Proboards Version 5 Upgrade

[XJSman89]

Good Morning, Aurora Club!

Just an announcement for everyone, Proboards is upgrading to version 5 at the end of April. This will include many upgrades, updates, new features, etc. The staff and I are in the midst of backing up all of our sticky data so that is not lost, just in case enough stuff moves around to corrupt it in the switch.

The headers and footers for our forum are naturally coded to work with Proboards V4, the current version, so some of this may need some adjustment to work with v5. In addition the forum theme will need to be modified and tweaked to work correctly. Just some general housekeeping things to get us all moved over and adjusted to our remodeled home. ;D

We are still unsure when our forum is slated to be upgraded, I am in contact with Proboards Support to see when that will get done. Please bear with us for a few days after the switch as we get things moved over. When it comes time to mess with the headers and footers I will most likely need to take the forum down for maintenance, so don't be worried if it tells you the forum is temporarily unavailable in late April/early May!

Thanks for understanding, and look forward to an updated look soon!

ACNA Staff

[Paulaurora]

Thanks for the info:)

[lanceslambos]

too bad they can't spell aurora right when they do this

[scottydl]

Apr 15, 2013 6:24:22 GMT -6 lanceslambos said:

too bad they can't spell aurora right when they do this

Since you brought it up, I'll explain the forum URL of "aurorah" for those who don't know. The founder of this group was Amanda H. (username Amanda here). When she created the forum, "aurora.proboards.com" was already in use... actually it still is registered by a Sims forum that looks like it hasn't been accessed in several years. So Amanda put the "h" on the URL to match up with her last name. At the time, she also never imagined ACNA would grow to the size that it did!

All of THAT said, if we can pull from administrative strings with the Proboard Support staff, after the version 5 upgrade we may look at updating the forum URL as well.

[RCA1186]

Seems like a pain, wouldn't you then have to update all the stickies?

[scottydl]

Apr 17, 2013 11:06:12 GMT -6 RCA1186 said:

Seems like a pain, wouldn't you then have to update all the stickies?

If you are referring to the URL change, then yes we would update sticky links as needed. It wouldn't be too big of a project, and we have had to do it before when Proboards changed their internal server links.

Regardless, the URL change for our forum is just a possibility.

[aurora2001tan]

DOES THIS MEAN THAT THE SEARCH ENGINE WILL ACTUALLY WORK ? Seriously, other forums that use the same software I think have working search engines.

[sall]

Jun 5, 2013 14:08:16 GMT -6 aurora2001tan said:

DOES THIS MEAN THAT THE SEARCH ENGINE WILL ACTUALLY WORK ? Seriously, other forums that use the same software I think have working search engines.

No need to use PB search. Just use google. Google knows everything. Just search like this:

"search criteria" site:aurorah.proboards.com

example search for "hub replacement"

lmgtfy.com/?q=hub+replacement+site%3Aaurorah.proboards.com


Even if it did work. Proboards still won't do 3 letter searches.

[RCA1186]

so....is this ever happening?

[scottydl]

Right now we are working on some forum ownership issues prior to the upgrade - specifically we are attempting to transfer full forum control from the original founder Amanda, to the current staff. That will make future upgrades and changes much easier. It has proven to be difficult to get on contact with her, but we are working on it!

[RCA1186]

Ok, thanks! I was wondering what was going on haha

[scottydl]

No problem... sorry this thread was never updated with the new target date, which is likely to be December instead of April as Collins originally listed (and has obviously passed). We've discussed it in the Staff area but never made the change here.