I know a good techsite that you could use

I'd say this is the important part

If Julio is doing it on his own, and running a entire tech forum, and updating his own website. Then he should be commended on this. Maybe he should outsource a bit more to some support members.

Yay new forums look whoo!!!

I like the new look for the forums

Wow a lot happens around here in a couple of hours!

Thumbs Up on the new look

The forums look great.

I'm glad you like the change. As always, this may get sometime to get used to, but so far, so good

You should know that besides the obvious visual changes, I have updated our forum backend to the latest version available. A ton of improvements both in the admin and the end-user side have now become available with this update.

I tried to make the transition as painless as possible by accommodating all of our custom changes to the new version but please if you find any errors let me know.

While I still have to go through all new options in this new version of vBulletin, some stuff that has been added from the top of my mind...

* Thread tagging is now available
* User profiles and its functionality has been expanded... think of social networking features, friends, public messages, etc.
* vB now comes with a built-in gallery but we are sticking with our previous gallery that is more feature rich.
* Control over signatures and BB code can now be enforced easily from the admin panel, so you will notice your color and other special tags have been disabled. This is something we have wanted to do for some time now.
* There's likely at least a few more cool new options but that's all I can come up with at 7am with no sleep as of yet...

Enjoy and thanks for your support.

Well done.

Also, I understand that you are still getting things sorted, so that's ok
But just a quick noticeable issue.
On replying to members I do not have the Internet link button (on the reply toolbar)
So to give others links, I must actually display the entire link, instead of using it in the text.

Color was another issue. Text color is also (presently) gone

Thanks for the feedback.
I skipped on link BB code accidentally, color in the other hand will be disabled permanently, just not needed.

Oh really ? There are many posts that used color in support replies. I believe this made it clearer to understand in some cases. Any chance on getting color back?

We need color in the security section. It helps to sort sections of post when giving somebody 6 different sets of instructions then it helps to identify where one set of instructions end and where the next begins. I hope that you reconsider as it took me a very long time to make all of my canned speeches and they are all color coded with bbcode

Regards,

BD


Edit: (eg. http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthrea...599#post638599 )

And some of the past replies in the other sections too with
colors used are now a bit wacked.

hard to read & confusing.I hope we can still have the text color feature back.

like Blind Dragon said,he uses canned speeches in responding to a victim
which is a very useful tool in giving a guide,saves lots of time & typing.
some of them are critical & must be color coded to separate it from a normal text.

likewise if he has a ton of that canned
speeches then he must edit them all over again.

Damn Julio...you're the man. I didn't think you'll get to the forums so soon. I was thinking a few weeks or so. Good Job!

I agree with the color...sometimes a clean layout to explanations, such as color coding, help readers follow instructions a bit better.

I found a post while browsing around and it appears with the Forum update member e-mail addresses are exposed.

http://www.techspot.com/vb/showthrea...d=1#post639027

I just wanted to bring this up since we're 'on the topic'.

Per your request, colors have been added back. As long as those are not abused too much I think it will be fine.

I have also corrected the email functionality setting so your addresses are no longer compromised.

Thank-you (woops sorry)

Thank you sir!

It's clean looking! And the buttons are pretty! (Simple-minded statement of the day)

lol Good job Julio. I woke up to this and was like: "Wha-wha-wha-wha-what?"

Thanks Julio,

over all,very nice & neat.


turbo1

The new forums are a pleasant change from the old ones.
Props to Julio and team for all the great work.

Thank you, and I hope they are not abused as well