[DONE] Forum upgrade

[WebMaster]

Defencetalk Forums will be down on Thursday, December 30th, 2004.

Will be upgrading forum software and migrating threads/posts/forums/users, etc to the new software. It should be back within 24 hours after its down but it could take longer if things don't go as planned. Other sections of the site will be available, including the gallery. You may not be able to login to the gallery but pictures will be open for all.

Please bear with us while this upgrade is performed for good of the DT community and for your better experience as a user. :)

Enjoy!

[srirangan]

Make sure you keep your backups.. :)

[WebMaster]

Yeah. :D Multiples.

[SABRE]

One whole day! :eek What would we do than !, What will we dooo !! M shivering, my hands r swetty, every thing is going dark !, I cant c help help !

Nah just kidding. :D: Hope to c it back on in 24hrs. GoodLuck with the Upgrade.

[PLAbuddy]

i always have a question
like where did u get the close pictures of Type-98 tanks from China?

[Superbug]

how many registered memebers do we have here?

[WebMaster]

I am not sure what you are talking about PLAbud, send me a PM with link to the pic.

Superbug, we have over 3500 members.

[WebMaster]

*BumP*

Reminder, it all goes down in couple of hours.

[Red aRRow]

Great work WEBS. Seems to be working fine.

[WebMaster]

Thank You!

Forums are back in full swing!

Few touch-ups here and there will go on but major upgrades are done.

Enjoy!

[srirangan]

Great work mate!

[SABRE]

Well done...bravo !

Nice.

GUI is good & is easier to use than the last one.

[srirangan]

A few niggles
- The previous homepage had the latest updated threads, I had found that feature pretty useful. I hope it be made available in this forum too, it won't be that hard, contact your developer about it
- The forum description below their links are too long. Grants an overall ugly look to the whole forum page
- It seems all the email notification subscriptions have been lost?

On the whole though a great job, this is certainly better than the extinct phpBB. Okay now let's get back to the usual.
:argue
:p

[srirangan]

Ay.. the 1 messege per 40 seconds rule is too crippling too :(

[srirangan]

Hmm the forum descriptions are gone. That's even uglier. A small one liner description would be fine, not an entire paragraph though.

[WebMaster]

It was 40 sec before as well.

I know about the descriptions. Short version will be back soon. :D

[srirangan]

pdf
PDF

Edit
yay! no more ?????????

:D

[WebMaster]

:lol
Apparently, censors didn't carry over. :D

Sub-forums are on their way pretty soon! :cool:

[adsH]

Brilliant stuff, Webs. its seams to be faster and text boxes now work properly with my Safari browser.

[XEROX]

This website looks good, i would say its the best defence forum on the net by far, good work

[SABRE]

Few features from the previous forum r missing. I liked the user details on the left side on th tread. Also what Srirangan is talkin about. Hope they all get fixed, the forum has just started.

Webs can u darken the color a bit where ppl's post appears. I mean 1st persons color should be dark than the person posting after him has lighter box, but due to lightness in contrast makes both look like white box.

[WebMaster]

Thank You folks!

Sabre, same details are displayed on top of where user's reply is. I will see if we can fix that issue and bring some old features back.

It gets little slower on Internet explorer but other browsers such as Firefox, its fast!

[SABRE]

Thank You folks!

Sabre, same details are displayed on top of where user's reply is. I will see if we can fix that issue and bring some old features back.

It gets little slower on Internet explorer but other browsers such as Firefox, its fast!
I liked them on the Left side. Anyways I guess we ll adjust to this forum soon & than it wont matter.

[WebMaster]

Down at the bottom of the main page of the forums you have an option to select two different types of current template. Full or fixed.

[The Watcher]

Good work! Looks sexy. :cool:

[mysterious]

Well this new setup needs quite a bit of fixing I must say! Like, when I sign in to DT forums and it shows me threads with new posts and after I go in to read and/or discuss and come bak out, the status DOES NOT change. I mean, like, the same threads still appear with the icon that says they have new posts in 'em (even though I've just read 'em all). When is that going to get fixed?

[armage]

Loving the new upgrade!

[WebMaster]

Well this new setup needs quite a bit of fixing I must say! Like, when I sign in to DT forums and it shows me threads with new posts and after I go in to read and/or discuss and come bak out, the status DOES NOT change. I mean, like, the same threads still appear with the icon that says they have new posts in 'em (even though I've just read 'em all). When is that going to get fixed?

Well, its a problem and its not a problem. Two ways around that problem are, lets say you are in land forces forum and there is one thread with reply - well you can read that and then back track to land forces (click on link in the breadcrum) to go back into land forces and then get out it usually works for me. Or read all forums and then clear out the cookies (mark all forums read down at the bottom) or once you log in, just click on "new posts" or "active topics" up on top menu and just go through the list.

Armage, glad you like it.

[SABRE]

Both methods r working but its better u clear out cockies. As the software is new i think it will need some refreshing as well.
I was having some troubles too but they were solved once I clared cockies & refreshed the engines.
Also u the links on top that redirects u, they help too.

[mysterious]

Well I guess I already found a way (which may not be the most popular around but is quick), sign-out and then sign back in. :P

[SABRE]

well that is some irritating way myst. I guess the webs way is much easier. Just use the redirect links on top. Do clear ur coockies (It helps alot) plus refresh the browser when u visit DT after clearing cookies.
U have to do thos once, unlike ur way of loggin in n out n in.
Well than its upto u.