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Smashboards Site Update #6 - Moving to Xenforo!

AlphaZealot

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Smashers,

More big changes are coming to Smashboards! About three weeks ago Xenforo was purchased and after a brief development period, we are ready to launch and move into a new era of Smashboards. Tentatively, on wednesday, February 13th, at 4:00AM ET, Smashboards will enter a period of downtime that could last up to 48 hours. During the downtime we will keep everyone updated through our social media channels: facebook.com/smashboards and twitter.com/smashboards - make sure to give those a Like and a Follow! Bionic will likely be keeping everyone up to date during the transition - if you haven't seen it yet, catch his update on Xenforo here!

We will also be continuing to restructure the forums. The Breast Cancer Research Drive forum will be closed and archived - well done to the entire Smash community for raising over $90,000! There will also be some changes coming to the Smash backrooms, which Marc will be handling.

When we finally return, search should be working again! We will then enter the next phase as well, which includes development of a homepage. The current wireframe can be viewed here, make sure to comment if you haven't already!

Once again, Smashers, thank you for bearing with this change and thanks for proving once again over the last few weeks that this is the greatest grassroots gaming community in existence.

AlphaZealot
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Smashboards Transition Log
 

LLDL

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Just to be clear, vbulletin database will transfer to Xenforo? All forums, accounts, posts, join dates in tact? :p
 

Juggleguy

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Looking forward to it!

I recommend all TOs who are hosting tourneys this upcoming weekend to notify their attendees or make a Facebook event page, so nobody is left in the dark on schedule/venue/etc. info on Thursday and Friday.
 

joY

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Hope everything goes well. I look forward to the changes.

See you all soon!
 

Isatis

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Just to be clear, vbulletin database will transfer to Xenforo? All forums, accounts, posts, join dates in tact? :p
User Groups, User Fields (Brawl FC, Join dates, gender etc), Users, Custom Avatars, Private Messages, Visitor Messages, Forums, Moderators, Threads and Posts (and Prefixes), Polls, Blogs, Social Groups and Awards. Maybe some more I'm forgetting.
 

Isatis

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Jaxel

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Dammit... all these fighting game websites looking like 8wayrun.com =P
 

John2k4

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There is a default light one, but I'll see about different "light" colors as well.

 

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I wonder if name colors will remain intact too; y'know, colors representing mods, admins, debaters, backroomers, etc..

:phone:
So much this. I love my purple name way too much.
Speaking of which, I'm interested on hearing the Backroom changes...
 

John2k4

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Some name color options seem to still be available from what I have seen. I'd need to clarify with Bionic, but a couple of the admins had color during the testing phase.


Plus more profile things! [Award System]

 

LLDL

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I think the first feature restored should have been the tournament game prefixes. I go there now and just leave because I can't spot something of interest immediately. I'm sure others are the same.
 

Isatis

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Whenever does it's usually me or another developer adding a plugin, which will blank pages for 1-2 min. The cache system TempleHost installed last night has been working flawless, though.
 

Orboknown

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Any way to look up a person's posts in a specific thread now? We used to have the "see who's posted" box but I can't find the new alternative.
 

GCS Gaming Customs

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Yo, not sure what it is and if this is the place to ask, but why does text in my first post move down a few spaces after I edit the post? It doesn't really make sense, it moves down about 2-3 spaces everytime I edit, I can just keep putting it back, but its still really annoying :glare:
Any help would be appreciated, and where can I ask somebody this? Just PM AZ?
 
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