The forum upgrade in retrospect

GenericUsername · Post #1 » by **GenericUsername** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:54 pm

I remember many were complaining when the forum was upgraded and the look change but what is your opinion now?

I could not fathom going back to the way it was. Also it's quicker for me, didn't crash on draft night, and there is no pause at 3:00 a.m.

fudgie · Post #2 » by **fudgie** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:56 pm

It's over a year that the search function doesn't work. So it's got that going for it.

Post #3 » by **wetsthebed** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:57 pm

fudgie wrote:It's over a year that the search function doesn't work. So it's got that going for it.

The search function works fine for me. Maybe it's just us cool mods.

Post #4 » by **Basti** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:58 pm

there was a pause at 3am? I never noticed that

I didn't really care about the change though. yes the first days and weeks after the upgrade were tough but in the end every feature came back (aside from PMing mods and searching but I never used the search function anyway).

but it was cool reading an old thread that's in the old design recently

here it is http://web.archive.org/web/200801122109 ... sc&start=0

GenericUsername · Post #5 » by **GenericUsername** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:00 pm

basti wrote:there was a pause at 3am? I never noticed that

I didn't really care about the change though. yes the first days and weeks after the upgrade were tough but in the end every feature came back (aside from PMing mods and searching but I never used the search function anyway).

but it was cool reading an old thread that's in the old design recently

here it is http://web.archive.org/web/200801122109 ... sc&start=0

My time 3:00p.m. CST. It's only last like 30 sec. Maybe a few other people know what im talking about.

Post #6 » by **DelaneyRudd** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:01 pm

Yeah, Gateway Errors FTL.

Post #7 » by **Basti** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:07 pm

DelaneyRudd wrote:Yeah, Gateway Errors FTL.

well those occured to me on a regular basis (like once a week) and sometimes they lasted for a couple of hours. they never occured to me at a particular time though.

Post #8 » by **wetsthebed** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:10 pm

I remember that, it was every night at 4 am, I think. The forums would be down for about 5 minutes.

Post #9 » by **DelaneyRudd** » Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:10 pm

The forums are better but not being able to reply to PMs or sending them to mods suck. Now I have to complain about ElTurcos BS publicly instead of behind his back.

Post #10 » by **DelaneyRudd** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:32 pm

I just remembered 2 things that NEED to come back:

Automatic quote clipping. No more 3 imbed limit, the system takes care of it.

Automatic image resizing. Huge images get resized, not cropped at the right.

Manocad · Post #11 » by **Manocad** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:35 pm

Don't think about it much, really.

hermes · Post #12 » by **hermes** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:58 pm

DelaneyRudd wrote:I just remembered 2 things that NEED to come back:

Automatic quote clipping. No more 3 imbed limit, the system takes care of it.

Automatic image resizing. Huge images get resized, not cropped at the right.

these, well the quote thing i can handle i suppose

but the images need to be corrected!

fudgie · Post #13 » by **fudgie** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:00 pm

Where the **** is the search function? It's been over a year and we still don't have it. Think of all the old threads we could be bumping if it was working.

Post #14 » by **kyphi** » Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:14 pm

I miss being able to access the ancient ones' wisdom

NetsForce · Post #15 » by **NetsForce** » Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:08 am

I miss being allowed to post on the General Board.