Some things happening today. Fun will go down at midnight,

[Jim]

After a fair bit of planning and testing, we’re looking at upgrading the forum software late tonight. We will have to shut down your end for a while, but it won’t be too long. It should look much the same when you guys log back in tomorrow morning as many of the changes are under the bonnet. You will notice a few things, we have some significant improvements to the way we display images to mobile users and our search function will be improved.

The media gallery is coming back and uploads and attachments to threads will automatically add themselves to albums. This will make browsing photos and video from touring or technical forums much easier. Yes, I said video!

Video uploads
If all goes to plan we should be able to upload video uploads direct from your phone to a post, because of the massive storage requirement we have purchased yet another a separate server for this and hopefully the storage the upload and streaming traffic won’t be too expensive. We’ll start with giving the facility to life members and if they don’t break the server (or the bank) we’ll roll it out to everyone.

Upvoting
One of the biggest criticisms of forums is that the correct answer to a question can come a long way down the thread with a lot of dodgy advice or comedy in-between. However, no longer. We will have a dedicated Motorhome Questions forum. We will be able to upvote the best answers right to the top of the thread, so eventually, you’ll have the question immediately followed by the best answer. the giggles will still be there for all to see but the right answer will be seen first.

We have a ton of other stuff coming online this month and next. I’ll keep you posted about that in the coming weeks. Thanks

 

[Riverbankannie]

I’m off to look out a video!

 

[Chris]

Good luck.

 

[Robert Clark]

Hope it all works out ok

 

[AndyPK]

ATVB!

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[68c]

I can't let you do that Jim..........Daisy, dai...s.y.....

 

[Skyway]

How you become a life meme we then ?

 

[pappajohn]

Upvoting
One of the biggest criticisms of forums is that the correct answer to a question can come a long way down the thread with a lot of dodgy advice or comedy in-between. However, no longer. We will have a dedicated Motorhome Questions forum. We will be able to upvote the best answers right to the top of the thread, so eventually, you’ll have the question immediately followed by the best answer. the giggles will still be there for all to see but the right answer will be seen first.

How will the best answer be arrived at?

Most answers with same/similar reply?
A search of Internet based answers?
The one you feel is the most likely? (only joking, you don't have enough hours to spare)

 

[pappajohn]

How you become a life meme we then ?

Jim sells limited numbers of life memberships from time to time, you just need to keep looking.

 

[Just smiffy]

I’m off to look out a video!

I’m off to delete most of mine....

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[AndyPK]

I can't let you do that Jim..........Daisy, dai...s.y.....

....and that was a great film!!

 

[DBK]

How will the best answer be arrived at?

Most answers with same/similar reply?
A search of Internet based answers?
The one you feel is the most likely? (only joking, you don't have enough hours to spare)

The clue might be in the name, probably based on "likes" - but we shall see.

 

[Jim]

See you later

 

[Jim]

OK we're halfway there, but we have a working forum, I've been up 24 hours straight so need some kip. See you later. If you have any issues post them in this thread

 

[dryad]

thank you for making the forum better, seems quite a bit different, get yourself some well deserved sleep but when you 've done that, could we maybe have the smilies back and the like/thanks etc buttons please..
(using an ancient ipad by the way in case 'tis okay on mobiles/pc's..)

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[dryad]

like/thanks etc button is there now, thank you,

still no smilies but sure we can live without them for a bit..

 

[DBK]

 

[Podney]

Word of the day.............upvoting!!!!!!!

 

[Landy Andy]

Don‘t know about others but on my iPad area of writing is very small and compressed to the left.

 

[old-mo]

still no smilies but sure we can live without them for a bit..

No Blue writing... No enlarging letters...

My world is falling apart...

But I have found the smileys...

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[Podney]

Yes,mine too. I expect it’ll all come out in the wash,as they say.

One thing about technology that you can always rely on................as soon as you get comfortable about using it,some bright spark comes along and changes it! Cest la vie....Rodney!

 

[Nirvanauk]

Don‘t know about others but on my iPad area of writing is very small and compressed to the left.

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Same here

 

[Gromett]

Don‘t know about others but on my iPad area of writing is very small and compressed to the left.

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Sidebar is missing.

Please be patient, Jim has put loads of hours in so far after the upgrade. Stuff will come back fairly quickly.

This is not aimed at your Landy Andy. Just letting everyone know he is still probably catching some Zzzz's.

 

[kevenh]

Some post writing tools are missing or maybe moved.
Like the shortcut for wrapping text in quotes.

 

[Gromett]

Some post writing tools are missing or maybe moved.
Like the shortcut for wrapping text in quotes.

It is a new in browser editor. To do a quote use this icon

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[Gromett]

Same here

Sidebar content is missing. It will be back

 

[Gromett]

No Blue writing... No enlarging letters...

My world is falling apart...

But I have found the smileys...

Try clicking this icon next to the smiley

Then you can use

and go silly with the colours again.

And then you can use this

to make them bigger.

 

[Gromett]

like/thanks etc button is there now, thank you,

still no smilies but sure we can live without them for a bit..

Smileys are on the top bar 5 from the left. If you can't see them click the 3 dot button. Depends on screen size.

 

[Jim]

Some post writing tools are missing or maybe moved.
Like the shortcut for wrapping text in quotes.

I'm working on that to have the most useful appear at different screen resolutions. Meanwhile. All the writing tools and more are there, click the 3 dots and they appear

 

[kevenh]

It is a new in browser editor. To do a quote use this icon View attachment 445696

I think I’d recognise what that icon would do.
Not seeing it in the initial posts.
I’ll put down the iPad & look around on a desktop browser later.

I’ve tried seeing what’s behind all the 3 vertical dots

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