation of how to proceed.

If you have any problems with the process, the Scout customer support team is set up to assist by email at support@scout.com or calling 888-501-5752 between 10:00 AM and 6:00 PM (ET) Monday - Friday.

Scout has also created the following detailed page to assist you with this change.

Forums FAQ & Tutorial

If you have any questions or need assistance, there will be plenty of people to help you along the way and as always we appreciate your continued support and look forward to the future.