Forum Software Updates

[Paul]

Hi all,

Just to advise that there is a big update to the forum software that has been released. The reason this one is big is that Add-on functionality (such as Events etc etc) all have to be re-coded to work with the new release. as you can appreciate, this happens very rarely, and in fact this is only the second time this has taken place.
Now obviously this will take a little time to work through, but inevitabily some coders will have left and they will never be updated - so it'll be a case of trying to find equivalents or just not using that functionality.

Fortunately the main addons are coded by people who are here for the long run, but some smaller ones arent.

I wanted to let everyone know i'll be working on cleaning up these over the next week or so. If you see something that doesnt work - dont panic - Give it 10 mins and try again... I may have sorted it by then. If some functionality has disappeared, all being well it will be back - but i will know about it (Or at least should!).

I'm looking to take the forum down for 24 hours in a week or two to allow it to be upgraded. Just to make sure that everything works properly... in actuality if i put in the hours beforehand then it would probably only be down for 30 mins

Any problems, please let me know!

Cheers
Paul

 

[Jason Catrine]

Realise this work will take time so I stuck my hand down the back of the sofa and made a new site donation

For anyone else reading Pauls post above and finding a few coins down the old sofa to help with his time in doing the upgrade, heres the link....

https://www.pinballinfo.com/community/account/upgrades

Hes obviously not asked for anything but I'm sure he'd appreciate the support to keep this place going

 

[RetroHeed]

Realise this work will take time so I stuck my hand down the back of the sofa and made a new site donation

For anyone else reading Pauls post above and finding a few coins down the old sofa to help with his time in doing the upgrade, heres the link....

https://www.pinballinfo.com/community/account/upgrades

Hes obviously not asked for anything but I'm sure he'd appreciate the support to keep this place going

Searched games room sofa after being away with work for a few weeks, old takeaway chip, mini cheddars and some digestive bits found only, not even any bronze.

However this post has made me realise my supporter contribution has run out, I'll sort this out as soon as, Paul does a great job here.

 

[Paul]

Getting closer to this..... As a few add-ons (things created by 3rd party developers to add extra functionality) havent been upgraded yet, there may be a loss of some niceities (so currently, for example, things like the "start conversation" link at the bottom of each post), though i am expecting this to be temporary only for a couple of months. These will be re-added when they are available again. However core functionality will remain unaffected, but also with some nice stuff added... examples being passwordless logins with passkeys, conversion to webp for all images (this one will allow the retention of image quality, however at a much reduced filesize)... to name only a couple.

I would be surprised if we arent running the new version within the next month. Fingers crossed! It will certainly be a VERY stressful upgrade though - Expect the forum to be out of action for a weekend whilst it is carried out at the very minimum!