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jennik

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,14:44

Greetings fellow soldiers!

This forum and its servers have been active for a very long time, we’re proud that these days there are more than 50,000 members. However, such an amount of users and traffic is going to be too heavy a task for an old fashion Ikonboard engine. This forum definitely deserves a new engine and location.

It's my pleasure that I can now introduce you to the public beta of our new Bohemia Interactive forums! Before the official opening, we would like to ask for your help to beta-test.

Link: Bohemia Interactive Forums - Public Beta at forums.bistudio.com

Forum will be reset again

Note: Any post and threads made on the new forum, account changes, passwords, modifications etc. at the Public Beta Forums will be lost once the forum will be upgraded as the primary forum. Use the new forum only for testing, not for real discussion, this stays here on the old forum until further notice.

Please, pay attention to these known issues:

1) Passwords don't work - You need to use Password Reminder at the new forum to reset your password. Keep in mind you will need the email address you used for registration at this (old) forum. If you no longer have access to the Email address in your account here then send Placebo a PM with your new Email address and he will change it manually for you, please do not attempt to manually change your Email address as that will make your account inactive due to an Ikonboard bug.

2) Broken BBcode signatures - - Might be corrected in final version, but most probably you will need to change them yourself.

3) Broken user names - If your user name contains non-standard characters it might not work at the new forum. We expect that around 100 users could potentially experience this issue. Fortunately, this doesn't mean these accounts will be unavailable; we already have a solution which will correct this issue in for the final public version.

4) User groups - It might be that your account will not be correctly moved to the original user group. This will be corrected in the final version.

5) Moderating rights - - If the moderators experience some issues or limitations, report it to the Moderating Forum here.

! Please, report to this topic any other issues or limitations you may encounter.

:wel:

Edited by Suma on Dec. 12 2008,16:36

colossus

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,14:52

Wohoo! Finally a brand new forum system! Thank you BI! :love:

EDIT:
It seems I can't register nor log in:

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-The email address you entered is already in use. If you have forgotten your password, please click here.
-That username is already in use or does not meet the administrator's standards. If you are Colossus and you have forgotten your password, click here.

Attempting to log in will result in a 'wrong password' message.

Edited by colossus on Dec. 12 2008,14:59

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All I can report is a size 10.

_Xeno_

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,15:05

Did you reset your password ?

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1) Passwords don't work - You need to use Password Reminder at the new forum to reset your password.

After you have done a password reset login is no problem anymore.

Xeno

Edited by _Xeno_ on Dec. 12 2008,15:05

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Snake Man

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,15:11

It says "Your PM box is 100% full." even though in this "old" forum there is still plenty of space. So private message box settings in new forum don't match with the old one.

Good choice for forum software, while vBulletin is not my favourite forum software, its well known and I assume quite stable. So I'm looking forward of doing Forum Business in the future for ArmA / ArmA 2 etc

Edit: Also my signature turned out weird on the vBulletin conversion, it looks like this:

Code Sample

http://\"http//tactical.nekromantix.com\"

However it should be naturally just http://tactical.nekromantix.com

Hope that helps to tweak the conversion process

Edited by Snake Man on Dec. 12 2008,15:20

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colossus

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,15:12

Quote (_Xeno_ @ Dec. 12 2008,15:05)

Did you reset your password ?

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1) Passwords don't work - You need to use Password Reminder at the new forum to reset your password.

After you have done a password reset login is no problem anymore.

Xeno

Ah.. hehe. :oops:

I was sure it was refered to the 'Remember Me?' button at the quick login, which will remember your password. AKA a Password Reminder.

Edited by colossus on Dec. 12 2008,15:14

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All I can report is a size 10.

jennik

Group: BI Developer
Posts: 62
Joined: July 2003

Posted: Dec. 12 2008,16:17

Quote (Snake Man @ Dec. 12 2008,15:11)

It says "Your PM box is 100% full." even though in this "old" forum there is still plenty of space. So private message box settings in new forum don't match with the old one.

....

Edit: Also my signature turned out weird on the vBulletin conversion, it looks like this:

Code Sample

http://\"http//tactical.nekromantix.com\"

However it should be naturally just http://tactical.nekromantix.com

Hope that helps to tweak the conversion process

1) default PM storage settings is 50 messages, so what number would be enough for you?

(already set to 100 for reg. users)

2) I have mentioned the issue with signatures...

sparks50

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,16:38

Let me sneak in a "awesome".

Also thanks for putting the Arma edit section on the same page as the rest of the Arma board.

I'm not too sure about the lack of functionality and color scheme, but I guess thats where the "beta" comes in.

Edited by sparks50 on Dec. 12 2008,16:43

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jennik

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Joined: July 2003

Posted: Dec. 12 2008,16:47

Quote (sparks50 @ Dec. 12 2008,16:38)

You should be now. Moderators, please check moderating forum here for more instructions.

Snake Man

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,17:05

Quote (jennik @ Dec. 12 2008,17:17)

1) default PM storage settings is 50 messages, so what number would be enough for you?

(already set to 100 for reg. users)

Well, if you convert from one forum software to another, naturally you shouldn't decrease some limits "on the fly" as then some things are deleted automatically like in this case the private messages.

I guess 200 is the limit in ikonboard forum, I really think it should be the same on vBulletin on the conversion moment, if you guys want to decrease it later, please inform users before doing so that "important" messages can be saved by deleting others.

As for how many it should be... well I guess its decision based on technical aspect and admin preference. Technical side considering, I believe vBulletin uses mySQL so having a large, private message config should not strain your server... But, please keep it at least the same as in ikonboard.

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mr.g-c

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,17:07

Yes thats a very great step forward...
What i would like to suggest, is when you go into the "Arma2-Section" that the whole theme changes into the color scheme which the Arma2-Homepage uses.
So to speak, not only the background-image but also the red-ish/orange-ish into that more "darker" scheme....

Anything else seems to be looking very good!
Good Job!

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,17:16

haha, Placebo spanked me in the new board.

I've hosted vBullentin before, any chances of the features such as games/casino being added?

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,17:50

Its too white behind the txt hard to read.

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Kronzky

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,18:10

I'm not sure if the color scheme is final, but if anybody wants to change it, to match their personal preference, here's how you can do it (that is, if you use Firefox).

Find your profile folder (this will be something like C:\Documents and Settings\[username]\Application Data\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\[someRandomCode].default). If there are several profile folder, add a new entry to your bookmarks, and then look where the newest version of places.sqlite ended up.

Go to the \chrome folder in there, and open (or create) the file userContent.css

Add the following lines:

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@-moz-document domain(forums.bistudio.com) {
:link {color:#a21a21 !important}
body, .thead {background:#666 !important; color:#fff !important; background-image:none !important}
}

Now you can play around with the color definitions, and make'em look any way you want. The color definitions that I entered above, just to make it a bit more readable, look like this:

.
Not perfect, but it's a start...)

Edited by Kronzky on Dec. 17 2008,23:46

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,18:28

whahooo!

Santa is early this year!

this is a small step for a webmaster, but a big step for the community!

[edit]
i see all data was ported, and therefore i have to rephrase.
so, here it goes.

A small step for the community, and a pain in the ass job for the webmaster.
respect!

BUG(?) or Feature missing.

I have been trying to get VIDEO in the BIS forums, and succeeded.
it seems that the VBulletin doesnt allow flash embedde.

* falls down on his knees and beggs *

PLEASE PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE ENABLE FLASH EMBEDDING!

example of what i mean:
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Edited by jerryhopper on Dec. 12 2008,19:08

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jennik

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Posted: Dec. 12 2008,21:20

Quote (jerryhopper @ Dec. 12 2008,18:28)

it seems that the VBulletin doesnt allow flash embedde.

* falls down on his knees and beggs *

PLEASE PLEASE, PRETTY PLEASE ENABLE FLASH EMBEDDING!

I went through the settings and it seem it doesn't support flash. I would be solved by allowing html tags, but it's very dangerous and might cause very serious issues and attacks. I'm sure there must be some plugin for vBulletin to allow flash embedding, I'll check it out.

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