Sorry for jumping around so much in my initial post... My wife was yelling at me to "get off my butt and go to the store with her before the sale ended blah bah blah blah" and it was a bit difficult to concentrate
First let me say thanks for all the replies and PM's thus far. If your goal here is a community youv'e certainly got some fine members to build it on.
I would also like to apologize for my ignorance up front. I wish I had more time to read through the site and familarize myself with both UBBT as well as this web site before I posted here. Im taking a crash course on both as I go along.
From some of the messages I have received I realized I made a tremendous amount of assumptions and am now suffering the usual consequences for doing so
When I bought my first copy of ubb it was the only product infopop had. Other than to download the latest version I rarely visited infopop's site. So when ubb.threads came out I naturally assumed that it was developed in-house based on the classic. Most of my confusion and disappointment stem from this assumption.
I read a comparison checklist that showed compared ubb.classic and ubb.threads side by side showing the difference in features. It is pretty clear to me however that these two products couldnt be any more different. The upgrade from classic to UBBT was equivalent to being thrown into a completely alien environment without a flashlight.
I am confident once this shock wears off and people actually learn all the features everything will be great. The trouble is they are thinking of ubb.classic when they begin looking for the "new features" when essentially everything they are looking at is new by comparision. They cant see the forest for all the trees..
I posted a few topics telling people to "Just click the 'My Home' button and look at all the stuff you can do!" The actual process of populating the "My Home" page is completely counterintuitive however and most members are simply confused. I touched on this a bit earlier regarding the location of the Favorite links on the forum and topic pages being hidden as well as the overall lack of explanation on how to use any of the features.
Joshpet, thanks so much for your efforts creating the "Maximize the MEASURECTION" forum/posts. With your permission, I would like to duplicate this forum as well as the posts contained therein verbatim as a temporary quick fix for my members. Several times over the past few days I had considered writing "how-to" posts just like yours but was never able to overcome the feelings of dread that arose at the thought
I have been talking with JustDave only briefly concerning IIP and that his new release would be for this beta version so before I can do anything, I have to upgrade my site! And that brings about my newest dillema:
Should I abandon my current ubb.threads (delete it), install a fresh copy of ubbt6.1 and use the new import tool? Doing this NOW would mean I only lose about 3 days worth of posts etc.. that were made right after the upgrade. The longer I wait the more Im going to lose... OR should I stick with what I have and just do an upgrade of my existing ubbt6.0.3 ? ? ? ?
