Albert Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 The forum software we're currently using is going to be upgraded to IP.Board 3.0 in the next few months. The first beta was released a few days ago and I've setup a test installation here: http://atariage.com/ipb3/ You will need to register for a new account and then you will be able to login and post. The Gallery and Blog modules are not yet included in the Beta, but those will be available soon. Please play around with it as I'm curious what people think. Thanks, ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophero Sly Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 The Gallery and Blog modules are not yet included in the Beta, but those will be available soon. Will we have a chance to play with the Blog module in the test installation before the upgrade goes live? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted December 25, 2008 Author Share Posted December 25, 2008 The Gallery and Blog modules are not yet included in the Beta, but those will be available soon. Will we have a chance to play with the Blog module in the test installation before the upgrade goes live? Yes, very much so. I assume after the holidays that Invision will finish updating the Blog and Gallery modules for IP.Board 3 and make them available for testing. Their plan is to release IP.Board, Blog, Gallery and Downloads at the same time. I will probably be purchasing the Downloads module since it will be very useful for homebrew/hack development. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christophero Sly Posted December 25, 2008 Share Posted December 25, 2008 The Gallery and Blog modules are not yet included in the Beta, but those will be available soon. Will we have a chance to play with the Blog module in the test installation before the upgrade goes live? Yes, very much so. I assume after the holidays that Invision will finish updating the Blog and Gallery modules for IP.Board 3 and make them available for testing. Their plan is to release IP.Board, Blog, Gallery and Downloads at the same time. I will probably be purchasing the Downloads module since it will be very useful for homebrew/hack development. ..Al Excellent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted January 16, 2009 Share Posted January 16, 2009 I am using Windows XP with Firefox. I went to the page. Clicked register and up top it said "Loading..." and froze on me. Will try again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 16, 2009 Author Share Posted January 16, 2009 I am using Windows XP with Firefox. I went to the page. Clicked register and up top it said "Loading..." and froze on me. Will try again. I assume it worked the second time? A new beta should be out soon--I haven't been paying attention to the ongoing development the past few weeks as I've been very busy. Will install the new beta as soon as that's available. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noelio Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Will the general look of this place change or is it a seamless transition? I can't imagine this place getting any better than it already is!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 17, 2009 Author Share Posted January 17, 2009 Will the general look of this place change or is it a seamless transition?I can't imagine this place getting any better than it already is!!! Unclear at this time. The current skin is a royal pain in the neck to maintain, so I may not skin the new forum software quite as extensively. However, the new forum is much easier to skin than the current one, so it may all balance out in the end. I only briefly played around with the skinning tools--I'm waiting for the next beta (which should be out soon) before I spend much time on it. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
yuppicide Posted January 17, 2009 Share Posted January 17, 2009 Oh yes, I got so into posting over there I forgot to come back here. One thing, I hope you can add my test posts to my total postcount. I am using Windows XP with Firefox. I went to the page. Clicked register and up top it said "Loading..." and froze on me. Will try again. I assume it worked the second time? A new beta should be out soon--I haven't been paying attention to the ongoing development the past few weeks as I've been very busy. Will install the new beta as soon as that's available. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 I've just updated the test IP.Board 3.0 forum with Beta 2 of the software: http://atariage.com/ipb3/ If you had created an account before, you'll need to create a new one. Sorry, there was no way to upgrade Beta 1 to Beta 2. If a few people could sign up and post some messages, that would be a big help. Thanks! ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I just registered on the new forum but it won't let me create any new topics. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 I just registered on the new forum but it won't let me create any new topics. Mitch Did you get the registration email? Did you then click the link in the email to complete the registration? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 I manually validated your account--I don't think the regular validation is working for some reason. You should be able to post now. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I just registered on the new forum but it won't let me create any new topics. Mitch Did you get the registration email? Did you then click the link in the email to complete the registration? ..Al Yep and yep. I can login fine, it just says you don't have rights to start a new topic, I suppose I can try replying to the welcome message. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Working now. The new post formatting options are very awkward on there, hopefully that will be cleaned up before it goes live. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Working now. The new post formatting options are very awkward on there, hopefully that will be cleaned up before it goes live. Mitch What do you mean by awkward? If you go into your settings you can enable the RTE editor, which is not the default. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I'm using the default settings and this is what I see. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 This is what you should be seeing: What version of Internet Explorer are you using? ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 That looks much better. I'm using IE6 on the PC I'm on at the moment. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 That looks much better. I'm using IE6 on the PC I'm on at the moment. Mitch I don't think IE6 is going to be very well supported, if at all. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 That looks much better. I'm using IE6 on the PC I'm on at the moment. Mitch I don't think IE6 is going to be very well supported, if at all. ..Al Yes, I've found other stuff not working properly. (quote buttons, etc) I'm a bit surprised that the are abandoning it. It is getting a bit older and I realize it doesn't support all the new bells and whistles but I think more people still use it than most of the non-Microsoft browsers. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Yes, I've found other stuff not working properly. (quote buttons, etc) I'm a bit surprised that the are abandoning it. It is getting a bit older and I realize it doesn't support all the new bells and whistles but I think more people still use it than most of the non-Microsoft browsers. There's been quite a bit of discussion about this on their support forums. IE6 is quite ancient relative to most browsers and I frankly don't blame them for abandoning it. I think they'll try to fix things like what you pointed out (which is obviously horribly broken), but I honestly would not be surprised if they don't. Time to move on to IE7, IE8, Firefox, Safari, Opera, or something else that's considerably more evolved than IE6. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Mitch Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I just tried it with Firefox 1.5 and while I was messing around in the menus it crashed on me. Mitch Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Jentzsch Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Somehow I seem stuck in the validating process now. The valditaing links don't seem to work for me now. I always come to the forum page directly, but I cannot start new or reply to topics Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Albert Posted January 31, 2009 Author Share Posted January 31, 2009 Somehow I seem stuck in the validating process now. The valditaing links don't seem to work for me now. I always come to the forum page directly, but I cannot start new or reply to topics Yeah, something is wrong with the validating process. I need to look in the Invision bug tracker today to see if this is an existing issue, and if not, file some bugs (I've already filed a few for other issues). In the meantime, I am manually validating accounts. ..Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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