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vBulletin 4 changes
As some of you have noticed, there've been some changes made. 
While the Forums seem pretty much to be running OK (outside of a few database problems which seem to have blown over), there are a few features which have vanished with the upgrade and which we're not going to be getting back for the immediate future.
One of these, unfortunately, is the Topic of the Week feature. It has not yet been adapted for vB4. Neither has the vBExperience add-on, the thing that gave us the nifty activity graphs and allowed people to be awarded the cute little medal images for Forum activity. There's no telling when that's going to be ported up either. We are looking for something to replace it in the short term.
Templates: Old ones have gone, new ones are here. I'm in the process of looking over the ones we've installed so far to see which will be best to try to adapt for a look-and-feel like the older main Manual template. (The best candidate right now looks like the "Darkvision" template: it has good banner space up top, and if it can be tweaked to silver, it should work very well.)
Some of the templates are being a little troublesome, however. The StudioStyle template, which looked very promising, refuses to work properly on the front page, and I may remove it.
Also: is anyone else who uses Firefox having trouble with using the template picker at the bottom of each page? I am, and don't know if this is a local issue. The new template should load up and reload the page pretty quickly after you select a different one from the one you're using, but for me in Firefox, the page just sits there. I am not clear whether this has anything to do with content we've added at the bottom of the page (invisibly, after the copyright notice) to make the stats software work correctly. The picker works fine in IE, though.
Any other thoughts about old things missing / new ones behaving strangely? Post them here...
While the Forums seem pretty much to be running OK (outside of a few database problems which seem to have blown over), there are a few features which have vanished with the upgrade and which we're not going to be getting back for the immediate future.
One of these, unfortunately, is the Topic of the Week feature. It has not yet been adapted for vB4. Neither has the vBExperience add-on, the thing that gave us the nifty activity graphs and allowed people to be awarded the cute little medal images for Forum activity. There's no telling when that's going to be ported up either. We are looking for something to replace it in the short term.
Templates: Old ones have gone, new ones are here. I'm in the process of looking over the ones we've installed so far to see which will be best to try to adapt for a look-and-feel like the older main Manual template. (The best candidate right now looks like the "Darkvision" template: it has good banner space up top, and if it can be tweaked to silver, it should work very well.)
Some of the templates are being a little troublesome, however. The StudioStyle template, which looked very promising, refuses to work properly on the front page, and I may remove it.
Also: is anyone else who uses Firefox having trouble with using the template picker at the bottom of each page? I am, and don't know if this is a local issue. The new template should load up and reload the page pretty quickly after you select a different one from the one you're using, but for me in Firefox, the page just sits there. I am not clear whether this has anything to do with content we've added at the bottom of the page (invisibly, after the copyright notice) to make the stats software work correctly. The picker works fine in IE, though.
Any other thoughts about old things missing / new ones behaving strangely? Post them here...
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