Amy T Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BryanH Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 29, 2008 Share Posted August 29, 2008 Dark themes hurt my eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMac Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 I "think" that IPB 3 is advanced :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Malefickus Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 I am so excited.I am all wet in excitement over it. Not excited at all, are ya ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Not excited at all, are ya ;) LOL ya I was joking. Glad you liked my comment. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zonerz Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 30, 2008 Share Posted August 30, 2008 Yes both of those would be nice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondSight Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 Hello ! I just have one question : will it be easy to upgrade a big board to version 3 ? Thank you ! :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 what do you consider big? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TrixieTang Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 what do you consider big? I'm guessing he's talking about by the big-boards standard, 500,000+ posts. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TestingSomething Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 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). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggi Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 what do you consider big? i think i'll stay quiet on this one :P. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SecondSight Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mert Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3773 Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 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.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 LOl you must have 1and1 as your host. I left them do to that limitation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
X3773 Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 They have awesome storage space (300GB) and bandwidth (3TB) but I hate the limit on there databases. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Amy T Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TestingSomething Posted September 3, 2008 Share Posted September 3, 2008 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... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MonroecountyMS.net Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 When the new IPB is released will there also be a corresponding downloadable file that explains/details the skinning of the new IPB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TestingSomething Posted September 4, 2008 Share Posted September 4, 2008 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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