Thanks to the efforts of one of our regulars “Robby” the new WorldWorks message board is nearly online. The new forum is MUCH faster and should make life a heck of a lot easier for many of you who visit frequently. But what about all of my posts you ask? Well don’t worry about that because Robby has migrated all of the old data to the new forum including all of your user info (A monumental task, all bow down to Robby). It is likely that the only thing you will be required to change with the new forum is your personal Avatar.

We will make an announcement on the front page at WorldWorks regarding the change when its ready. We will also try to point the old forum in that direction for anyone with old bookmarks leading straight to the forum. We may or may not experience a day of downtime when this happens. Just thought I would give you guys the heads up

Actually, I got the avatars to port over, too. I think I got all the bbcode to work properly. The quote code was giving me problems, everything else seems fine. The cool little message on the left under the avatar is going away - phpBB doesn't have that - but your sigs did all ported over without any difficulty.

The last thing to do is to fix hyperlinks - actually only message board links (since the URL structure and the post IDs changes). However, since there are only 40 or so of those links total in all of the messages, I'll probably just do those by hand.

Oh - and you'll have to get used to slightly new icons, too, and probably some new smilies and such.

Hey, Robby...thanks for pitching in and helping out with this.  Welcome to the ranks of the "really nice and helpful people Denny rewards generously with WW stuff"!  

I'm looking forward to the new, improved WW board.

Alright Robby!

Woot!, as they say.

 D

Hey, I'm just glad to be of help. Although, don't get me wrong, the free stuff helped.  ;D


Andorax, Slinky - I think the new board actually has improved moderator control, too, making it faster and easier to do the sorts of things that moderators occasionally have to do.