We're upgrading to vBulletin 4 today. As well as keeping current with the latest version of vBulletin, this will allow us some flexibility in adding new features - and, at long last, a mobile skin. The mobile skin will be worked on after we have the standard install stabilized.
The standard skin is not entirely complete. It's mostly there, but we will be tweaking it. Please post up suggestions here.
It is inevitable that there will be bugs. We will fix them. Please post up bug reports here.
Sound good? People bitching about change because it's change will be ignored. People bitching about appearance or functionality with good cause will be considered.
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Current status [Updated 10/13]:
Fixed issues:
- Multi-quote: FIXED. Works the same way the old one did: check off as many posts as you want, then click "reply with quote" on any one of them.
- Classifieds 404 errors: FIXED. Some links in the classifieds, including the login box, generated 404 errors. These have been corrected.
- New Posts navigation link: FIXED. The sub-navigation bar remains when clicking the "New Posts" link.
- News Ticker: FIXED. A few of the images were not being embedded correctly when posting news articles.
- Attachments: FIXED. There were multiple problems with attachments - embedding didn't work past a certain size, thumbnails were huge, the checkbox to attach an image from a URL directly (which was checked by default). These have been corrected and the checkbox removed (we locally cache a copy anyway so it wasn't necessary).
- Classifieds sub-navigation: FIXED. The sub-navigation bar that has the "what's new" entry among others has been restored.
Open issues:
- List classifieds by user: OPEN. The sub-menu that used to appear when clicking on a username, which allowed you to list all classifieds by a user, is missing.
- NSFW tags: OPEN. On some mobile browsers, the NSFW tags don't operate normally. I will be looking into this.
- Visual issues: OPEN. The VB4 fonts/skins/icons were modified for our color scheme but there are a number of small issues with them. We will be modifying these and trying to improve the readability and the spacing.
Closed issues:
- User CP missing: CLOSED. User CP is now "Settings." We will not be renaming it back to User CP.
- User rep button missing: CLOSED. The rep button is the little sheriff star. We may change this but it is fine for now.
- Narrow format: CLOSED. This is not new, and there are a number of reasons why we do not have a widescreen layout. We may consider it in the future but we are staying with this layout for the time being.
- View Single Post change: CLOSED. The old "view single post" linked you to a post with no context. The new one links you to a post within the thread. I believe this is more functional and have had some agreement so for now, we will stick with this.
The standard skin is not entirely complete. It's mostly there, but we will be tweaking it. Please post up suggestions here.
It is inevitable that there will be bugs. We will fix them. Please post up bug reports here.
Sound good? People bitching about change because it's change will be ignored. People bitching about appearance or functionality with good cause will be considered.
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Current status [Updated 10/13]:
Fixed issues:
- Multi-quote: FIXED. Works the same way the old one did: check off as many posts as you want, then click "reply with quote" on any one of them.
- Classifieds 404 errors: FIXED. Some links in the classifieds, including the login box, generated 404 errors. These have been corrected.
- New Posts navigation link: FIXED. The sub-navigation bar remains when clicking the "New Posts" link.
- News Ticker: FIXED. A few of the images were not being embedded correctly when posting news articles.
- Attachments: FIXED. There were multiple problems with attachments - embedding didn't work past a certain size, thumbnails were huge, the checkbox to attach an image from a URL directly (which was checked by default). These have been corrected and the checkbox removed (we locally cache a copy anyway so it wasn't necessary).
- Classifieds sub-navigation: FIXED. The sub-navigation bar that has the "what's new" entry among others has been restored.
Open issues:
- List classifieds by user: OPEN. The sub-menu that used to appear when clicking on a username, which allowed you to list all classifieds by a user, is missing.
- NSFW tags: OPEN. On some mobile browsers, the NSFW tags don't operate normally. I will be looking into this.
- Visual issues: OPEN. The VB4 fonts/skins/icons were modified for our color scheme but there are a number of small issues with them. We will be modifying these and trying to improve the readability and the spacing.
Closed issues:
- User CP missing: CLOSED. User CP is now "Settings." We will not be renaming it back to User CP.
- User rep button missing: CLOSED. The rep button is the little sheriff star. We may change this but it is fine for now.
- Narrow format: CLOSED. This is not new, and there are a number of reasons why we do not have a widescreen layout. We may consider it in the future but we are staying with this layout for the time being.
- View Single Post change: CLOSED. The old "view single post" linked you to a post with no context. The new one links you to a post within the thread. I believe this is more functional and have had some agreement so for now, we will stick with this.
