Forum Upgrade

[Marvin Hlavac]

Mike, I knew Eric wouldn't take me seriously anyway, so I didn't mind posting the bug report

Eric, I looked around and I couldn't find any problems. The sub-forums thing I didn't even notice. You could ask the guys at vB forum.

Good work!

[Eric Frost]

You guys know this forum has always been garbage
This forum is GARBAGE !!!

>>The sub-forums thing I didn't even notice. You could ask the guys at vB forum.<<

It looks fine to me now.. I know it was a couple or few template modifications.... I figure fewer modifications the better to reduce work when upgrading in the future.

Eric

[Marvin Hlavac]

I enjoyed reading the thread you linked. Some forum owners/admins/mods would be just too quick to delete what they would perceive as an insulting posting. However, your reply is an excellent example how such postings should be answered.

[lfdmike]

Originally Posted by Marvin Hlavac

Mike, I knew Eric wouldn't take me seriously anyway, so I didn't mind posting the bug report

Took me a few glances to figure out how you made a post if you couldn't make a post- musta been haveing my eyes burned out by the monitor again... then I caught on.

[Eric Frost]

I think the forum upgrade is complete! Though I do want to install the Welcome Headers plug-in ( Welcome headers - Improve community registration rates - vBulletin.org Forum ). Marvin suggested it a month and a half ago but I wanted to wait until after this latest round of upgrades was complete.

Installed so far:
vBulletin 3.7 Gold
vBSEO 3.2 RC5
vBSEO Style 1.0 for 3.7 Gold and various template modifications
vBulletin Blog 1.0.5 (from 1.0.0)

Hopefully this will keep it going for a while

Besides the welcome headers, I also want to Introduce and bring attention to the still relatively new Blogs section with a section link on the home page.

By the way, I noticed the Smileys no longer appear randomly, it is a fixed set. I think the bunch that always show up now are not bad so I'll leave it the way it is unless someone objects. Of course you can still get to the rest of the smileys by clicking on the More link.

[Marvin Hlavac]

Eric, you may want to wait a bit with the Welcome Headers add-on. Accidentally I noticed this add-on stopped working on my forum. I never view my forum as a Guest, so I never noticed any problem earlier. The issue may be related to my upgrade to vB 3.7.0, but it may also be related to vBadvanced or something else.

I uninstalled and reinstalled my existing version of Welcome Headers without success. Then I discovered there was a new version 5.xx of Welcome Headers, but that didn't solve my problem. At the end I found out that vB 3.7.0 has it's own feature, called "Notices", which accomplishes the same (and more), but still I'm not able to use the feature properly. It is supposed to display the notices (Welcome Headers) on every page - but in my case I only can view it on my home page.

Eric, my suggestion would be to try to use the built-in "Notices" feature, rather than installing an add-on. Access the feature in your AdminCP => Notices.

I hope it will work for you. I will have to troubleshoot my installation .

[Eric Frost]

Thanks so much for the tip and recommendation, I'll concentrate on promoting the blog feature for now..