New Proboards Version

[stonecutter]

There is a new look version of this Proboards account coming. The current version is V4, and eventually we will need to upgrade to V5.

With V5 comes a whole new and slicker appearance and a bunch of new features.

All of the users will need to change the way they log in. The new way to log in involves your email address (whichever one is associated with your account name - and you may change at that point or in the future...) Subsequent log-ins I've noticed I've been able to simply log in using user name, so not sure why the first time you need to do it with an email address...

New features:
- A bunch of stuff on the administration side. It's not so much like rocket science for me and allenuk to make changes.
- There's a button at the top of the screen (right hand side) that says "Participated". when you click that button, it shows you a box with all the recent threads participated in and whether or not they've been updated.
- My favorite --- THERE IS A LIKE BUTTON!
- Recent Threads and Recent Posts button at the bottom which can sort the ongoing threads and give you a running summary of recent events on the forum.

You'll have to see the rest when they come at us... When it happens, I'll try to make it as painless as possible for all of us. But I think you'll all like it.

Trevor.

[barclay]

thanks for the heads up! Hope it's not a big hassle for you guys.

[ann-]

Do like the new style board Trevor, its all looking good, thanks to all of those who sorted it out.

[stonecutter]

Well I like it.

This was going to be forced on us in the next month or so, and as we are just ramping up for the busy season here at work, I decided to push the issue and have us upgraded before the forced upgrade, because I have time to actually work on fixing problems in the next month or so.

We lost our world map. Need to figure that out. I really liked seeing who I was with when we had multiple people on at the same time.

For those of you who don't have photos in your profile, if you click Edit Profile after clicking on your own user name, you will see the bio page for yourself. In the Edit Profile page, on the right hand side, you will an avatar or two. The one on the right will be a Proboards avatar. You can edit this avatar to look however you like. I'm actually considering retiring Diva the Bulldog and creating one that looks like the real me! Oh you poor people.

Please let me know if anyone has any questions about the new forum software, and I'll do my best to find out answers for you.

[stonecutter]

The world map with where we're online from is back (see bottom of main page). We have to start over though... we lost all of our previous stats.