New forum format removed avatar & member status

I imagine you were using one of the default avatars provided by the old forum platform. You can upload a new higher resolution avatar in your profile settings. I doubt any of the user status titles are set in stone, so hang tight while the finer details are worked out.

Aye, it's not just you (about the disappearing menu). I have that problem too and the developers are aware of it.

Poppa Bear, I'm glad you found your away around uploading a new avatar. We can now use larger and better looking pictures. Only custom avatars were imported from vBulletin. The other (mostly low-res) ones were left on the older platform to die.

As for user titles, I spent some time setting those up from scratch on Xenforo and I really have no idea why those aren't working by default. Xenforo has a more advanced (and complex) trophy point system which I will try to learn more about in the coming days. It seems a really cool reward system for those users who participate a lot or keep coming back to TechSpot. But going back to your question about titles, don't worry, that will be fixed very very soon.

Here's a status message I just posted on another thread regarding our forum move:

We did try a thumbs up thumbs down thing a while ago, and it didn't go over as expected. I was a big supporter of it though because I think it forces people to think a bit more about what they are posting. We have a lot of different members now so maybe it will work better. It also is less of a 'new' concept now. I think Digg was about the only major site doing something like this (well reddit too, but reddit was small then). I see it in almost every forum I visit now, so its working in other places, maybe it can work here.

Those with the disappearing menu, can you please tell me which browser are you using?

The like system comes by default on Xenforo and we hope we can make the most of it. However this is different than what we tried with vBulletin a few years back. Then we had a "reputation" system, which affected to a extent your profile "score or credibility", the like system is simpler, works on a per post basis, and at least for now doesn't have votes down, just up to mark stuff that you like.

I've upgraded my avatar with the board upgrade. Now instead of black and white, I got a color one (same dude). But I couldn't find the exact same pose to screen capture....

As was said above, the ranks aren't working right/fully implemented at the moment. You haven't been permanently "demoted" or anything.

I didn't want any image of him, I wanted an image of him swiping his beard, like the one I had before. But the one I had before was low res (as per the old board's rules), so it got pixelated when stretched. So I fired up KBv2 (he is not in the first one) and found one I wanted.