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The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:54 pm
by GenericUsername
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.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:56 pm
by fudgie
It's over a year that the search function doesn't work. So it's got that going for it.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:57 pm
by wetsthebed
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.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 6:58 pm
by Basti
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

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:00 pm
by GenericUsername
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.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:01 pm
by DelaneyRudd
Yeah, Gateway Errors FTL.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:07 pm
by Basti
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.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:10 pm
by wetsthebed
I remember that, it was every night at 4 am, I think. The forums would be down for about 5 minutes.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:10 pm
by DelaneyRudd
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.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:32 pm
by DelaneyRudd
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.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:35 pm
by Manocad
Don't think about it much, really.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 5:58 pm
by hermes
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!

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 6:00 pm
by fudgie
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.

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 9:14 pm
by kyphi
I miss being able to access the ancient ones' wisdom

Re: The forum upgrade in retrospect

Posted: Wed Sep 16, 2009 12:08 am
by NetsForce
I miss being allowed to post on the General Board.