Forum Upgrade

[Shaun]

Good man Shaun. Don't forget the profile info's buggered as well

Templates again I think.

 

[summerdays]

The bit to go to the top of the screen on each post seems to have gone too - templates I presume?

 

[Danny]

The standard background colours seem to have changed. Instead of bright CC blue everything is appearing in a sort of mucky blue grey colour.

 

[TheDoctor]

I can't change the font colour.

I can't continue to post in black, that would just not do.

What's happened?

I assume this is all part of it too...

 

[Shaun]

It looks like quite a lot has been overwritten by the upgrade so I'm going to shutdown for a few hours later this evening and try to get stuff back to how it was.

No guarantees, but I'll do my best.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[gavintc]

And we can now look into the playpen (aka Politics and Life).

 

[Shaun]

Politics & Life and Wheelie Bin now excluded from New Posts and quick Search results - as before.

 

[Shaun]

Jump menu is back at the top of thread views.

 

[Shaun]

I think the majority of stuff is working properly again. If you do spot anything, let me know.

There are also some new features in your profile to play with, although I haven't had time to look at the overhead of these features so some of them may go.

Let me have any feedback about the templates too - I've had to do most of the reworking from memory and I'm fairly sure I haven't managed to recreate everything as it was before.

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[summerdays]

The bit that says announcements on this thread is trying to hide (like an elephant behind a tree), behind the page numbers.

The bit where we could hit top on each post still isn't back. (I do use this one)

The original post column is still gone. (Doesn't bother me)

and haven't worked out what the new bits are apart from there seems to be something saying Tags on this page... I've never noticed that before.

 

[ColinJ]

Jump menu is back at the top of thread views.

The drop-down box showing Announcements (etc) sits beneath it in Opera v9.61 and IE v7. It used to be okay. Works fine in Firefox 3.0.1 though.

Oops - summerdays already spotted that.

 

[ColinJ]

There seems to be something saying Tags on this page... I've never noticed that before.

I can't remember it either but I just tested it. I've tagged this thread with the tag upgrade. It could be quite a handy feature, though most threads can be found using the normal search function.

I've tagged the other upgrade thread as well. Hmm... quite an interesting feature, but there is a limit of 2 tags which isn't really enough (and is that per user or per thread?). For example, I've been taking part in a thread about sunrise alarm clocks and I'd want to tag that several times e.g. Sunrise alarm, SAD, Winter Blues, Seasonal Affective Disorder.

 

[Shaun]

The bit that says announcements on this thread is trying to hide (like an elephant behind a tree), behind the page numbers.

I've tried to quick-fix this, but the original template code is on my laptop at home, so I'll have a look at this later.

The bit where we could hit top on each post still isn't back. (I do use this one)

Done.

The original post column is still gone. (Doesn't bother me)

You'll need to remind me what/where this is/was?

and haven't worked out what the new bits are apart from there seems to be something saying Tags on this page... I've never noticed that before.

AFAIK this allows you to tag a thread using words you would like to associate with it - useful in making searches more intuitive?

Cheers,
Shaun

 

[Noodley]

Is the upgrade the reason I could not get onto the forum last night?

 

[Shaun]

Is the upgrade the reason I could not get onto the forum last night?

Yes. I closed the forums for several hours last night to complete the upgrade.