The New Forum 2015
Posted: Mon May 11, 2015 2:16 pm
Greetings, once again!
We have just completed a major version jump from the 3.0 series of phpBB to 3.1. The security measures in this and "mod" support far surpasses that of what 3.0 could have ever wished for. With this move, however, we've lost some valuable mods and can only hope authors intend to port their mods to the new system. (The methods are simple, it simply requires their interest.)
With this all said and done, here are a list of mods we have lost, and to those affected I apologize intently:
User Blog
ReIMG Image Resizer
Selective Profile/Post Side Switcher
Reputation System
Gamertags
To those who use our blogs, I apologize the most. I want you all to be fully aware the databsase for blogs is backed up, and if I manage to find an extension (the new term for mods for 3.1) then I will do what I can to convert and import the data into the new blogging system. There are currently three in production, but none fully functional yet, and unfortunately none are from the author we were using.
The image resizer is crucial to smaller layouts, but as you may have noticed, we've expanded. The site has gained roughly 200 width in pixels on the forum, though this will not affect the site itself once launched. It will retain the 960 format for simplicity's sake. The author of ReIMG is currently working on importing his mod to the extension list for 3.1. Is stable beta builds are available, I will bring this feature back.
The switcher for post and profile data was minimally used or even known of, this removal should not impact many of you.
The reputation system and gamertags were more or less a joke in the end. If something more respectable and configurable exists in extensions in the future, we will bring it in.
While I work on the layout, you are free to make any notion of errors or things you believe I may have missed. Rest assured there are hundreds of edits I need to make right now. From icons, to button colors, to gradients, to anything you can think of. For all I know, I'll miss something however, so for the next few days if you spot something more obvious than not that should have been changed by "now," make a note of it here. Otherwise, if it's something glaringly obviously, like (at the time of this post) the messy index page of boards, I'm aware, don't worry! After a few weeks, any issues outstanding you spy on the board are probably oversights by myself and I encourage you to post them.
There are a multitude of new features I've brought into the forum. For now, I won't bother documenting them as they are intended to make the board more convenient to use and should not be focused on. Just know in the end, the board will be sleeker and more entertaining to use.
Thank you for the patience and accepting the downtime! (Not like you had a choice!)
We have just completed a major version jump from the 3.0 series of phpBB to 3.1. The security measures in this and "mod" support far surpasses that of what 3.0 could have ever wished for. With this move, however, we've lost some valuable mods and can only hope authors intend to port their mods to the new system. (The methods are simple, it simply requires their interest.)
With this all said and done, here are a list of mods we have lost, and to those affected I apologize intently:
User Blog
ReIMG Image Resizer
Selective Profile/Post Side Switcher
Reputation System
Gamertags
To those who use our blogs, I apologize the most. I want you all to be fully aware the databsase for blogs is backed up, and if I manage to find an extension (the new term for mods for 3.1) then I will do what I can to convert and import the data into the new blogging system. There are currently three in production, but none fully functional yet, and unfortunately none are from the author we were using.
The image resizer is crucial to smaller layouts, but as you may have noticed, we've expanded. The site has gained roughly 200 width in pixels on the forum, though this will not affect the site itself once launched. It will retain the 960 format for simplicity's sake. The author of ReIMG is currently working on importing his mod to the extension list for 3.1. Is stable beta builds are available, I will bring this feature back.
The switcher for post and profile data was minimally used or even known of, this removal should not impact many of you.
The reputation system and gamertags were more or less a joke in the end. If something more respectable and configurable exists in extensions in the future, we will bring it in.
While I work on the layout, you are free to make any notion of errors or things you believe I may have missed. Rest assured there are hundreds of edits I need to make right now. From icons, to button colors, to gradients, to anything you can think of. For all I know, I'll miss something however, so for the next few days if you spot something more obvious than not that should have been changed by "now," make a note of it here. Otherwise, if it's something glaringly obviously, like (at the time of this post) the messy index page of boards, I'm aware, don't worry! After a few weeks, any issues outstanding you spy on the board are probably oversights by myself and I encourage you to post them.
There are a multitude of new features I've brought into the forum. For now, I won't bother documenting them as they are intended to make the board more convenient to use and should not be focused on. Just know in the end, the board will be sleeker and more entertaining to use.
Thank you for the patience and accepting the downtime! (Not like you had a choice!)