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

Gareth51 - 4th January 2010, 10:47
Took the pics to work,uploading no problems using windows explorer,dosen't seem to like fox on the laptop

p.dath - 4th January 2010, 10:49
Originally Posted by marty

not having any trouble with mine.

i've got all pix etc turned off - loads well fast

+1. Working fine for me (with pictures turned on). Also using V3.5.6. Try the old "clear cookies, cache" etc standard support options.

motorbyclist - 4th January 2010, 10:50
Originally Posted by Mental Trousers

The new Dark theme is a hell of an improvement over the old one.

awwwww but I liked the old one better

Originally Posted by kwaka_crasher

New 'features' are usually just pointless gimmicks.

+1 seems like a lot of time and effort which can only ever result in an increasing data usage/server load....

Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

I take it you mean 900kb?

if this site is 900kb per page it's no wonder it's nearly unusable on slow connections (like the student wifi at uni and the 64k I usually have for the last days of the month....)

onearmedbandit - 4th January 2010, 10:51
Originally Posted by p.dath

I just did the same thing on my Nokia E61i, and it reported around 521kb of data was downloaded.

I just asked Firefox on my laptop to save the content files. Just the graphic and CSS files come to 446 kb.

So that's three seperate sources I have giving me similar numbers.

Any chance your phone is set to not download the graphics? Or any chance you are using one of the content transformation APNs? I think the APN www.vodafone.net.nz with downsample the graphic files, and remove un-needed characters from web pages.

All graphics are showing up. Not too sure about these APNs you refer too. Access point (if that is what you mean) I use is vodafone internet, not gateway or any others. Obviously something is downsizing everything, however the page looks exactly the same as when I look at it on a computer. Don't know why you would need full sized images etc on a phone display so current setting works fine for all my internet needs.

p.dath - 4th January 2010, 10:53
Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

All graphics are showing up. Not too sure about these APNs you refer too. Access point (if that is what you mean) I use is vodafone internet, not gateway or any others. Obviously something is downsizing everything, however the page looks exactly the same as when I look at it on a computer. Don't know why you would need full sized images etc on a phone display so current setting works fine for all my internet needs.

I would be happier if I could get it to downsize. If you go into "vodafone internet" it should have the name of the "access point" you connect to. It's like to be www.vodafone.net.nz or internet.

I wonder perhaps if you phone being newer has software that works better with the Vodafone content transformation device than my phone. Eitherway, a specialist PDA style would be the best solution ...

onearmedbandit - 4th January 2010, 11:01
Yep www.vodafone.net it is.

p.dath - 4th January 2010, 11:12
Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

Yep www.vodafone.net it is.

www.vodafone.net or www.vodafone.net.nz ?

onearmedbandit - 4th January 2010, 11:26
Hmmm, changed phone to landscape and yes it's .net.nz.

grusomhat - 4th January 2010, 12:20
Originally Posted by babysteps

Hi Team

Auto login for Firefox seems to be fubar. Version Firefox3.5.6.

Clear out all your kiwibiker cookies, make sure you have cookies enabled and try again.

nosebleed - 4th January 2010, 12:35
May or may not have been posted already, but on the positive side... I can now Bling from the iPhone

Trudes - 4th January 2010, 12:43
I haven't tried blinging from my iphone yet, but it used to take 4 attempts to ba able to do it, and even then sometimes it wouldn't let you!
I have a positive too..... It all seems much faster, loads super quick and ya gotta love that!

mynameis - 4th January 2010, 13:19
Originally Posted by crazyhorse

Any chance we can view the forum stats again???? Please?

You wana shee where you're on da bling ladder eh

Rob Taylor - 4th January 2010, 13:44
Please dont use to many colours.Red & green not good for us colour blind ones.Especially for login

cowpoos - 4th January 2010, 13:49
Originally Posted by SpankMe

sorting the new look.

can you make might look like the old one please...I don't like this one.

grusomhat - 4th January 2010, 14:06
Originally Posted by mynameis

You wana shee where you're on da bling ladder eh

Easy enough to see. Go to the memberlist and order by reputation:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/me...putation&pp=30

pritch - 4th January 2010, 14:16
You guys think you've got problems? I've got a new computer, a different operating system, and almost entirely unfamiliar software. There is a manual, but it's thicker than the Tokyo whitepages and could give me a hernia just picking it up.

There's also a new wireless broadband connection to master.

A new look KB is the least of my worries...

For the record, I like!

Mom - 4th January 2010, 16:11
Shit Spank, are you sick of this place yet? Hope you are getting some sort of holiday time away soon. Not important but what does not seem to work as it used to is the new activity widget on the home page, yes it shows new activity, but it is stuck on a few threads. Bottom of the list priority I might add

I am liking this new improved KB, easy to navigate. Will give you a bit of a rest before I start asking the social group questions

paddy - 4th January 2010, 16:17
Originally Posted by riffer

I love the idea of the join date. I'd also like to see what your member number is, you know, like I'm the 220th member to join KB...

But yeah, if you could allow a bit more space for the member info this would help a bit more as both the date, bikes and location on mine wrap to the next lines.

If you are twiddling widths, I'm inclined to thing that the popup for giving reputation could do with being wider. The text field currently scrolls after a couple of words.