twikoff

so.. whats the latest, guys?
any changes to the plans for what will be offered
any new ideas to bounce off us
any idea when the new software will be ready


oh yea.. and I asked in one of the other threads that it was brought up in.. but dont think i got an answer..

does anyone have a link to any page that will list the features and improvements that will come along with the new version of vbulletin. Not just what we will be implementing with the premium membership, but improvements in the board as a whole? Im just curious.

RandyC

One of the key things was the release of the next version of software for this forum.

The latest information is that this is supposed to happen this week.

twikoff

i know we have been waiting for the latest release of the vbulletin software

Im kindof curious to read the new version release notes, to see what all they are fixing/adding..
but havent had alot of luck tracking down that info

RandyC

Here is a review-

http://www.olate.com/articles/16

twikoff

thanks

<small>you can ignore that old dude reference in the extended warranty thread</small>

AndyCapps

Woo Hoo! vB 3.0.0 Gold has finally been released.

http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showt...?postid=632196

twikoff

what?
you mean its been released and we havent switched yet?

whats the holdup??




has there been a dev environment going on.. or is this an update that will be done on the production system and we just hope everything runs smooth?

GeoffK

We're excited to see VB 3 go gold. I'm in talks right now with my server guy on a schedule to do the upgrade (which will NOT be trivial).

We'll have to take the forum offline for a number of hours to do the upgrade so it'll probably be something that happens this weekend, or more realisticlly next weekend.

B.A.

I think we can deal w/ that.

twikoff

Ill be out of town, in the bahamas, between March 31st - April 4th.
Feel free to plan any outages around my schedule

thanks!

B.A.

I'll be in a seminar all day on April 3rd - so if you choose that day you will get a big from me.

twikoff

so BA and I agree, April 3rd it is

B.A.

And that's that with that!

GuessWho

Do it April 1st and just consider it a holiday prank.

Bill Geiger

Geoff, that is great news. Looking forward to supporting the forum (with a premium sub).

fnordboy

ditto

twikoff

in all honesty..
this could be a good idea

on April 1st, the forum is overrun with stupid posts

"STAR WARS DVD COLLECTION COMING OUT!!!!"
"DVDTalk is closing down!!!!"
"Randy hates melons!!!"
etc...

what better day to take some time off.. give the mods a break and kill part of that day

GeoffK

There might be a small delay, before going to VB 3 i am seriously researching a recommendation from one of our mods to consider the invision board software.

One of the issues... I absolutely postivitely HATE the new look of VB3.

Here's the new look:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/index.php?s=

But much worse.... Here's the thread view:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?t=85026

Conversly here is invision board
http://demo.invisionboard.com/

and their thread view:
http://demo.invisionboard.com/index.php?showtopic=1

Arden

Ugg... that's fugly!

So when you upgrade they force you to use the new templates?

I know nothing about vB but it seems that they could allow you to upgrade to the new features and keep your old layout.

shizawn

DVDFILE is using VB3 and its layout is similar to yours. It would appear you would be able to modify it to look very close to what you have now, if not exactly the same way.

I agree the default layout is terrible.

GeoffK

I looked and they are running VB beta 5 which does not have the big style update which is now part of VB3.

I have seen some forums 'hack' the style to look more like VB2
example: http://www.he-man.org/forums/boards/...ad.php?t=91270

But there's a lot about VB3's layout which I'm not crazy about. Also I've been reading reports that upgrading can take DAYS especially for the search index. Yep you read that right DAYS!!

Ranger

The only other forum I stop at is www.oc-forums.com
They recently went to VB3, not sure if it's the beta although it says 2.2.6 so I'm not sure. They added a new color layout and put news stories and articles etc on the side of the forum listing.

But the really great thing is that there is an option in a user's CP to switch back to the old forum skin. Really great.

I think that'd be a big selling point. My suggestion is, if possible, update the top section to 1024x768 (as in moving the logo to the far left not center left and for paid members, let them have the ability to turn off the reviews and headline section. I like the reviews, appreciate the work put in composing them, but IMO people don't want to see them on every page taking up space.

shizawn

Ahh that's weak. Wonder why they'd make such a big change so close to a release.

B.A.

I like the look of the Invision forum over the VB3 - it looks much better and a little more simple.

fnordboy

I don't like the new look of VB either, but before you make the decision to move over to Invision make sure that the conversion process isn't too big of a hassle. You don't want to lose any of the posts already here (well there are a few posts I can think of getting rid of ).

And make sure you have the same control and options you have on VB.

You should be able to mod the VB3 release so it will look almost identical to the current layout.