In other words, the changes are extensive enough to the point that converting skins won't be a simple matter for novice skinners. In many cases it will be easier to just start the skin over.

CSS class names are entirely different, the xHTML is entirely different (e.g. tables only used for tabular data), the template functions are compressed, and we use template plugins to accomplish things previously done in the source files unnecessarily. The look of many pages is entirely different. The changes are quite extensive.

I am so excited.

I am all wet in excitement over it.

CSS class names are entirely different, the xHTML is entirely different (e.g. tables only used for tabular data), the template functions are compressed, and we use template plugins to accomplish things previously done in the source files unnecessarily. The look of many pages is entirely different. The changes are quite extensive.

In that case, can you guys please also provide a dark default theme? It would be incredibly helpful for those of us who have dark-colored forums, easier to tweak.

Dark themes hurt my eyes.

I "think" that IPB 3 is advanced :D

I am so excited.

I am all wet in excitement over it.

Not excited at all, are ya ;)

Not excited at all, are ya ;)

LOL ya I was joking.
Glad you liked my comment. :)

So far, I haven't read anything about whether or not the new version will make emoticons easier to manage if you have lots of them. It would be great to be able to sort or group by theme to make them easier for our members to find.

Also, it would be great if the ACP had an option to set 'quick reply always open' as a global default.

Yes both of those would be nice.

Hello !

I just have one question : will it be easy to upgrade a big board to version 3 ?

Thank you ! :)

what do you consider big?

what do you consider big?

I'm guessing he's talking about by the big-boards standard, 500,000+ posts.

I'm more worried about all my current mods not working. And having to get someone to rewrite them and pay them again!

Yeah that is the ONLY thing that sucks as fara s I am concerned. I am not going to worry much about the mods I sue though since others will be doing them and if it takes a while, fine whatever. But I want my OWN mods to work and so I am going to be obsessive about needing to convert them as soon as possible. As soon as we have any version that isn't encrypted I guess I will start then. I am pretty sure IPS said they would release dev information before the final release where moddes have time to start converting. (I hope I didn't imagine that lol).

I'm guessing he's talking about by the big-boards standard, 500,000+ posts.

Ah ok thanks I wonder how many MB that would be for the post table in the database.
Mine is about 50mb and I have over 100,000 posts. I did delete 60,000 posts that was wroth 20mb so am wondering how big a database is with 500,000 posts.

what do you consider big?

i think i'll stay quiet on this one :P.

what do you consider big?

Sorry. As for my board, I have a 6 GB database. As for upgrading to version 2.3, I never managed to have all the posts content rebuilt. So I wonder about the next upgrade...

Ah ok thanks I wonder how many MB that would be for the post table in the database.

Mine is about 50mb and I have over 100,000 posts. I did delete 60,000 posts that was wroth 20mb so am wondering how big a database is with 500,000 posts.

It depends on the length of the post. If you just post "a" 500,000 times, it wouldn't take much space. However if your posts are at a story length, it may take gigs. As you can never find out a "real answer", why don't you just multiply yours with 5 :P

It depends on the length of the post. If you just post "a" 500,000 times, it wouldn't take much space. However if your posts are at a story length, it may take gigs. As you can never find out a "real answer", why don't you just multiply yours with 5 :P

lol ya it would be 250mb for post on mine.
Must of my posts are short.

Sorry. As for my board, I have a 6 GB database. As for upgrading to version 2.3, I never managed to have all the posts content rebuilt. So I wonder about the next upgrade...

wow that is pretty big the total of mine is 200mb.
How many posts do you have if I may ask.

I have a max size on my database of 100MB so I can't really have a big forum...but I can have 100 databases....

LOl you must have 1and1 as your host.
I left them do to that limitation.

They have awesome storage space (300GB) and bandwidth (3TB) but I hate the limit on there databases.

Ya must over sellers like that oversell have limits in place to keep you from actually being able to use that much space.
Must have things in the TOS that keeps you from being able to use as much space as what is on your plan.
Thats why must people say to avoid over sellers.
As long as its working for you I would not move as it can be a pain to find a new host. Although IPB has good hosting at least from what I can tell.

I have gone into the future to see the release date: Tuesday, November 25'th, 2008 at 3:33 P.M. I am too tired to be sure if it's the final version or just an RC still though...

When the new IPB is released will there also be a corresponding downloadable file that explains/details the skinning of the new IPB.

I am pretty sure they said they would detail changes when the RC versions are out, but I am kind of doubting they would have full skinning guides that soon. Maybe, but in the past skinning guides weren't available upon download.