And the forum could be off and on throughout the day. Just want to get all this done now so we can iron out glitches for the start of the season. VB6 is right around the corner for us.
OT: We Are Performing Upgrades And Other Tech Stuff Now
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First phase is we have to update the PHP and Database to a higher version to be able to accomodate the VB6 minimum requirements. Rolling Thunders team at Namecheap...who graciously hosts us for free...should have that done fairly soon. I will then turn the forum back on until my tech decides its ready for the new software.
Ill keep you posted.
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Ok site is back on.
But be prepared at any moment for it go back offline for the actual VB6 install. Could be a little while. And then we will have to iron out some things maybe. If i feel like the forum is usable for you guys....i will turn it on and make fixes while you guys are posting. Unless its just a total mess i will need to keep it turned off and dive into the issues. This is to be expected but fingers crossed this is a seamless transition.
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Originally posted by Fleet 1 View PostOk site is back on.
But be prepared at any moment for it go back offline for the actual VB6 install. Could be a little while. And then we will have to iron out some things maybe. If i feel like the forum is usable for you guys....i will turn it on and make fixes while you guys are posting. Unless its just a total mess i will need to keep it turned off and dive into the issues. This is to be expected but fingers crossed this is a seamless transition.
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We are all up to date now with V6. Hard to tell much of a difference. Ill post the updates as a list...
Announcing the launch of vBulletin 6.0.0
Tue 22 Aug '23, 10:48am
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VB6-123: Stray characters on post user block when a user selects no avatars.
VB6-133: Cron doesn't get triggered by AJAX inVB5 style
VB6-102: Integrate Shopify package into core
VB6-75: Turn off Reputation Display on New Installs.
VB6-89: Set Default logo onVB5 Style to SVG.
VB6-38: Copyright stands out too much.
VB6-50: Calender Events need better contrast.
VB6-15: Add a default robots.txt for new installs
VB6-23: Make Moona-Lisa the default ckeditor theme forVB6.
VB6-78: Change border in .list-footer to top or remove
VB6-36: Add Winter & Halloween themes to theVB release package.
VB6-101: Shopify buy button on RSS feed widget
VB6-86: Polls in search results widget are not displaying correctly
VB6-85: Approving posts won't remove the 'Unapproved post' text in message
VB6-29: Closing forums reports an internal error
VB6-76: Fix height on editor picklists in theVB5 shim
VB6-99: If the Shopify Package is enabled and no API key is present, the front-end throws an error.
VB6-17: Clean up winter/halloween themes
VB6-22: Display Break Points are broken.
VB6-91: Reactions permissions and admin help updates
VB6-45: Check legacy style's message center
VB6-51: The icon for "Go To Last Post" should be updated.
VB6-69: Replace the phrase "Show Namecard" with icon.
VB6-42: Blog and Group toolbar doesn't collapse properly
VB6-84: Cannot import Product with custom page.
VB6-81: Process new post notifications offline
VB6-87: Header search button is too large on .l-small
VB6-83: Move the add reactions svg icon to the icon sheet
VB6-82: b-userinfo sharing menu dropdown conversion logic is broken
VB6-40: Blog Summary displays double border for avatars.
VB6-33: Honor the avatar border radius
VB6-49: Activity Stream - Padding needed between border and text.
VB6-52: Vertical tabs in User Help/Manual need improved styling.
VB6-80: Harden event queue against errors
VB6-92: (internal) New Theme work
VB6-106: Shopify package for buy bbcode
VB6-97: Update global_palette_text_06 for dark theme
VB6-93: Get rid of .js-shrink-event-* requirement for .js-comp-menu-horizontal conversion to select logic
VB6-37: Reactions - Notifications
VB6-20: Cleanup font styleVariables.
VB6-41: Update Message Center Icons.
VB6-66: "Edit Site" should be clickable.
VB6-104: Migrate SVG Icons to Material Icons.
VB6-35: VBulletin 6 Dark Theme
VB6-28: Allow to like topic comments
VB6-88: Can't add a reaction in search results
VB6-71: In some cases themes import into default style
VB6-98: Issues with Editing Module Dialog…
VB6-74: Cannot uncheck to removeVB5 Default Style from user selection
VB6-44: Latest Activity comment's "reply" link is incorrect
VB6-27: VB5 Style should have a higher display orderValue.
VB6-9: VB5 Defaults styles not properly rebuilt on upgrade
VB6-4: Warnings in upgrade beta 2
VB6-67: Fix themes forVB6 style
VB6-25: Remove old style generator
VB6-72: CreateVB5 style shim
VB6-24: Poppins font format
VB6-13: different majorVersion ofVBulletin translations breakVB6 upgrade
VB6-18: Multiple Guest Connections from Same IP Not Search Engines
VB6-11: Potential Cookie Issue
VB6-12: Add Hover Profile Preview functionality
VB6-26: Some topics not being indexed properly in Google
VB6-14: invalid_profile_userid error cannot access topic
VB6-10: Add "rebuild nodes" tool in AdminCP under General Update Tools.
VB6-19: Populate existing node descriptions with content summary
VB6-55: Remove inline js for admin help
VB6-57: Regression:VBulletin Admin News is not dismissed.
VB6-54: Cleanup faq admincp and remove obsolete code
VB6-58: Clean up warnings on notice page
VB6-56: Clean up checkbox code for prefix permissions
VB6-62: Remove inline script in diagnostics page
VB6-64: Remove suhosin check from diagnostics
VB6-61: missing "date" in user manager >View change history
VB6-59: Remove obsolete gzip option
VB6-63: Fix issue with style upload
VB6-53: Warnings in the group creation process
VB6-70: Remove the autoexport_backup directory
VB6-60: Remove obsolete addheaders option
VB6-21: Consolidate upgrade step files
VB6-68: Implement sprite url tag in front end
VB6-16: Clean up warnings when creating/editing stylvars
VB6-65: Update mysql minimumVersion
VB6-34: Site Builder: Must click "Style" twice to open.
VB6-73: Reorder base hidden template styles.
VB6-48: GD deprecated function signature.
VB6-90: sprint312 demo issues
VB6-30: Add URL Suggestions to the Navigation/Footer tools in Site Builder.
VB6-103: Shopify integration for 5.7.3
VB6-96: Topic reactions internal ticket
VB6-46: Remove setting blog_pagetemplate
VB6-32: Settings → Options → Site Name / Contact Details → Company Address (setting[address])
VB6-39: Blog Home Module should list 12 blogs by default.
VB6-43: Groups Home Module should list 18 or 21 blogs by default.
VB6-100: Shopify Package description needs to be updated.
VB6-95: (internal) Topic reactions reputation porting
VB6-77: Update $vbMaxVersion &Vbulletin dependency maxversion for products
VB6-31: New icons library
VB6-94: Update readmes
VB6-47: Update the credit section in admincp
VB6-6: Reactions do not work in the results of an activity stream.
VB6-2: Quotes and code blocks are large as possible
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