How privileged are we, to have such a thing? Just in case no one had noticed. I have already written one (the urge to get in first) and hope others get writing so I can subscribe to them. There are very few smilies in the blog page, though. Only around ten, I think..
As privileged as lots of other forums on the internet? The new set up is fine...not that hard to find your way about.....but why add new stuff when the stuff we used to have hasn't been reinstalled.....more bloated isn't always necessarily better...just ask Facebook users...and what is that bot starting threads all about? That may be useful in a small forum which is trying to grow...but seems to be a pointless exercise in a forum as busy as this one.
How true is this post!!! ITA... bring back the stuff you took away.... THEN add new features. I checked out the blog section last night and it looks to me to be in direct competition with the forum. Are we trying to attract new readers... or give them something else to do besides read forum posts? Same with the 'bot that's running around posting flamebait threads from the backup forum. One step forward, two steps back. Maybe we should finish one thing before we branch out into another, ya think?
The bot would not be posting anything from the backup forum if people were not still posting there. Stop posting there and the bot will stop.
That's not quite as simple as it sounds, as I understand it. I believe that the new features are generally standard features available in the new version of the software, so just have to be 'activated', whereas some of the old features were non-standard, custom things which had been specifically written to work with the old software, and just don't work with the new version in that form (in other words, they will need to be re-written to be compatible with the new version of the software). It is taking one step at a time - implementing the possibilities that already exist within the new software version, and getting the forum fully up and running and operating correctly on that basis, before attempting to apply custom additions to it (which will each have to go through their own process of creation and troubleshooting).
Should have realised that......had the same problems upgrading from one phpBB forum version to the new "improved" version. Maybe it's just me.....but I've never quite understood why new "improved" versions of just about everything always has to be a complete rewrite entailing removal of everything that was useful in the previous version and the addition of bells and whistles you never had and never missed to the new one.
