OK we had a complete failure of the old board to upgrade. The new scripts cause the whole forums to crash yesterday.

After receiving completely wrong and useless support from the Yabb forums I decided to do a completely fresh install in a new location and transfer the old files into the new install.

So let's see if things work today.  8-)

(This is a kind of beta install)


I don't much like the layout of the new version. I will try to get a better template but one thing at a time.

It will be good to see if people can log in OK, etc

Hi Pete:

Logged in and posted with success.

Modify button also works.

Just one issue I noticed is "God Member". Seems like the L went AWOL  :D

I had trouble signing on; had to reset password. :-/

Romulus111VADT wrote on Aug 31^st, 2011 at 4:18am:

I had trouble signing on; had to reset password. :-/

Are you sure you were trying your latest pw?

I logged in OK with my old details .....

Thanks for testing another aspect though - now I know reset pw is working.  :)

All working from my side Pete :).... except, the template, it hurts my eyes. We need some lines to separate the forum titles  :(

Matt

PS, Blue please...... :(

expat wrote on Aug 31^st, 2011 at 5:22am:

All working from my side Pete :).... except, the template, it hurts my eyes. We need some lines to separate the forum titles  :( Matt PS, Blue please...... :(

Yes -- I don't like it much either.

I will install a nicer template once I find one.

Meanwhile you can log into your User CP and change the template under Options.

Working fine to me  :)

Logged in just fine, although the twitches from withdrawal have not gone completely away.   ;D

DaveSims wrote on Aug 31^st, 2011 at 6:50am:

Logged in just fine, although the twitches from withdrawal have not gone completely away.   ;D

Same here.  especially with the twitches.

But to be completely honest, I liked all the old blue layout better.  This one just looks, no offense but, boring. :P :(  And I don't like the old version either.  I liked the one we had right before the update.
If anything, can we atleast get some color back into it and get the stuff about the person posting back on the left-hand side of thier post like it had been please?

And when on earth did I jump from silver member all the way to god member?!?!?!?

Whoa!  Hold on!  Just found an error in the mod!
I tried to make only the word especially in "Especially the twitches" All caps, no other words, and something popped up saying it was against the forum rules.

All ok here. I changed the forum template to 'old stylee yabb 1.2' or somthing and it kinda looks like it used to.

Excellent work getting things up and running again ;)

Works fine for me :)

hey, just encountered a problom over here.  All the smilies and buttons are getting blurry, but only the smilies and buttons.  And also, the smilies now have part of thier left side cut off.

We've been lurking for far too long and know all the tricks of the trade.
You'll find as you get older your mouth continually gets ahead of your brain ;D ;D ;D

ozzy72 wrote on Aug 31^st, 2011 at 10:16am:

We've been lurking for far too long and know all the tricks of the trade. You'll find as you get older your mouth continually gets ahead of your brain ;D ;D ;D

I know!  It's great isn't it! :D ;D

No difficulty for me also.  Everything seems to be good to go. :)

I hafta echo the gratitude sentiments!  Thanx Pete and all for all the efforts y'all put into keeping this site the awesome place it is!!! :) :) :)

I felt so lonely while the forums were down.... ;D

Glad to see them back up. Thanks for all your work.  8-)

Are you guys having some sort of bet about who can make the most inane postings?

Hyperpep and Club508, have you heard of MSN Messenger, Skype or IM. They're great for having general conversations, usually a lot more convient and less annoying then using the SimV forums.

Yeah, we just got a PM form pete about that.  Sadly, the only social things I have in my life are my email, this forum, and my big fat mouth. :-X
We're going to try to keep it to PM's for now on.

It's fine if you are posting something relevent to the thread, and maybe a side comment or two after, but having a full blown conversation destroys the thread.  It's called "threadjacking" and people that come to the thread looking for information get distracted by all the side chatter.  That's why we have PM's here.   :)

After all was said,  8-) , the forums are loading much faster on my end, thanks for all your efforts Pete.

Steve M wrote on Sep 1^st, 2011 at 4:27pm:

After all was said,  8-) , the forums are loading much faster on my end, thanks for all your efforts Pete.

+1, loading MUCH faster for me.