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General Category => Off Topic => Topic started by: Ray916MN on June 16, 2011, 08:57:55 AM

Title: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Ray916MN on June 16, 2011, 08:57:55 AM
I did a major forum software upgrade overnight and completed it this morning. I'm having some problems re-installing the forum add-ons so some features maybe missing but the forum seems to be working ok.

If anyone has any problems with the forum, please PM me, so I can check them out.
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Chris on June 16, 2011, 09:19:15 AM
hummmm, not sure I like it.

In firefox there is a scroll bar at the bottom no matter how big I make the screen, the quick post field seems to be the cause of this.
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Ray916MN on June 16, 2011, 09:34:05 AM
hummmm, not sure I like it.

In firefox there is a scroll bar at the bottom no matter how big I make the screen, the quick post field seems to be the cause of this.

Yes, there is some kind of formatting issue. I believe this is related to and add on which I have not been able to reinstall for some reason.

The primary driver for the "upgrade" is security related. Development on the previous branch of software the forum software we were running on has been capped, so this is the future with respect to the forum software we use.
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Ray916MN on June 16, 2011, 10:25:11 AM
Looks like the forum theme wasn't compatible with the latest release. Time to shop for a new forum theme....
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Chris on June 16, 2011, 10:26:57 AM
nice, got to love these things. :)
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: flyinlow on June 16, 2011, 12:45:31 PM
I'm using Firefox and don't see a scroll bar at the bottom, did it get fixed?
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Greg on June 16, 2011, 12:57:06 PM
Mine looks OK as well.
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: aschendel on June 16, 2011, 01:13:18 PM
I like it thus far.  Looks / works good in IE8.

Thanks,

Andy
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Chris on June 16, 2011, 01:31:14 PM
the issue was with the old theme, Ray removed that and the scroll bars went away.
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Ray916MN on June 16, 2011, 08:11:34 PM
So I've been playing a bit and have enabled a feature which lets everyone decide how they prefer the forum to look. If you go into your profile page and look under account settings there is a link to "Look and Layout Preferences". If you click on this link, you can choose between 3 different looks. An orange look (default), a black and grey look and a light blue look.

Have fun folks!

Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Lonerider on June 17, 2011, 07:28:25 AM
Looks good Ray!

Thanks for all the work.
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: dontwantapickle on June 17, 2011, 09:42:35 AM
Looks good.   Thanks!
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Tumbler on June 17, 2011, 07:46:40 PM
Looks good Ray...its nice to have individual options on the look.
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Vander on June 21, 2011, 12:57:29 PM
I like.

Good work, Ray.  :)
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: motorrad on June 22, 2011, 12:40:23 AM
I think it looks good, and I've not had any problems with it regarding appearance/formatting inside the browser window.
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Aprilian on June 23, 2011, 10:56:17 AM
Am I just missing it... I liked the fact I could see new posts on the old home page.  Where is the "new post button" located?
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: supraman on June 23, 2011, 11:07:02 AM
Am I just missing it... I liked the fact I could see new posts on the old home page.  Where is the "new post button" located?


That was my favorite view on the old forum too, it's available at the upper right under your user name now. 'Show unread posts since last visit'

http://mn-msta.com/index.php?action=unread (http://mn-msta.com/index.php?action=unread)
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: Aprilian on June 23, 2011, 01:03:45 PM
Hooray!  thanks man, supra
Title: Re: Major Forum Upgrade Last Night (6/16/11)
Post by: aschendel on June 26, 2011, 10:10:10 AM
seems like the "News" link in the upper right doesn't quite work right (http://http//mn-msta.com/index.php/topic,680.0.html (http://http//mn-msta.com/index.php/topic,680.0.html)), and i can't seem to download old files that were uploaded / attached.

old link style:
http://mn-msta.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item19 (http://mn-msta.com/index.php?action=tpmod;dl=item19)

new link style:
http://mn-msta.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=675.0;attach=534 (http://mn-msta.com/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=675.0;attach=534)

a.s.