Please bear with me on this. There is no big room full of programmers hacking away, just me. I have moved to this software as the previous software was only designed to handle boards up to 20,000 users and we had more than doubled that already.

This new software operates in a completely different way and is database based which means that it should be able to handle almost unlimited threads and posts. The main limiting factor now is the server. I expect that if we get more than 300 people browsing the forums simultaneously then we will see some degradation in performance but the server upgrade is expected to take place in the next week or so which should hopefully double our capacity for the time being.

As for everyone asking all the questions... have you bothered to click on the faq (Frequently Asked Questions) link? It is not rocket science and unfortunately I cannot answer all the questions for everyone personally. So, if you have emailed with a question you may not receive ananswer, especially if it is in the faq's.

There will be no access to private forums for a while until I manage to figure out the best way to allow it. It is being worked on. Although this may appear similar to the old forums don't forget that it is completely different underneath all the cosmetic bits and so there have to be some compromises but hopefully all the added features such as being able to see threads in any order you prefer will compensate for this.

Please be patient while I get this tweaked. I have the added complexity of trying to study for a B737 conversion course at the same time and guess which has priority?

Like the new look. For your info I had to reregister as user name and /or password weren't recognised. Or I had forgotten them though I don't think so.
Not bothered but thought you ought to know.

Just testing:

http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/laser.gif

Is there any way my old posts (originally under the name Chickenhawk66, now all changed to siwalker66) can be merged with the newly re-registered Chickenhawk?
I know its not a big deal and that you are very busy. The new board looks good and is a great improvement in general; thanks for all the hard work and good luck with the course

http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/rotfl.gif

Smilies still work obviously!!

See this site for many more such GIFs:

I also just had to create a new username in order to be able to use my old pseudonym. Slightly bemused that there does not seem to be anyway obvious to change an existing username as Danny suggested there maybe. Good job I haven't made too many posts that really would have pissed people off as they now appear under my real name - so much for an anonymous message board hey.

:eek: :eek:

Love these smilies though!!!

Hey, the Top 10 Posters function is pretty neat.

I understand that the totals may not be entirely accurate but nevertheless the top 20 makes rather interesting reading...
[list=1][*]Capt PPRuNe..5386[*]tony draper..2690[*]The Guvnor...1903[*]HugMonster...1339[*]BEagle.......1208[*]lame.........1114[*]Tricky Woo...1100[*]Blacksheep....958[*]OzExpat.......833[*]WWW...........831[*]411A..........831[*]gaunty........817[*]Send Clowns...757[*]Grainger......693[*]Kermit 180....684[*]Kaptin M......678[*]Velvet........677[*]PPRuNe Towers.670[*]Paterbrat.....658[*]10W...........636[/list=1]

Thought Morris Suter would have been in the top 20. Or maybe he is.....

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Ok, I've got the gifs out of my system now, honest

http://www.stopstart.fsnet.co.uk/smilie/guin.gif

Plus many people like myself are gonna lose all previous posts by having to re-register to retain their original screen names which have miraculously vapourised.

Captain PPRuNe, is that a B737 conversion course to LHS?

Assuming so, four stripes suit you.

BTW, this is working well in IE but very wide in Netscape.

The total number of posts is so low on my list of priorities that I think you should forget about it. It is not relevant and proves nothing. 2,000 posts with nothing but inane drivel are not worth one post which is interesting and informative. Please stop going on about the number of posts.

If I can twek the system to ignore or not show the number of posts then I will but as I said, very low on the list of priorities. You have a working forum so please make use of it.

Default for email notification is now 'off'.

All Personal Titles will be reinstated but there may be a bit of a delay. They have to be done manually. If you have changed your username then you may have to remind me when I install them.

Thanks Danny:

Great new software.
Seems to be quite a bit faster than the old one.

Uh, can we now re-instate sex, politics and religion on JetBlast?
:D

Ya fly to Florida these days?
I will buy ya a beer in FLL....:cool:

When reading old forums, it speaks in computer speak instead of word speak ie, when I select space bar, a space appears but when it is read on a forum it reads brk brk and some funny pointed brackets. Smileys et al are also in computer speak. Any clues on how to fix it?

Horror of Horrors! I have now discovered that my E-Mail is available when I before had kept it discreet. Can this be restored?

Sloppylink, just go to user cp, edit options and turn off the relevant email thing. I think it is that easy, I'm no expert though.

I looked at the top 20 posters and I suddenly realised that Guvnor has become very silent.
Is he still registered?

:confused:

Thank you
 

Danny,

A big vote of THANKS to you Danny.

Those pre-upgrade meetings over a pint or three (six who is counting) seems to have destroyed the correct number of brain cells to follow the minimum required number of instructions to enable a piece a of software that otherwise would not be installed to be installed in a fashion that seems to operationally far better than the former.

Looks great feels great, hang on thats the woman, looks great runs real fast !

I agree the number of posts is irrelevant, unless people were obliged to buy you a pint per post ;)

Happy Easter and Thanks

Z

It may be worth pointing out that everybodys e-mail address is now 'visible' with this new software. Mine was 'invisible' with the previous software but I have had to edit my profile in order to make it 'invisible' again.

Regards
Exeng

Danny,

good luck with the conversion.

The 737 isn't a bad machine to pole around in... not a 757 but you get that!!

Why the change in equipment?

Cheers from Dunnunda

Wow, just woke up to a whole new world - looks brilliant! Thank you Danny & crew.

Have to admit...looks spiffy...and works great.:D

Danny This is great
What a way to spend your Easter Holiday :)
Why can`t I get coloured words and large type together? Am I doing something wrong? A java script box keeps appearing. :(

Seriously nice work Danny... one thing (there's always one thing, except when there are five hundred things...)

How come I can post (honest, look, I'm doing it now!) but can't chat - when I login to chat, I get:

Sorry, you have attempted to chat with an email address that has been banned from posting or chatting. We are not currently disallowing the following email address:

666

It's not a 'new software' thing - it's been like this for weeks. And I certainly could chat in the past... I was 'reporting live from NYC' in the chatroom as 9/11 was happening.

R1

Any thread you posted to before you (or Danny) reset the email option will continue to send you notifications. Do not despair. Go to the User Control Panel (the user cp link up there ^) and you'll see you've been 'subscribed' to that thread. Just unsubscribe and they'll stop.

If you subscribe to your favourite forums, on that same (user cp) page you'll get a summary or subset containing just those. Saves a bit of scrolling past the privates or other things which don't interest you. Set the page as your bookmark and you'll get to where you want to be a bit quicker.

WOW! according to my profile, I registered in Jan 1970. :eek:

Oh well, I guess we'll all have to just kick back and wait until Danny gets rid of all the little bugs in the system.

Apart from that - LOOKS GREAT! :D

Yes, must admit, it looks great!
Hmmm . . . the 737! Good luck with the conversion course Danny . . . one thing though . . . I thought Mr Fyne worked for Air 2000. Air 2000 doesn't operate B737s. Conclusion=Mr Fyne is looking for pastures new. (Just a conjecture. Anywhere near?)

Thanks to all at PPRuNe admin for making this enormous task possible! :cool:
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SFly

The best bit of work by ANY despot. I'll learn how to work it all eventually. Thanks and good luck with the studying. :D :D :D

Danny, without wishing to sound like the proverbial gramophone record, I'm really impressed that you have carried out this major task single handed. Mind boggling!

Yes indeed - thanks again for the upgrade.

Paper Tiger - thanks for telling me how to stop the 'notification e-mails'; quite why just turning off the 'send notification' doesn't do just that, I don't understand. I have now 'unsubscribed from topic' and hope that it'll work!

Is this new system 'vBulletin' - the same type of bulletin board software to that used by 'Digital Spy'? (That should get Echelon's alarm bells ringing......)

As Sloppy said, all the vB coded part of the old messages (eg. links etc.) appear as plain text to me too: It seems that the [ and ] characters that are used in the code have been turned into < and > now, and therefore do not work. All these messages look like a big mess now...

Bravo!
 

Danny,
You don't 'know' all that 737 stuff yet????:rolleyes:

Just kidding.

From all of us on the Southwest forum, thanks for the valuable service you provide. We can wait 'til you sort it all out. Turn off your computer and go have a beer -NOW!

PT

(C'mon man. We know there is a vast room of scantily clad techno-babes busily working away on these 'tech bits' while you oversee things from your command podium, pint in hand. God, somebody has to do it.) :D

I Liked The Old Setup Better....
 

Capt PPRUNE and Others,

First, I want to thank you and the other moderators for your tireless work to improve this most EXCELLENT aviation forum. I love it. I am addicted to it. Your work has been tremendous.

However, as a loyal PPRUNER, I must say I am somewhat disappointed with the new "set up." Is it just me, or do others find the scrolling horizontally for all of the posts to be a bit headache-inducing? Some of the posts are not lined up properly - it will start 6 inches to the right of the previous post - so you need to scroll to the right or left to actually read the text.

I found the old format preferrable because you could just read the entire posting in a confined area - in paragraph form. Much easier to read - and fewer headaches from scrolling back and forth...

I love PPRUNE and I appreciate your HARD WORK and dedication to improving things. This message was not ment to upset anyone. Just wanted to add my two-cents worth...


Cheers

I usually right-click the thread I want to open, and select "Open in New Window." This eliminates the pane on the left side giving more room for text. Works like a champ in IE4! :)

Supercalifragelisticexpeallydoshious (sp?)



........except............can we PLEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSSEEEEE lose the ridiculous rating system.

(sorry if this has been asked before)

Test test test.
If it works, thank you very much for your nice work, dispatcher. :D
Yes Mik, looks nice.

GAWD, big, big thread,

it's like a chat room trying to keep up!
good look and feel, sorry about the pre-emptive strike on email:D

Gibbo (wonder if this is on???)