Welcome Back - Report Issues Here Please

[Admin]

If you are reading this, you are on the new server.

If you encounter any issues, please report them here. Please limit posts to useful info. There is still a lot of work to do and not having to wade through nonsense would be a big help :)

There is still more work to be finished and the forums will likely go on and offline Sunday afternoon until everything is wrapped up.

P.S. We are running much newer versions of the software...there are many new features and some things may work differently.

There were two major version changes between where we were and are now. Here are links to new features for each version:

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...3-7-First-Look!

https://www.vbulletin.com/forum/show...3-8-0-Released

[dgates80 (Premo)]

So far so good! What kind of new server beast are we running on now?

[Admin]

Dual Processors: Intel Xeon-Harpertown 5430-Quadcore [2.66GHz] with SAS / Serial Attached SCSI disks.

[David (Premo)]

TapaTalk and Forum Runner are working fine.

[Baja28 (Premo)]

Ooooo...I like how attached pics open now!!

[GWguy]

Minor - there's a link to Chat at the bottom of the main page, but it refers you the main page to log in, doesn't seem to be a Chat. Not that anyone actually uses it.......

[David (Premo)]

We have discussed removing chat because no one seems to use it. My personal opinion is that online chat is a thing of days gone by. If anyone feels we should keep it, make a case now or forever hold your peace :)

[Dakota (Premo)]

Are you going to have a list of new features? I was checking out profiles and see that you can leave messages, blah blah blah --- and that locating the member list is now under "community." It is going to take some getting used to.

BTW, David, thanks for your hard work in all this and keeping the forums around.

[twinoaks207 (Premo)]

Originally Posted by David

We have discussed removing chat because no one seems to use it. My personal opinion is that online chat is a thing of days gone by. If anyone feels we should keep it, make a case now or forever hold your peace :)

I like it and it would be nice to have it as an option, especially since you can set up private chat rooms. I think it got a bum rap a while ago and not a lot of people know about it (how to use it, how to fix access problems, etc.). It would be nice to do a little bit of PR & "how-to's" (sticky tab) perhaps in a new category, and give it a chance to get going again before deleting forever. Yes, people can chat on email & facebook but not all of us choose to have forumites on our personal email & facebook accounts. Chat allows a different, faster way of discussing an issue other than doing so in a forum posting.

It might be nice to start having regularly scheduled "chats" on selected topics on selected days just to get it going again. It may be a "thing of days gone by" for advanced techies but not everyone fits into that category.

[David (Premo)]

Originally Posted by Dakota

Are you going to have a list of new features

That will be up to Deejay to compile and post a list of new features. You can probably discover many yourself by just poking around. Some of the most notables I have seen are the ability to LIKE threads, the new social groups (I set up one for IT Professionals) and photo albums. Someone else already mentioned the attached photo viewer.

Editing posts is also a lot more efficient.

The blog code is also a major update.

I'll make a few other major announcements probably later today.