FYI: Forums upgraded

[blakespot]

Hey folks,

Tonight we brought the forums down for about an hour and upgraded to the latest version of the 3.x vBulletin system that our forums are built upon. We've also made some other under-the-hood changes that were needed on the live server to prepare for the soon-to-be-released TouchArcade iOS app.

Everything went smoothly tonight, but do please let us know, here, if you encounter any errors or see anything out of the ordinary with the forums.

Thanks!




bp

[backtothis]

Can't wait for the upcoming app!

Anyways, I get this when I try to mark forums read under quick links:

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Your submission could not be processed because a security token was invalid.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

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[blakespot]

Originally Posted by backtothis

Can't wait for the upcoming app!

Anyways, I get this when I try to mark forums read under quick links:

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Your submission could not be processed because a security token was invalid.

If this occurred unexpectedly, please inform the administrator and describe the action you performed before you received this error.

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Thanks for the feedback. I believe we've got this fixed, now.



bp

[crex]

OMG! We can finally subscribe to social groups! And they have icons now too!!

[TakenXXDeadly]

Is that why it went down hah.

[EfratBarTal]

APPINFO tags don't work the same..

[ImNoSuperMan]

Font size in social group messages has become too small now. It used to be same size as the forum posts earlier. Now it's barely legible on the iPad unless you zoom in and then keep scrolling left and right to read every sentence.

[Coldar]

Originally Posted by ImNoSuperMan

Font size in social group messages has become too small now. It used to be same size as the forum posts earlier. Now it's barely legible on the iPad unless you zoom in and then keep scrolling left and right to read every sentence.

I concur. I can no longer read the posts within social group messages. My font enlarger is a pain to use and eliminates part of the screen and really shouldn't be necessary. Unless its enlarged I can no longer be part of that group.

Add: The social name/link needs to be clicked onto to enter the social group now instead of the current posts being already available upon entering and you also now need to go from the very beginning of a social groups postings and have to key back to the latest entries. Could be a fix hopefully?

[LOLavi]

I opened Beta Tester Alliance and the top part was normal: info, users, pictures, but then it had this Social Group Discussion part for 2 links: Beta Tester Alliance and The Bar? It seems Crex just created that, but nvm, off-topic. So I clicked TBTA link and the messages on top were the oldest and newest were on last page, like in normal threads. Is this a bug or are we supposed to go to the last page every time? I liked it better when the group's latest posts were on first page...

[tops2]

Not sure if this is the right place to ask about this... Does anyone know how to change the social groups' formatting back to the way it used to be.

It used to be when you go to your social's groups page, the discussion is on the same page, with the messages sorted from newest to the oldest.

Now, on the social group's page, there's what looks like one thread with all the old discussions. It seems like you can create different threads per group...which is a nice feature, but it would be nice to the hold messages listed on the front page too.

Is there a way to get the old messages on the group's page, in addition to have the ability to create threads within the group? Maybe we can have a listing of the threads per group the way it is, and have the old general discussions underneath it?