04/26/13: Upgrade to Proboards v5

[Samantha]

I don't know if y'all saw the notification at the top of the forum that announced the upgrade of this forum to v5, but as of yesterday (or the day before?) there was a new announcement visible to staff members that detailed some of the changes that the upgrade from v4 to v5 would bring. I'm bringing it to everybody's attention because I am not exactly sure how this upgrade will affect the look and function of this forum.

I don't know how familiar any of you are with forum coding, but the way that we get many of our nice things (the side tables, our pretty design, etc.) is that codes are added to the headers and footers of the forum. I don't know how many of these codes will be compatible with the v5 upgrade. It's apparently a "major software update" so many "old codes" won't be. What makes a code "old," I don't know. They're apparently converting instead to a system of plugins instead.

There is a way to opt out of the upgrade (only until the end of the year, that is), but only the admin account (Amy's account) can do such a thing. Um. So I don't know. The upgrade is scheduled to take place between April 29th (this Monday) and May 29th.

[legrande]

Eep. I hope that nothing goes drastically awry. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

[Samantha]

La-di-da.

Eventually this forum will upgrade. I'm not making this up, I have PM proof, I swear. Although I guess it's going to be later than May 29th (der). It said between April 29th and May 29th at the note that was posted at the top of the forum at the beginning of the month, but that note's been down for weeks now.

So we wait.

I've been perusing v5 plug-ins and messing around on my test board. Things are definitely going to be different, but it'll actually be pretty neat once the kinks are worked out, I think.

[Samantha]

I have news, yet at the same time I don't have news. I knew I had seen that all forums were supposed to be upgraded on the 29th of May, and so I did a little searching around the Proboards support forum to see what's up, and here's a printscreen of what I found:



We fall in the "if you've done nothing" category, so I can't really say when the forum will upgrade, but it is coming. That post was made on June 13th, so it's about a week outdated. I have no clue how many forums are still in the queue, or where we fall within that.

Like I said, this isn't very news-worthy, but I thought I'd keep y'all updated on what I know. Cheers.