03-27-2011, 05:52 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-12-2011, 12:29 AM by kgasso. Edited 34 times in total.)
Hi everyone,
I've completed an upgrade of the forum to a different software package. The main reason for the change was that the old software (phpBB) was becoming unmaintainable with the modifications we used; upgrades to the software would consistently break, since the mods required changes to the core software code. Upgrades were becoming a nightmare due to having to manually merge changes to many core files in the phpBB codebase. This is, unfortunately, just the way that phpBB works. The new software (MyBB) actually supports plugin hooks, so the modifications are completely separate from the main codebase. This means upgrades don't break the mods, and even if they do, the forum still works -- just without the modification.
The old themes and templates from phpBB don't work with MyBB, which is why things look different. I'd like to hear your thoughts on any display issues so I can work them out.
This is the list of currently known issues; I'll keep it updated as things are worked on:
If you notice anything else, please drop a line in this thread and I'll take a look.
Thanks!
-Kameron
I've completed an upgrade of the forum to a different software package. The main reason for the change was that the old software (phpBB) was becoming unmaintainable with the modifications we used; upgrades to the software would consistently break, since the mods required changes to the core software code. Upgrades were becoming a nightmare due to having to manually merge changes to many core files in the phpBB codebase. This is, unfortunately, just the way that phpBB works. The new software (MyBB) actually supports plugin hooks, so the modifications are completely separate from the main codebase. This means upgrades don't break the mods, and even if they do, the forum still works -- just without the modification.
The old themes and templates from phpBB don't work with MyBB, which is why things look different. I'd like to hear your thoughts on any display issues so I can work them out.
This is the list of currently known issues; I'll keep it updated as things are worked on:
- FIXED: Some avatars and profile fields haven't been migrated or migrated incorrectly (birthdates, locations, interests, etc.)
- Some of the imported posts have inconsistent formatting (YouTube videos, broken links/images, broken lists).
- FIXED, NEEDS REFINEMENT: Some of the per-forum "Rules" (for the on-topic/serious discussion areas) aren't formatted correctly. Also should appear in a more noticeable font.
- FIXED: Time zone settings may not be correct, which makes the time appear off.
- FIXED: Multiple replies by the same person (when nobody else has replied) are posting as edits to the same message.
- FIXED: A lot of peoples' PM statuses got set back to "unread".
- FIXED: Some people with special characters in their usernames are having login problems.
- FIXED:Some people are having display issues with the right side of the forum being cut off in their browsers.
- FIXED: The mobile theme on iPhone isn't displaying threads.
- FIXED: Search pages, posting pages, etc. have an annoying "friendly" redirection page.
- FIXED: Some people have saved links/bookmarks to the old forum display pages or "new posts" page. We've redirected /viewtopic.php and /viewforum.php, but limitations in Apache mod_rewrite won't let us redirect based off of the /search.php?search_id=newposts query string.
- FIXED: Post "quick edit" option may not be working for some people.
- FIXED, NEEDS REFINEMENT: Nested quotes are hard to read, should be different colors.
- FIXED, NEEDS REFINEMENT: Popup windows when clicking buttons in the post editor generate a warning in IE and don't let URLs be dragged into them. Also, some are pre-populated with "http://", and it's difficult to see if additional spaces have been pasted into the dialog box.
- FIXED: The Black/White color scheme is kind of harsh on the eyes. Looking into a way to mellow it out a bit.
- FIXED: When a thread was one post away from rolling over to additional page, the additional page link would show up due to an import error.
- FIXED: We lost our "textual confirmation" setup in the upgrade. This is an extremely effective anti-spam mechanism. Installed a new version, defined new question/answer pairs, installed further protections against automated registrations
- FIXED: Link at the bottom of pages which goes back to the homepage is gone. Need to re-add.
- FIXED: Everyone's "online visibility" status was set to "invisible" by default. Need to re-import this data from the old database.
- TOS/Contact links at the bottom are themes differently from the rest of the site (delayed until after theme modifications are completed)
- FIXED: Add tagline back into TITLE of homepage
- FIXED: Add site name back into TITLE of thread pages
If you notice anything else, please drop a line in this thread and I'll take a look.
Thanks!
-Kameron