Welcome to XenForo!

Already in progress now that @catbert has all but sorted out our avatar ratio woes.

Robots = search bots. As in Google, Yahoo and other spidery things.

That won't last for much longer, we'll be back to the old system before you know it. Sorry!

 

In threads, we'll probably only have gems for those without avatars/ports, like it was on the old boards. Having an avatar as well seems somewhat redundant. In other places, I might keep the default gender pics because XF uses these pics in a dozen places outside of threads as well and changing all those too would probably be a PITA. But we'll see.

And yea, the left side could be a bit wider so that gem text doesn't break. Or I could just make that text smaller.

 

OK, I've gone through all the user accounts with avatars/portraits & titles and fixed everything to my knowledge. The custom title field is only 50 characters long in XF so I shortened a few titles that were longer than that to fit (start a convo with me if yours was shortened and want to change it). Since we've got sigs enabled, anyone can put anything longer in there.

Over 100 inactive non-SPS accounts have lost their avatars/portraits & titles in the process, but since this is the first time in nearly a decade that I've done a complete sweep of the customized accounts, the large number shouldn't come as much of a surprise. Remember: you need to check in at least every 6 months for your account to be considered active.

At present, the majority of the most visible elements should be back to normal. Most of the issues listed in the original post have been sorted out, while a few (fixing the old YouTube and IMGL/R tags) are still on the to-do. We've also noticed that long descriptions from the vBulletin albums did not import fully. @dmc will be going over the albums manually and adding any missing text from the old albums as captions in the new ones. Yes, that shows you just how much we value your content, Sorcerians!

 

My favourite job (not!), sorting out the documentation post-migration is more or less done as well.

We've now got 3 separate forum docs that I'll integrate with XF's help system once we're all happy with them. At this point, I'll welcome any feedback on the docs -- if you think that anything's inaccurate, unclear, missing, etc. please let me know:

• Boards o' Magick Rules
• Sorcerer's Place Common Acronyms
• Boards o' Magick Frequently Asked Questions

@dmc @Beren @Blackthorne TA , please read this too!

(links now removed due to old pages being deleted)

 

The above pages have now been integrated into our forum's help pages: http://www.sorcerers.net/community/index.php?help/

If anyone has any suggestions for improvement or additions, let me know.

 

All the embedded YouTube videos should be fixed now. I say should, because there were quite a few (dozen) videos incorrectly embedded, which still worked on the old boards, but not on the new. I've fixed everything that I spotted, but there's always the chance that something that didn't match any of the replacement regular expressions that I used has still slipped through. If you notice any such embedded videos with broken-looking code around them, just report them via the Report link and I'll fix them.

I should note, though, that a large number of older videos have been removed, deleted, the posters' accounts disabled, etc. We have no influence over that and in the case of such videos, you can only ask whoever posted them here to update their posts with fresh, working videos, if they're available.

 

All the images in the older news posts should now be fixed as well. The only thing remaining is the old html in there, but I'll tackle that later.

 

I've fixed all the image embeds that still pointed to the old forums, so everything should be linking to our new media gallery and properly visible in older posts. Wherever the pictures haven't been deleted by their owners, that is.

 

The old boards would list the birthdays of the day at the bottom, which was kinda fun. Any option to do that here?

 

No option by default, but I have seen birthdays listed in the Members list -- but I'm not sure if it only lists them for active users, because I can't see any shown right now. I might install an add-on to get this functionality back later on.

 

Anyone remember this background colour from the days of yore? We used to have it alternating with the dark blue in threads. I was digging through some of our old archives and I thought I'd give it a try again on XF and I have to say that it works quite well. Livens the place up a bit. I'm not sure yet if we'll be keeping it, so let me know how you feel about it.

 

I prefer the other way, but this is not too terrible.