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Forum Width

Changed to 950 pixels wide by default (previously 780).

This was needed to be able to fit in all the new social networking bits, as well as uncramping the user profiles.

Over the next few days will be updating the homepage and adding some extra side bars into the forum page listings.

If you...
 

All change!

Well as most of you will have noticed, yesterday was a mad day of upgrading, accidental deleting and life saving recoveries!

Basically, the short story is we upgraded from vBulletin 3.6.11 to 3.7.3 - sounds simple, but a pain in the butt as loads of addons needed to be recoded, and a billion...​
 

PHP Upgraded

Ok this was a massive change, stepping from PHP4 to PHP5 running under the new Microsoft FastCGI implmentation.

It did have a few issues to start, which were solved by editing core vBulletin code HOWEVER, I might not have got all of them .. so if you notice anything dodgy going on, please post...
 

VBSEO 3.1 Installed

Hopefully not to be a repeat of the disaster last time, but VBSEO has now been upgraded again. Supposed improvements with this version are a large speed increase due to the removal of encryption.

Certainly the load on the servers should reduce as the ioncube loaders don't need to boot up each...
 

Username Changes

If you want to change your username, use the new "Username Request" option found in your control panel.... no need to keep emailing staff all the time now
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