Ron Earp
Admin
A New Forum - with teething troubles......
Dear Folks,
The migration to the new forum software is coming off pretty well, considering. In the 11th hour Al Hirsbrunner (meet your new Gt40s.com moderator and Admin!) sent in some of his research on forums and the software he'd investigated was a bit better than the stuff I was going with. So, we looked into it and everything was a go. We were able to get a programmer to help with migration (one is needed, the old forum has TOO much custom stuff to make it work) at an affordable rate and he's working on some of the larger issues while Al and I work on the other things we can handle.
At any rate, there are a lot of issues that are not resolved so please have a look at these before you fire off an email to your trusty admin:
*On the old forum users had a Display Name which was shown near their posts. On this forum it seems there is only a Login name and that is what is displayed. We might have lost the Display Name feature on the old forum, or the info might have been lost in migration. We're working on this - could be tough and we have to live with it. Folks that are now upset that their "Real Name" is showing up - not much I can do short of deleting you. We hope to have some sort of fix, but there was little that could be done on this one. It was an add in feature, like everything on the old board, and was not easily importable. I don't like being "rlearp" any more than you like being "sexybluesmurf", but you picked it, we're sort of stuck here.
*To subscribe to the user support groups like Gold, Silver, Bronze or to buy a Crystal one needs to go to their own User CP and have a look at groups you can join. I hope to have a button for it shortly when I get to making it.
*Gallery is NOT up yet, when it is you'll be able to upload photos.
*Check your PMs in your User CP - likey it is full due to migration glitch and you need to delete everything out and clean house. Until it is not full you cannot receive new ones.
*Colors - all buggered up but Al has a plan.......
*New forums will be added for some cars and some old forums consolidated with others
*User flags all messed up for forum supporters, we'll get it going. I'll also be adding Gold supporters for crystal buyers.
There are always postive and negative aspects of a new forum, but all in all, I'm happy with this one. Sure, there are bugs, but we'll work through them and get it handled - mostly. Some we might have to live with or get over.
And lastly, EXPLORE! There are a lot of new features on this board like referrals, printable formats, ratings, email notifications, tracking, reputations, online notification (useful for coming chat), summary on mouse over, etc. - click anything you see and investigate what it does or where it takes you.
Ron
Dear Folks,
The migration to the new forum software is coming off pretty well, considering. In the 11th hour Al Hirsbrunner (meet your new Gt40s.com moderator and Admin!) sent in some of his research on forums and the software he'd investigated was a bit better than the stuff I was going with. So, we looked into it and everything was a go. We were able to get a programmer to help with migration (one is needed, the old forum has TOO much custom stuff to make it work) at an affordable rate and he's working on some of the larger issues while Al and I work on the other things we can handle.
At any rate, there are a lot of issues that are not resolved so please have a look at these before you fire off an email to your trusty admin:
*On the old forum users had a Display Name which was shown near their posts. On this forum it seems there is only a Login name and that is what is displayed. We might have lost the Display Name feature on the old forum, or the info might have been lost in migration. We're working on this - could be tough and we have to live with it. Folks that are now upset that their "Real Name" is showing up - not much I can do short of deleting you. We hope to have some sort of fix, but there was little that could be done on this one. It was an add in feature, like everything on the old board, and was not easily importable. I don't like being "rlearp" any more than you like being "sexybluesmurf", but you picked it, we're sort of stuck here.
*To subscribe to the user support groups like Gold, Silver, Bronze or to buy a Crystal one needs to go to their own User CP and have a look at groups you can join. I hope to have a button for it shortly when I get to making it.
*Gallery is NOT up yet, when it is you'll be able to upload photos.
*Check your PMs in your User CP - likey it is full due to migration glitch and you need to delete everything out and clean house. Until it is not full you cannot receive new ones.
*Colors - all buggered up but Al has a plan.......
*New forums will be added for some cars and some old forums consolidated with others
*User flags all messed up for forum supporters, we'll get it going. I'll also be adding Gold supporters for crystal buyers.
There are always postive and negative aspects of a new forum, but all in all, I'm happy with this one. Sure, there are bugs, but we'll work through them and get it handled - mostly. Some we might have to live with or get over.
And lastly, EXPLORE! There are a lot of new features on this board like referrals, printable formats, ratings, email notifications, tracking, reputations, online notification (useful for coming chat), summary on mouse over, etc. - click anything you see and investigate what it does or where it takes you.
Ron
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