First off, as the title says, welcome to the new forums.

 

There's lots of new features, as I'm sure you can see, first off I'd like to touch on a few of the "issues" that we do know about in advance, because it's likely you will come across them.

 

• The majority of old BBCode has been converted into what it should be, but some things are still slightly broken, it's possible you may have to edit an old post of yours and slightly edit the BBCode if it didn't come across properly, but as I said, the majority are fine. The main thing we've noticed that has broken are lists, but these are extremely quick to fix using find and replace in notepad. If you find any of your emoticons have been replaced by HTML in your posts, you should just be able to edit it and put the emoticon back in to fix it, if that doesn't work, please PM me and let me know exactly which emoticon is causing the issue and I'll look into it.
  
• The smilies don't look great on the black skin, we're working on it. :)
  
• The title bar of the emoticons panel on the black skin is a little broken, but doesn't impede functionality.
  
• A few (and I do only mean a few) topics have 2 or 3 posts duplicated (usually the first 2 or 3 in the topic), if you notice a topic with this, then please report the topic and write that in the reason box, but don't bother going looking for these topics, only let us know if you come across one, and a moderator can remove the duplicated posts.

 

There's lots of improvements, and as I'm sure you'll agree, listing ALL of them is fairly pointless, so I'll list a few with some extra information (if necessary).

 

Search Speed

We're utilising an Open Source Fulltext search engine on the backend of the forum that should greatly increase the speed and accuracy of the forum search, you should be able to get results for terms as short as 3 characters in less than a second, but yeah, it can take longer so don't hold us to that. :)

 

The Gallery

You can upload your images to the new Gallery, it's split up into 4 categories as you can see by clicking Gallery at the top. Inside each of these categories you can create an "album" where you can upload your images. You are allowed a maximum of 5 albums and you can use these in any combination of categories you wish. All images require a moderator preview before you (and the public) will be able to view them. Once they're viewable users will be able to rate them and leave comments. You can manage your albums by clicking your name in the top right to get the drop down menu, and then clicking "My Gallery". Just because your images have to be approved first does not mean you should upload distasteful images. Initially each user has 50mb of quota for images, and bandwidth is also limited, but we will be looking to revise these limits once we get a better idea of usage.

 

Blogs

You can also create your own blog now as well. First you need to enable it, do this by clicking your name drop down in the top right, then clicking My Settings. Once there, click the "Blogs" tab to activate your blog. The same rules apply to blogs as they do to posts, you are expected to treat Blogs in the same way you would treat Blogscape, with the exception we will allow you to blog about real life there if you wish.

 

User Profile Reports

If you see a user with a bad signature or avatar now, you can click their name to go to their profile and then report their account, rather than having to report the user's post.

 

Changing to Dark Skin

If you wish to change to the Dark Skin, go down to the very bottom of the forum, click the drop down box with "IP.Board" in it, and then choose "Deflection".

 

Updating Profile

You may wish to update your profile settings as users can now have birthdays, to do this, click your name in the top right, and click "My Profile". Once you get to that page, click "Edit my Profile", from here you can manage details about yourself. Currently we are not allowing users to select a photo because it would have to be uploaded to our server, this will *probably* change in the future.

 

Private Boards

If you had access to any private boards before, and you suddenly find that you don't now, then please PM an admin and let them know which board it was so we can restore that access. We have tried to transfer across all permissions but it is possible we missed some.

 

Clan Field

The clan profile field still exists (and should still contain your original data), but I need to look into fixing it as it doesn't work quite the same as in phpBB. It's currently hidden from the view on posts because of this.

 

 

Finally, please cut us some slack, we've just moved over to new software and there's bound to be teething issues, we know that a couple of small things might be broken here and there, but give us some time to sort them out, it doesn't matter how long we spend checking stuff, something always gets through which a user finds.

 

 

 

 

You can discuss this announcement in this topic.

Awesome!!!!!!!!

haifirstpost

We need a skin identical to the old one, this feels like a generic clan forum right now. Which was my main concern before the switch.

I really am not a fan. It feels very very generic. I miss the old feel.

I thought the P in IPB stood for Pro, not Power :smile:

will take a little getting used to. Love the deflection skin tho. :thumbsup:

If anyone wants to use some of their time and knows how to make forum skins, im sure the admins wouldnt mind adding it to the list of skins. :P

(As in making a Tip.It Skin)

 

I really like the new forum!

Fantastic, way to go everyone who's made this possible!

Awesomeness just got a new meaning!

Nice! :thumbup: :thumbup:

I really miss the old feel. Can we get a skin pleeeease ?

 

:pray:

If you are complaining about the DEFAULT skin, change it to deflection. Simple as that. We'll assumeably get more skins in the future as well.

Welcome everyone! :)

Nice! :thumbup: :thumbup:

The Deflection Skin's pretty awesome too! Although it's change! :shock: Will take a bit of getting used to. :P

 

Honestly, great job everyone!

The skin issue was discussed to death quite a few weeks ago. I assume that the admins will be looking for new skins at SOME POINT.

This is so HOT.

They're obviously going to get some more skins in the future, don't complain :P

I like deflection but the blue frames are eww :/

 

Otherwise the forum looks promising.

The deflection skin is hot. You should totally use it <3:

Anyone wanting to make a skin should go crazy, we are always looking :P

 

And there's the Deflection skin for the time being.

 

I know this took a while, it wasn't a smooth process but thanks to everyone involved, the users for their patience, and the admins for their hard work :thumbup:

If you are complaining about the DEFAULT skin, change it to deflection. Simple as that. We'll assumeably get more skins in the future as well.

I hate to sound cynical, but the other skin is also very generic, albeit better than the default. Before Tip.it forums had a very nice unique look to it. I hope to see a skin similar to the one we had before. Hopefully the same crew member can make a similar one. As for now the forums are kind of hard to read.

Great job, good to see that the new forum is now up :)

 

I have one question only:

Is there a "My posts" search function, accessible before through http://forum.tip.it/search.php?search_id=egosearch ?

The above link is what I've always had bookmarked (aswell as home page on Firefox), and I liked to see all topics I've replied to quickly like that. What could I replace the bookmark with?

I understand you can switch skins but this looks exactly like Runescape Communities boards over at zybez. I could have swore the admins said tif would be set apart and thats what was taking so long was making this version of IPB different than the other fansites out there.

I like deflection but the blue frames are eww :/

 

Otherwise the forum looks promising.