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Major Forums Upgrade
Dec 13^th, 2008 at 4:01pm

Coming Soon.......

A major forums upgrade. This is a 7 on my difficulty list and a 10 on my scary list. Smiley

I don't have a date for this, just giving you a heads up that it will be happening.

During the upgrade you will not be able to access the forums. You may get a maintenance message or just a fatal browser page, depending on what stage I am in the process.

I do not know how long things will be down once I start. It all depends on how it goes and how many screw ups I make Roll Eyes

I will try to task this in such a way as to minimize the down time.

My last experience with this almost blew my cerebral cortex. Smiley

Hopefully we won't have any Smiley

Wish me luck.....

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Carl Grotti LSD Guide Picogroup Offline Deceased Posts: 1,501	Re: Major Forums Upgrade Reply #1 - Dec 13^th, 2008 at 11:50pm Oh man... glad I'm not the one doing this. Didn't you loose some hair the last time you did this? Disclaimer: If anything goes wrong, I had nothing to do with it. Good luck, partener.
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Reply #2 - Dec 24^th, 2008 at 10:32am

For any of you that noticed the forums in maintenance mode this morning....

Nope, I did not complete the upgrade. Got as far a a backup and then got sidetracked. Soon though. That was good practice. Wink

I have the new forums framework built now and verified that it works and just have to move the data and then configure a few things.

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Reply #3 - Dec 30^th, 2008 at 9:10pm

Happy New Year and welcome to the new forums. They may not look all that new at first glance but explore and you will find some new features and improvements.

Be sure to update your profile to see that the settings are as you want them. Some may have changed and there are more options there to set.

Hope you like it. Please let me know if you run into any issues. I am still squishing a few bugs. Smiley

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Earl Davis Guru Member Picogroup Offline Posts: 481 Charlotte-NC North Carolina USA Gender:	Re: Major Forums Upgrade Reply #4 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 5:01am Tom I have noticed a significant increase in the speed when navigating through the forums. Earl
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Reply #5 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 7:38am

Good to hear that, Earl. It seemed faster to me but I wasn't sure.

I had a rough day yesterday with this. Something went terribly wrong just as I was finishing and I had to start over from scratch. Embarrassed

I had a backup though....

Don't be surprised to see the maintenance message come up more now than in the past. This build has a server backup function and when this is in use, the forums are taken offline. I'm not sure I will use it but I have to try it. I'll probably still backup locally though.

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Danny Berry, Sr. Super Nerd Picogroup Offline Elevation 840ft Posts: 710 McDonough, Ga. Georgia USA Gender:	Re: Major Forums Upgrade Reply #6 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 8:02am Quote: Be sure to update your profile to see that the settings are as you want them. Some may have changed and there are more options there to set. Hi Tom, How do you do this ? I went to mine but I dont see how to edit it? Thanks, Danny
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Reply #7 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 8:19am

Danny,

This works pretty much like the old forums. Go to:

User CP tab
Profile tab
Edit Profile
Enter password confirmation when prompted

If you have any questions about what's in there, I will try to answer.

In the past there has been some confusion about the Hide Email from public option....The public can't see any emails anyway. Only members can. So, checking that box hides your email from forum members but not the admin.

There is a lot of info in the Help tab. They have really improved the documentation in there about how it all works. Check it out...

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Danny Berry, Sr. Super Nerd Picogroup Offline Elevation 840ft Posts: 710 McDonough, Ga. Georgia USA Gender:	Re: Major Forums Upgrade Reply #8 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 9:01am Thanks Tom, I missed step one... clicking on the user contop panel tab. I like what I see so far. I noticed that you have to go into and out of the folders to reset the new post blinking lights, I guess due to the upgrade? There are no new post on some of these, but know big deal Danny
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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,595 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: Major Forums Upgrade Reply #9 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 10:27am Quote: I noticed that you have to go into and out of the folders to reset the new post blinking lights Yup. You may also find that some of your PMs are tagged as new but are not new. It's a whole new forums engine....took me as long to change it as it used to take me to do a V8 engine in a Ford truck.
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Re: Major Forums Upgrade
Reply #10 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 2:50pm

Tom Roberts wrote on Dec 30^th, 2008 at 9:10pm:

Happy New Year and welcome to the new forums. They may not look all that new at first glance but explore and you will find some new features and improvements.

Hope you like it. Please let me know if you run into any issues. I am still squishing a few bugs. Smiley

Tom

It maybe me but if a gif is to wide the slide bar that use to be on the bottom of the file seems to be missing.

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Reply #11 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 3:01pm

Mick,

I can see the whole image on my wide screen. The images are displayed differently now. No more scroll bars to work around in the larger images. Just click on the image and it will open up in a grey box display. If there are multiple images in the post (we can do that now), you can click through them, which highlights each one. This allows a larger view with scroll, if needed. You can also click on the file name and bring it up in another window.

Try it. I hope you like it better.

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TCROfreak Senior Member Offline Posts: 194 Gender:	Re: Major Forums Upgrade Reply #12 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 4:41pm I am not receiving emails that there has been a reply to topics I am watching. I made sure that I have the box check to receive emails. Is anyone else having this problem?
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Tom Roberts Autonerdz Administrator Picogroup Offline Autonerdz Founder Posts: 8,595 Olympia Washington USA Gender:	Re: Major Forums Upgrade Reply #13 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 5:00pm I am too, Howard. I'll have to look into this. The mail system is working because I am getting other notifications.
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fisher Super Nerd Picogroup Offline I love YaBB 1G - SP1! Posts: 2,731 Concord California USA Gender:	Re: Major Forums Upgrade Reply #14 - Dec 31^st, 2008 at 5:14pm Yeah, click the GIF and it comes out great. Also, can add more than one attachment per post.
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