Annnnnd...We're Back!!!

BlueCrush · Post by **BlueCrush** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:16 pm

I like the new GenVibe!!

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:19 pm

oh Happy Day!!!

I'm telling you, I was having serious withdrawl symptoms

colterk · Post by **colterk** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:24 pm

joatmon wrote:oh Happy Day!!!

I'm telling you, I was having serious withdrawl symptoms

Same here! It was getting bad.

ponta2147 · Post by **ponta2147** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:27 pm

Yeah I missed it too... though the usage of our facebook page will probably drop now

CAMOGIRL · Post by **CAMOGIRL** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:41 pm

HMM... Looks pretty cool... I LIKE IT!

MrHatchWagon · Post by **MrHatchWagon** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:56 pm

HOORAY! I was eagerly awaiting the board's return. What'd I miss? Though the time away from the board has motivated me to clean my baby and have a mini photoshoot. Pics to follow in the appropriate thread

What did everyone else get done while the board was down?

KITT222 · Post by **KITT222** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:57 pm

Yay!!! The new GV looks great.

ArcsVibe · Post by **ArcsVibe** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:17 pm

This looks fantastic! Enjoying the site on my iPhone.

How are you guys doing?

ligion · Post by **ligion** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 3:19 pm

It looks great! Can we post youtube videos now?? i will try!

edit, it doesnt seem to work....

edit2, i tried several different ways in the test forums and i guess we don't get that benefit. THE SITE STILL LOOKS FANTASTIC!

edit3, IT WORKS NOW THANKS TO AWESOME ADMINS

msu90 · Post by **msu90** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:13 pm

Now I can go back to lurking!

Post by **mkowdley** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:25 pm

ligion wrote:It looks great! Can we post youtube videos now?? i will try!

it should work now... however i don't want a bunch of youtube vids in people's signatures so i might have to do some research on how to prevent that

jkm311 · Post by **jkm311** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:44 pm

I love the pic-loading functionality, and the ability to preview your post before committing. Hey, I'm a guy, you know?

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:46 pm

This new forum software is more exciting than the new recipe for Chef Boyardee

: recipe.jpg (57.83 KiB) Viewed 23499 times

now with higher content of actual food

kostby · Post by **kostby** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:57 pm

Whew! That is the longest '48 hours' I've ever spent!
MAJOR thanks to Mike Kowdley and the consultants!
It's good to be back!

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:19 pm

I too was having major GenVibe withdrawal symptoms! I am currently attempting to catch up on everything I've missed since I was last on on April 10th. The new setup will take some getting used to, but so far so good! It's great to be back!

HUGE THANK YOU TO MIKE FOR EVERYTHING HE HAS DONE AND CONTINUES TO DO FOR US GENVIBERS!!!

09vGT · Post by **09vGT** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 5:51 pm

I was having dreams about it. For real. LOL talk about withdrawal symptoms. Finally got back on! WOOHOO!

star_deceiver · Post by **star_deceiver** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:12 pm

Interesting layout!

bull77 · Post by **bull77** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:15 pm

Sweet - definately easier to browse on the iPad

ColonelPanic · Post by **ColonelPanic** » Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:23 pm

Yay!

Great work, Mike!

BadBrew · Post by **BadBrew** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:02 am

Nice and clean!

Good thing I remembered that I registered with an old yahoo mail address I now use to register on weird sites and receive spam.... Gonna change that immediately.

ramenboy... · Post by **ramenboy...** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 10:22 am

I made it!!!!!! Took about a day, but finally able to log in....

Thanx mike!

And welcome back genvibe!!

zionzr2 · Post by **zionzr2** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:28 pm

Been A long time Since I have checked in here....
Just A Quick Note That I'm still alive and kickin' and lurking about

Things are looking good with the new software.

My Vibe is Still running smooth!!

That is all.... Carry On!!

SnowFish · Post by **SnowFish** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:41 pm

KITT222 · Post by **KITT222** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 12:55 pm

One thing I've noticed. If you post a large picture which can't be contained within the boundaries of the forum, it cuts the picture off instead of adding the scroll or resizing the picture.

Sputnik · Post by **Sputnik** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 1:53 pm

Simple solution - don't post large pics!

Just kidding.

crazytrain · Post by **crazytrain** » Fri Apr 20, 2012 3:23 pm

J_TO_ENVY wrote:I am currently attempting to catch up on everything I've missed since I was last on on April 10th.

Right there with ya. I'm attempting to catch up on everything I've missed since I was last on on Wed Jul 16, 2008

Excuse me while I start some reading

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 4:55 pm

crazytrain wrote:Right there with ya. I'm attempting to catch up on everything I've missed since I was last on on Wed Jul 16, 2008
Excuse me while I start some reading

LOL! You've definitely got some reading to do! Welcome back

!

I just noticed that my post count has gone down significantly. It was somewhere around 3080 before the switch

. I'm assuming it's because alot of my posts must have disappeared with the switch. I noticed my Garage thread was gone the other night, although my mom's was still up

.

tpollauf · Post by **tpollauf** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 5:04 pm

J_TO_ENVY wrote:I too was having major GenVibe withdrawal symptoms!

Finally got myself re-registered and was able to retrieve myself

The site looks great and it will take a bit of getting used to but we all must adapt to changes as life goes on. I also got a lot done while having withdrawals from this great site. I'm not on Facebook or any other forums so this is my social media and I love it

NascarXprt · Post by **NascarXprt** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 7:20 pm

Loving every moment of this new software... but yes this seems to be a reoccurring issue with most users on here loosing at least 25% of their post count before the move. then again this web site community is 10 years old...

Herb · Post by **Herb** » Sat Apr 21, 2012 9:42 pm

I know I haven't been frequenting the forums as much in the past year, but what was the reasoning behind the change over?

Post by **mkowdley** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 12:59 pm

Herb wrote:I know I haven't been frequenting the forums as much in the past year, but what was the reasoning behind the change over?

the company that made the old forum software (it was a commercial product) stopped supporting the software about 7 years ago, and subsequently went out of business. it just didn't seem like a good idea to use unsupported software for so long - there are no security patches, new versions of the underlying libraries (php, perl, etc.) aren't supported, and so forth. there was also no mod community around the old software (zeroforum), so there was little opportunity to expand or improve features available for our members.

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 3:00 pm

Mike, could you please delete this thread for me? My Garage thread has disappeared so I figured I would just make a new one for my Vibe and I'd like to go ahead and just make a new one for my mom's Vibe as well. Thanks in advance!

Sputnik · Post by **Sputnik** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:09 pm

J_TO_ENVY wrote:Mike, could you please delete this thread for me? My Garage thread has disappeared so I figured I would just make a new one for my Vibe and I'd like to go ahead and just make a new one for my mom's Vibe as well. Thanks in advance!

I removed the thread for you.

tpollauf · Post by **tpollauf** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 4:47 pm

So far guys so good .................. BUT I got this message earlier today. Does this new forum software limit the amount of users on at any given time? Just curious as to why I got this message. Thanks & keep up the good work

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 5:42 pm

Sputnik wrote:I removed the thread for you.

Thank you very much!

tpollauf wrote:So far guys so good .................. BUT I got this message earlier today. Does this new forum software limit the amount of users on at any given time? Just curious as to why I got this message. Thanks & keep up the good work

I received the same message earlier when I tried to log on.

Post by **mkowdley** » Sun Apr 22, 2012 11:10 pm

That matter is resolved - the disk had filled up.

Herb · Post by **Herb** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 9:17 pm

OK, because the change over pretty much lost all my attachments from my posts over the years, I plan to gradually find some of my threads that I posted photos and other files and re-upload them.

So far I'm not too crazy on how the forum software cuts off the images for the photos. It doesn't seem obvious that if you click on the photo the full image will show up on a pop up window. Is it possible to scale them when displaying them initially?

Also I've been informed that .wav files aren't permitted, but I can't seem to figure out what would be allowed.

Infinity-x · Post by **Infinity-x** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 10:49 pm

Can we please upgrade to VBulletin? Their software is much more easier to navigate and is more user-friendly as well as better looking.

Look at http://www.hidplanet.com/forums/forum.php to see what I mean. It is so much easier and nicer looking.

Post by **mkowdley** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:31 pm

Infinity-x wrote:Can we please upgrade to VBulletin?

No, we will not be changing forum software again.

Post by **mkowdley** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:40 pm

Herb wrote:OK, because the change over pretty much lost all my attachments from my posts over the years, I plan to gradually find some of my threads that I posted photos and other files and re-upload them.

Many attachments were preserved, but many were not unfortunately. Can you point me to an example of one that's missing attachments? Maybe I can do some research to improve the situation. gConverter migrated most of the posts and I migrated myself the ones that they missed - I still don't have an explanation for why they weren't able to migrate all of them. But the ones I migrated pretty much all got there attachments migrated as well.

Herb wrote:So far I'm not too crazy on how the forum software cuts off the images for the photos. It doesn't seem obvious that if you click on the photo the full image will show up on a pop up window. Is it possible to scale them when displaying them initially?

I don't think so, but I'm also not seeing the cut-off that other people are seeing. I just see the image extend out right over the border of the page.

Herb wrote:Also I've been informed that .wav files aren't permitted, but I can't seem to figure out what would be allowed.

I don't see anything in the server configuration restricting what can be uploaded and downloaded, but I'll look around some more.

Post by **mkowdley** » Tue Apr 24, 2012 11:43 pm

mkowdley wrote:
Herb wrote:So far I'm not too crazy on how the forum software cuts off the images for the photos. It doesn't seem obvious that if you click on the photo the full image will show up on a pop up window. Is it possible to scale them when displaying them initially?
I don't think so, but I'm also not seeing the cut-off that other people are seeing. I just see the image extend out right over the border of the page.

I uploaded an image that was far too big to display, and it is being resized in my browser to fit within the window. If I change my window size and reload the page, it resizes the image again. I think this is the desired behavior. I realize the clicking on the image isn't obvious, it's possible I can get a pointer icon to appear when you mouseover it; let me check that out.

I'm using Firefox 12, if you're getting the cut-off in a different browser, let me know which one.

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Wed Apr 25, 2012 6:02 am

mkowdley wrote:
I'm using Firefox 12, if you're getting the cut-off in a different browser, let me know which one.

I also see the cut off using IE8, IE9, Firefox 3.6 and on my android browser(version 2.3.4)

tpollauf · Post by **tpollauf** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 6:28 am

Not sure what you did (if anything) but my "post counter" is back where is was before the switch! ..................... Thanks

I was at 1039 or so yesterday and now it is back over 1100+ which is where it should be. Another feature missing since the switch is our prestige titles. Any way to restore or replace "member", "god", etc? Maybe at different tier levels also, say 1000, then 2500, then 5000, etc. with different titles associated with those levels. Apprentice, Journeyman, Foreman, Supervisor, etc... (can you see the union side of me here

). Keep up the good work guys

colterk · Post by **colterk** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 1:31 pm

I feel like after the switch we lost a few people. Posts are lacking comments and such. Just feels a little empty. I'm glad that everyone who is still here is here. Also, I keep getting ads right under the gv.com banner, right in front of the board index and home buttons, making navigation almost impossible, any help?
=)

Post by **mkowdley** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:04 pm

tpollauf wrote:Not sure what you did (if anything) but my "post counter" is back where is was before the switch!

Yes, I wrote a program that migrated from the old system to the new system some of the posts that the consultants didn't migrate, for reasons that I cannot explain. The ranks is an open issue; I'll talk to the moderators to start bouncing ideas around.

Also, I keep getting ads right under the gv.com banner, right in front of the board index and home buttons, making navigation almost impossible, any help?

Is this still happening? The layout is still screwed up with some margins and such, but I tested MSIE 9, Chrome, and FF12 and the navigation is clickable in all of them for me. I'll try to work on the layout a bit this weekend, I am not thrilled with it now but have to mull it over a bit.

colterk · Post by **colterk** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 2:08 pm

mkowdley wrote:
tpollauf wrote:
Also, I keep getting ads right under the gv.com banner, right in front of the board index and home buttons, making navigation almost impossible, any help?
Is this still happening? The layout is still screwed up with some margins and such, but I tested MSIE 9, Chrome, and FF12 and the navigation is clickable in all of them for me. I'll try to work on the layout a bit this weekend, I am not thrilled with it now but have to mull it over a bit.

No worries, I've been finding it goes back and forth. But thanks for the hard work, it's looking good thus far. Cheers.

vibenvy · Post by **vibenvy** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 3:31 pm

colterk wrote: But thanks for the hard work, it's looking good thus far.

x2! Thanks for all your hard work Mike! We really appreciate it!

joatmon · Post by **joatmon** » Thu Apr 26, 2012 4:21 pm

It appears that stealth bumping is no longer possible with the new forum software, which is a good thing
Reference viewtopic.php?f=11&t=20145

When you reply to a thread, it bumps it to the top of the active topics list. In the old zeroforum software, if you deleted that bumping post, the thread stayed at the top of the active topics list. ( a stealth bump) With the new phpBB software, if you then delete that bumping reply post, the thread goes back in the list according to the date/time of the most recent surviving post in the thread (where it was before it was bumped)