Here are a few notes on the upgrade progress / activity for the forum so far. This release has some fairly significant differences from the version of vBulletin that we previously used, and we've been poking around to try and restore everything that we had customized in the many years we had on the prior version. The fact is we put off the upgrade as long as we could, but we simply couldn't reliably keep the old forum running anymore, so we had to upgrade or risk losing the whole thing. Here is some of the stuff we're working on. Please feel free to note anything else we might have missed. Please note, however, that certain aspects of the appearance/function are now locked down due to the cloud-hosted version that we're now on, and we can't modify everything as freely as we could in the last version. The upside, however, is that speed, availability and security should me much improved.
Known issues we're trying to track down:
Avatars appearing and not appearing depending on how you view the page.
Broken custom post icons (smilies should have been fixed)
Search needs re-indexing
Related posts disappeared (also need re-indexing)
"subscribe" button doesn't work
Mark channels read doesn't work
Giving "reputation" doesn't seem to work
Images posted in the prior version seem to be missing
Other notes on this version:
Tapatalk is not supported, but the template is now mobile-optimized.
Layout and position of items such as login button cannot be changed.
The login timeout has been set for 30 minutes. Advise if this seems reasonable.
No Support for older IE versions. Our limited testing shows IE9 and higher "might" work.
