Announcement: please read The site will be upgraded to vBulletin 4 early Friday morning PST. I plan to get started on it sometime between 4AM and 5AM PST. Here's what you can expect. The forums are still vBulletin, though the style/skins are done differently. The first order of business for me will be to get the base S2 skin and then the NBA team forum skins done. Blazers should be done by 9AM PST if all goes as I expect. The forums will have this kind of look/feel, with the red detail and the RipCityTwo.com banner at the top. The buttons are different, and may not be proper color right away. The quotes in posts look different, but IMO nicer. We may lose a few features like Forum Rules and Top Posters, but those will be added back as soon as I can get to things like that. The posting of youtube videos will not work immediately, but is on my short list to get done on Friday. We will be adding flash chat, so people can IM style or IRC style (chat room) chat with each other. We will be adding a few other nice features, like integration with facebook and twitter. The upgrade is not just to the forums, but to the home page and adds several new nifty features that I hope we'll all enjoy. For example, we each can have our own blogs (sorta like having your own personal forum, without having to pay for a supporting membership!). There is also an articles system, which I think we can put to good use (to replace info in some of the stickies). Another big new feature will be the SEO friendly URLs. This will get us a much better search engine ranking and help bring new members to the site. I participate on another site for my job that recently upgraded from vb3 to vb4 and there were a handful of small technical issues that were easily resolved over just a few days. My plan is that I'm taking off work on Friday and Monday which gives me 4 full days to get everything to a state we're happy, and I have full confidence that the upgrade will go quite smoothly. Why now? We just added a new admin who's already doing wonderful things for the site, and the new features enable him to do even bigger and better things. I have plans to write a bit of custom software for the site, and that effort would be wasted on vb3. Plus I think we'll all just enjoy the site a whole lot more. If you have questions, feel free to ask in this thread. Go Blazers! -- Denny
Re: Announcment: please read Damnit! Shouldn't this be off- topic! Just cause you own the joint doesn't mean you can break the rules!
Re: Announcment: please read Thanks for the input, "THE" I want to be sure people get a good chance to read this so they know why the site is so different when they hit the site on Friday.
Re: Announcment: please read You know I'm joking brother, you do a great job running this site. I love it, in spite of the collection of virgin-internet-geeks that you seemed to have collected here! Keep up the good work my man!
Re: Announcment: please read I love posting with you guys. I'm attaching 3 screenshots of vb4 so you can get an idea of what it's going to look like. I figured out how to skin it, but only have the default blue S2 skin on the test site. I'm practicing the install/upgrade to be sure I see any problems that may arise... Anyhow, the third picture is of the Blazers forum (the database is from a long time ago, though). It's blue and says SportsTwo, but it will be red and have the RipCityTwo banner at the top pretty much right away. I can't skin it before the upgrade, unfortunately. You can see in the 3rd image the "post new thread' button is blue. It will be that way until I can get around to making a whole new set of theme-colored buttons.
Re: Announcment: please read My simple request is that the new format doesn't have those highlighted words in the posts that when my mouse goes over the word it creates a new pop up. I don't know if that makes sense but I hate that feature.
Re: Announcment: please read Just a minor suggestion, but would it be too much to ask for you to make MIXUM's post appear in black letters on a black background?
Re: Announcment: please read Full-sized screen shots: http://sportstwo.com/Capture1.PNG http://sportstwo.com/Capture2.PNG http://sportstwo.com/Capture3.PNG
Re: Announcment: please read Denny, since I got you on the line, I think it's time to change the name again. I owe it to all my fans on here to go back old school style! I think HCP is the way it should be! Get 'er done!
Re: Announcment: please read nice to have you upgrading. Thanks. I also here that vb4 has an automated MIXUM positivizer that turns words like KPEE to great GM and gimp to stud.
Re: Announcment: please read If I were you, I'd snap my fingers and it would all be done in an instant! (thanks for the feedback)
Re: Announcment: please read Wow, that's the first time i've been on there in over a year! Game 1 thread had 4 posts! Damn, that place is a ghost town! Denny, beware................
