Post by Shun Minamoto on Sept 26, 2015 9:29:49 GMT -5
It's been a long time coming ever since the full release of IPB 4. Our current iteration of the board, 3.4.8, won't be supported forever. In fact, we're nearly out of time now. I don't like using unsupported software.
Luckily, IPB 4 has been given some time to mature. There are solid skins out there, plugins, and a fancy new editor whose functionality I can customize. For instance: It doesn't natively do BBCode Mode. I will make it do BBCode Mode. I can also restore a lot of our favorite functionality, such as Linked Accounts, now that the software has had time to be played with and tested.
I'm looking to do the upgrade this weekend, if at all possible.
However, this is a pretty big jump for Bleach Gotei and is going to require a lot of work on my end. So much so that I'm going to need a little bit of help.
To start, please go to check out our options for skins. We'll be sticking with free ones for now, but if you want to pitch in for one of the for-purchase ones, we'd all be very grateful! What I'm looking for is a dark-style skin that will allow a lot of our color scheme to migrate without issue. I'm looking at you, group colors!
Next, from this point forward, start saving all of your posts. I have daily and weekly and monthly backups, of course, but a lot can happen on Bleach Gotei in 24 hours. With a little luck, though, the migration will go cleanly and we won't need any of that.
Another thing to keep in mind is that there's going to be a delay on the return of a lot of our features. Side blocks such as Recent Posts and Recent Topics should happen painlessly. Linked Accounts might fight me.
Avatars is another point of interest. Avatars in IPB 4 work a lot better than they did in IPB 3 natively. That said? They're now a lot smaller and some of you guys have massive avatars. That won't be a thing anymore.
Logins will be different too. IPB 4 doesn't use Login Name/Display Name. Instead, you'll have your Display Name and you'll use your e-mail address to login. Which means if you don't have a real e-mail address attached to your account right now? You need to get one.
To see IPB 4.0 in action, please check out the official IPS community forum.
Before the upgrade I'm going to be uninstalling all of the modifications to our board. I'll be posting in this announcement and editing this original post as I make progress.
You're more than welcome to voice your questions and comments in here. I'll do my best to answer anything you'd like to know!
Luckily, IPB 4 has been given some time to mature. There are solid skins out there, plugins, and a fancy new editor whose functionality I can customize. For instance: It doesn't natively do BBCode Mode. I will make it do BBCode Mode. I can also restore a lot of our favorite functionality, such as Linked Accounts, now that the software has had time to be played with and tested.
I'm looking to do the upgrade this weekend, if at all possible.
However, this is a pretty big jump for Bleach Gotei and is going to require a lot of work on my end. So much so that I'm going to need a little bit of help.
To start, please go to check out our options for skins. We'll be sticking with free ones for now, but if you want to pitch in for one of the for-purchase ones, we'd all be very grateful! What I'm looking for is a dark-style skin that will allow a lot of our color scheme to migrate without issue. I'm looking at you, group colors!
Next, from this point forward, start saving all of your posts. I have daily and weekly and monthly backups, of course, but a lot can happen on Bleach Gotei in 24 hours. With a little luck, though, the migration will go cleanly and we won't need any of that.
Another thing to keep in mind is that there's going to be a delay on the return of a lot of our features. Side blocks such as Recent Posts and Recent Topics should happen painlessly. Linked Accounts might fight me.
Avatars is another point of interest. Avatars in IPB 4 work a lot better than they did in IPB 3 natively. That said? They're now a lot smaller and some of you guys have massive avatars. That won't be a thing anymore.
Logins will be different too. IPB 4 doesn't use Login Name/Display Name. Instead, you'll have your Display Name and you'll use your e-mail address to login. Which means if you don't have a real e-mail address attached to your account right now? You need to get one.
To see IPB 4.0 in action, please check out the official IPS community forum.
Before the upgrade I'm going to be uninstalling all of the modifications to our board. I'll be posting in this announcement and editing this original post as I make progress.
You're more than welcome to voice your questions and comments in here. I'll do my best to answer anything you'd like to know!