Forum update (phpbb3)

[QuestOfDreams]

As you surely have noticed I have updated the forum software to phpbb3. The conversion from the old forum seems to work fine. If you experience any problems (especially the moderators since the backend has changed quite a bit) please report it here or send me a pm.

[MakerOfGames]

I really like this update! I was curious as to why the forums were down this afternoon.

*Edit*
I just noticed that the number of members has dropped by almost 100. I take it some cleaning was done for all those empty and spam accounts that were registered?

*Edit*EDIT*
I hate to double edit, but I just got done browsing through all the new features under the account settings and I am very happy to see them! I am really happy with this forum update!

[QuestOfDreams]

Yes, sorry for the downtime without any announcement. The conversion took more time than I tought, if I had known it before I would have written one.
The number of users is lower because the new version only counts active members (members that have at least posted once).

[ardentcrest]

Glad its back.

Here I was thinking O'GOD not another server move like last year.

Now have to get used to a new forum format.

[darksmaster923]

actually, it kinda makes it hard to read

[fps]

you guys scared me there, i'm betting you posted a warning though.

[Agentarrow]

I was scared enough to E-Mail QOD to find out what happened :)

[steven8]

I think it looks very nice Daniel. Thank you.

I'll let you know if everything goes well the next time I have to delete a "FREE 24HR 6969 ORGY SEX PORN SITE" thread.

[Allanon]

When using Internet Explorer 7 you can't see the User Control Panel, Messages, Search, Members, or Login/ Logout links at the top of the page but you can see Home and FAQ links. Also the Reply and New Topic buttons are missing. It works fine using Firefox but I usually use IE7.

[Juryiel]

I'm using IE 7 and can see all that stuff you can't ;)

[Allanon]

Disregard my previous post, after reading Juryiel didn't have problems with IE7 I tried turning off plugins and it turns out that the IE7Pro plugin was causing the message board to display incorrectly. I love the IE7Pro plugin so I'm hoping it isn't one of the features I use such as spell check or ad block.

EDIT:
The problem was IE7Pro was setting the browser's user agent as Googlebot. When I set it back to IE7 the page loads fine. I like using the Googlebot setting because on some sites it allows you to enter without having to fill in a registration form before reading an article.

[Spyrewolf]

Yes very lovely,
I think this is very nice on the eyes. alot more streamlined also.

very nice, hopefully this WILL get rid of the spam traffic, also lets see if it will let me say crack now?

Edit: LOL still cant :P (its a non swear word)

As you were, lovely site!

[bernie]

[quote] hopefully this WILL get rid of the spam traffic [/quote]
I will second that remark
Thanks for the updated board Daniel, very nice, clean, tidy and easy on the eye. This forum just gets better and better.

[fps]

i noticed there has been a lot of spam latley.

[Jay]

Nice new forum!

Yes there really was a lot of spam lately. If we got rid off most of that it would be a major improvement for QOD and the mods.

A friend of mine has a big forum for our whole class level and a few people more (~200 people). I know it's not that big, but there is NEVER spam (and we do post alot). I wonder how he does it.