Today the forum's phpBB software was upgraded to the latest version from a very, very old version.
If you notice anything unexpected when using the forum, please post a message on this thread immediately and we will investigate.
The changes include:
- Fixing the long delay before a post appears after pressing Preview or Submit.
- Minor changes to many of the forum's features. Some you may notice, others you won't.
- About 300 bug fixes, which will mean fewer unexpected or odd things happening.
- Performance improvements in many areas, including the time taken to perform searches and to post messages.
- Security patches.
- Better methods for prevention of spam registration (which should mean that we can spend more time on the forum, rather than checking the 50+ registrations each day and deleting most of them).
- Better support for the forum appearing as intented on versions 8 and 9 of Internet Explorer.
We have also decided to proceeded with some of the proposed changes, and ditched others after feedback from the forum's members.
There is now a section called The store, which includes:
- Members' trading room (for members to buy, sell, give away and swap stuff).
- Retailers' trading room (for retailers and beer and homebrew companies to advertise their wares, advise of promotions, give us stuff)
- Bargain bin (tip-offs about cheap beer, and homebrew equipment and supplies).
Over coming days we will rearrange some posts, and delete some that are now out of date, such as those about spam.
There will also be some further, minor updates in the next few weeks.
If you've got any feedback, good or bad, please let us know. We're always open to changing things based on feedback.
Cheers,
Oliver and Geoff
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