Forum upgrade

John Kennett · 02 April 2004, 15:23

As mentioned elsewhere I will be upgrading the forum software to the latest version of vBulletin soon. I'm not sure exactly when yet, and it may be at short notice, but it should only mean that the forums are closed for an hour or two.

vBulletin 3 is a major upgrade, and the fully tested version was finally released a couple of weeks ago after well over a year in development. As well as some very useful behind the scenes improvements there are a load of new features.

Just to whet your appetites, here are a few:

- attach multiple images to a message
- add a photo to your profile
- search the member list by custom fields (boat type etc)
- automatic summertime adjustments

- an all new "user reputation" system

Watch this space . . .

John

gingercoastie · 02 April 2004, 19:22

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- an all new "user reputation" system

Better watch out for that one.....

Manos · 02 April 2004, 19:50

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Originally posted by John Kennett
- an all new "user reputation" system John

UPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

John Kennett · 03 April 2004, 15:19

OK the forum upgrade is complete. Off line for just over an hour

There are lots of new features, but for the time being I have made it as close to the old version as possible. There may be a few things left to sort out, but I'm sure you'll let me know!

John

Brian · 03 April 2004, 15:32

Well done.
Seems to work OK

chrisallse · 03 April 2004, 15:35

Looks good John well done

Richard B · 03 April 2004, 16:06

Wow!

Cookee · 03 April 2004, 16:46

Looking forward to this user reputation thingy!

jwalker · 03 April 2004, 17:01

Well done JK. Very slick.

2 things; is there an edit button so that I can fix my typos? and I'm missing the left hand egde of the page but I can scroll across. 1024 horiz. resolution.

Edit: Ah, I see. There is an edit button while I'm allowed to edit.

Hightower · 03 April 2004, 17:31

John,

any chance of activating Avatars on the forum?

Andy

simmons0 · 03 April 2004, 17:41

Or even IMG tags in your signature(with very tight size limits of course)

Ribald · 03 April 2004, 19:06

Very nice layout John. Thanks for your hard work.

PS Couldn't put the "New Posts" button back at the top could you

Manos · 03 April 2004, 19:07

WOW Very nice indeed

Well done John great!!

What about Avatars?? Is easy to do and it can be done. Can we haver that too??

Pleeeeease??

gingercoastie · 03 April 2004, 19:09

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Originally Posted by Ribald

Very nice layout John. Thanks for your hard work.

PS Couldn't put the "New Posts" button back at the top could you

Look in the "Quick Links" drop down menu

Keith Hart · 03 April 2004, 19:10

John

The colours look a bit washed out.

Keith Hart

Ribald · 03 April 2004, 19:13

Cheers GC - sorted

Phil Chitty · 03 April 2004, 19:16

Great new look JK.

Nice one.

John Kennett · 03 April 2004, 19:39

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Originally Posted by jwalker

I'm missing the left hand egde of the page but I can scroll across. 1024 horiz. resolution.

It works fine for me at 1024 x 768, and as it doesn't used fixed widths it ought to be OK at any resolution. What browser are you using?

John

Alex Brown · 03 April 2004, 20:24

Hello John,

I don't remember there being an auto-refresh for 60 seconds on the last version of the forums? (was there?!)..... I tend to leave this window always open, not sure if others do, but that refreshing every 60secs or so will use a fair bit of bandwidth won't it?

Otherwise, it looks very neat and tidy

-Alex

jwalker · 03 April 2004, 21:37

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Originally Posted by John Kennett

It works fine for me at 1024 x 768, and as it doesn't used fixed widths it ought to be OK at any resolution. What browser are you using?

John

IE 5 & IE 6, different machines of course. Just tried it at 1280 x 1024.. it's exactly the same. Mmmm......