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

Slyer - 4th January 2010, 09:27
Thanks for putting the user info up the top again, now this post won't be three times longer than it should be.
Looks far to crammed the other way.
The only other nitpick thing I request is to change the Join Date to date only or remove it entirely.
Danke.

scracha - 4th January 2010, 09:31
Dreadful on Netbook and unusable on PDA.

riffer - 4th January 2010, 09:49
Originally Posted by Slyer

The only other nitpick thing I request is to change the Join Date to date only or remove it entirely.
Danke.

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.

Virago - 4th January 2010, 09:56
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...

Hover over your User Name and check the URL - you're Member No 2801...

p.dath - 4th January 2010, 09:56
Originally Posted by scracha

Dreadful on Netbook and unusable on PDA.

Hence my request for a PDA style:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1129596136

EDIT: Just been doing some Wireshark captures. The home page on its own pulls just under 900kb of data on the wire. It you were on a daily 10MB Vodafone plan you could could only safely look at 10 pages ...

boomer - 4th January 2010, 09:59
Can i get a big tittied blonde, perky tits and 6foot. If she's SWedish you're on the money.

Otherwise, carry on the good work

p.dath - 4th January 2010, 10:13
The central column of the home page contains a lot of outdated news items. The home page could be considerably shortened if the old news articles (some dating back to November) were removed from display.

onearmedbandit - 4th January 2010, 10:15
Originally Posted by p.dath

Hence my request for a PDA style:
http://www.kiwibiker.co.nz/forums/sh...post1129596136

EDIT: Just been doing some Wireshark captures. The home page on its own pulls just under 900MB of data on the wire. It you were on a daily 10MB Vodafone plan you could could only safely look at 10 pages ...

I take it you mean 900kb? I mostly log in from my mobile on vodafone and have never seen that much transfer from a single page.

I'm liking the new style, glad to have the darkside back. Also great to have the user info above the post so on my mobile I can see who the author is without scrolling (using opera browser).

Mom - 4th January 2010, 10:16
Originally Posted by SpankMe

Is that better?

Absolutely fabulous Thank you from the blind old farts of the forum

p.dath - 4th January 2010, 10:17
Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

I take it you mean 900kb? I mostly log in from my mobile on vodafone and have never seen that much transfer from a single page.

I'm liking the new style, glad to have the darkside back. Also great to have the user info above the post so on my mobile I can see who the author is without scrolling (using opera browser).

Ahh yes, you are correct 900kb. Pretty easy to reproduce the statistics. Just a tad under 900kb on the wire, and a tad over 500kb of actual payload data.

FROSTY:Me - 4th January 2010, 10:19
mate I'm sorry I really don't like the upgrade. But then I'm not a puter person.
Issues from my POV
1)the wrighting has got bloody small (yea old fart fucked eyes)
2) it uses 125% of my screen (17 inch flat screen)
3) when I type a reply in the dark zone it doesn't show in the text box --ie I can't see what i'm "saying untill its posted.
4) its hard one the eyeballs in light universe. (NOO please don't cast me into pink hell)

Mom - 4th January 2010, 10:20
Originally Posted by FROSTY

mate I'm sorry I really don't like the upgrade. But then I'm not a puter person.
Issues from my POV
1)the wrighting has got bloody small (yea old fart fucked eyes)
2) it uses 125% of my screen (17 inch flat screen)
3) when I type a reply in the dark zone it doesn't show in the text box --ie I can't see what i'm "saying untill its posted.
4) its hard one the eyeballs in light universe. (NOO please don't cast me into pink hell)

Come over to the dark side, it is lovely in here

FROSTY:Me - 4th January 2010, 10:22
Originally Posted by Mom

Come over to the dark side, it is lovely in here

I can't ---I cant see what Im typing.

Slyer - 4th January 2010, 10:27
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.

I look at the join date all the time but I usually look on the profile. :P

onearmedbandit - 4th January 2010, 10:31
Originally Posted by p.dath

Ahh yes, you are correct 900kb. Pretty easy to reproduce the statistics. Just a tad under 900kb on the wire, and a tad over 500kb of actual payload data.

Ok, correct me if I'm wrong. I just logged out and ended my connection on my mobile, then connected to the homepage. Browser said 58kb of transfer, ph said 62kb of transfer. I pretty much only use my phone (n95) for internet use and am on kb numerous times a day, plus other sites. And my browser shows normal websites, not stripped down mobile versions.

Genestho - 4th January 2010, 10:34
I love it! Each day I can see improvements! And the more I use it, the easier the navigation!

Thankyou for your time, effort and - no doubt money Mr Spank!

quickbuck - 4th January 2010, 10:37
Originally Posted by Mom

Come over to the dark side, it is lovely in here

I used to use the Light Universe because it looked better.... The Dark side was just too dark.
Now I actually find the Dark Side is more pleasing on the eyes.... So I will be sticking to that.

Now, as for the "Join Date".... Is it just me or is it exactly where the "Post Date" used to be??
I have caught myself almost accusing people of Mega Tread Dredges at least a couple of times today!

Other than that, I am slowly getting used to the new features...

babysteps - 4th January 2010, 10:38
Hi Team

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

p.dath - 4th January 2010, 10:41
Originally Posted by onearmedbandit

Ok, correct me if I'm wrong. I just logged out and ended my connection on my mobile, then connected to the homepage. Browser said 58kb of transfer, ph said 62kb of transfer. I pretty much only use my phone (n95) for internet use and am on kb numerous times a day, plus other sites. And my browser shows normal websites, not stripped down mobile versions.

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.

EDIT: Just checked my Nokia, and it is using the www.vodafone.net.nz APN.

marty - 4th January 2010, 10:46
Originally Posted by babysteps

Hi Team

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

not having any trouble with mine.

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