For those who have been aware, there was a few hours of downtime of the forum in a situation due to undergoing updates. Everything is back as it were today, but some got a glimpse of a future version of the forum, which will be updated in due time.
A test run was necessary to see potential issues emerging. I read also some of the feedback posted during this, and it appears some people liked it a lot already. I could see that it made many very happy, and that's the point, to feel like the forum is better and easier to be used. But the move is not mature enough to be made just yet. Compared to now, the new forum will be far more powerful and have a lot of implementations, such as:
1. Implemented SS calendar on the bottom of the page [Demon's day, void moon displayed, etc]
2. Current Planets and Moon
3. Ability to apply your own theme [we will have this theme here and a more modern theme. This one here will be the default and everyone will have this unless they willingly change over to a new theme. You will be able to apply another more "rich" theme in your User Control Settings]
4. A news-board of important links
5. Questions of new members requiring answers will have a central space so everyone gets answers.
etc etc.
Due to the situation of testing [unintended, it was believed it would all last around 1 hour maximum based on test runs already done, but life's life], a few comments were lost, and everything is how it was a few hours ago from now. This all has to happen to keep up with current trends, security, ease of access, and better features. This is because we want to put your experience first and give a better and more improved forum, without affecting anything that is presently working and is satisfactory.
We will also soon have a secondary [backup] forum, that will be exactly the same as this one, so in any case whatever happens [enemy or otherwise] there will be a second forum fully functional going for easy assembly there.
As always everyone will be inform on the new secondary forum and on the next official update. Of course, all the other websites are going and everything is now as before.
Forums are to be used in the usual fashion now, and apologies on inconvenience caused.
A test run was necessary to see potential issues emerging. I read also some of the feedback posted during this, and it appears some people liked it a lot already. I could see that it made many very happy, and that's the point, to feel like the forum is better and easier to be used. But the move is not mature enough to be made just yet. Compared to now, the new forum will be far more powerful and have a lot of implementations, such as:
1. Implemented SS calendar on the bottom of the page [Demon's day, void moon displayed, etc]
2. Current Planets and Moon
3. Ability to apply your own theme [we will have this theme here and a more modern theme. This one here will be the default and everyone will have this unless they willingly change over to a new theme. You will be able to apply another more "rich" theme in your User Control Settings]
4. A news-board of important links
5. Questions of new members requiring answers will have a central space so everyone gets answers.
etc etc.
Due to the situation of testing [unintended, it was believed it would all last around 1 hour maximum based on test runs already done, but life's life], a few comments were lost, and everything is how it was a few hours ago from now. This all has to happen to keep up with current trends, security, ease of access, and better features. This is because we want to put your experience first and give a better and more improved forum, without affecting anything that is presently working and is satisfactory.
We will also soon have a secondary [backup] forum, that will be exactly the same as this one, so in any case whatever happens [enemy or otherwise] there will be a second forum fully functional going for easy assembly there.
As always everyone will be inform on the new secondary forum and on the next official update. Of course, all the other websites are going and everything is now as before.
Forums are to be used in the usual fashion now, and apologies on inconvenience caused.