Website upgrade

[Pseudonym]

We interrupt this program with an announcement...

As you may have gathered, we've been working on a new version of the website for a while now. Well, it's finally ready to go live!

We're just doing some final testing to make sure we can transfer everything from the old site (losing those pearls of wisdom would be awful!). Assuming that all goes well, we'll be making the change on Wednesday.

This will require taking the site offline for a couple of hours. Apologies in advance for any inconvenience, but I hope you'll forgive us when you see the cool new version. I think you will.

The upgrade is more than just cosmetic though... We're also updating the software the forum runs on, so you'll find a few new functions in there too. More functions will be added over the coming months as I get time.

Now, in case of emergency...

If the worst happens, and you can't log in to the new site, try requesting a new password (there's a function for it under the login screen). If that doesn't work, please let me know.

Thankyou all. We now return you to normal programming.

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[mclovin]

from what i see great so far :clap:

[AgentOrange]

Gunna take some geting used to our new home but looks great!

[Old Bull]

Looks pretty sharp!!!!!!

Well Done :clap: :clap:

[keats]

Yea, great new look, congrats

[sponge]

i do not like it

[deegee]

Good to have it up and running at last been looking forward to this.

[Deburgh]

Thumbs up...nice to see the last few topics in each forum and a brand spanking new look

[blairandkelly]

i do not like it

go suck on a lemon ... its OK

[Pseudonym]

Thanks guys. (Well, except you, Sponge, you sod! )

Now, I can't guarantee that all the bugs have been ironed out yet, but hopefully there won't be too many issues. If you do see something that's a bit screwy, let me know.

[Wuket]

Pretty awesome design dude - well done!

[fudoc5]

very nice..i like it. and very easy to use too

[Mike Zero]

Looks pretty shnazzy. Hopefully I can auto log in on this one.

[ngapuhi strong]

WOW what a change thought i'd been directed to wrong site at first :pfft:

I did like the old site felt comfy, i'm sure we well all seatle in to this brand spanking new home and come to love it as much as old one

:clap: :clap: :clap: thanks for your hard work

[poos_n_wees]

Woooow.. its all shiny and new-like \:D/

Love it. Awesome job Pseudo.

[Laver]

Wow its amazing!

Much sharper professional look!

But as with everything change is difficult, will take a bit of time to get used too!

[INSPECTOR64]

Yip so far so good and as others said will take awhile to adapt to the change but well done guys looks sharp :clap:

[teamfatboy]

Well done guys - 21st century look and feel...worth the hard work :clap:

[Dyceast]

lookz awesome man.

Gonna be a lil hard ta get use to...

[Marcus]

Looks good but loads a lot slower. Give me a few weeks to get used to it.

[deeepsouth_nz]

Sweet as! :clap:

[Luigi]

yea well done, a few more features i see, as everyone else has said will take some getting used to, but nothing time wont fix :clap:

[2guns]

i dont like, its slow and the other one was all good how it was, imo

[Pseudonym]

Hmm. It might be a little slower loading because there's a whole pile of new stuff for it to load now. But I wouldn't have thought it was that much slower (it isn't significantly slower for me, and my broadband connection's not the greatest).

Do you guys have caching turned on in Internet Explorer - assuming that's the browser software you use? That will help. Go to Tools > Internet Options, then under Browsing History, click the Settings button. Make sure "Check for newer versions of stored pages" is set to "Automatically".

In terms of new features, the biggest couple of changes are:

- Now each forum shows multiple topics on the front page, rather than just one. I don't know whether anyone's discovered it yet, but you can click and drag the forums into whatever order you like.

- You can now add your own events to the calendar. If you know of something coming up that you think we might be interested in, please let us know!

- You can't see this one, but the framework is now in place for me to add extra modules. So expect to see new features being added over the next few months as I get time.

[vracula]

quite confusing ,like the simler layout on the older nzbb,but ill get used to it.