Will Neowin update forum design?


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Its been over 6 months and Neowin forum has not been update to the new design. What's taking so long?

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Forums are a bitch to update. In addition to the actual forum code, the database needs to keep integrity.

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We are planning to update to IPB 4 next weekend, that is if everything can be completed this week. There will be more info on this tomorrow on the main page.

 

You should know that the forums will probably be down for a minimum of a day though, for the database conversion. 


We were waiting for a specific release (4.0.5) that was intended for streamlining large forums, since that was released 4.0.6 and 4.0.6.1 have also been released, we never upgrade to the first point releases for these reasons :p

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Okay but design is more of CSS even on forums. ;-)

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The other thing is the amount of different mods that we have make any upgrade more work than a standard IPB setup.

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Its the next day and no new design yet. What's the hold up?

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Really? It's a bank holiday, it may well be that staff members are choosing to spend today doing things more important like spending time with the family.

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Its the next day and no new design yet. What's the hold up?

It's a) going to be a preview for subscribers and b) I'd rather the developers take their time with the IPB 4 upgrade than rush things.

 

tl;dr: Patience, grasshopper.

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Its the next day and no new design yet. What's the hold up?

 

Calm down. Free site, as a "Graphic Designer" you should have some knowledge of what goes into site updating/themes/graphic updates, so give it a break.

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Its the next day and no new design yet. What's the hold up?

 

Upgrading IPB is a massive pita, i'm about to get started on my sites upgrade to 4, and i'm prepping the whisky and Valium.

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Its the next day and no new design yet. What's the hold up?

 

dude, calm your ######! even if there was an update to the forum design you're not going to get it as they're pushing it first to the subscribers to test it out.. Steven answered this after my post..so all these questions you're asking are pretty moot.

 

about the forum design, really excited about the changes! IPB can be a huuuge bitch! looking forward to the update!  (Y)  :beer:

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Be careful with the IP.Comunity Suite upgrade. 4.0.5 broke SSL admin CP logins on my site and 4.0.6 broke SSL for everything...

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, this has been pushed back a week. 4.0.7 will be landing sometime in the next week too (re forum post above this one) ^

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Be careful with the IP.Comunity Suite upgrade. 4.0.5 broke SSL admin CP logins on my site and 4.0.6 broke SSL for everything...

 

Cheers for the heads up

 

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this has been pushed back a week. 4.0.7 will be landing sometime in the next week too (re forum post above this one) ^

 

Unforeseen? It is IPB right? ;)

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Due to unforeseen circumstances, this has been pushed back a week. 4.0.7 will be landing sometime in the next week too (re forum post above this one) ^

Haha so it is a bug in 4.0.6.x?

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What, to be like the hideous front page? :p

 

The forum layout is just fine! ;)

Don't be silly! The front page design looks fine. :) You just need to learn how to adjust to change.

 

 

Due to unforeseen circumstances, this has been pushed back a week. 4.0.7 will be landing sometime in the next week too (re forum post above this one) ^

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Don't be silly! The front page design looks fine. :) You just need to learn how to adjust to change.

 

You must have me confused for Dot Matrix. :p

 

There's some things I'd still change about the front page to make it far better. I'm just hoping that the forum changes won't be in that sort of direction.

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You must have me confused for Dot Matrix. :p

 

There's some things I'd still change about the front page to make it far better. I'm just hoping that the forum changes won't be in that sort of direction.

Nah. :p I'm sure you like the direction Windows 10 is going more than he does.

 

The forum design will presumably be very similar to the front page, so you're still probably going to have to get use to it.

 

Out of curiosity, what changes would you like to see happen to the front page?

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