It may be a bit of a culture shock, this one. There's quite a few changes, but at heart this is the same system you're used to. So there's no need to panic.
Upgrade to 6.5.1
Firstly, the messageboard software has gone up 6.4.1 to 6.5.1. There are not many changes that users should be aware of. We admins have a funky new control panel. But in terms of the general site, there's a quick reply form on each thread (it saves you loading the reply page) and I think that's about it.
For those that are interested, the full gory details are at:
http://www.ubbcentral.com/support/version.php?product=UBB.threads#6.5.1
Change of style
I've been wanting to make it unfixed width for a while, and here it is. Gone have the vestigtes of old B5TV.COM too, like the header. I'd like to tinker with the style sheets a bit more, to get scalable text, but you now have control over your own style sheet. Go to 'my home', then 'display preferences' and you can choose from a number of pre-supplied style sheets.
Premium members
This is probably the biggest change, and one I should have ideally told the premium members about first: I have removed the premium member status. The reasons are numerous... I haven't let people join in ages, I've not taken any membership fees in ages. The benefits were sketchy, and the site isn't like it used to be anymore. There are three factors though that are important about this: <ul type="square">
[*]I am still massively appreciative of the premium members, and this isn't a dumping of them. I will be sending an email to premium members to explain some of my thoughts a bit more.
[*]I will be adding a status, so that premium members will be labelled as "Founding members".
[*]The whole avatar thing has changed, see below.
[/list] Avatars
Have a field day! You can now upload your own avatar. Choose whatever you want, it doesn't have to B5. The requirements are that it's no more than 100 x 100, and no more than 5k. I think the rule will be no animated graphics, but I am open to discussion on this one. There will be no hard or fast rules on the avatars, just keep them appropriate. The admins reserve the right to ask you to remove an avatar that we don't deem suitable for whatever reason.
There are still a selection of stock photos to choose from.
Tinkering
There's still a few bits I want to do, like get rid of those damn flaming hot topics. But this is mostly it, so any feedback just hit me with it.
Upgrade to 6.5.1
Firstly, the messageboard software has gone up 6.4.1 to 6.5.1. There are not many changes that users should be aware of. We admins have a funky new control panel. But in terms of the general site, there's a quick reply form on each thread (it saves you loading the reply page) and I think that's about it.
For those that are interested, the full gory details are at:http://www.ubbcentral.com/support/version.php?product=UBB.threads#6.5.1
Change of style
I've been wanting to make it unfixed width for a while, and here it is. Gone have the vestigtes of old B5TV.COM too, like the header. I'd like to tinker with the style sheets a bit more, to get scalable text, but you now have control over your own style sheet. Go to 'my home', then 'display preferences' and you can choose from a number of pre-supplied style sheets.
Premium members
This is probably the biggest change, and one I should have ideally told the premium members about first: I have removed the premium member status. The reasons are numerous... I haven't let people join in ages, I've not taken any membership fees in ages. The benefits were sketchy, and the site isn't like it used to be anymore. There are three factors though that are important about this: <ul type="square">
[*]I am still massively appreciative of the premium members, and this isn't a dumping of them. I will be sending an email to premium members to explain some of my thoughts a bit more.
[*]I will be adding a status, so that premium members will be labelled as "Founding members".
[*]The whole avatar thing has changed, see below.
[/list] Avatars
Have a field day! You can now upload your own avatar. Choose whatever you want, it doesn't have to B5. The requirements are that it's no more than 100 x 100, and no more than 5k. I think the rule will be no animated graphics, but I am open to discussion on this one. There will be no hard or fast rules on the avatars, just keep them appropriate. The admins reserve the right to ask you to remove an avatar that we don't deem suitable for whatever reason.
There are still a selection of stock photos to choose from.
Tinkering
There's still a few bits I want to do, like get rid of those damn flaming hot topics. But this is mostly it, so any feedback just hit me with it.
