Forum Blog

As a lot of you have noticed, the Garage has become somewhat stale.

This was due to a load of issues with it which made it incredibly hard to manage and not as useful as it could have been.

However, after working closely with the programmer, I am pleased to say that almost all of the...

It's tiny, but I figured I should log everything.

Tidied up the postbit a little bit (the bit that shows to the left of each post) - it's not finished as I don't think it looks 100% perfect, but it will do for now

This is a test, so please don't abuse it by creating millions of useless groups, but any donated member can now create their own social group (which follows their own choice of permissions) in the "Just for Fun", "Seriousness" or 'Risque' categories.

It took a while to get permissions...

Now the Panda (the new one) has built up a name for itself, it's time to drop the "(New)" suffix and let it be known as just the "Panda".

This brings it into line with the rest of the models (500, Bravo, etc etc)

URLs will auto-redirect, so no need to adjust anything unless you have a...

There we go, the final step required to get the Social Groups noticed.

You'll now see at the top of each models forum, the latest 3 Social Discussions from the relevant owners group with a link to each - so now you don't need to jump back and forth to see if something new has been posted...

If you scroll to the bottom of the main forum page, there is a new sub-block titled "My Social Groups".

This shows the 5 most recently updated groups you are a member of so you can quickly see if something new has happened. If you are a member of over 5 "hot groups" then it'll be a bit of an...

Nothing much new here except a number of bug fixes, things which make upgrading the forum easier and you now get an icon of the game below your name if you make the highscore

Well, after a good few hours the forum is now upgraded to the latest and greatest version of vBulletin. There is actually a huge list of new stuff, but it will be much more fun if you find it yourselves

The big one though...

Is the Social Groups have just become 100000% more useful...

Please welcome bludvl_x19 as the new moderator for the X1/9 group.

These are fantastic little sports cars, so I hope we can get the traffic built up somewhat

Urchin steps up to join Charlotte in modding the Classic Panda section. Welcome on board

I'd been reading about the Fiat Freakout show for a while now, and whilst I would be in the US at that time, I really didn't feel like going on my own so had given up on the idea.

However, just yesterday I saw that Jim had posted a thread saying he would be there and suddenly I had...

The events map has been upgraded to v3 of the Google Maps API, which means I've now got the tools to code in geocoding (or I should say, I already did)

What does this mean?

Well now, when adding an event you don't need to scroll around the map for ages looking for the location - just fill...

Welcome ladies and gentlemen to the new and super improved part of the forum, the blogs! :woot:

"But, they were there before!" I hear you say - and you'd be right, however we can all safely say they were quite useless...

BUT NOT ANYMORE!

Oh no, I've tweaked and bit here and coded...

Upgraded the blogs to the latest version - now includes global categories (which we will use for build threads) and also, "post to blog" - which allows you to move your posts directly into the blog system

Over the next few weeks, we'll be working to further integrate the blogs into the forum...

oopsadaisy joins the mod team as the moderator for the Classic 500 section.

Hopefully he can drum up a load of new interest in there, as really they are quite fascinating cars

Good luck!

The ratings systems across the forum have now been combined into one simple system.

The simplest way to use it is, after you have purchased or sold an item via the classifieds, browse back to the ad (in the classifieds system) and click the...

Simple change, but now instead of it being the first photo of a post which is chosen as the "MM Thread Thumbnail" - a random photo is picked.

Helps to keep things a bit more fresh

Missey joins the mod team to take over from Owen (who now steps to AW).

All change please, all change

Charlotte steps in to help out in the Classic Panda section, replacing Panda-Sport who recently had to step down

Welcome!

The default display routine of the MM bar has now changed.

By default, it will now show MM threads which are unread, followed by a few random ones to fill the rest of the bar up.

You can change this in the user control panel -> User Options to be either that, Latest Only (regardless of whether...