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[Subotan]

Things I have noticed:
All my pictures have gone
I can't edit the colour scheme on my profile
Loads MUCH faster
There's a new posts button!
Social groups have gone haywire

But I'm sure that most of the problems will be ironed out. I guess this means I have to cough up now.

Noted for later siggage.

Drunk posts are the best posts.

Nothing against the current skin, but if its possible to get Sengoku back, I'd be thrilled.

Oooh, somebody else uses Sengoku

[Skullheadhq]

The skin will take some time to get used to but if it'll streamline this forum then I'm all for it.

If you don't mind I'm off to watch some porn in the frontroom.

Kewl *rushes to the frontroom*
Noes, everything is gone :(
Guess I was too late and the mods deleted all hehehe

[Cute Wolf]

You can look for our loot at our private satrapy in facebook, as always skull ^^

[Beefy187]

We have easier access to our blogs.
I might just use them.

[TosaInu]

Hello,

There are some things to sort, this will take time. Hopefully not weeks, months. But it will be days at least to get the basics back. Not quite true, as the very basic: posting is working. The profile generates errors, all plugins are disabled and the suite doesn't have the CMS enabled either.

Bots become pesky, more so than last week. I'm a little bit baffled that a new product doesn't stop them for at least a few weeks. I will need to look carefully into anti-bot measures. I tried to sign up for something only yesterday and the anti-bot measures prevented me for about 15 minutes to sign up: error, error, error, because I probably failed to read the random string properly. I needed it, so I persisted, otherwise I would leave again. I guess todays average bot has less trouble with it than I do It will take time to get a acceptable system.

We haven't any now, and bot content becomes explicit and malicious, so, I suspended registration for now. Not nice, but our current members and lurkers can at least enjoy these forums like they are supposed to be.

I'll probably need answers from Jelsoft to fix some errors, they seem afk now. I'll browse around and investigate myself, but there's no guarantee that I'll find answers/solutions today.

Some pictures may be missing, but that has to do with location and/or filesystems only I think. Nothing is deleted.

[Husar]

Well, one thing that bugs me a bit is when I'm in a forum view and don't click on the topic name but the little button to the left that is supposed to get me to the new posts, I usually still land at the first post and have to click the button in the upper right of it to get to the first new post.
I can live with it until you have the time to fix it, just thought it might help to mention it.

[Kekvit Irae]

Why even have vBulletin in the first place? SMF is easy, free, and offers plenty of customization options.

[Skullheadhq]

Oh wait, the russian porn spammers are at the entrance hall...
I'm not too late! *runs to the entrance hall before mods get there*

[Prussian to the Iron]

hate it. skin is ugly and hurts my eyes, avatars look weird against it, using the quote function doesn't take you to a different page, NO USER CP!!!!!!!!!!!(!)


this sucks. when is the user CP gonna be up?!

[Subotan]

What's so good about the CP?

[Aemilius Paulus]

hate it. skin is ugly and hurts my eyes, avatars look weird against it, using the quote function doesn't take you to a different page,

Meh, I feel for you, but that is merely our natural resitance to change and conseravtism speaking. I got used to old .Org and I disliek this, but for no real reasons, as Simple Machines forum software is indeed better than vBulletin. Remember, your post may offend Tosa, and he is working as hard as he can, so he may not be as appreciative of such comments... Just saying, sometimes keeping quiet is a better bet...

NO USER CP!!!!!!!!!!!(!) this sucks. when is the user CP gonna be up?!

Patience, Tosa has said it will take some time.

[A Very Super Market]

It was a jarring transition, for I never use the default "Shades of Blue" scheme, for only the Finns could be proud of that combination.

But the new forum has stopped logging me out for no reason, and that would make up for anything, even if Tosa changed the colours to the one's on Meth's old profile.

[Prussian to the Iron]

What's so good about the CP?

i can track any topics i post in with the auto-subscribe when i post, allowing me to quickly and easily find any discussions i wish to continue.

[Subotan]

Use the "New Posts" button.

[TosaInu]

~:D Good intention, bad execution. Forgot to disable one little thingy and it caused loads of troubles. The search works for new content, but doesn't see the old. This will be fixed.

[Beskar]

What the forum really needs is some love on getting a similar theme to the old default Org one, up and running.

[Husar]

I thought most people here don't care about graphics, just the gameplay. Gameplay of the forum is fine.

[Aemilius Paulus]

Hehe, nice one, but when you have so precious little graphics, any change to them really shows through and gets to the people.

[TosaInu]

There should be an edit favourite smiley box for everyone. It's activated in the AdminCP, but I can't find the option to actually edit it anywhere. The first who finds it.. will get a favourite smiley list?

[Subotan]

Wow! There's a WYSIWYG option for the replies!

[Aemilius Paulus]

Wow! There's a WYSIWYG option for the replies!

We always had that. But there was apparently an option to enable/disable it, because I remember my AP account having it, but all the other ones still showed the BB code when I posted stuff, instead of applying the BB code straight on. Also, we always had the preview option.

EDIT: So Tosa, will we get our profile colour scheme back? You said nothing is deleted, so I suppose that includes our profile customisations, right?

[CountArach]

Well, one thing that bugs me a bit is when I'm in a forum view and don't click on the topic name but the little button to the left that is supposed to get me to the new posts, I usually still land at the first post and have to click the button in the upper right of it to get to the first new post.
I can live with it until you have the time to fix it, just thought it might help to mention it.

Yeah the "Go To New Posts" button just takes you to the page the newest post is on.

[Prussian to the Iron]

Use the "New Posts" button.

heathen!!! how dare you insult me with such language!!! I shall have my topics in a User CP, and I shall have them now!!!

or when Tosa gets to it.....

[GeneralHankerchief]

Another thing I noticed is that choosing to hide certain forum sections from the index page (the "Console" section for example) no longer works. You set it to hide, but once you go back to the index page you have to do it all over again.

[miotas]

hate it. skin is ugly and hurts my eyes, avatars look weird against it, using the quote function doesn't take you to a different page, NO USER CP!!!!!!!!!!!(!)


this sucks. when is the user CP gonna be up?!

I may be wrong, but isn't the "settings" button at the top of the page the old CP?

I'm finding the new system to be much better than the old, but I'd still like the old skins back

[frogbeastegg]

Another thing I noticed is that choosing to hide certain forum sections from the index page (the "Console" section for example) no longer works. You set it to hide, but once you go back to the index page you have to do it all over again.

Odd. It's working for me. There's a split second during the page load where the entire selection of forms shows up, then it collapses down to display the way I set it.

[R'as al Ghul]

Another thing I noticed is that choosing to hide certain forum sections from the index page (the "Console" section for example) no longer works. You set it to hide, but once you go back to the index page you have to do it all over again.

Same here. Latest firefox version. I managed to collapse them yesterday night but today they are here again. Also, no problem going to the latest post as reported by Husar.

[TosaInu]

Hello,

The forumfilter is a custom plugin, not a standard vbul feature, so it doesn't work anymore.

This version does a few things differently, so while the data of profile layouts is still there it may or may not be working.

[R'as al Ghul]

A few minutes ago there was a change to simple machines? I had the problem that I couldn't log in any more because of the ' character in my name. It works fine with vbulletin, though. R'as

[frogbeastegg]

Same here. Latest firefox version. I managed to collapse them yesterday night but today they are here again. Also, no problem going to the latest post as reported by Husar.

Weird. I'm also using firefox, version 3.5.7, and am experiencing the total opposite. Forum collapse works, last post does not work at all. I don't even get the visual indicator on a post to say that it's new. The only way I can locate new posts is by checking the date stamp (today, yesterday, DD/MM/10) above the avatar.

Might be useful to TosaInu if others with firefox posted their versions and whether these two functions work for them?