Post by MarkUK on Mar 1, 2008 23:24:23 GMT -5
I've been told that the server upgrade will not cause any PMs to vanish, I'm still waiting to hear about backups not being able to be made.
Proboards listed some features about the new upgrade, not earth-shattering stuff, but it should make the forum quicker:
How long will the upgrade take?
It may take up to a day to upgrade the entire server. During this time your forum will be 100% accessable until your forum is in the conversion process. Most message boards take less than a minute to convert, while some of the largest may take up to 3 hours. For the duration of your forum's conversion, a message will be displayed letting your visitors know that an upgrade is in progress and to check back later.
Do I need to do anything to get the upgrade?
No, you don't, just sit back and be patient as we work to upgrade over 2 million forums to our latest software
Where are my user's recent posts?
You may notice that the recent posts feature in your user's profiles is missing for all posts made before the upgrade. You don't have anything to worry about, that data will appear soon enough. We left it out to make sure your forums get upgraded as fast as possible, leaving you with very little downtime. In the hours after your forum is back online, you will then find that this information returns like before.
Version 4.5 Features
New thread sort options, ascending or descending order:
Order by subject
Thread creator
Replies
Views
Post order
Revamped poll system with many new options:
Ability to select multiple answers
Auto-locking polls at a given time
Ability to hide results until users have voted/poll is locked
Ability to retract votes
Vastly improved speed on post and member searches:
1,000 member limit for top posters has been removed
All users can now be displayed in post order, irrespective of forum size
Member lists can be sorted in any order
Character limit in posts and personal messages has been in been increased from 25,000 to 60,000 characters.
Listing of all users online over the entire day is now available.
Calendar entries displayed at the bottom of the page are now in date order.
Ability to add a poll to an existing thread.
Ability to set default listing order to a board.
Ability to request a forgotten password by email address has been restored.
Improved page jump, decreasing load times on large boards/threads/member lists.
Other small software fixes (eg "on Today" now displays as just "Today").