New Forums - Your Say!

[Uber Dave]

not as many smilies as before but we have them

Apart from finding out -

1. You have included a total of 5 images in your message. The maximum number that you may include is 4. Please correct the problem and then continue again.
   
   Images include use of smilies, the BB code [img] tag, and HTML <img> tags. The use of these is all subject to them being enabled by the administrator.

What only 4 smilies allowed!! it's an outrage (Ican't add a smilie to show whether I'm joking or serious!)

Fixed, you should be able to add as many as you want now. As for amount of them the ones we have are the default ones, shall look for a smilies pack of which there are loads and that we increase the amount of them.

My friend spike can't get on here. Has emailed you few times he said but no reply

Its possible he was caught out by the spam protection on his emails when he signed up. Ask him to try again and if it doesn't work can you PM both me and Dabz and we can create an account for him ourselves.

Whats 'tapatalk?

Device specific details here http://www.tapatalk.com but it's basically an app for phones and tablets which let you access the forums quicker.

[Nokesy]

A forum app - can get on iPhone and some (if not all) tablets. Easy peasy to view forum through.

[redken1]

Thanks Dave

[Jacde]

Thanks for being our Geek Dave

[Swanny]

Nice one for sorting it all out Dave

Personally I don't see the point in having post counts, I don't give a monkeys how many posts a person has next to their name.
Some sort of self invented ego trip I guess.

[BB]

Yes, I'm always panicking about you lot overtaking me

Personally I don't see the point in having post counts, I don't give a monkeys how many posts a person has next to their name.
Some sort of self invented ego trip I guess.

[Dabz]

Thanks to Dave for sorting out these little niggles!

It may be an opportunity to explain why we made the change in the first place to those who don't know. Our old software was great, but unsupported and due to be dropped by the development team. This meant we were getting 500+ spammers clogging the system up daily which meant us admins we're spending literally hours each week removing them. On top of that there was little opportunity to back up the forums properly, so we were at risk.

We chose to move to the current forum software because its the most popular forum software in the world, fully supported by a support and development team, and allows lots of modern features and security.

I likely the current moans to Facebook - remember when everyone was going to stop using it because they hates the new news feed? 99% of people will have forgotten that, even though it was only 5 months ago. People hate change but in most cases, change is for the better

Bear with it

[Swanny]

I like this format of forum. I did ditch FB but not because of the look but privacy issues

[Marmalade]

Not a huge fan of the new forum, I find it real hard going.

Saved by tapatalk.

[Uber Dave]

Update - 11/07/13

First update have done this afternoon and added the ranks back. You will all notice now that you have some purple stars under your name on each post. These go up with increments of post count as follows.

0-49
50-499
500-999
1000-1999
2000-4999
5000-10000

The moderators now all have 6 yellow stars and all administrators have 6 red stars.

Next on the list is to add some more smilies for you.