Kiwi Biker upgrade to vB4 Suite.

Published on 2nd January 2010 11:31

388 Comments

Over 6 hours. That's gotta be the longest an upgrade has taken.

This upgrade is a work in progress, as there is still much to do. I have modified the code for my Trader, Calendar, Event Attendance, Image Browser & Censor mods to work with the new software, but have still to do the following:

Quote Notification
avatar/profile pic censoring
Profile Rep Stats
Fallen Bikers page
JavaChat Integration
Force Style for Selected Users or Groups
PM Reply to all
Flame Warrior

Mods awaiting an update
Advanced Forum Statistics
Social Group Calendars
v3 Arcade
vBTubePRO
KB Spy
Wiki single login

The old Dark Zone style is not compatible with the new version. As soon as I find a dark style I like, I will add it to the site.

All your images from Blogs, Social Groups, Albums and Posts are now in a central pool which is controlled via an enhanced attachment uploading window. You may need to enable it your settings.

Image censoring has also changed. Now all iffy images need to be in a folder called "pr0n". You can have as many pr0n folders as you like anywhere in the folder tree. Again you may need to enable enhanced attachment uploading in your settings. So yes, you will now need to go through all your images and drag & drop all the naughty ones into a pr0n folder.

Until I've sorted the Wiki single login, you will need to login to the Wiki seperatly using your KB login name. New Wiki accounts have also been disabled. If you have content to add to the Wiki and don't have a login, let me know.

It will be several weeks before I've finished coding and sorting the new look.

Anything not working as it should, let me know here.

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388 Comments

ckai - 2nd January 2010, 16:14
I'm digging it. Very swanky. Digging the cool little things. Maybe the change nazi's should put away their abacus...or is it abaci?

I can see the font size when replying being an issue for the people with arms that are too short.

Originally Posted by p.dath

Man it seems a lot faster!

Agree, heaps faster

Hey the Contacts popup in the Quick Links is bloody cool.

Ixion - 2nd January 2010, 16:17
Posts no longer show the bike model in the avatar area (ie where it shows location etc, used to be under the avatar picture). Which is a loss

No easy way to get to a specific forum - used to have the forum showing on the far right when you did a new posts search, you could jump that way, or go to the bottom of the page and select from the drop down box. Now you have to either open a thread and jump back from the link at the page top, or go right back to the forums home page.

EDIT: Sussed this, forum jump in New Posts Search is there just in different place. No Quick Jump to Forum list box though.

The Everlasting - 2nd January 2010, 16:20
Originally Posted by Ixion

Posts no longer show the bike model in the avatar area (ie where it shows location etc, used to be under the avatar picture). Which is a loss

Oh yeah,I only just noticed it's gone. It was a great feature,I'm sure he will get it back later.

EJK - 2nd January 2010, 16:21
I can't give blings.

I belive you will fix it Spank

grusomhat - 2nd January 2010, 16:27
To those bitching. Give it time, upgrading this stuff isn't exactly easy. It's even harder when you have a lot of plugins installed. Upgrades are essential though for improving security and there's usually a lot of optimization that will speed things up a bit. So, Thanks spank and good luck on getting everything they way you want it.

Virago - 2nd January 2010, 16:32
Originally Posted by EJK

I can't give blings.

I belive you will fix it Spank

Rep "star" now at bottom of posts.

Str8 Jacket - 2nd January 2010, 16:32
Is it just me or is the arcade gone?

Dan Mapp - 2nd January 2010, 16:32
The rudie avatars are showing

The Everlasting - 2nd January 2010, 16:34
Originally Posted by grusomhat

To those bitching. Give it time, upgrading this stuff isn't exactly easy. It's even harder when you have a lot of plugins installed. Upgrades are essential though for improving security and there's usually a lot of optimization that will speed things up a bit. So, Thanks spank and good luck on getting everything they way you want it.

Agreed,we should be grateful for the update,and remember the huge time and effort that it takes him.

A couple of weeks,and it will be like it was before.

DJSin - 2nd January 2010, 16:39
It looks great! Thanks

EJK - 2nd January 2010, 16:40
Originally Posted by Virago

Rep "star" now at bottom of posts.

Is it just my Internet bowser or do others get "Error on page" message when the star is clicked?

dangerous - 2nd January 2010, 16:42
Originally Posted by grusomhat

To those bitching. Give it time, upgrading this stuff isn't exactly easy. It's even harder when you have a lot of plugins installed. Upgrades are essential though for improving security and there's usually a lot of optimization that will speed things up a bit. So, Thanks spank and good luck on getting everything they way you want it.

You stop ya bitching about bitching...
its a forum for discusion that is what we are doing, 'bitching' is a bit strong... and yes we know it is most likely uncompleat and nessary, us old fukers dont need to thank spank he knows we apresiate it.

NOW why aint I getting notifacations
WERES me bling page?
HOW come I still have infraction page hahaha *humph*

Virago - 2nd January 2010, 16:51
Originally Posted by dangerous

...why aint I getting notifacations

Go back to post 1 - top of the list.

Originally Posted by dangerous

WERES me bling page?

Click on Settings - top right of page.

Originally Posted by dangerous

HOW come I still have infraction page hahaha *humph*

Because we still luffs ya...

grusomhat - 2nd January 2010, 16:52
Originally Posted by dangerous

You stop ya bitching about bitching...
its a forum for discusion that is what we are doing, 'bitching' is a bit strong... and yes we know it is most likely uncompleat and nessary, us old fukers dont need to thank spank he knows we apresiate it.

NOW why aint I getting notifacations
WERES me bling page?
HOW come I still have infraction page hahaha *humph*

Haha

Probably was a bit strong but then HTFU

Rockbuddy - 2nd January 2010, 16:56
awesome changes love it

flyingcr250 - 2nd January 2010, 17:06
i like it, hopefully the darkside will be back soon, i think ive got snowblindness ha ha ha

good work!!!!

davebullet - 2nd January 2010, 17:09
Darkside is missed.... darkside makes the site sleazier (eg. what I like about it)

Virago - 2nd January 2010, 17:13
Who's Online is a bit screwed-up. Last Activity option is reverse order and can't be changed. It reverts to back to User Name option on auto-refresh.

Toot Toot - 2nd January 2010, 17:17
I cant find how to access the KB mail server. Used to be the mail icon in the top right corner that would open a pop up. How do I check my mail now?

Cheers man, interesting changes.

Hopeful Bastard - 2nd January 2010, 17:18
Originally Posted by Toot Toot

I cant find how to access the KB mail server. Used to be the mail icon in the top right corner that would open a pop up. How do I check my mail now?

Cheers man, interesting changes.

Notifications - Top right hand corner and then click Inbox

that what you after?