Software future. A glimpse of what's coming

[ClayEnglish]

IF you have read my other threads you know that the software we use is undergoing a major platform change. Like going from Windows 98 to Windows 7. A pretty big leap in what they are doing.

You would also know that it affects how we look and feel today. While we won't lose any users/threads/pictures/posts etc.. We will lose a lot of the plugins or addons that we use today.

I have been playing with the new version on a different site.

I took our database from Christmas Eve, and upgraded it to the new version on a different site

Keep in mind the "SKIN" is basic. There will be plenty of skins to choose from down the road. Right now it is basic white (default)

If you were a member before Christmas Eve then you will be able to login and look around.

I set this up on a domain name I had called petdiscussion.net

So go to

Ultimate Pet Discussion - The Front Page

The home page is a content management system that I will be able to customize. Click the Forum link on the top Nav Bar to go to forums.

Take a look around. Don't worry about the wall paper and paint Check functionality using the new version

Thank you

[Boa Amarali]

Re: Software future. A glimpse of what's coming

Hey Clay I'm the kind of person who doesn't enjoy too much change. I like
to be accustom to something and feel comfortable navigating.
A couple things I really enjoy is on our present profile page
the navigation provided allows a person to hit the "Statistics Tab"
and pull up all Threads started and all last 500 posts

• Visitor Messages
• About Me
• Statistics
• Friends
• Contact Info
• Blo

It worries me to change the software and format for instance
The Boa think tank

As BoaConstrictor.net it did not thrive nearly as well. I'm sure I
missed something because I was unable to be online very often
for a period there, but it seemed to me
upgrading that Forum didn't work

So naturally I'm concerned here as well.

Hey Clay also I'm curious what will happen with our "Old" Gallery and pictures ? I've been wondering
about this as there is no link available to get to the old galleries on the present Forum.
I just happen to keep all kinds of links so I can still pull mine up

These Galleries here

Home » Member Galleries » Boa Amarali

Boa Amarali Gallery - RedTailBoas.com Member Galleries

Will those galleries still be accessible ?

Will they be transferred over or something else ?


thanks Clay

[Death_ADDER]

Re: Software future. A glimpse of what's coming

Looks great. I will take more time tomorrow and look around.

Steve

[snake77]

Re: Software future. A glimpse of what's coming

One thing I absolutely love about this site that no other has is the fact that you see
when you log in what the newest topics and updated talk is without have to click on
different links. I find myself that constantly clicking to see what is up in this section, then in this section that miss things and really don't get back to it. It works in some
forums that way becuase the are so slow that you don't miss much but we are constantly talking on this one and I think it may be a pain. I like the way you have it set here. it is very easy to navigate through and it is one of a kind.

[ClayEnglish]

Re: Software future. A glimpse of what's coming

Hey Clay I'm the kind of person who doesn't enjoy too much change. I like
to be accustom to something and feel comfortable navigating.
A couple things I really enjoy is on our present profile page
the navigation provided allows a person to hit the "Statistics Tab"
and pull up all Threads started and all last 500 posts

• Visitor Messages
• About Me
• Statistics
• Friends
• Contact Info
• Blo

It worries me to change the software and format for instance
The Boa think tank

As BoaConstrictor.net it did not thrive nearly as well. I'm sure I
missed something because I was unable to be online very often
for a period there, but it seemed to me
upgrading that Forum didn't work

So naturally I'm concerned here as well.

Hey Clay also I'm curious what will happen with our "Old" Gallery and pictures ? I've been wondering
about this as there is no link available to get to the old galleries on the present Forum.
I just happen to keep all kinds of links so I can still pull mine up

These Galleries here

Home » Member Galleries » Boa Amarali

Boa Amarali Gallery - RedTailBoas.com Member Galleries

Will those galleries still be accessible ?

Will they be transferred over or something else ?


thanks Clay

Lar thanks for the great feedback. This is what I am looking for.

Let me try to address your issues.

1st thing. We are not changing software companies. We will be upgrading to their next generation of code.

We will not lose any data, pictures or galleries

Everything you mention is still going to be in the new version.

How we access that information is what I will have to "modify"

The links to quickly find things and the recent stats section on the current RTB site are "mods" These are add-ons that someone wrote to allow users to customize their default installation of Vbulletin

For our current platform version of 3.8 there are
927 Addons
252 Template Modifications


For the new platform version of 4.0 there are
184 Addons
66 Template Modifications

I can tell you that 2 weeks ago there were only 25 addons available for the 4.0 platform. So you can see authors are already working hard to convert their mods to the version 4.0 software.

I believe the mods we currently use will be ported to the new version. It may just take a little while to get them to that point.

On RTBs.com our "Home Page" consists of 8, that's right 8, modifications to the default template settings.

My goal would be to have all of our current mods in place for the new version.

I just don't know when some of them will become available

On the PetDiscussion website you can still get to your Photo Albums and see that they are all still there.

On the forum page, click on Community --> My Albums

The new site would have features added to return our quicklinks to the menu section

Hope this helps understand the process

[RTB_luver]

Re: Software future. A glimpse of what's coming

One thing I absolutely love about this site that no other has is the fact that you see
when you log in what the newest topics and updated talk is without have to click on
different links. I find myself that constantly clicking to see what is up in this section, then in this section that miss things and really don't get back to it. It works in some
forums that way becuase the are so slow that you don't miss much but we are constantly talking on this one and I think it may be a pain. I like the way you have it set here. it is very easy to navigate through and it is one of a kind.

I agree here. It seems nice i only posted once but overall it works good!

[ClayEnglish]

Re: Software future. A glimpse of what's coming

One thing I absolutely love about this site that no other has is the fact that you see
when you log in what the newest topics and updated talk is without have to click on
different links. I find myself that constantly clicking to see what is up in this section, then in this section that miss things and really don't get back to it. It works in some
forums that way becuase the are so slow that you don't miss much but we are constantly talking on this one and I think it may be a pain. I like the way you have it set here. it is very easy to navigate through and it is one of a kind.

It is my goal to have that feature (a mod) in the new version. It is very important to me and most every user.

[jgonzalez305]

Re: Software future. A glimpse of what's coming

Hey Clay I'm the kind of person who doesn't enjoy too much change. I like
to be accustom to something and feel comfortable navigating.
A couple things I really enjoy is on our present profile page
the navigation provided allows a person to hit the "Statistics Tab"
and pull up all Threads started and all last 500 posts

• Visitor Messages
• About Me
• Statistics
• Friends
• Contact Info
• Blo

It worries me to change the software and format for instance
The Boa think tank

As BoaConstrictor.net it did not thrive nearly as well. I'm sure I
missed something because I was unable to be online very often
for a period there, but it seemed to me
upgrading that Forum didn't work

So naturally I'm concerned here as well.

Hey Clay also I'm curious what will happen with our "Old" Gallery and pictures ? I've been wondering
about this as there is no link available to get to the old galleries on the present Forum.
I just happen to keep all kinds of links so I can still pull mine up

These Galleries here

Home » Member Galleries » Boa Amarali

Boa Amarali Gallery - RedTailBoas.com Member Galleries

Will those galleries still be accessible ?

Will they be transferred over or something else ?


thanks Clay

Lar...I just logged in over there and everything is still there...Activity, friends, pictures and even visitor mesgs...just click on your user name

something else I found Cool was that even when you are in regular reply mode....and have not entered anything in the box you can still double click the reply to thread button and get quick reply mode