Proboards v5 is now in open beta!

[billisonboard]

May 6, 2012 16:28:52 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

Bill, I believe I've read we'll (as admins) be able to choose, but I don't recall what the max number will be. Here, the default is 15, with a max of 30. I'd expect v5 to be similar.

My early vote is 30 if possible. And I do plan to vote often as well.

[Jaguar]

Yeah I don't like short pages. Canada MSN was like that, I think it was 10 posts per page or something. It sucked.

[Cheesy FL-Vol]

May 5, 2012 17:23:12 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

there are some great new features, such as the ability to select multiple posts to quote. also, PMs are threaded like board posts so that you can see the entire conversation.

I definitely like this feature! Sometimes a person has a couple of messages with the same person, and if you don't "quote" them you can't remember what you are talking about!

[Tennesseer]

Moon or Virgil-were there going to be any enhancements to ProBoards' search function? As it stands now if a poster has 7,000 posts, you can only search the most recent 999. Searching too for words or words in past posts usually results in receiving the following message: " This page took too long to generate and has been stopped. A log of this error has been reported to ProBoards Support."

[Jaguar]

May 6, 2012 19:18:03 GMT -5 Cheesy FL-Vol said:

May 5, 2012 17:23:12 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

there are some great new features, such as the ability to select multiple posts to quote. also, PMs are threaded like board posts so that you can see the entire conversation.

I definitely like this feature! Sometimes a person has a couple of messages with the same person, and if you don't "quote" them you can't remember what you are talking about!

[moon/Laura]

I don't think the search function is really working over there yet, since I keep getting an "unable to connect to search server" error. However, this is what the form looks like.





It also appears that if you click on a user's profile, you may well be able to see all their posts with no restrictions. I clicked on someone's name there that has 29K posts, and it shows there are 478 pages of results, with date stamps back to 2005.

[Tennesseer]

That would be a plus Moon. As of now the search function leaves much to be desired.

Thanks.

[dianartemis]

May 3, 2012 19:32:38 GMT -5 Virgil Showlion said:

Weren't we already in the open beta?

I'm Joe Blow from Kokomo as far as Proboards is concerned, and I was fooling around with their new features on the support board months ago.

VIRGIL WANT ADMIN FEATURES! TWEAK CODE! PLAY WITH SKINS! START TESTING HACK COMPATIBILITY!

VIRGIL BASH! VIRGIL SMASH!!

<<quietly slips Virgil some leftover tranks>>

[billisonboard]

Demi,
You asked over on v5 if the going back to page 1 was a glitch. moon reported it as one. Patrick (whoever he is) said it wasn't supposed to be happening.

[billisonboard]

May 7, 2012 8:37:26 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

I see, thanks Bills. That is good, as that is irritating, imo.

I should modify my answer. It is supposed to go back to the first page that you haven't read. So I guess that means that if you jump into the conversation on page 5 it will take you to page one. However, both moon and I went through each page of a thread and it still took us back to page one. So the real answer is it is both a glitch and by design (with the idea that people should read the whole thread before commenting - a totally alien concept for the P&M crowd ).

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

So far I'm not crazy about the whole overall cosmetic "look" of the v5. Maybe because the Test page is so generic. Maybe some our our current features can make the new v5 NotMSNRefugees more like what we've grown accustomed to. (Like skins, sub-board sections, etc). Navigating the v5 seems more 'clumsy' as well (at least to me).

[moon/Laura]

Dem (and SL), i know the skins that are out there now were thrown up in a hurry, just to give people some samples of the types of things that can be done. We (Virgil and I for sure, and any other mod who feels brave enough to try) will create/ re-create our own, and get any codes we have now back in- assuming they're compatible.


the Instant messenger, aka the shoutbox, will almost certainly NOT be enabled here. moderating it will be a nightmare.

[moon/Laura]

right.. it's a nice feature but not all that practical.

[mmhmm]

May 7, 2012 14:37:15 GMT -5 deminmaine said:

Moderating it would be virtually impossible I would think. At least without constant 24/7 oversight.

OMG, yes! I'd just as soon never see something like that!

[billisonboard]

What a much of pansy-a**** moderators.

[billisonboard]

The feature that I love is the permanent font set-up that moonbeam showed me how to do. If you haven't seen it, check it out (first entry on the page). v5.proboards.com/thread/415618/page/5/jus-checkin-on-creatin#page=4

EDIT: And speaking of such things, should I save that code line so I can use it when we switch over?

[moon/Laura]

yes, bill.. you should ..

sounds like it may not be until december, from something I saw on support today.

[billisonboard]

May 7, 2012 18:48:57 GMT -5 moon/Laura said:

yes, bill.. you should ..

sounds like it may not be until december, from something I saw on support today.

Wow, a Christmas present.

[billisonboard]

Dang, I was just posting a video here and checked for embed"ability" like I will have to on v5 instead of the way to do it here. December???

[billisonboard]

Occasionally we will reset all global accounts
As part of the Beta, from time to time it is necessary for us to remove all global accounts and start fresh. This means you will need to go through the first time login process (described above) again to upgrade your account to a global account. We will announce each time that we reset all accounts.

Does this mean we will be starting from scratch? Like losing our avatar and everything?

[moon/Laura]

hmmm yes.. you will lose your avi.. not sure about the other settings though...

[billisonboard]

I love the "Edit Reason (optional)" box. Wonder if it will be used by very many?

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

Thanks to Photobucket, I have any avatar that I've ever used/created saved there.

ETA: I also have the image codes saved to a document for quick access.

[Jaguar]

I think I'll save my whole meditation thread then.........Seeing as I have until December.

[billisonboard]

May 7, 2012 21:27:23 GMT -5 Jaguar said:

I think I'll save my whole meditation thread then.........Seeing as I have until December.

We are talking about the v5 beta board, not this board, being reset and things disappearing over there. I was only concerned with the idea it is going to be December before this board is converted to the new version and the v5 beta board is no more. I want to keep playing over there while they fine tune it.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

So do I, bills. I want to keep trying out and testing things over there as long as I can. And there's no point rushing. Might as well learn everything right the first time and be ready for when the day comes for the switch.

[Jaguar]

May 8, 2012 0:03:30 GMT -5 ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ said:

So do I, bills. I want to keep trying out and testing things over there as long as I can. And there's no point rushing. Might as well learn everything right the first time and be ready for when the day comes for the switch.

I'm going to be prepared and laughing when that day comes.

[texasredneck]

JUST A PLAY OUT OF MICROSOFT PLAY BOOK, DO NOT MAKE IT BETTER JUST MAKE IT DIFFERENT! WE SELL MORE STUFF THAT WAY.

[ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ]

I hope we can incorporate our current emots window - especially the ones we've had specially created for us (by Virgil and Moon). The ones on v5 are pretty out-dated and 'old' - like the ones first used decades ago.

[Jaguar]

May 8, 2012 12:29:51 GMT -5 ՏՇԾԵԵʅՏɧ_LԹՏՏʅҼ said:

I hope we can incorporate our current emots window - especially the ones we've had specially created for us (by Virgil and Moon). The ones on v5 are pretty out-dated and 'old' - like the ones first used decades ago.

What's on v5 tester is