New Community coming tomorrow

[Ben]

Tomorrow morning, the Community will be updated with the following changes:

• A new design styled on the new actinic.co.uk website
• A new forum category to operate as the new knowledge base
• Moving to a new server

The suggestion to move the knowledge base to Community was made on here some months ago and it brings with it several benefits:

1. You will now be able to find both forum threads and KB articles when you use the search in the navigation bar at the top of each page. (You can also search the knowledge base alone using the advanced search.)
2. You can comment to the KB articles and suggest amendments. We will operate a policy to read all comments, incorporate them into the article (where applicable) and then delete them to keep the article uncluttered.
3. You can rate the KB articles for usefulness with the 'Useful Thread?' link at the top of the thread, and we plan to arrange the articles by their usefulness.

We hope this makes it easier to find the articles you need.

There will be some disruption to Community as these changes are made. Community will not be available from 10am tomorrow for a period of up to 30 minutes. Following that it will be available in the current format, but all threads locked and read-only whilst the system is updated and DNS is propagated. As the DNS changes over, you will see the new Community and will be able to post and comment to threads.

Ben

[Darren B]

good news Ben will you also be updating the version?

[Ben]

Thanks Darren. There are some incremental updates we will apply tomorrow but we won't be upgrading to vBulletin 4 at this stage.

[Darren B]

Nah i only ment the latest incrementals but the option to have alternatives themes would be good though, then the user can select the one they prefer and this also allows you to install a smart phone theme for those requiring one i would post a link to a forum to demonstrate this but i cant.

[Chunkford]

Nah i only ment the latest incrementals but the option to have alternatives themes would be good though, then the user can select the one they prefer and this also allows you to install a smart phone theme for those requiring one i would post a link to a forum to demonstrate this but i cant.

+1
having a design for a smart phone is very productive when sat in a coffee shop somewhere

[pinbrook]

+1
having a design for a smart phone is very productive when sat in a coffee shop somewhere

agreed +1 ....

[Goz]

+1 for me as well.

And the "Thank You" button would be useful too.

[Darren B]

And the "Thank You" button would be useful too.

I find this usefull and think its a great idea - KUDOS

[guccij]

omg my eyes my eyes

PS I love it.

PPS +1 for the mobile version

[Darren B]

Noooooooooooooooooooooo

please give me themes - i cant use it, seriously i think its kin awful

[taliesyn]

Noooooooooooooooooooooo

please give me themes - i cant use it, seriously i think its kin awful

+1

I'm all for progress, but I much preferred the old design

[peblaco]

Hm not bad. I prefer when the name and user information are to the left of posts as it stands out more to me reading left to right but will get used to it. Other than that much the same but a lighter feel.

[leehack]

It's not a fluid width, is this on purpose? Much better when it filled the screen IMO, i have large areas of nothing either side on both screens.

Hover state on the support centre button is moving around, css needs a tweak i think and bit disappointed not to see links to the AUG also, if we're centralising resources, then let's do so properly.

[Mike Hughes]

I agree with Lee about the fixed width. I'm sure the previous version filled the whole screen.

I'm also finding it less easy to see which sections have new posts in them. The two different actinic icons are too close in colour and shade.

Mike

[pinbrook]

As with the main site the colours need a little more depth to tone it down abit - it is a bit bright and not dawn or tired eye friendly. Header is quite deep, esp on netbooks.

Css could do with a tweak to add link, alink, vlink colours - red/blue defaults somewhat clash. Its a shame the colours were changed but the css and icon set remains original Vbulletin - half a job?

BUT I love the KB integrated 10/10 for that

Missing the Google search feature

[EDIT] after a few mins the colour scheme does grow on me abit but dare I say it but it is abit girlie, a pink forum does smack of femininity rather than hard core IT