Forum Software Upgrade, 1 January 2007 |
Forum Software Upgrade, 1 January 2007 |
Tue, 2 Jan 2007 - 14:41
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Webmaster Group: Root Admin Posts: 8,205 Joined: 30 Mar 2003 From: Wokingham, UK Member No.: 2 |
The forum software upgrade has now been carried out, and the forums have been back online since 23:30 yesterday, 1 January.
We apologise for the unexpectely long duration of the downtime, which was due to the fact that the automated installation program was unable to deal with the size of the forum database on our server, and so the installation largely had to be done manually. This upgrade hasn't changed the basic functionality of the forums significantly so you should find that it feels comfortable very quickly. A list of the new features is shown further down this post. There are a few known oustanding issues with this upgrade:
Fredd ______________________________________________________________________________ New Features in Invision Power Board 2.2 Personal Profile Portal Invision Power Board 2.2.0 has a totally redesigned portal page with the following features:
New Style The text editors, both standard and rich text (WYSIWYG) have been completely rewritten to make them more intuitive and faster to load. Clutter has been reduced with the new dynamic menus. Switch You can now switch between the rich text editor and the standard editor without the need to reload the page or visit your User Control Panel. New Attachment System Upload without the reload IPB 2.2 has a new attachment system that enables one to upload attachments without having to reload the post screen. The new attachment area is directly below the text editor. New Style The attachment system has had a complete overhaul and is now styled along side the new text editor New Thumbnail Design Attached image thumbnail previews now have information above and below the thumbnail offering original file size and original dimensions. Inline message system Invision Power Board has an on-the-fly message system to confirm actions have taken place. Updated CAPTCHA Due to the increasing rise of spam bots flooding forums, and the increasing capabilities of scripts to bypass CAPTCHA protection by parsing the image for the registration code, our CAPTHA output has been updated to make it harder for scripts to read the CAPTCHA code IPB generates. Per-Forum Capability to remember sort options There is now a checkbox under the forum sorting options in each forum allowing you to select your preferred sort options, and have these options be remembered when you leave the forum and come back (or when you read a topic and return to the forum, for example). This option uses a cookie to remember your individual selections. Minor Requested Enhancements/Changes The following are not necessarily new features or bug fixes, but are changes commonly requested by members implemented in 2.2:
When rating a topic your submitted rating will be sent to the server via AJAX allowing you to save your rating without having to refresh the page. Additionally, you will now be able to see two more pieces of information when viewing the rating menu drop down: total number of ratings, and your individual rating. Multi-choice polls You can now create multiple-choice polls. There is an additional checkbox next to the question line(s) in a poll form so you can do this on a per-question basis (e.g. - you could have one multiple choice question, and one single-choice only question). Ability for members pending validation to change their email address A member who registers on a site and is in the validation group will now be allowed to change their email address. It is possible for a user to register an account, and mistype the email address (twice) or use an email address that is filtering email from the particular domain, and so on. In this case, the user will be stuck in limbo since they will not be able to validate their account, and cannot change their email address. With this change, a user can change their email address while validating, without breaking the validation process or status. This was previously not allowed. Auto resizing of large linked images Posted images are automatically resized on-the-fly if they are larger than the available screen width of the browser. Clicking the image displays it full size in a pop-up window. Each reduced image has information above stating how much reduction has taken place and the dimensions of the original image. Ability to reset password by email or username If the login type is 'username' a second field on the reset password screen will display to allow a user to reset their password by their email address. That is, they can enter their email address (i.e. if they forget their username) and the process will proceed as normal. This post has been edited by Fredd: Wed, 3 Jan 2007 - 16:21
Reason for edit: Progress update
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Tue, 2 Jan 2007 - 19:45
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Member Group: Members Posts: 3,410 Joined: 14 Nov 2004 From: Inside somewhere ;-) Member No.: 1,871 |
AOL users may find that they are frequently logged out. While we will try to fix this over the next day or so, it will involve reducing the security of the site. Seriously guys, why are you using AOL? Just about any ISP would be better, for you and for us. Try typing "AOL sucks" into Google if you want to know why (assuming AOL will let you, of course...) Regards, Fredd Just in case you really can't find such websites using AOL (I wouldn't put it past them ) http://www.escapeaol.com/ http://www.geeksbearinggifts.com/AOL/aol_hell.htm http://deanhunt.com/aol-hell/ Just listen to the recording.... And finally And even worse... AOL UK has just been taken over by the Carphone Warehouse QUOTE Tuesday, Jan 02, 2007 - LONDON (AP) - Carphone Warehouse Group PLC said Tuesday it has completed the acquisition of the U.K. customer base of AOL's Internet access business from Time Warner Inc. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/20/carphone_asa/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/consumer/tv_and_radio..._20061003.shtml http://www.broadband-help.com/providers/reviews/156 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/breakfast/5274468.stm http://www.oliverbrown.me.uk/2006/05/17/talktalk-problems/ -------------------- Regards, Insider
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