New forums. New features.

[Sandman[SA]]

As you may have already noticed, this new forum is the cutting edge for SMF.  Version 2.0.4 as of this post.  And it does have a few new features.  Example, like our old forum, you can increase and decrease the size of the post box by clicking on the plus and minus buttons toward the lower left of the post box.  On this forum, you can just drag the bottom of the post box to the size you want.  Another feature that we had in the old forum was the youtube bbc code.  Here, you just post the youtube link and the forum does the rest.

You may have also noticed that the spell checker is gone now.  #1, the required module needed for this is Linux only.  #2, Most browsers these days already have a built in spell checker.

Also, the steam app is gone as well...... for now.  It appears that it's supported by PHP 5.1.0 or better.  I have PHP 4.4.4  Maybe in the future when I learn more about MySQL and PHP server, I will upgrade.  But for now, I'm doing the best that I can.

[Jasmine]

Welcome in the new forum.

the forum go fast to. nice. don Sandman

[Sandman[SA]]

Welcome in the new forum.

Indeed, welcome everyone.

the forum go fast to. nice. don Sandman

Thanks Jasmine.  It's always nice to hear a compliment.

[Sandman[SA]]

Installed advanced recent posts mod yesterday but didn't notice that I needed to adjust the color values to match this theme until I saw the forums in firefox today.  Should look like it belongs here now.

[Sandman[SA]]

If anyone is having a problem signing up on the new forum, please PM or E-Mail me ASAP.  The new Stop Forum Spam plugin appears to have red flagged a few legit users so far.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

Some mods might have to be ironed out so of course there might be bugs at first (Sandman Skype me after 9pm about the SFS mod. I have a meeting before that).

[Sandman[SA]]

Thanks to Kaboom's help, I have replaced stop forum spam with stop spammer.  This other plugin will give admins the ability to approve or disapprove registrations that got red flagged.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

Glad I could help

[BadAttitude]

Seems to work fine for me.

[Sandman[SA]]

Glad you made it and I hope you like it.  There are plenty of cool features coming here soon only I don't know if we will be able to get the arcade back yet.

[Sandman[SA]]

Okay, I finally got the shoutbox where I wanted it and added the smilies bar for it.  Let me know what you think of it so far.

[Professor Panopticon]

I miss the jetpacking smiley. And the gorge.

[Sandman[SA]]

I miss the jetpacking smiley. And the gorge.

Indeed. I need to get around to recovering them.  Now where did I put them?   




By the way.  In order for me to get plugins like the arcade and the steam profile things here, it would require my to upgrade PHP and MySQL modules.  Only problem is, I am not very good at that kind of stuff.  It took me weeks just to learn how to enable the sendmail module.  As it is, this forum is running on the absolute bare minimum requirements for smf 2.0.  So unless anyone here can offer up some help to do this kind of upgrade, it may take a good while before I am ready to attempt it on my own.

[KT 💣 KλBoƠM]

I see you are getting a lot done! Nice !

I am in the same boat Sandman. I don't know a lot of that stuff and because our host shutting down we are forced into a sort of crash course of sorts. But you are doing way better than me. My links are still all broken on mine and I still need to learn which to do on mine ... moving forum over and adding database, or installing forum and adding in database.

can't believe how easy 2.0.5 is to use. If I move from 1.+ to 2.+ I wouldn't be able to use my current theme. You are lucky your author continued support for yours.

[Sandman[SA]]

I see you are getting a lot done! Nice !

Thanks.  It turned out to be more work then I expected.  Especially since a lot of these plugins say they support SMF 2.0, they really mean one of the pre-gold releases.  They do work but require manual install.  They really need more support over there to catch up.

I am in the same boat Sandman. I don't know a lot of that stuff and because our host shutting down we are forced into a sort of crash course of sorts. But you are doing way better than me. My links are still all broken on mine and I still need to learn which to do on mine ... moving forum over and adding database, or installing forum and adding in database.

It depends really.  But if your sticking with 1.1.x, you can install a fresh one, update it, then upload your theme's and other files and DB.  If your planning on 2.0.x, then your going to need a DB converter which you should be able to find on SMF site.  Either way, you will lose the arcade in the process and will have to reinstall it.

can't believe how easy 2.0.5 is to use. If I move from 1.+ to 2.+ I wouldn't be able to use my current theme. You are lucky your author continued support for yours.

Yeah, I did get lucky in that respect.  It may look the same but it's changed quite a bit code wise.