I've received word of the new upgraded software for the Forums which will be installed next week. (Those changes that refer to the Control Panel only are accessible to the Administrator or Moderators):


Here are the new features for the board. I thought that you would like
to know so you tell your users.

1. Changed the thread pages from being dynamically created each time to
static HTML pages. This should reduce the number of server calls by at
least a third. This also means that all thread pages will be able to be
picked up by the major search engine spiders. The other forum pages are
still dynamically created.

2. Improved the Style variables page of the Control Panel.

3. Added support for UNIX sendmail as an alternative to the current
Sockets approach for the UBB email functions.

4. Added new icons for email, profile, and edit.

5. Improved the "new message" lights and colored folder notification
system.

6. Added user profile info to the user permissions settings in the
Control Panel.

7. Added support for smilies and frowns. Type or and a graphical
representation will be displayed.

8. Removed troublesome "Document.write" statements that were causing
some browsers problems.

9. Condensed code to display equally well on both javascript and non
javascript browsers (though some higher-end functions still require
javascript).

10. Fixed the "edit subject" function in the control panel.

Goody goody! Thanks for the update John! We'll no doubt have a bunch of new stuff to discover.

Rgds,
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/im [Software development rule # 248: adding features creates bugs - this is a not unplanned form of job security! :-) ]

John, Has the upgrade already started?
Had no trouble with lights as long as I signed on through the forum home page.
Signed on today (date and time automatically attached). Saw a whole bunch of light bulbs lit. Went into the first folder (pretty pink), came out and blew the breaker. All of the lights were out and the folders were all yellow.
Using my head (a rare event) I went into the different forums and files, using the dates and times. Anybody else encounter this problem or is it a one time happening from my ISP?

>>John, Has the upgrade already started?

I hope not Fred, cuz if so it didn't fix the the bulb and pink-folder bugs. When I edited my latest post in the 'big room' all the bulbs went on and the folders blushed.

Rgds,
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/im

Not yet, Fred. Probably mid-week.