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RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - da-anda - 2012-03-15 13:13

(2012-03-15 04:38)fyrfyter71 Wrote:
(2012-03-12 17:16)BORIStheBLADE Wrote: One thing I have noticed with the new forum is its hard to distinguish which threads have been updated since your last visit. With most other forum software the threads that have been updated since your last visit have titles that are bolder than the others. Not a big issue, but when I open a forum it looks like all are new every time I come on, Its stressing me out!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I agree.

that's already fixed - if not, check your browser cache. Only new/unread threads are bold now.

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - da-anda - 2012-03-15 13:18

(2012-03-14 21:45)thrak76 Wrote:
(2012-03-12 16:04)DDDamian Wrote:
(2012-03-12 15:52)thrak76 Wrote: Is it possible for this forum software to display post previews upon mouse hover over the thread link? That feature is so useful to me.

Gotta second that - will check with Da-anda who's done an amazing job on the forum move to MyBB!

Any word on this, by chance?

Will have a look at it - but it will take some time. I spent some workdays for the forum update/migration and need to catch up the lost time now to meet customers deadlines. But I fear this would require additional queries - and if so, it won't gonna happen for now until we know the server can handle it.

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - da-anda - 2012-03-15 13:22

(2012-03-12 15:43)wsume99 Wrote: After conversion some of the url links in my signature were not being displayed correctly (there was an extra space in the text between the = sign and the site address) so I tried to change them but I'm getting an error that indicates the max character length is 255. That is pretty short especially if you are using links in your signature. I believe the previous limit was 1000. Can we have the limit restored to 1000?

BBCode should not be counted in for the length check - so it should be enough. There might have been a issue with this when you tried it - so please try again.

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - JoeLouie - 2012-03-15 14:59

I really like the look of MyBB. I currently run a forum using vBulletin, and I was debating switching to a free alternative, either phpBB (which I'm familiar with, and have used in the past) or MyBB (which I've never really used), and I think I've made up my mind after seeing this!

Good work guys!

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - da-anda - 2012-03-15 18:01

(2012-03-15 14:59)JoeLouie Wrote: I really like the look of MyBB. I currently run a forum using vBulletin, and I was debating switching to a free alternative, either phpBB (which I'm familiar with, and have used in the past) or MyBB (which I've never really used), and I think I've made up my mind after seeing this!

Good work guys!

Thanks. The theme you see here is a mod of the default theme - so you won't get it "officially" somewhere. I also did some "hacks" using myBBs hook system to get the topbar working as intended etc. - but the theme is not the biggest issue for a conversion. If you would like to migrate EVERYTHING that myBB supports and you currently use in vB like we did (subscriptions, banned users, custom user fields, buddies, signature pics, spammers, blocked ips) then you have to mess around with the converter script. I had to write 8 custom converter modules and modified pretty much all existing converters to perform better. Also if you like to keep the IDs so that links work again you have to mess with the converter scripts. If time allows I'll try to contribute my modifications to the official myBB converter - but I'm not sure if they would accept my hacks.

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - wsume99 - 2012-03-16 14:45

(2012-03-15 13:22)da-anda Wrote:
(2012-03-12 15:43)wsume99 Wrote: After conversion some of the url links in my signature were not being displayed correctly (there was an extra space in the text between the = sign and the site address) so I tried to change them but I'm getting an error that indicates the max character length is 255. That is pretty short especially if you are using links in your signature. I believe the previous limit was 1000. Can we have the limit restored to 1000?
BBCode should not be counted in for the length check - so it should be enough. There might have been a issue with this when you tried it - so please try again.

Thanks for the reply. I tried it again this morning and I received the following error message

Quote:You cannot update your signature because it is too long. The maximum length for signatures is 300 characters. Please remove 263 characters and try again.

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - da-anda - 2012-03-16 15:32

I just fixed your sig - maybe the parser had issues with the broken bb-code when counting. Please try again now.

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - wsume99 - 2012-03-16 19:23

(2012-03-16 15:32)da-anda Wrote: I just fixed your sig

Now that's service. Thanks.

The bad news is that I tried to add the word hello to the end of my sig and got the following response ...

Quote:You cannot update your signature because it is too long. The maximum length for signatures is 300 characters. Please remove 268 characters and try again.

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - KeithLM - 2012-03-17 06:14

I'm noticing a few things with notifications.

I am still receiving notification e-mails for threads that have new posts as appropriate, even though I haven't replied to those threads since the update. This behavior is correct. I only mention this because...
Threads that were started after the update, which I have posted responses to, are not providing me with notification e-mails. I only see notification e-mails for old posts that are being updated, not new posts.
The format of the notification e-mails sucks. Two things, the whole post isn't shown, and the other problem is that for some reason these new e-mails are collapsed in gmail, and I have to expand them to get to the link. The old e-mails had the link at the top and bottom, so no expanding in gmail was necessary to find the link to the post.

RE: This thread is for forum update discussion - da-anda - 2012-03-17 19:27

@2) how do you subscribe to those threads? Have you subscribe to the forum or did you have auto-subscribe enabled? If the later, please check if the setting has been correctly imported to the new forum - I gave my best though.

@3) unfortunately the email format is kinda hardcoded - but you should see the full message of most posts because the cropping limit is currently set to 1000 characters (unfortunately can't disable cropping completely and the "click to read full post" is always shown, regardless if cropped or not).