Forum Upgrades
This evening, the forums were shut down for approximately 30 minutes minutes while I upgraded the board to vB 2.2.1. Some problems behind the scenes with the upgrade (which didn't affect the operation of the forums for users) caused this upgrade to take longer than it should have so I did not have a chance to finish the upgrades that I had planned.
I will be working on the forums again tomorrow night to finish my planned upgrades. If the forums look a bit weird or are temporarily unavailable, please just check back a bit later and they should be back to normal (with some changes).
I plan to revert all of the templates to the default templates which should bring front support for some new options that are now available in the software. By doing this, I have to recreate the styles for the forums and recreate some hacks that we have made to the software which takes time. I will also be creating some additional buttons to enhance the design which has been requested for some time now.
After these changes, I plan to take on some of the other requests that have been made during the last 12 months or so in hopes of getting TWF up-to-paar with what I would like it to be... This should all take place during January and possibly into February, depending on my personal life.
I appreciate your patience in waiting for a lot of these upgrades. I know some of them are needed badly while others are just requests that could be done with or without.
Busy posted this at 05:49 — 8th January 2002.
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Seems a lot faster now
You have a personal life?, hmmm maybe I should try one of them, I wonder if there is a web site for them
Yep, personallife (.com.net.org) is a site but its under construction, guess I'll have to wait some
Mark Hensler posted this at 08:07 — 8th January 2002.
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Sounds like the author is playing with one too... I wonder where they get these things.
Mark Hensler
If there is no answer on Google, then there is no question.
The Webmistress posted this at 08:31 — 8th January 2002.
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Can you get them on a trial basis and change it for another one if you don't like it or get your money back?
Jack Michaelson posted this at 08:45 — 8th January 2002.
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I don't know... I've got the cracked version.
mjames posted this at 21:49 — 9th January 2002.
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About time, good to see this upgrade.
I will be glad to send you any recommendations/suggestions I notice as changes are being made. One thing I'm not liking too much are the online/offline indicators in the postbit template, Chad - might want to move those. What I do is use just plan text and put it under the user's posts, location, etc. on the left.
Mark Hensler posted this at 22:11 — 9th January 2002.
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I like text online/offline also... so I changed it.
mjames posted this at 22:13 — 9th January 2002.
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Looks good.
Hmm, but it would look great if you differentiate the online from offline. Perhaps italics and a different color (TWF red?) for online?
Mark Hensler posted this at 22:21 — 9th January 2002.
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¿Como este?
¿Mejor?
mjames posted this at 22:25 — 9th January 2002.
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Looks good. Now, find some better graphics for the images in the postbit template.
merlin posted this at 15:40 — 11th January 2002.
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i like the indicator too. and the new, brighter smilies. but since the update (i think so), i have to re-login every time i close my browser (opera6.0). may something be wrong the cookies?
mjames posted this at 20:15 — 12th January 2002.
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Make sure "enable cookies" is checked in your options.
merlin posted this at 12:53 — 15th January 2002.
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i haven't changed anything but it's working again...
Megan posted this at 14:05 — 15th January 2002.
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Immediately I do not like that big box at the top. It's taking up too much space. Change it back!
disaster-master posted this at 14:12 — 15th January 2002.
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I am not particulary fond of the big box either. Just something else that you have to wait for. And it puts the content that I came here for below the FOLD.
(LOL I used a big word *fold*. na na na na boo boo)
The Webmistress posted this at 14:13 — 15th January 2002.
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I don't like it either, far too big and imposing! Kinda buries the forums.
mjames posted this at 02:44 — 16th January 2002.
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I totally agree... we went overboard with all the stuff at the top. I like the Welcome Panel, but move the PM and logged in users stuff back to the bottom. Additionally, I don't think the TWF statistics need their own section... just put that data above the Welcome Panel, i.e. how I have it on my boards.
The Webmistress posted this at 16:18 — 16th January 2002.
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I'm finding that sometimes IP addresses are showing and other times not. Can it be not all the time?
Mark Hensler posted this at 20:41 — 16th January 2002.
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I believe that the IPs are only showing where you have permissions to see them. I'm an admin, so I see them everywhere. Being a moderator, I would guess that you only see them in the forums you moderate.
Mark Hensler
If there is no answer on Google, then there is no question.
The Webmistress posted this at 21:05 — 16th January 2002.
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That would explain it then!
Chad Simper posted this at 01:11 — 17th January 2002.
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Mark has it 100% correct with the IP address thing...
When I was looking over at vb.org (awsome site, thanks Mark for the pointer!), I noticed the hack that would just remove the IP: Logged altogether for people that are not members of the administrative team. I'm sure the IP addresses really aren't used but I want them recorded just in case we need them...
Mark Hensler posted this at 23:35 — 17th January 2002.
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BTW, if you go to http://www.vbulletin.org you'll see Chad's name on the home page. Apparently, he's the 5,000th member. They even posted a link to TWF. Woohoo!
Mark Hensler
If there is no answer on Google, then there is no question.
Chad Simper posted this at 01:22 — 18th January 2002.
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Joined: Mar 1999
ROFL!
That is too cool! I registered a couple nights ago to get a few hacks when it came back, I just happened to notice that I was member # 5000. I thought to myself "that's cool... I should get a prize or something" and went on surfing their forums. I had no idea they were going to announce it.
Those forums are absolutely amazing. There are so many great hacks from some very talented people that also participate within our forums.
Megan posted this at 02:30 — 18th January 2002.
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Oooh, and they said that we're good looking too
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