Server outages today

[John Cooper]

Guys,
I'm experimenting with the upgrade to phpBB3.
Please be patient if you see the forums down, or messed up a bit today

Cheers,
John

[John Cooper]

Ok, this is upgraded to 3.0

We are on the generic all white/blue theme. I spent a couple hours trying to tweak it to the usual planetz color scheme, but it was taking too long, and looking too crappy. So here we are

-John

[erminardi]

I really miss old PlanetZ color scheme...

[John Cooper]

Me too. I'm working on it.

[erminardi]

Great, John

ps. thanks for your costant work on PlanetZ, my preferred place to stay in the web

[hifiboom]

great

btw, I`m not afraid if there are minor changes in the design and colour sheme also.

B´lz don`t throw stones at me.

[garyb]

i do like the old layout, if not the color scheme. it's all small potatoes though. i'm glad PZ is here. thanks for all your work John!

[Music Manic]

Are we in the Doctor's surgery?

[braincell]

I like the new theme. It is easier to read.

[Lima]

Thanks John

[voidar]

This new theme is horrible; looks like the Adern forum. It's too clinical; not warm, fuzzy and inviting like the old one.

[wayne]

New feature:-

Friends
Online

* No friends online

Offline

* No friends offline


- no friends

[wayne]

"Friends enable you quick access to members you communicate with frequently. If the template has relevant support any posts made by a friend may be highlighted."

"Foes are users which will be ignored by default. Posts by these users will not be fully visible. Personal messages from foes are still permitted. Please note that you cannot ignore moderators or administrators."

Interesting...

[Immanuel]

I like the new theme. It is easier to read.

I found there to be another athmosphere in the old one. But I do agree. I read faster in this one.

[erminardi]

I find the user name recognition a little hard into the tread, maybe because the little font and the font color...
It could be better (and funnier) activate the avatar use to place near our name.

[at0m]

I like the new theme. It is easier to read.

I found there to be another athmosphere in the old one. But I do agree. I read faster in this one.

Then why don't you go to your User Control Panel and set it up? Checking the UCP may be a good idea anyways, it has some new options

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John, great to see you found some time for an update Thanks for the effort - and the new functionality! Looks like it went pretty smooth after all. I remember you were pretty anxious about updating, since you had modified the original phpBB extensively...
Enjoy the hollidays!

[Immanuel]

at0m - you are way behind. We actually had a period after the upgrade, where this was not default theme.

I'd likely switch back and forth a bit. So many good memories with these colours (damn, I sound both old and like a country singer now)

[John Cooper]

John, great to see you found some time for an update Thanks for the effort - and the new functionality! Looks like it went pretty smooth after all. I remember you were pretty anxious about updating, since you had modified the original phpBB extensively...

I was more anxious about the *last* update, when I abandoned phpBB 1.4 for the newer 2.0.
That's when I eliminated nearly all my custom code (and there was a lot of it!)

This update to 3.0 was much simpler, since I have nearly no custom code now. It was mostly cosmetic tweaking.

-John

[Fluxpod]

The new Forum looks and "feels" really good.Thank you very much for this john.
Love the added avatar function,colours it up a bit

[eliam]

Yes I agree, it's looking good!! Hats off to you John!

I'll use this opportunity to give you a warm and heartfelt "thank you!" for being at the helm of such a fine forum, the good vibes here most certainly reflect the positive energy and love that you cultivate in your own life! You're a really sweet guy and I wish all the happiness there is to you and your family!

A grateful PZ dweller,

Etienne