Welcome to our Upgraded forums!

[Jeff Mottle]

As you may have noticed we have converted our forums to vBulletin from UBB. If you notice any problems or have any questions, please post them here.

Some things that you may have to fix as a result of the import:

1. You may have to re-create your signature
2. If your avatar is too big, please upload a new version in yur profile. (You may be asked by one of the moderators to do so)

This version of the forum software is a Release Candidate and 'may' still have the odd bug, although it is very close to going gold, so I suspect any problems you run into will be as a result of my not properly configuring the site. There are a TON of options for this new forum and I will be slowly tweaking things over the next few days.

[Ernest Burden]

Thanks, Jeff.

It's good. You know, I've been away too long...

"You last visited: January 1st, 1970"

I'll see what happens with the signature as this posts...

[quizzy]

lets see if everything goes well... I think it will...

[Dibbers]

well done Jeff.

The only thing I woulod say, is that within a thread, having the poster's avatar above each message instead of to the left, means alott of scrolling.

[muzzy]

Great Jeff.

The best thing I like, search is much more faster. Overall looks more organized and quick to reach info.

Minus ...I agree with Dibbers about avatar image placement.

[DelfoZ]

i can see a lot of new things, and this one [Rate Thread]

now the Wips and finish works can be voted, or u can remove this ?

[xgarcia]

Jeff...real slick, this new board. I really really like the thread subscription capabilites (not just through email anymore - it lists them for you in your user CP). One thing...one of my private messages I know was from Ernest says it was from another user - guess the transition screwed some things up - anyone else have PM's changed? Other than that - congrats on the new board. I frequent another web forum that uses this exact same engine - it's great.

[kingeldar]

hate the avatar on top! space eating! put it back on left or right i don't care... too much scrolling like dibbers said

but the post under the reply window it's good!

[Jeff Mottle]

Thanks for the feedback guys.

By default the avatars come in that position, so in order to move them I will have to edit the templates a bit. This is no easy feat so it may take me some time, but if everyone is of this consensus, I'll look at doing that. The one nice thing about avatars on the top is that is leaves more room for images width wise.

Also, long gone is the forum image upload problems. This forum has built in image uploding abilities.

PMs....hmmm...yeah that might have gotten garbled, but I figured most people don't keep them, so it was not a priority when they developed the coverter. PM are normally only used for quick contacts, not as a long term storage thing.

The thread rating thing can be turned off, so I will see how it works out on. If it is abused or provides no useful feedback then I will disable it.


Yes searching is MUCH MUCH MUCH better and is one of the main reasons I decided to ditch UBB. Searching is now almost instantaneous.

Keep the feedback coming.

[crazy homeless guy]

i am not a big fan of the names above the messages either. imo the threads were easier to read when the name and avatar was next to the post. before you could read the thread continously, the names break up the flow.