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[Richard H]

I will be upgrading both the site and forum software this evening. There may be some downtime during this process. I will try to minimise any disruption to your evening surfing!

[Richard H]

As you may have noticed, the upgrade is now complete. Please report any problems or issues to me and I will try to help as fast I can.

[phildunford]

Hi Rich,

Not sure about the new look - guess I'll get used to it!

1) Is there an equivalent of 'view new postings' or whatever it was called - view new content does not seem to do the same thing. eg I put in a new posting and it does not appear in this list...

2) When you insert an image link, the box seems to appear off the left of the screen - I'm still on IE6 on this computer if that makes a difference, mainly 'cos I hate IE7!

[Richard H]

Hello,

I agree it will take a while to get used to. You should / you will soon see other people's new posts when you click view new content - although I see duplicate entries for each new post. I would suggest clearing your temporary files and cookies and see if it improves anything. I expect there to be a few bugs that will need to be looked at.

Don't use IE6, it's the work of the devil! Firefox all the way my friend!

[Richard H]

Apologies guys, but there have been some issues with the migration and I've had to restore to last night's database backup. I appreciate there may some frustrations with the forum software, but I'd ask you all to give it a go. There are problems with duplication that I'm working to resolve. I've fixed the issue with duplicate personal messages that some of you may have noticed. Apologies for any posts made this morning that have now disappeared.

It is important that we migrate to new major releases of the forum software, to ensure future compatibility. When I say future I mean thinking ahead the next 10 - 20 years!

[dogsbody]

View new posts works for me, but first time i had to click on clear all board (I think) otherwise it told me i had 1700+ new posts. only issue I have, when looking at new post option it displays as a tree (outline style?) but doesnt seem to be an option to turn this off (option in my control panel works for main board but not new posts)

[Mortartube]

I posted here earlier and my post is gone. Has it been deleted by admin or has this software gone and made it disappear up it's own touch hole?

[Richard H]

Hello Keith,

Read my message that I posted this afternoon. Unfortunately I had to restore from last night's backup due to some inconsistencies I was seeing this morning. I will be spending some time this weekend ironing out any problems. Apologies again for any posts or PMs made today that have been lost.

[Mortartube]

all posts today were lost since richard had to revert to a backup copy from last night. a post 5 explains what happened

p.s every now and again i keep getting a error message "database error please contact the administrator"

Ok thanks.

[portfire]

Good to see things been sorted Rich, I am starting to like the new look, sets "us" apart

[Richard H]

I think I've sorted the weird issue with duplicate entries appearing on 'View New Content'. Hopefully that functionality will 'calm down' the more it is used by you all. Things are always a little shaky when I do these big upgrades. My priority really was preserving the 54,000 + records!