Daniel,

I notice you have introduced the new YaBB V2.1 forum software but must comment as follows:-

1.  All my existing thread subscriptions have been lost, which is surely going to be a real killer for the discussions here if this cannot be overcome.  And I cannot think of a worse time for the discussion here to be killed off in this way.

2. A notification update email message I had sent by the old forum software still only linked me to Page 1 of a multi page thread in the new forum although I know that YaBB V2 does have the facility to send emails with notification links that take you to the current active page from my membership of the www.radioandtelly.co.uk forum which upgraded to YaBB about three weeks ago.

Are you working on the thread subscription issue?  As I am sure you would agree forum members will not find it acceptable for all their message subscriptions to be lost.

NGM

lost all my subscriptions to the threads as well. Although I was only watching a couple of threads, so I havent lost that much.

Plus I think the FOI thread should be number 4 in the list after cheep call providers but before site related.

Things I've noticed:-

• Subscriptions (as pointed out mc661 & NGM) are lost
• Text size seems smaller & lighter (as pointed out by firestop).  I personally find a default font/text size of Arial 12 is easier to read (assuming this can be changed).
• Signatures that used the code 'Glow' no longer appear to work (I noticed Dave's signature was one)
• Links don't appear bold (so as to highlight them more)
• In the search page, is it possible to change the default '
  This post was made in the last...
  ' from 'Week' to possibly '(all posts)' or 'Year'?
• Is it possible to change the
  'Display how many results?
  ' from '15' to a much higher number like '100'.

You may need to install the Board Search add-on.

This would then mean for those members that do bother to do a search, then changing the defaults to a much higher number would ensure they are more likely to get a search result and therefore/hopefully not bother to start a new topic.  I believe not many people look at the default search criteria when searching.  

firestop wrote on Nov 13^th, 2005 at 10:31am:

There's a 'Notify of replies' link at the top of the thread.  Click on that to 'subscribe' to a thread and you can then click to get an e-mail to tell you when anyone replies to that particular thread.

There's also a 'Check this if you wish to be notified of replies to this topic' box at the bottom of the Post Reply page (i.e. the page you type in). That does the same thng - 'subscribes' you to a thread.

firestop wrote on Nov 13^th, 2005 at 11:17am:


When you reply to any thread/topic there is a "Check this is you wish to be notified of replies to this topic" option.  Thereafter you continue to get emails when there are further message posts in that thread.  There were 70 or 80 threads to which I was thus subscribed.

Daniel said he wasn't going to switch over to YaBB V2 until this problem was overcome but now he has done anyway regardless.

So now I don't get any update emails when there are new posts in topics/threads that I was watching.

bbb_uk wrote on Nov 13^th, 2005 at 11:50am:

If you were subscribed to 80 or so threads as I was then it is a very significant issue.

I can't understand why these records can't be migrated across as the info is clearly there to transfer in the forum database.

A lot of the threads had become dormant so did not send me lots of new messages on a daily basis.  However every now and then someone added a new message to a thread that had been quiet for a few weeks.

I can't see how YaBB can conisder V2 to be a full release version if no satisfactory migration path from YaBB V1 on thread subscriptions is available.