Forum Upgrade Status...

[t951]

Hey Wayne,

I noticed Vbulletin 3.6.8 is out. When you going to update the BBS?
I think it just came out today. Bug fixes only.

t.

Here is the link:
http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php?postid=1396783

[shbop]

Much, much faster this morning.

[Tidybuoy]

It's looking good. I had no idea I had some many archived messages (until the new program told me so). I deleted all of my sent messages just for you guys at Pelican.

Keep up the good work!

[Grady Clay]

Wayne,

Some Forum questions, thoughts and possibly lame suggestions.
My online forum experience is 95% the earlier Pelican version. Most of the remainder is Early S and some 914 and other. I have difficulty using P-list (re-named).

I like the new Pelican. And it is faster today. Thank you.

Why is an “attachment” disabled? I assume this if to prevent improper programs from invading the system. There are occasions where posting an Excel spreadsheet might be useful. Is there a safe way?

Today someone brought up the custom avatar issue. I assume that will be addressed after all the basics are covered - if it isn’t already.

I’m in favor of members posting at least their first name and city/state/country. Can there be a reminder somehow? That wouldn’t compromise anyone’s personal information. I thinks this adds greatly to the camaraderie of the Forum. It also allows someone nearby in the world to chime in and help. You have a remarkable world-wide community.

What is the difference between vBulletin 2 defaults and vBulletin 3 Style?

Need to load 2007 (and ’08) calendars. It might be useful for the public calendar be open to every Porsche related events with links. Sorta like sticky are also used.

I’m glad to see the same Advanced Search Function. I still think a very complete (but newbee oriented) set of search instructions would be useful. Same with posting images and using URLs.

Is it reasonable to have a special 2-letter dictionary for allowed search “words”?
A few might be:
GT, RS, ST, CV, 2-digit dates (67 or ’67), and the like. I suspect there are 2-300 that would be useful.
As the archive gets larger every day, the search function becomes more important.

There are some situations where the “Forum Jump” scroll-down menu doesn’t appear at the bottom of the page. This mostly seem to be in “Site Areas.” The Search Page is one. Even “Back” doesn’t get me back. Perhaps it is just dumb ol’ me not recognizing other methods to do the same thing. I end up going through my MSN “Favorites” menus.

My point here is to have every screen consistent to navigate. I can see some getting lost and frustrated.


Much of this just may be my lack of web-skill or there is some technical issue within vBulletin Version 3.6.7.

Best,
Grady

[Won]

Wayne,

The links for top header (Welcome, New Parts Catalog, etc) are not pointing the correct pages, instead redirecting to subpages under forums.pelicanparts.com which doesn't seem to exist.

[safe]

Originally Posted by Grady Clay

I’m in favor of members posting at least their first name and city/state/country. Can there be a reminder somehow? That wouldn’t compromise anyone’s personal information. I thinks this adds greatly to the camaraderie of the Forum. It also allows someone nearby in the world to chime in and help. You have a remarkable world-wide community.

On other motor forums I have been it has been mandatory, either in user name or in signature, to use ones full real name. Tends to keep the conversations more civilized, not a big problem here, but its a good suggestion.

Originally Posted by Grady Clay

Is it reasonable to have a special 2-letter dictionary for allowed search “words”?
A few might be:
GT, RS, ST, CV, 2-digit dates (67 or ’67), and the like. I suspect there are 2-300 that would be useful.
As the archive gets larger every day, the search function becomes more important.

That would be really good if possible! Yesterday I tried to search for "3.2", that didn't work....

[KFC911]

Wayne, I think you've done a fantastic job getting us addicts back to normal! Have you considered putting a "forum suggestion box" sticky thread up for a few days in order to get some centralized feedback on tweaks, problems, etc. that we may encounter as we learn our way around the new system? All-in-all, I really like it thus far, thanks again, and please take this weekend off !

[jriera]

Amazing job Wayne!! Thanks and Congratulations!

Will you be enabling RSS any time soon?

[toddu]

Hey Wayne... just an FYI. It appears that once you hit the forums, the other links (ie - back to the Pelican "home" site) don't appear to work.

I like the new BBS software though.

Todd

[onZedge]

I still can't upload photos. I am logged in. Is there a different URL I should be using? I am logging into the BB via the main PP pages.

[red-beard]

Did you see my note about using the post new topic button, from inside another topic?

[onZedge]

The IT elves must've fixed it when I wasn't looking.

[imcarthur]

I didn't read the whole post . . .

Major Irritant:

The Search feature needs that really stupid hard to read code to work. 50% of the time I've typed it in wrong - OK, I'm blind, I know but wtf? Then, it spits you out & you have to decipher a new stupid code to type in. We try to encourage newbies to use the search, does it have to be more difficult to do so?

Is it really necessary, Wayne? If so, I'll shut up & bear with it.

Ian

[12own911]

How do I track this thread without having to type something first?

[imcarthur]

Kim

See upper left hand at the top of the thread in Thread Tools . . .



And ignor my post above. You only have the search issue when not logged in.

Ian

[12own911]

Thanks!