Mike
Well-Known Member
I'm getting ready to upgrade this site to the latest versions of Invision software. Everything will be upgraded, the forums, the content system and the gallery.
There will be a lot of changes to the forums. There will be social networking links at the bottom of each topic, the ability for Facebook and Twitter visitors to log in with those ID's, those of you with Facebook and Twitter accounts will be able to closely integrate your forum profile and status upgrades with those accounts and vice-versa, there is a new topic preview in the forum display page that works with AJAX and the search function has been completely overhauled. I have already added OpenID log-in capability.
There will be some other changes that may not be wildly popular, but they will be temporary. We're going to lose all but two of the skins for a while, until the skin designers get their skins updated for this new version. I've made some unfortunate discoveries about the young man that developed most of the skins we're using here and I won't be using any of his work in the future.
It's going to take a bit of time to upgrade all three scripts, so the site will likely be closed for a couple of hours. But when the site re-opens, I think everyone will be happy with all the new functionality we are going to have. Just as a teaser, I think we are finally going to have our tech article library as I had hoped.
So be prepared for some downtime and bear with the loss of all the forum skin selections, because things are really going to be much better in the long run.
There will be a lot of changes to the forums. There will be social networking links at the bottom of each topic, the ability for Facebook and Twitter visitors to log in with those ID's, those of you with Facebook and Twitter accounts will be able to closely integrate your forum profile and status upgrades with those accounts and vice-versa, there is a new topic preview in the forum display page that works with AJAX and the search function has been completely overhauled. I have already added OpenID log-in capability.
There will be some other changes that may not be wildly popular, but they will be temporary. We're going to lose all but two of the skins for a while, until the skin designers get their skins updated for this new version. I've made some unfortunate discoveries about the young man that developed most of the skins we're using here and I won't be using any of his work in the future.
It's going to take a bit of time to upgrade all three scripts, so the site will likely be closed for a couple of hours. But when the site re-opens, I think everyone will be happy with all the new functionality we are going to have. Just as a teaser, I think we are finally going to have our tech article library as I had hoped.
So be prepared for some downtime and bear with the loss of all the forum skin selections, because things are really going to be much better in the long run.