The forum is finally upgrading!

Chevy1925

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Good morning Ladies and Gents!

It is finally time to start implementing the new site. We will be starting the process come Monday June 1 which means the site may be down for the day, possibly into Tuesday worse case scenario. i dont forsee that but its a "just in case". We will be on Xenforo type forum which is much more up to date by todays standards and gives us more versatility as well.

Once we have changed over, Fish and i will still be making changes here and there that are just astetic things as well as orientation of things on the wordpress page.

We will have a Wordpress type front page. its similar to the current home page we have now BUT allows me to post articles, write ups, ad different stats about the site, advertising for vendors, or even allows them to post new product launches or reviews once ok'd by us.

i do not believe there will be much you guys need to add or change back once on the new site. ive asked many questions and we have looked into it pretty deep to make sure just about everything transfers over. if you do notice something missing, shoot me a PM and ill see whats going on.

here is a little taste of the forum page for a teaser.

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Thanks guys and hope you are as excited to see this change as we are!

Jimmy and The Fish.
 
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2004LB7

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James, is that format from the screen shot the only option? It reminds me of diesel bombers and is butt ugly. Sorry for the bluntness. I love the current look of the site, it is easy on the eyes and still works decently well for mobile too.
 

Chevy1925

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This is just the basis to start with. Ive already got ideas on header pics and so on but Fish and i will go over the scope of what we can do in there. As for other themes, Ill what there is. Its only going to get better imho but there again, its all based on opinions... probably best i didnt show you want they base base was :roflmao:

we needed to get off vbulletin as it was just causing us issues that didnt need to be there. Like the spamming issue before, just fixing/upgrading to better this place one part at a time!
 

Dozerboy

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I’d like to see a clearer path the where post need to be made. Sometimes I spend 5mins thinking where the hell this post needs to be made.


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slowlml

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I have to say after duramaxforum, and a few others changing formats that are terrible im slightly apprehensive but i know you guys will take care of us. I also just hate change.

I’d like to see a clearer path the where post need to be made. Sometimes I spend 5mins thinking where the hell this post needs to be made


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Thats what we have Tom for duh!
 

TheBac

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No shit. :roflmao:
Im a bit apprehensive about the new forum software, too....but we gotta do what we gotta do to stay relevant in a changing internet world....
 

Chevy1925

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Bunch of sissy’s...

Now I kind of want to just make it a mess for a day juuuuust because
 

TheBac

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Hey, good luck with that. :roflmao: Im not moving all those threads....


:hug:Itll be alright....
 

slowlml

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Yeah hopefully its a change for the better.
James stop trying to give tom a mental breakdown. Hes got enough on his plate with everyone complaining about package deliveries on compd :roflmao::roflmao:
 

fish

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We'll do a walkthrough video for the simple stuff.

Like to create a new thread, how to reply to one, how to quote someone when replying, how to quote multiple posts when replying. I'll also go over the notification system and private messages.
 

TheBac

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We'll do a walkthrough video for the simple stuff.

Like to create a new thread, how to reply to one, how to quote someone when replying, how to quote multiple posts when replying. I'll also go over the notification system and private messages.


.....also how to move threads, how to repair thread titles, how to repair screwed up quotes, how to ban spammers, etc, etc, etc....


:roflmao::roflmao: