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:

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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

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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

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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