possible new zug forum

[offroadgeek]

I've got to say I absolutely hate this new forum, it's not as easy to use, I can't even find my postings, oh well, it was good while it lasted, but this new forum is frustrating to use.
 

that's just because this forum is new to you... I assume you never used the devnet board before it went away last December?

You'll get used to it, and eventually realize the benefits.  (embrace change)

btw - much of the feedback I got on the old phpBB2 forums was from members who've been around for a while saying that they like this or that feature of the old devnet board.

[bluedevils]

I've lost some posts I made this morning.  Will they be synced back up or are they lost forever?

[lardman]

It's got to be said, the skin which the board came with by default (though it's not the default skin, strange) is pretty nasty.

I changed it to the default (so it now looks like the devnet) which is much nicer (IMHO).


Si

[tumnus]

Yes, while the minimalist graphics are ok, the layout is horrible and completely different to most other forums.

On the upside, whether it's because the Invision code is more efficient or the HTML is slimmer, the forums seem snappier.

BTW, offroadgeek, does your SDSL service have a guarenteed availability? Do you have an UPS and RAID array, etc on your server? Just wondering how th uptime will be since you're hosting it yourself now.

[offroadgeek]

It's got to be said, the skin which the board came with by default (though it's not the default skin, strange) is pretty nasty.

I changed it to the default (so it now looks like the devnet) which is much nicer (IMHO).


Si

I also don't like this skin very much... but I thought people would like it better than the default IPB one.  Personally, I like the graphics and the icons that come with the default IPB skin, but I would want to customize the overall color scheme (to be different from devnet).

I would be happy to change the default skin to be the one IPB comes with... as long as people don't mind waiting for me to customize the colors.

[offroadgeek]

I've lost some posts I made this morning.  Will they be synced back up or are they lost forever?

what forum did you make the new posts in?  you shouldn't have been able to even access the old forums, so I'm assuming you posted them in this one... and in that case then they should be here because I haven't made any changes to this forum since last night (except for some minor permissions stuff).

sorry if you lost anything

[slocaus]

One missing bluedevils post can be seen from my posting here:
https://www.oesf.org/forums/inde...wtopic=5103&hl=

I have gotten e-mail notifications of posts in the old forums.  When I click on the URL, it opens the page in Firefox, and allows me to post that way.

Yup, still works:  
http://www.zaurususergroup.com/index.php?n...c&p=32424#32424

[padishah_emperor]

I've got to say I absolutely hate this new forum, it's not as easy to use, I can't even find my postings, oh well, it was good while it lasted, but this new forum is frustrating to use.
 

that's just because this forum is new to you... I assume you never used the devnet board before it went away last December?

You'll get used to it, and eventually realize the benefits.  (embrace change)

btw - much of the feedback I got on the old phpBB2 forums was from members who've been around for a while saying that they like this or that feature of the old devnet board.

Yes, it's growing on me :-)

I'm an impatient padowan..

[offroadgeek]

as mentioned in another thread, we just lost a couple posts (not too many)...  I'm sorry for this.  Please continue to provide feedback on the new forums, and change of server.

I know people already miss the "recent posts" block that used to be on the main page of the site, but I ask that people try out the "View New Posts" link that's up in the top right area of the new forums.

thanks all for your patience.

[bb]

as mentioned in another thread, we just lost a couple posts (not too many)...  I'm sorry for this.  Please continue to provide feedback on the new forums, and change of server.

I know people already miss the "recent posts" block that used to be on the main page of the site, but I ask that people try out the "View New Posts" link that's up in the top right area of the new forums.

thanks all for your patience.

Every link to previous postings that some users (quite a lot, in fact) have inserted in their answers, are now invalid. Will something be done about this?

[Greg2]

Every link to previous postings that some users (quite a lot, in fact) have inserted in their answers, are now invalid. Will something be done about this?

This is a problem for all links to zaurususersgroup.com/index.php... is there a simple fix for that? Are there any php gurus with a fix?

Greg

[tumnus]

I know people already miss the "recent posts" block that used to be on the main page of the site, but I ask that people try out the "View New Posts" link that's up in the top right area of the new forums

There's a 'Today's Active Posts' link at the bottom of the forum index page

[Guest]

as mentioned in another thread, we just lost a couple posts (not too many)...  I'm sorry for this.

no problem ORG.  I'm just appreciating all the work you've done for this community.

[bluedevils]

oops.  that was me

[offroadgeek]

Every link to previous postings that some users (quite a lot, in fact) have inserted in their answers, are now invalid. Will something be done about this?

This is a problem for all links to zaurususersgroup.com/index.php... is there a simple fix for that? Are there any php gurus with a fix?

Greg  

This has now been fixed... all links to posts in the old forum should be corrected with the links to the same post in this forum.  Since the topic ID's didn't change with the move, I just did a simple sql query to fix this.

It may not have caught every link, as I've seen some links with slightly different syntax.  I can fix those on an exception basis, unless I see a pattern where another query would be useful.

Hope this helps.

offroadgeek