traktor
10th February 2009, 2.02 am
If you visited during the very wee hours early this morning, then you might have seen the 'forum temporarily closed' sign. We upgraded a software version during the night.
I didn't have to stay up, happy to say. Manish and Mahal from the excellent city of Mumbai (Bombay) did the work.
EMAIL-SENDING PROBLEM FIXED
And, I am mongo delighted to announce, they have also found why the forum outbound emails were not going out. Hooo Raay! Rah! Rah! Rah!
Go, Manish! Go, Mahal!
You rock!
So newcomers should find it much easier to sign on, because the system will now actually send them their confirmation email. Isn't that classy?
I tried to figure this out, but it was beyond my poor skills, so we brought in the Pros from Dover.
NEW FEATURES
With this upgrade, you will discover some improvements in private messaging, including some filtering and sorting, and there is some sort of message history feature. (I've not fiddled with it.)
There are said to be some changes in navigation, though I've not noticed any so far.
Other new features involve something called 'social groups.' I have no clue whatsoever what this may mean. And the long-promised adsense manager, which is a thing that can, once activated, show relevant google adverts. I don't know if this is all the time, or just to people who haven't registered. (Many days we often have 8-9 visitors for every logged-in member.)
There are some bug-fixes in this upgrade, though as far as I know, we weren't suffering from bugs except the email thing. And the email failure was not in the forum software, but in wrong settings on the server, which was denying the apache webserver the right to send an email. Now fixed.
A FEW GOOD MEN
I am also especially delighted to have found these admins-for-hire, because I would hire them again in a heartbeat to sort out any future server puzzles.
MORE WONDERS YET TO COME ...
The vBulletin folks are starting to trumpet about the all new and improved vBulletin version 4, of course. Endless flapdoodle.
Endless progress. Ain't it swell?
.
-- Traktor, Site Engineer
I didn't have to stay up, happy to say. Manish and Mahal from the excellent city of Mumbai (Bombay) did the work.
EMAIL-SENDING PROBLEM FIXED
And, I am mongo delighted to announce, they have also found why the forum outbound emails were not going out. Hooo Raay! Rah! Rah! Rah!
Go, Manish! Go, Mahal!
You rock!
So newcomers should find it much easier to sign on, because the system will now actually send them their confirmation email. Isn't that classy?
I tried to figure this out, but it was beyond my poor skills, so we brought in the Pros from Dover.
NEW FEATURES
With this upgrade, you will discover some improvements in private messaging, including some filtering and sorting, and there is some sort of message history feature. (I've not fiddled with it.)
There are said to be some changes in navigation, though I've not noticed any so far.
Other new features involve something called 'social groups.' I have no clue whatsoever what this may mean. And the long-promised adsense manager, which is a thing that can, once activated, show relevant google adverts. I don't know if this is all the time, or just to people who haven't registered. (Many days we often have 8-9 visitors for every logged-in member.)
There are some bug-fixes in this upgrade, though as far as I know, we weren't suffering from bugs except the email thing. And the email failure was not in the forum software, but in wrong settings on the server, which was denying the apache webserver the right to send an email. Now fixed.
A FEW GOOD MEN
I am also especially delighted to have found these admins-for-hire, because I would hire them again in a heartbeat to sort out any future server puzzles.
MORE WONDERS YET TO COME ...
The vBulletin folks are starting to trumpet about the all new and improved vBulletin version 4, of course. Endless flapdoodle.
Endless progress. Ain't it swell?
.
-- Traktor, Site Engineer