Forum upgrade
 

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

Re: Forum upgrade
 

Better watch out for that one.....=) =) =)

Re: Forum upgrade
 

UPSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS:p =)=)=)

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

Well done.
Seems to work OK

Looks good John well done :)

Wow! :)

Looking forward to this user reputation thingy! :lastword:

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. :cool:

Avatars
 

John,


any chance of activating Avatars on the forum?


Andy

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

Very nice layout John. Thanks for your hard work. :D

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

WOW Very nice indeed :hi:
Well done John great!!;)

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

Look in the "Quick Links" drop down menu

John

The colours look a bit washed out.

Keith Hart

Cheers GC - sorted :D

Great new look JK. :hi:

Nice one.

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

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

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