What was wrong with old forum anyway?
If it's not brocken don't fix it! ;)
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What was wrong with old forum anyway?
If it's not brocken don't fix it! ;)
"What about the classic threads?
Pickems next one to be banned"
OMG, I went out as a classic!
Upgrades are created for reasons, and I'm sure that this version of the forum software is much more secure/faster and feature rich. With the loyal and strong member base of the motorsport forums, it shouldn't be too long at all until things kick off again. :D
I'm not complaining at all, nice one Mark.
Well, it is one way to remove all of the annoying posts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brown, Jon Brow
vBulletin is a common and efficient forum software with lots of options. Since it is a very popular program, it is also easy to administer (relatively) and very stable. It is almost becoming a standard for user forums. As for lost threads, it IS possible to migrate them, but the process is tedious and time consuming.
Besides, in 2 months no one will care much about the "old" threads, other than as fodder for the old "I told you so" posts.
Are we gonna have an actual web address and not an IP address?
something different.
When you go to "Forum Jump" you have to first go to "Forums Home" before you can get to the forum of choice.
^^. . . . . just a comment, not a complaint.
The new attachment options is cool and I'm sure there are other cool options that I haven't discovered yet.
We do have an actualy web address, it's http://www.motorsportforums.com/forumsQuote:
Originally Posted by drewdawg727
The forum jump only works for the user cp pm type stuff, not any forums. Thanks in advance for sorting it out :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark_temp
Looks good so far, just getting my head round all this new stuff.
Meen, this situation feels so strange and unusual. From a huge forum to here...
But what is the exact reason, why the server of the previous forum broke down?
What's with the 'reputation" thingy?
"This post has not received any reputation.
You currently have 0 reputation point(s)."
??????
Why is there no Senior members anymore???
As part of the deal they were all carted off to a special home where they will spend the remainder of their naturals sitting in pools of their own bodily waste and being taken for occasional trips to the shops to buy cat food and a nice bit of brisket.Quote:
Originally Posted by BTCC2
(wanders off aimlessly muttering about the war and bloody darkies)
Errrrrr I was a senior memberQuote:
Originally Posted by oily oaf
You see what looks like a set of scales next to the warning sign on the top right of a post?Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Members can add to another member's reputation.
I know . . . . . I'm not quite sure what I think of having a reputation scale dictated by your fellow forumers.Quote:
Originally Posted by SuperAguri
. . . . so I guess I will never use it now that our posts speak for ourselves.
"smokey cool guy icon that I don't know how to type"
But, what does it do?
:D Looking good, Guys.
I'm sure once all the "gremlins" are worked out it wil be an improvement !!!
Mark, thanks for putting all the time in working on the change-over.
;) Now take some time for yourself and polish off a quart of Jack Daniels!
You have earned it !
:s mokin:
by the way . . .
this baby is fast!!!!!!!
hey! and it has spell check . . . . colors . . . . font size and style . . . and it even speaks!
cool.
edit: it speaks as you write . . . . not yet as you read . . . .
Well done Mark definitly a change for the better I reckon. :cool: Thanks :up:
This is much better. Thank you.
Forum is not dragging like the old one.
Its super fast, itll take a while to learn all these new features!
Mark, will we lose all of our private messages?
What's the definition of a hot thread??
Thanks for the upgrade Mark et al! :)
Still getting accustomed to the new look and features, although the performance does seem to have improved :up: .
I too am unsure of the purpose of "Reputation" :cornfused:
Thanks for all the work, Mark. It will take us awhile to adjust to the new format. I did notice over the past month or so it seemed to be getting slower, and seems much better now.
I want the old :up: smilie back ;(
Everything seems to be fine, as usual not much time to play around and see what's what but no doubt I will catch up eventually :crazy:
Mark; a special request... Can you find the "Last Word Thread" in the old word games forum and tell us who got the last post? When you have time of course. It'll put my mind at rest :)
By the way, great looking forum, and great speed as well :D
I do like this new format, good job Mark ! http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g2...nk/thum/1u.gif
I hate that we lost all of our old posts, I guess we will have a fresh start.
I will be glad to see friends return, I'll start getting the word out. :D
Also Mark, if it's not too much trouble, can you dig up the stats on the "Mallet's Mallet" thread... Total number of posts/pages? Was this the longest thread?Quote:
Originally Posted by Mp3 Astra
Cheers :D
Colors? Where di you find them???
Gary
Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Mark,
I could see that the site had been running slow for awhile .... I figured the data needed to be normalized. I loved being able to search back through the old post. Losing some of the threads we'd been involved in hurts.
Importing that database and having the pages resolve quickly should be do-able. If one person cannot do it there is another one who can.
This should be do-able.
Thanks for everything you've done ... but .... I'm very disappointed that technically the forum content was not brought forward. When this cannot be achived new people need to be brought in.
Now new post have started it is possible this forum can not be what it was before.
:( ((((
It's quicker definitely, still getting used to the look and feel but work is still going on I understand.
And I shame the old posts aren't coming back here - our forum was the nice tidy one! (Bike racing) :)
Quote:
Originally Posted by garyshell
When you are writing a post, highlight the text- and me having a Mac, I press control and all these options appear . . . including spelling.
edit: I just realized that it doesn't keep the color . . . it reverts to black once you post . . .
Quote:
Originally Posted by Starter
Do what he ^^^^^^^^ said.
it's way cool!
can't find color option though . . . .
:s mokin:
I am already in that mode, but I don't see any options for colors???Quote:
Originally Posted by Starter
Gary
Colours are like chocolate cake... it's just a myth :p :
You can also copy and past pictures directly into posts without having to do IMG code :)Quote:
Originally Posted by race aficionado
Colours don't work, because different partner sites have different background colours, what looks good on one background will be invisible on another.
All my pm's have gone, and I was after old(ish) thread that had something in it that I wanted back and that's gone too!!!!!
I thought my pc was playing up again after all the issues i've had (that were explained in older threads!!!!
:eek: :eek: