Forum Upgrade April 2009 - Further issues.

philnicandamy

MSE_Ian wrote: »

Avatars will not show unless you are logged in.

That bit I know.....I'd been logged in for a few hours when the avatars dissapeared

Edinburghlass_2

I noticed a spell when avatars weren't showing and I was logged in but seems to be okay now/today?

meher

you sure are clever there's a facility to report private messages, thanx @};-

actually I discovered this little button a few days earlier and thought, what a fine job, but just on that one occasion and then it never showed up, so I decided it was my imagination again runnin wild

Not so much of a burning issue but if it's ok to ask why is there a hash before MoneySavingExpert on the contact list pop-up box? I'm pretty positive we never had it before the upgrade.

echo

sending a PM and wanting to put text in bold results not in it changing but you get a B at the start and end of the text.also a U at start and end if you try and underline and same for italics.using FF-not tried in in IE

chaddy7604

Please please please.......................................

When are you going to sort out viewing of peoples personal profiles?

You cant see their avatars..............(not imperative that we need too, but it does say something about the owner)

Worst is you can't see what activity that person is carrying out............(now that is a real issue that seriously does need addressing, especially with the delay between private message posting)

On the subject of PM'ing can you please consider lowering the time limit between posting PM's, the time limit really is annoying for a site like this

shelly

Got my first annoying problem since the upgrade.

Sometimes when I post a reply it logs me out when I hit submit!! Very annoying as then the reply is lost and I have to start over.

Never had this happen before the upgrade, only since.

chaddy7604

Considering it was supposedly a major upgrade can someone please enlighten me to exactly what's changed as an improvement?
I'm afraid I can't really see any change to the forum at all apart from people having issues

I've read somewhere on the site that there are things to be switched on when the core of the upgrade has settled down, but I really am at a loss to see what the upgrade was

loobs40

I have logged out and in again, but I am getting an intermittent problem where when I thank someone for a post I get the message

loobs40, you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:

1. Your user account may not have sufficient privileges to access this page. Are you trying to edit someone else's post, access administrative features or some other privileged system?
2. If you are trying to post, the administrator may have disabled your account, or it may be awaiting activation.

When I go back into the thread, the 'Thanks' has been applied correctly.

Additionally, when I press Thanks and I don't get the error message above, the page refreshes unnecessarily

fermi

chaddy7604 wrote: »

I've read somewhere on the site that there are things to be switched on when the core of the upgrade has settled down, but I really am at a loss to see what the upgrade was

We were on vBulletin version 3.6.5. Now on v3.8.2.

As said previously by the MSE team, they seem to want to get things working more or less as they were first of all.

Changes: 3.6.5 - 3.7.0

There are many new features and improvements to existing functionality in vBulletin 3.7.0 over vBulletin 3.6.x, but here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights.

* Inline spam management & prevention
* Thread tagging
* Search cloud / tag cloud
* Thread prefixes
* Reciprocal friendships between users
* Public visitor messaging on profile pages with 'conversation' feature
* User picture galleries with user comment facility
* User-created social groups with invite only and moderated membership options
* Extended member profile pages
* Customizable member profile pages with admin-controlled styling abilities
* Inline editing of custom user profile fields
* Lightbox viewer for attached images
* Viewable and comparable history maintained for post edits
* Extended re-authentication for inline moderation actions
* Notices system for navigation bar
* Multiple human-verification systems including reCAPTCHA, image verification and Q/A
* User change history
* Social bookmarking integration

Changes: 3.7 - 3.8.x

New Features in 3.8

There are many new features and improvements to existing functionality in vBulletin 3.8.x over vBulletin 3.7.x. Here is a brief list of just a few of the highlights.

* Social group discussions
* Social group categories
* Private message sorting and filtering
* Private message history
* Quick edit for newer types of content (visitor messages and picture comments)
* Social group icons
* Social group transfers
* Private message quick reply
* Private message throttling (limit messages sent over a time period)
* Private message reporting
* Profile privacy (limit blocks to a subset of users)
* Lightbox navigation
* Thread prefix permissions
* Dismissible notices

Edinburghlass_2

chaddy7604 wrote: »

Considering it was supposedly a major upgrade can someone please enlighten me to exactly what's changed as an improvement?
I'm afraid I can't really see any change to the forum at all apart from people having issues

I've read somewhere on the site that there are things to be switched on when the core of the upgrade has settled down, but I really am at a loss to see what the upgrade was

There was never going to be many changes that you would see, it was what they call a back end upgrade which all takes time because of the sheer size of this forum and the special additions that MSE uses. Read what Martin says about it here..

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=20386627&postcount=179

See fermi's post for the more technical reply