Major Version Upgrade Completed!
Posted: Fri Mar 11, 2016 10:33 am
Guys,
I just updated the forums to a major new version (from 3.0.11 to 3.1.8). I have been procrastinating on this for a long time since it is a "no-fail" event. So I have spent the last several days, nearly full-time, reading and researching, backing up, and converting some of my other websites just so I know exactly how to do it and, more importantly, how to recover from my backups. As they say, and untested backup is like having no backup at all.
So I am quite pleased to say that the upgrade is now done. For most of you it will be transparent except a few menu items have changed. The old extension that gave us the menus across the top (weather, road conditions, etc) is not compatible with this new version so they are gone. Most of the changes make life better for me in the administration of the forums as well as better overall security and bug fixes.
But the biggest change is that the forums are now compatible with small screens. That means if you have a smartphone (iPhone or Android), or a tablet (iPad or Samsung Galaxy or Microsoft) the forums will now display quite nicely. They are now usable! Check it out!
What that also means is that Tapatalk is no longer installed. You shouldn't need it now, you can use the forums directly, but I understand if you used Tapatalk to manage many different forums this one will no longer be there. Please let me know what you think...
I can't tell you what a load off this is to get this done. We are much better off now whether you guys see it or not.
Your humble website admin
Jerry
I just updated the forums to a major new version (from 3.0.11 to 3.1.8). I have been procrastinating on this for a long time since it is a "no-fail" event. So I have spent the last several days, nearly full-time, reading and researching, backing up, and converting some of my other websites just so I know exactly how to do it and, more importantly, how to recover from my backups. As they say, and untested backup is like having no backup at all.
So I am quite pleased to say that the upgrade is now done. For most of you it will be transparent except a few menu items have changed. The old extension that gave us the menus across the top (weather, road conditions, etc) is not compatible with this new version so they are gone. Most of the changes make life better for me in the administration of the forums as well as better overall security and bug fixes.
But the biggest change is that the forums are now compatible with small screens. That means if you have a smartphone (iPhone or Android), or a tablet (iPad or Samsung Galaxy or Microsoft) the forums will now display quite nicely. They are now usable! Check it out!
What that also means is that Tapatalk is no longer installed. You shouldn't need it now, you can use the forums directly, but I understand if you used Tapatalk to manage many different forums this one will no longer be there. Please let me know what you think...
I can't tell you what a load off this is to get this done. We are much better off now whether you guys see it or not.
Your humble website admin
Jerry