Important!! User Account Passwords & Bug Reports

[TeaLeaf]

PASSWORDS
The forum upgrade did not correctly transfer passwords for user accounts. ALL USERS are requested to reset their password by using the in-built password recovery facility. This will prompt an email to your registered email address containing a url link which you must then click on to verify that the server should reset your password. The reset password will then be sent to you in a SECOND EMAIL.

BUG REPORTS
The forum upgrade went relatively smoothly for such a massive forum, but amongst the 135,000 posts and hundred or so forum topics we are bound to have made a mistake or two in forum permissions etc. If you spot ANY errors please PM a detailed bug report to me immediately and we will attend to it ASAP.

AVATAR UPLOADS
Members will need to upload their avatars again as the migration process did not transfer these correctly and caused a crash when we tried to include them.

USER CP
You will need to go to your User CP and Edit Options make updates and changes to your preferred default settings as the import will not have transferred all settings correctly. Primarily you might want to make sure that you correct your Signature, and re-upload Avatars and make sure that you have ENABLED the private messaging system.

TWEAKING
The forum software is new and whilst the upgrade took 9 hours there is still much work to do to bring some of the visual niceties back to life! Please bear with us whilst we make the cosmetic changes to your new forum and if you think we have missed something then please PM me and we'll take a look and see if it is a deliberate change or something that we need to act upon.

Thank you.

TL.

[Anonymous]

You may also have to empty your private message folder. I had deleted all my PMs on the old bulletin board buyt the migration brought 276 back so my inbox was alsmost full. Go check people

[TeaLeaf]

Yep, it appears that IPB only soft-deleted PMs and never *reall* deleted them.  So please go empty your mail boxes!

TL.

[Anonymous]

PS, Nice job fellas. On behalf of the whole community many thanks for giving up your saturday to do this. :worship::cheers::dmw: oh what the hell :hapbday:too

[KKND]

Great thnx to all that have work on this:toast:

[Whitey]

Nice works chaps

[Bastet]

Well done !

[Gorion]

nicely done, looks a bit wierd than the other forum tho

[Bob]

Looks like you've done a great job with the transfer to the new forum.  Apart from some modification of the links in my signature, everything else seems to work just great :worship:


However, there are just a few small "issues" that I would like to comment on - some stuff that I miss from the old forum.
If it's possible to implement here as well I don't know, but I thought it wouldn't help to share my thoughts ^_^

• On the last forum, there was a very good division between the sticky threads and the normal threads.  This is now gone.

In my oppinion, it was very usefull the way it was earlier where you instantly could see what threads were sticky and which one not, due to that nice separate "frame" they were placed in

• The bread crumbs list (the thingy that shows you where you are atm in the forum hierarchy) is now only placed on top of the page.  That does so that when I have read to the bottom of the page I need to scroll all the way back up again to be able to click it.

Earlier you could also find it at the bottom, which made it very easy to navigate out of the thread and back to the forum you came from when done reading/posting in it.
Yes, I know you can just as easily use back button in your browser, but that will make those icons showing what threads have new posts and so on not update properly

• When reading and replying to a thread, you can now only quote a single post at a time.

Earlier you had the possibility to mark and quote several posts at once, which I think is a major advantage.

• I also miss the feature "Mark this forum as read", cause sometimes there is a small bug that makes a forum show as containing threads with new posts even when you've read 'em all.

If anything of what I've said here is wrond in any way, please bear with me.  It's pretty late, and I'm both tired and a bit drunk as well

[Neff]

Looks like you've done a great job with the transfer to the new forum.  Apart from some modification of the links in my signature, everything else seems to work just great :worship:


However, there are just a few small "issues" that I would like to comment on - some stuff that I miss from the old forum.
If it's possible to implement here as well I don't know, but I thought it wouldn't help to share my thoughts ^_^

• On the last forum, there was a very good division between the sticky threads and the normal threads.  This is now gone.

In my oppinion, it was very usefull the way it was earlier where you instantly could see what threads were sticky and which one not, due to that nice separate "frame" they were placed in

• The bread crumbs list (the thingy that shows you where you are atm in the forum hierarchy) is now only placed on top of the page.  That does so that when I have read to the bottom of the page I need to scroll all the way back up again to be able to click it.

Earlier you could also find it at the bottom, which made it very easy to navigate out of the thread and back to the forum you came from when done reading/posting in it.
Yes, I know you can just as easily use back button in your browser, but that will make those icons showing what threads have new posts and so on not update properly

• When reading and replying to a thread, you can now only quote a single post at a time.

Earlier you had the possibility to mark and quote several posts at once, which I think is a major advantage.

• I also miss the feature "Mark this forum as read", cause sometimes there is a small bug that makes a forum show as containing threads with new posts even when you've read 'em all.

If anything of what I've said here is wrond in any way, please bear with me.  It's pretty late, and I'm both tired and a bit drunk as well

I agree with every point here. But mostly i think the forum is messy, it lacks the clean-ness. It was way easier to find new threads at the old forum. And wich threads were dead, and wich had posts in them and wich were stickied was much easier to see on the old one. But still, good job

[Anonymous]

• I also miss the feature "Mark this forum as read", cause sometimes there is a small bug that makes a forum show as containing threads with new posts even when you've read 'em all.

Select "Quick Links" from the menu bar, the second option on the popup menu is "Mark Forums Read". I too liked the ease of access to to that command in the old forum so to compensate I have a shortcut on my desktop now to th "Mark forums reads" command. If you want to do it the URL is :

http://www.deadmen.co.uk/forum/forumdisplay.php?do=markread

[TeaLeaf]

The current look is the default template for the forum.  It has not yet had any 'design effort' put into it, the role yesterday was simply to complete the migration which we did.  You'll need to hold on for 4-8 weeks minimum I suspect whilst we complete the customisation, most of which we haven't even started yet.  Different colour schemes, buttons etc can make the 'look' seem cleaner, the division between read and unread or stickied and non-stickied seem so much clearer, so this is not the look we aim to stick with for the future.  We can't promise that we'll make it 'perfect' for everyone, but it will be changing.

TL.

[Armitage]

forum looks good.
 
But i have no access to any of the wow stuff.

[DogMeat]

Logout.  Why the dialogue box confirmation? Of course I want to log out - that's why I clicked on "Logout".  I don't need another box asking me if I'm sure...

[Anonymous]

I don't need another box asking me if I'm sure...

Yes you do. You know what your like ^_^