Forum Upgrades Complete - Feedback Requested

The forum will be taken offline sometime around midnight tonight while the forum is upgrading. I'm going to be installing completely new forum software that will have an entirely new look. This took me approximately 2 hours to complete when I tested it earlier today, but hopefully it won't take quite as long my second time through.

The forum will be completely unavailable during this period in order to avoid losing any posts. I apologize for any inconvenience this causes for anyone, but I feel it will be well worth it once the new forums are up and functional.

Edit: Upgrade is complete. Please provide feedback below.

 

Basic upgrade is complete. I still have more features to add, but if you are reading this you are seeing the new ButlerHoops.com forums.

 

I'm having some issues getting the old thread urls to redirect to the new ones, so I'm working on that right now.

I'm guessing you are using the old url on safari. It's been shortened to http://Butlerhoops.com/forum. You can remove the /forum.php from the end. This will redirect eventually but I'm messing with those rules at the moment.

 

It's nearly 3 AM so I'm calling it a night. I didn't get near as much done as I wanted. Stumped with the redirect issue that shouldn't be difficult at all. I've got the basics done though, so everyone should be able to login with their same info and post. If anyone has any problems please post them here.

Also, for tweets and videos, you no longer need to use any codes at all. Just copy and paste the links to them directly in your post and they will automatically display.

No, it's completely different software. Feel free to give me feedback about what you don't like though.

 

Everyone said that when I originally changed to that look

But seriously guys, give me feedback on what you don't like. One of the biggest changes in look is the sidebar on the right side. I really like having that extra info over there. I just have to decide what else put there. I figured everyone would like being able to see the latest posts right there on the front page. It's also an additional spot for an advertisement that will be there eventually to help increase site revenue. I'm thinking I'll also put feeds to the articles from the front page and then a twitter feed as well.

 

Ugh, I'll have to look at that when I get back home. I had it displaying correctly where it was resizing. Apparently I did something to break it. Probably left open a tag or something somewhere.

As for the activity stream, there is a box on the right of the forums (or underneath the forums on your phone) that shows the last 5 new posts. If you click on the "New Posts" header there it will take you to a new page that shows much more than just the last 5. It should look very similar to the activity stream page.


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Do they all not display correctly, or just the ones who don't have an avatar? Are you using mac or pc?

Thanks, and keep sending me display issues/errors everyone.


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Did you have multiple accounts by any chance? There were a few accounts that had to be merged because they used the same email address and it couldn't accept both. With this software you can login using your email instead of your username if you want. Try that and see if your account comes up. If I need to change your username I can do that.


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I've made it easier to login/register using Facebook, Twitter, or Google account. You can add these accounts to your profile and then you don't have to worry about remembering another password/account. It's available from the user control panel, or you can use this link here:

http://butlerhoops.com/forum/index.php?account/external-accounts

This should be fixed now. Let me know if it continues.

I kind of like seeing the different avatars on the main page. Previously someone with no avatar showed a "?" image, but I've changed that to be a basketball themed avatar now, so it should look a little better (it might take a little bit for your browser to recache the new image). I'm going to leave it as is for now but I'll reconsider if more feedback comes in wanting in changed.