DARK SHADOWS FORUMS

General Discussions => Testing. 1, 2, 3... => Topic started by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 01, 2004, 09:52:45 PM

Title: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 01, 2004, 09:52:45 PM: We've upgraded to SMF 1.0 RC2(Release Candidate 2) today and you'll notice many changes in several features. However, everything isn't quite in place yet, and it will probably be a few days before everything is up to speed. So, if you notice that something seems to be working oddly, don't worry. (http://www.dsboards.com/dsb05/Smileys/smlyb.gif) As soon as everything is in place, we'll explain all the changes and new features.

Also, in honor of the system switch, we've introduced a completely new look for the forum - but you've probably already noticed that. (http://www.dsboards.com/dsb05/Smileys/winkb.gif)
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Gothick on November 01, 2004, 10:45:01 PM: How sleek and sexy it looks in here; reminds me of another show from the Sixties I sometimes enjoy revisiting, UFO (a 1969-70 production from Gerry and Sylvia Anderson). I almost expect to see Midnite show up at a big clunky Sixties style console wearing a purple wig!

I just tried out the "read replies to recent posts from you" feature, and although the sort it produced seemed a bit odd, it was fun to find stuff I had missed. I'm too fatigued at the moment to investigate further.

Kudoes and bows to the mysterious labors of the Mysterioso Darling!

Steve
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Mark Rainey on November 02, 2004, 12:23:29 AM: Hmm. So what's supposed to look different?

;)

<ducking>
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Bette on November 02, 2004, 01:07:12 AM: Wow, I love the new look ;D

Great job, MB.

Much as I like Halloween, I'm glad it's over and we finally do not have to look at all that orange too. :P (Sorry, Midnite)

Bette
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Heather on November 02, 2004, 01:58:46 AM: Wow... Absolutely fantastic, darlings! I LOVE the new look! And everything seems okay so far... ;) Great job! :-* :-*[/size]
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Connie on November 02, 2004, 02:29:24 AM: Whoa! Nice blues. Who chose the colors on here? Very tasteful combination. {Applause, applause}

NOW.....if only the wavy smileys would come back my life would be complete.
(yeah...right)

;D ;D ;D

Hey, and I just noticed the colors go well with my all-important sig line filler. ;)
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: ClaudeNorth on November 02, 2004, 02:32:02 AM: As Edina Monsoon would say, "Clean lines and surfaces!" And as Patsy Stone would say, "Simplicity and utility."

Cheers!

Jean-Claude
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: michael c on November 02, 2004, 02:55:16 AM: the new board looks great...i thought i was hallucinating when i logged on.i'm still getting the skeletal smilies from halloween, are they permanant guests?
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 02, 2004, 03:15:26 AM: Quote from: mscbryk on November 02, 2004, 02:55:16 AM
i'm still getting the skeletal smilies from halloween, are they permanant guests?

No, I just haven't uploaded the regular smileys yet.

And speaking of smileys, as soon as I get the chance to add them to the system, all the missing smileys will be available again.
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: victoriawinters on November 02, 2004, 04:38:58 AM: I'm rather partial to the skelton smilies and the "new" icon. They are so goth and hope we can just add the extra ones.
(http://home.pacbell.net/cbsbiz/Victoriaquill.gif)
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Gerard on November 02, 2004, 04:41:11 AM: It looks incredible! Wonderful job!

Gerard
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: TERRY308 on November 02, 2004, 04:42:35 AM: WOW! A round of appauses. This is wonderful. MB, you did it again.
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Heather on November 02, 2004, 05:21:28 AM: Quote from: Mysterious Benefactor on November 02, 2004, 03:15:26 AM
And speaking of smileys, as soon as I get the chance to add them to the system, all the missing smileys will be available again.

Hoorah...scrumdidliumptious! Most Excellent... >:D
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Mary on November 02, 2004, 07:38:32 AM: Wow! This is great! (Although I kinda miss the floating Roger Davises grabbing their hair -- LOL! ;))
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: vampire675 on November 04, 2004, 04:04:18 PM: Is it just my little web browser, or my eyesight, but the opening page came out white printing on white background, which is impossible to read.

vampire 675
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 05, 2004, 12:53:24 AM: Quote from: vampire675 on November 04, 2004, 04:04:18 PM
the opening page came out white printing on white background, which is impossible to read.

Yes, that certainly would be impossible to read, vampire675. However, I'm not sure why it would be displaying for you like that. What you should be seeing is something similar to this:

(http://www.dsboards.com/images/snapshot.jpg)

If you were using an older browser that doesn't support cascading style sheet code, I could see where what you describe could happen. But if that was the case, then none of the forum's pages would display correctly - and that's apparently not the case because you were able to post.

All of the RC2 scripts aren't in place yet (some still need to be modified). Hopefully once they're up and running it will fix the problem for you. :)
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: vampire675 on November 05, 2004, 04:18:52 PM: Thanks, MB.
I have the old Webtv Classic browser, which does limit my abiity to surf the net. It can't read Java or Adobe or some of the new Flash languages, so I am gradually losing a few websites that upgrade. I guess eventually I will have to break down and invest in a laptop or some such.
Hope all celebrated Halloween or Samhain with a good viewing of the DS episodes on DVD or VHS.

An old DS fan, vampire675
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Mysterious Benefactor on November 10, 2004, 06:17:51 AM: Just found out that the latest upgrade to the system was just released. So, your experience with RC2 might be very short lived because I'm downloading the new version right now and I'll be installing it as soon as I can modify it for our purposes, which hopefully won't take very long. ;)
Title: Re: ** Upgraded Today!! **
Post by: Midnite on November 14, 2004, 06:18:08 AM: Quote from: vampire675 on November 04, 2004, 04:04:18 PM
Is it just my little web browser, or my eyesight, but the opening page came out white printing on white background, which is impossible to read.

It's definitely not your eyesight, vampire675. I also don't think it's a problem limited to your browser because I saw something similar while using Explorer: The graphics and text on the home page loaded but the background was totally white, with nothing to separate the different boards. When I clicked on one of the boards everything on that next page was normal, and when I used the back key to return to the home page it loaded correctly that time.

Hard as I tried I wasn't been able to duplicate this since then, which I guess is a good thing though in hindsight I should've taken a screen grab to show MB. :- But other weird things have happened to other features when I visit using IE so I can't say I'm surprised, and nothing like what you've described has EVER happened in the many times I've come here using Netscape.