FYI: Forum shutdown: Test upgrade to phpBB3

[chgpa]

I'm shutting down the forums for a bit, so that the database contents
will be stable during an initial test upgrade to phpBB3.0 .

No idea how long it will take, this is my first full-scale attempt.

If it drags out, I'll bail on the upgrade attempt, re-enable the forums,
and try again another time.

MarkC

[chgpa]

The test went well, so it morph'ed into a real upgrade and we're
now live with version 3.0.0 of phpBB .

The new version of our forum software has MANY new capabilities.

Example: You can now define "friends and foes", which allows you
to see/ignore posts from specific forum users. To do this, login
to the forums, click on 'User Control Panel' near the top of the page,
and then click the Friends & Foes tab.

Note: 'User Control Panel' used to be known as your 'Profile' .

Example: When viewing a topic, posts from users who happen to
be online are flagged as such.

More information about using the new features will be provided
in coming weeks. In the meantime, just take a look around and
experiment a bit.

If you run into problems, start a topic in the Forum Helpdesk forum.

Cheers,

MarkC

[Dan T]

Mark C has operated and maintained this forum for years for us now. I am sure he has put in hundreds of hours of effort to get it up and running and then to maintain it. I think we all owe him a debt of gratitude for his efforts.

Thanks Mark.
Dan T

[mcelrah]

Woohoo! Looks different! Thanks, Mark!!! Now, can you make it NW @10-15 and 60 degrees? - Hugh
P.S. Been whoring off to the sailplane club at Front Royal. Nice warm cockpit!

[brianvh]

I like the new capabilities. I prefer the old look though. Oh well. Thanks for the work, mark!

[markc]

You can get a fairly close replica of the old look/feel by setting
your forum 'style' to subsilver2 . See this thread:

http://www.chgpa.org/forums/viewtopic.php?f=10&t=2998

MarkC

[dbodner]

You can get a fairly close replica of the old look/feel by setting
your forum 'style' to subsilver2

Oh yeah, that's better.

[chgpa]

Thanks Mark.

You are most welcome!

[jimrooney]

I think we all owe him a debt of gratitude for his efforts.

Hell Yeah.
Running any sort of web-anything is always a task and sucks up a lot of time.
Thanks Mark!
Stellar work.
Jim