As I'm sure you've noticed, I've upgraded the forums to the new version of the forum software.

It'll be a little while before everything is back to normal, especially the look of the place, so expect the appearance of the site to change and things like the wiki and gallery integration to gradually re-appear.

If you encounter any major errors though, let me know!

:Mike:, on 08 August 2009 - 03:54 PM, said:

Good work Mike

Hi Mike!

I'm trying to add some of my vehicle history to my signature and the following message keeps coming up when I select "save changes"

[#10211] You may only use up to lines of text in your signature.

Up to how many lines?? Even when I try one line it still comes up with this message...

I've not set that up yet, so it's something I'll have to look into...

Not to keen on the new look tbh.
Looks exactly the same as the japnortheast forum
and I think that looks pretty gash!
Preffered the cool grey look of the original.

Skins etc can be done in time, its just an updated version of the forum at the moment with new features etc

James B, on 08 August 2009 - 09:37 PM, said:

What he said

The skin will follow (hopefully soon) - I'm looking for something suitable.

Can you make sure you keep the 'Recently Updated Threads' button that was on the left as i always used that!!!

Blimey, this is different!

Will have some getting used too

:Mike:, on 08 August 2009 - 09:40 PM, said:

Cool Mike!
Not knocking the site at all,
I just think that this site has always looked
pretty unique compared to other forums.

Are we going to be using the rep feature?

We are totally abusing that feature on another forum

Not looked at rep yet - again that may follow later.

As you've probably noticed, I've made a start on modding a skin to be an evolution of the old look.
It's by no means finished yet...

Wasn't sure last night when I logged on and ISN was blue an white. But logged on this morning and I love the new look. Good work mate

rockyrobin, on 09 August 2009 - 10:33 AM, said:

Thought i'd got to the wrong page somehow lol

I like the new look so far Mike, can only get better.

Keep up the good work.

kennedyuk2001, on 09 August 2009 - 04:04 PM, said:

haha, yeah me too. Thought it was an error asking me to buy the address.

I much prefer the darker skin Mike, good job.

I have found that I cannot edit my sig....

Heh, looks like the style for double quotes needs a look.

I'll check on sigs later

looking good m8

Double quote colour now fixed so it's legible

crewj, on 09 August 2009 - 04:48 PM, said:

What happens when you try?

Edit - ah, think I know what it was.
Try now...

Like the new green text,
goes really well the grey background

I just wondered though, apart from viewing
the newest content is there also a way of
viewing the last weeks, fornights, months
etc. topics?

scooberuni, on 09 August 2009 - 10:47 PM, said:

Erm, was there before?

Yeah, there was a little box and the bottom and it said something like,
jump to this weeks, fotnights, months topics.
It was quite handy if you'd been away for a while and wanted to see
all the posts you'd missed.

It also seems to be Safari friendly, which is good.

Still looking for a pm I read earlier today though, not so cool.

Yeah it works now, cheers Mike

Good stuff on the new look

The 'Today's active topics' button just goes direct to the forums page tho.

smiley, on 10 August 2009 - 12:59 PM, said:

Ah yeah, a couple of those front page links aren't valid any more - will need to look at that.

Active topics should work now

I was just wondering, with green being the new yellow lol
it makes everyone look like they are now a moderator.
Will you be changing the colour of their names now?

Erm, maybe. Haven't got that far yet!

Just a side thought, can we have a sig size limit. Some of them are massive and it makes it difficult to get through a thread.

Yep, there are limits available on image sizes and number of lines of text now.
I'll be looking at that soon.

I've noticed on various post there seems to be some random gaps for example on the thread between post 26 and 27.. also iv'e noticed when people are posting up pics some of them are obscured by reply posts if ya know what i mean...

scoobysport_2000, on 11 August 2009 - 11:34 PM, said:

Gaps? I've not noticed them here.
What browser are you using?

:Mike:, on 11 August 2009 - 11:36 PM, said:

Im using Internet Explorer 7.. Yea it just has big gaps sometimes between posts and sometimes I cant see peoples pics coz other replies are overlapping them.. Has the new forum been designed for use with IE8??

scoobysport_2000, on 11 August 2009 - 11:43 PM, said:

Well it's been designed to be standards compliant, so should be fine on IE8, Chrome, Firefox etc.
I'll have to have a look at IE7 and see if it's fixable - have been off sick with food poisoning or something today though so it won't be tonight!

Ah sorry to hear that matey.. The ISN Shop link don't work either. Been a while since I been online and was seeing if theres anything new worth getting..

Get better soon!

scooberuni, on 10 August 2009 - 11:19 PM, said:

Mods now in yellow

scooberuni, on 09 August 2009 - 10:47 PM, said:

Aha, yes there is.

From the portal (front page) click the "Today's Active Topics" link.
Then at the bottom of the page that appears there is a drop-down menu - active in the last 24 hours / week / 2 weeks etc...

Can the RSS functionality be extended to include forum posts?
At the moment, it is limited to blogs & calendar, but a forum RSS feed would be really useful.

Fixel, on 18 August 2009 - 11:57 AM, said:

Erm, no idea yet to be honest.
I'm away from home this week, but I'll have a look next week (you may need to remind me )

Doesn't work on my iphone

The lo-fi skin may work on a phone

Did you know that if you click on the link 'Scooby shop' at the the bottom it takes you to the 'Passion Ford' forum? And what happened to the games arcade and the members gallery?

scooberuni, on 28 November 2009 - 08:52 PM, said:

Scooby shop link? Which one? One of the google ads.

I'm waiting for the arcade to be updated to work with this version of the software, which unfortunately it hasn't been yet.
Similarly with the gallery, although I may just invest in the Invision gallery instead, which integrates better with the forums.

I hope to get some time around Christmas to update those kind of things, and to update the skin (I know the current one isn't particularly popular)

This one here:-



I think it's meant to go to the Scoobynet products shop but er, doesn't!

I have been quite bored tonight incase you wondered. lol

The old style look is always still available to those who want to reminisce:-

http://web.archive.o...ex.php?act=home

I quite like the new look though, it's just a bit more green as apposed to yellow.

scooberuni, on 29 November 2009 - 02:55 AM, said:

Aww, I remember that forum