PLEASE READ - NEW FORUM STATUS

OK…
Data over? Check.
New boards installed? Check.
Everything works? Check.

Can’t import 3 of the boards? CHECK.

So, everything moved over and installed but the conversion borked on 3 of the boards, so I am working to debug now. If I can’t get this up and running by today, I will leave the new forums on (but in maintenance mode) so you can see them and turn these back on so you can post. I have to do this because I will be at E3 next week and I’m sure you don’t waht to keep these in maintenance mode all week.

Thanks!

-Chris

NEW UPDATE!!!

Ok, so I converted everythign over again but, alas, 3 of the boards didn’t come over and they are very important. LWJGL, Xith3D and jME did not port due to the fact that the heading of those particular boads starts with a number and not a letter that is confuses the importer and kills it.

I have sent e-mail to the author and believe we will have a work aorund for this, so not to worry.

IN THE MEANTIME…I have left the NEW forums up and running, but in maintenance mode, so you may get a glimpse of what awaits you with the new forums.

A copuple of things need to be corrected, namely the doubling of member counts and some duplication of posts, but these are minor and I know how to resolve.

Thanks again for your patience and sorry this could not be completed (but I did blow my whole weekend trying :slight_smile: )

Click here to see the new forums:

http://192.18.37.44/yabbse/index.php

Login and check them out.

Thanks!

-Chris

Thanks for the effort. Starting on Friday 13th, I expected it to take a while :wink:

How much longer till the new board is fully operational?

[quote]Thanks for the effort. Starting on Friday 13th, I expected it to take a while :wink:

How much longer till the new board is fully operational?
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As I will be attending E3 this week, it won’t be until the end of next week before everything is operational.

-Chris

Thanks for persevering in the face of shed-loads of recalcitrant data. I had to look up the spelling of persevering. Not a word I use often :wink: The new forums will be worth waiting for.

Alan

OR you could just let me do it.
I have been programming dynamic websites for like the last 2 years and if I need any new info there are thousands of members here that read the OT forums and I always could ask a teacher.

If you only have a few things here and there it’s very realistic, and by the time you come back it will ultimately take you much less time as you wouldn’t have to fix anything.

When these forums were locked, I couldn’t read anything at all. Did anyone else experiance this? I didn’t need to access anything but wanted to check up on the progress (which it turns out was really well reported).

Will.

Same here.

Update: and same for new forum.

Sigh. Just sometimes I’d be nice to be proved wrong about the forum upgrade. It’s Duke Nukem Forever all over again…

[quote]When these forums were locked, I couldn’t read anything at all. Did anyone else experiance this? I didn’t need to access anything but wanted to check up on the progress (which it turns out was really well reported).

Will.
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/me gets out AOL CD…

Me too!

ROFL - for once ChrisM does a really really good job of giving out information, and is defeated by the fact that we were all shut-out by the forum software and weren’t allowed to view his posts. I feel for you, Chris, really I do. But if you don’t laugh, you’d have to cry…

/me thinks this domain is jinxed against communcation

[quote]Sigh. Just sometimes I’d be nice to be proved wrong about the forum upgrade. It’s Duke Nukem Forever all over again…
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Now now, to be fair, the forums did get set up. Not my fault that here are some bugs that need to be worked out. I COULD just turn on the new boards, have you type away, and just start the other 3 sections over again, but I want to get all of the data moved, not just part of it.

-Chris

All, the new forums have been taken out of Maintenance mode so you can wander them.

NOTE: ALL POSTS MADE TO THE NEW BOARD WILL BE PURGED DURING THE FINAL UPDATE!!!

I opened them so you could see the new board is all.

http://192.18.37.44/yabbse/index.php

-Chris

looks great! - and performs muuuch better than current. Particularly my most needed function ‘posts since last visit’

my signature got b0rked though - but I can fix that manually once we’re go.

Has anything been decided for moderators? - specifically global moderators that can nuke spam ? :slight_smile:

My private-messages are doubled.
Some thread-replies are doubled.

If it was:
r1,r2,r3,r4

it’s now:
r1,r2,r3,r4,r1,r2,r3,r4

where ‘rN’ = reply #n

[quote]My private-messages are doubled.
Some thread-replies are doubled.

If it was:
r1,r2,r3,r4

it’s now:
r1,r2,r3,r4,r1,r2,r3,r4

where ‘rN’ = reply #n
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I already mentioned this in an earlier post. It’s a minor thing to fix and will be fixed for the final “go live”

-Chris

Some requests:

  1. SMF allows nested categories, so make use of them: have each category have a link to it’s parent. Right now, there are no navigation links (in this theme), there’s just the (too small) “home” button.

Copy/paste some of the nav link stuff from the default theme template, e.g. putting a much bigger link to the main forum index. But sub-category navigation would be much cooler :slight_smile:

  1. Fix the tabbing order on the poll-creation page! Just like YABB, it has the same damn bug whereby you CANNOT tab between the fields. Stupid sucky morons who can’t write HTML pages properly

  2. Any chance we can get proper polls? Ones where e.g. the creator can zero JUST ONE of the options? Surely SMF is much better than YABB in this respect?

  3. Create “community moderators” group + private board, where the mods can discuss things, e.g. policies on what to do if someone may/may not be abusing the board.

  4. Create an “Announcements” board - this is a feature of SMF to push critical information to users.

  5. Add the “only posts since my last visit” link somewhere obvious (I couldn’t find it, but know that SMF does it)

[quote]6. Add the “only posts since my last visit” link somewhere obvious (I couldn’t find it, but know that SMF does it)
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it’s the 3rd line on the page, when you have logged in. Makes perfect sense to me.

Hidden in plain site ;). I don’t think I could bear it if that’s intentionally there - losing > 25% of my screen space to telling me who I am? Um, no thanks. I therefore completely ignored it, automatically (hey, it’s the same size and shape as a banner ad ;)).

So, add a 7. Remove the damn annoying big fat profile info from the top of every page. It’s HUGE! It’s a COMPLETE WASTE OF SPACE! And I hate to think how much space it takes on low-res monitors :(.

EDIT: in case it wasn’t obvious, that’s tongue-in-cheek. But I am serious that the thing is a waste of space…

Theres a little button with an arrow on it that removes your profile from view should you not want it there. (on the left of the home button)

Kev