Forum To Be Temporarily Down For Updates

**Steve Williams** · 06-12-2012, 07:13 AM

Both myself and Amir as well as the rest of our administrative team have been staggered by how busy WBF has gotten recently. To that extent an update of our current version of vBulletin is scheduled for sometime later today which will result in the forum being temporarily closed until the update is complete. I have been told that it should take no longer than one hour to complete. Hopefully the update will go without a hitch but often times glitches are found. We will endeavor to immediately correct these as they are found. Sometimes these glitches can temporarily disrupt smooth flow of the forum until resolved.

I would request that all problems (if any) noted by members be directed to either myself or Amir so that we can look to resolve these

We are many iterations behind current and will be upgrading from version 4.0.2 to 4.2. You will notice many sensational new features once the update is complete

Thanks again to everyone for helping to make WBF the fastest growing site of its kind on the internet. We could not have achieved this without everyone's support

**Steve Williams** · 06-12-2012, 08:47 AM

Upgrades are completed. Initial observation is that the icons on the home page are crowding the topic of each forum and this can easily be fixed.

Stay tuned but please let me or Amir know if you find any other problems

Also enjoy all of the new features of the upgrade

**Keith_W** · 06-12-2012, 10:08 AM

FYI - the "Mark forums read" function no longer seems to work.

**amirm** · 06-12-2012, 10:52 AM

That should be fixed now. It is a drop down list in the new software.

**NorthStar** · 06-12-2012, 11:28 AM

So far, so good?; too many new frontiers without the classic (golden) touch of yesterday; blue.
Design presentation in some specific areas are less than stellar. Like when posting for example.

* But give me till the end of the day for precise allocation, and fair assessment.
& I'm sure you guys need some more time as well.

** I see some new toys; gotto experiment with some of them ...

*** Always fun to play with the NEW.

EDIT: It all starts to make sense now. And I can see that few things are still being worked on.
Also, I see a yellow rectangle that says [Auto-Saved]. ...That could be useful no?

=> ...Bottom right when posting or editing, and popping up at regular time intervals.

**NorthStar** · 06-12-2012, 12:02 PM

By the way, did you guys noticed the traffic we had on June 6th?

**Steve Williams** · 06-12-2012, 12:55 PM

we did Bob. One of the reasons we did the upgrade

**Steve Williams** · 06-12-2012, 01:06 PM

Originally Posted by Keith_W

FYI - the "Mark forums read" function no longer seems to work.

This has been fixed as Amir stated but I wanted to bring to everyone's attention the fact that version 4.2 is laden full of new features as well as changes in the old ones.

Pushing the "What's New" button will show what is called an activity stream showing recent activity with all posts. To see what you are accustomed to seeing when you push this button, I suggest that you click on "new Posts" button in the line just below

**Steve Williams** · 06-12-2012, 01:07 PM

Also if you log into the site from your mobile phone you will notice that there is now a mobile app to make things happen quicker

**Steve Williams** · 06-12-2012, 01:31 PM

One other thing to mention as I have been waiting to see if Bob noticed. Specifically (as we anticipated) we lost our newly constructed emoticons however Amir is working to get them reconstructed. I promise they'll be back up soon Bob.

Notice that the old emoticons are still there and can be used in the interim