Posted: 02nd May, 2004 By: MarkJ
Having learnt from the mistakes of last months failed forum upgrade, I'm pleased to report that, after several hours of work, this months attempt appears to have succeeded and we're now running on the latest code.
We did hit several random database errors during the process, however a bit of maintenance allowed the upgrade to continue. We'll be handling the new forum with care for a couple of weeks until we're confident that it's not exhibiting any new problems.
vB3 is quite different from vB2, so there will be a slight learning curve for many of you, in fact there will be for us as well =).
In the future we hope add several new 'fun' features and a number of custom style choices, so those of you that don't like the 'default' look can view things in a way that might be more appealing.
Please note that the forum may need to re-sync it's time settings with your profile, thus times may appear incorrect until this is done (it'll do it automatically). You may also need to alter your Avatar (I think everybody can now have an avatar, regardless of post count) as the new format doesn't work well with big images.