forums software upgrade

[eFestivals]

There's a new major(ish) version of the forums software, which will be installed sometime in the next 24 hours. The forums will offline while it's installed, hopefully just for around 20 minutes.

For details of the new features and enhancements see here.

Because there's a new layout I think the forum skins will need to be recreated, although hopefully the existing skins will work in the meantime. If they won't then the forums will have to be offline while the new skins are created.

Apologies in advance for any inconvenience while this happens.

[eFestivals]

what I've discovered so far....

1. the forum skins will have to be rebuilt, although I'm hoping I can do this without interrupting the forums for too long.

2. BB code - using special tags within square brackets (for instance, to bold content) - will no long work.

[eFestivals]

Looks like there'll be a delay with the upgrade as there's a lot of changes to the template, so I'll need to get that figured out before I do the upgrade.

[squirrelarmy]

I’m on a different forum which uses the same software. The admin in charge ran into a few difficulties and that site was down for a few days over the weekend. 
 

I’ve not had a full look at the new features yet but it looks nice and shiny once it’s all up and running. 

[eFestivals]

13 hours ago, squirrelarmy said:

I’m on a different forum which uses the same software. The admin in charge ran into a few difficulties and that site was down for a few days over the weekend. 

that's not going to happen here.  

The templates will be created on a test install, and the upgrade won't happen until that's been done.

That might take a while tho, as I'm currently limited in the hours I'm able to work - so everything depends on how quickly I figure things out.

[eFestivals]

I'll be doing the upgrade shortly, and the forums will be offline while I do it. I expect it to take up-to an hour, but hopefully it will be quicker.

The new templates aren't perfect and will be improved as soon as I'm able to, but felt it was more important to get the upgrade done.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

 

[eFestivals]

The upgrade has been carried out, I hope you like the changes.

The first problem I've found is that the menu isn't displaying at the top right when using the mobile view. I'll try to sort that asap.

Please let me know if you discover any issues.

[RarerThanDandyB]

14 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

The upgrade has been carried out, I hope you like the changes.

The first problem I've found is that the menu isn't displaying at the top right when using the mobile view. I'll try to sort that asap.

Please let me know if you discover any issues.

Love it, great work as someone said, it feels fresh but familiar.

One minor thing I have noticed is on my Mac the up vote and down vote logos are covered in a black circle. Dont know whether that is just me but yeah. eFestivals has had a face lift!

[eFestivals]

2 minutes ago, RarerThanDandyB said:

One minor thing I have noticed is on my Mac the up vote and down vote logos are covered in a black circle. Dont know whether that is just me.

it's not doing that on my PC or my tablet and isn't anything I've altered, so my first guess is that it's you.

Please try clearing your browser cache

[eFestivals]

47 minutes ago, eFestivals said:

The first problem I've found is that the menu isn't displaying at the top right when using the mobile view. I'll try to sort that asap.

I've put in place a temporary fix for this, so that it's now displaying. I'll tidy it up another time.

[Mattymooz]

One thing I've noticed is that the navigation bar at the top that shows you what subforums is currently invisible (its still there but its the same colour as the background)

[eFestivals]

well spotted - thanks.

It'll be sorted in a mo.

[eFestivals]

Unfortunately the apps won't be available to use here for the moment.

I'm hoping they'll make a few feature changes so they'll be available some time in the future.

[DareToDibble]

EDIT: Nevermind. My company IT security caused the issue!

Edited September 22, 2020 by DareToDibble