Forums Upgrade

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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby ozzy72 » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:03 am

Things seem to be working, poor Pete has really had his hands full with this upgrade and deserves a keg of beer for his efforts!
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby C » Wed Jan 09, 2008 4:18 am

Things seem to be working, poor Pete has really had his hands full with this upgrade and deserves a keg of beer for his efforts!


I can't seem to upload one of them. My USB cable doesn't seem to work with liquids... ;) ;D
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby pepper_airborne » Wed Jan 09, 2008 5:35 am

Good job that you guys got it all up and running! Looks very smooth!
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby pete » Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:37 am

Great new look Pete. Bravo. I'm snooping around for issues, only one so far is I can't get into admin.


All of us. Working on it. Was working last night & I didn't change anything --- I think it's a file ownership issue - I'll check

But ummm (psssst)  don't forget the character limit.. I just hit a 2000 character wall with an NDB flight school post  


Upped to 12k. Let me know if it didn't work ...  Thanks Brett!

Extra Smileys missing ... - working on it

Top image upload & other links + SimV logo - working on it

.... All in all we're getting there ......
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby 61_OTU » Wed Jan 09, 2008 7:40 am

Pete,

when trying to post from my PocketPC 2003 the 'post' button says 'Wait' and is greyed out. You may not be able to do anything about this, but i thought I'd mention it.

great stuff by the way

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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby mrjake2002 » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:10 am

Looks great!!  :)
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby machineman9 » Wed Jan 09, 2008 11:43 am

Hmm, its certainly interesting...

I think there is a little bit too much blue though... And I liked how there was the background on the forums.

Pros though are that it is nice to navigate around and in the User CP the ability to change the task without changing the page is quite good.

But my only dislikes are the flashing 'new post' things and the extent of the blue.

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-New design is beginning to grow on me though
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby Mictheslik » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:24 pm

eughhhhh....I hope this isn't permanent....the YaBB 2.2 logo at the top and lack of SimV is annoying....as is the flashing dot things....

Oh well....

The aesthetics dont matter if it runs better :)

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EDIT....wow....all I typed was [YaBB2.2] without the brackets and it made the link.....
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby Hagar » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:33 pm

eughhhhh....I hope this isn't permanent....the YaBB 2.2 logo at the top and lack of SimV is annoying....as is the flashing dot things....

What flashing dot things? I don't see any flashing thingies. :question
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby alrot » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:39 pm

:-/ how can I upload images now??
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby Mictheslik » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:41 pm

eughhhhh....I hope this isn't permanent....the YaBB 2.2 logo at the top and lack of SimV is annoying....as is the flashing dot things....

What flashing dot things? I don't see any flashing thingies. :question


They were by the forums, and flashed if something new had been posted...

but it's fine now thanks to Alonso pointing out you can switch back to 2.1 in your profile :D

now we just need to change the yabb banner....

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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby Hagar » Wed Jan 09, 2008 12:42 pm

:-/ how can I upload images now??

I think the old link still works. Upload Images
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby Mictheslik » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:36 pm

:-/ how can I upload images now??

I think the old link still works. Upload Images


yes...but there is no longer a link at the top of each page ;)

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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby Hagar » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:41 pm

:-/ how can I upload images now??

I think the old link still works. Upload Images


yes...but there is no longer a link at the top of each page ;)

I'm sure that will be fixed in time. Meanwhile, add this to your bookmarks.  http://www.simviation.com/yabbupload.html

Elementary my dear Watson. :P :)
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Re: Forums Upgrade

Postby Mictheslik » Wed Jan 09, 2008 1:55 pm

:-/ how can I upload images now??

I think the old link still works. Upload Images


yes...but there is no longer a link at the top of each page ;)

I'm sure that will be fixed in time. Meanwhile, add this to your bookmarks.  http://www.simviation.com/yabbupload.html

Elementary my dear Watson. :P :)


it is...if your bookmarks dont delete themselves every other day :)

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