[ANNOUNCEMENT] New forum software - Please bear with us!

[Watzup7856]

Yea I've noticed that the old spoiler and youtube tags are broken for this forum

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[Gummywormz]

Images in image tags are also broken. RIP Screenshots thread.

You can probably write a script to fix it. They just added an extra HTTP:// for some reason. Old spoilers can be fixed as well since all that broke them was a unique id.

[SmashTheEchidna]

Speaking of images, I noticed that a bunch of people's avatars seem to have vanished as well.

[Yoshiatom]

That's likely because the board now only accepts avatars that are 128x128 or under. (Not that it tells you about this...  > )

[fortegigasgospel]

Fixing images is as easy as hitting the edit icon on your post and then saving, they will show back up.
Not sure about youtube links.
As for old spoilers it seems to have added some coding after "spoiler" so simply remove those and the spoiler will show back up as intended. If you edit without removing these they will show up in text. Anything that was inside your spoiler won't show up until you edit though.
Also SPOILERS INSIDE SPOILERS! We can compact our posts a lot more now which I've already gone and done on key pages (first and last) of all my threads.

[Gummywormz]

They were 128x128 originally. It's either the same problem with the image tags or they simply did not get saved, since when I went to my profile the link to my old avatar was no longer there.

[easyaspi]

Wow, this is kinda disorienting. Thankfully there's a couple of different style themes that you can use, but hard to say if any of them will match the simplicity of PHPBB.

Edit: Why the heck does does my IP show up on my posts

[MusashiAA]

TFW I have to learn the forums again.

It's like I'm new again.

EDIT: I'm already missing the "unread posts", "new posts" and "my posts" links right on the index page, as well as the advanced search options.

[Joseph Collins]

This forum is weird and new and ugly and I don't like it.   :-X

Also, everyone looks fat in this new setup.   

Actual, legitimate complaints and analysis
Wow.  Not sure how those Spoiler and YouTube codes got so mangled in the upgrade... not to mention image codes.  I don't know if I actually want to bother fixing every single one of my posts that use any of those... but I probably shoouuuld...

My main problem with it is that it breaks links to other topics from the previous forums.

And that.  I forgot about that.  And considering my "stuff" topics are absolutely riddled with internal links...  @_@  It's relatively-easy to fix though, I suppose.

Old internal link format
http://www.cutstuff.net/forum/viewtopic.php?f=30&t=3767&p=331244#p331244

New internal link format
http://www.cutstuff.net/forum/index.php?topic=3767.msg331244#msg331244

Just replace "viewtopic" with "index", "t=" with "topic=", "&p=" with ".msg", and "#p" with "#msg".  Simple as that!
"Simple"?  The heck am I saying...?

[CutmanMike]

Please read the first post. I am planning to try and fix the old posts but if you care about people seeing these posts in the mean time you can manually fix them and it shouldn't hurt the process.

Just replace "viewtopic" with "index", "t=" with "topic=", "&p=" with ".msg", and "#p" with "#msg".  Simple as that!
"Simple"?  The heck am I saying...?

Well that's what I plan on doing, or something like that. Problem is the database is gargantuan and I'm worried it might crash or take seven years to complete. When Shadoku gets on I'll talk it over wtih him.

As for the fat thing, the forum attempts to resize avatars using javascript. Be sure you have that enabled.

[Kapus]

Lots of older posts seem to be borked, but that's getting looked into now so that's great. I think the change overall is good as it provides more style and personality to the forums.

One thing that irks me though is that there's less information shown on users in the posts. It feels rather empty with only the post count and a few icon links. We used to have locations in there as well as registration dates.

[Korby]

We had something similar to locations in this but I guess they got removed.

[Hallan Parva]

You know what's misleading? The "<< previous next >>" links at the top and bottom of each page of a thread. They don't take you to the next page of a multi-page thread; no, they take you to completely different threads.

I don't like it.


EDIT: wait wtf how come Korby can have a location and nobody else can

[bass44]

Apparently any offsite links to threads that were created before the forum switchover do not work, hope this gets fixed soon.

[Tengu]

I reeealllyyyyyy want the old logo back. Is anyone else with me?