VERSION 5 UPGRADE

[Larry's 66 Diner]

As some of you may or may not be aware, Proboards has been working diligently on upgrading the back end software and promising an upgrade of its forums for quite some time. This plan is about to come to fruition around the end of this month, perhaps around January 25th or so. As the Root Administrator of this forum, I will receive private notification from Proboards informing me I can make the upgrade, which I will commence to do.

I have been experimenting with the new upgrade (in a secluded area) for quite some time and have been extremely pleased with its new look, as I'm sure all of you will be, as well. As with Facebook, Google+, etc, you will be able to "Like" a member's post, simply showing acknowledgement, although you may not actually have anything to comment on it. As with Twitter, you will be able to "Follow" other members and "Friend" them. In addition, uploading photos will be done with greater ease, as will changing your profile settings and a host of other gadgets.

There will also be a universal login process, using your email address. This will simplify logging in if, for example, you are a member of two or more Proboards forums (not just Larry's 66 Diner). You will be able to switch back and forth and navigate between the forums without logging in/out of each one. There are too many other awesome attributes to the new Version 5 upgrade to mention, but I'm sure you will be just as pleased as I am with its new look, as well as its new features; I can't wait to jump in and get started!!!

[Midge]

Sounds good, Larry. I especially like the "easier photo uploading" part. Bring it on!

[Larry's 66 Diner]

It is coming! Within a matter of just a few more days ......... :jump:

[Midge]

The suspense is killing me!

[Larry's 66 Diner]

The suspense no longer has to kill you or anyone, Midge!  The Version 5 upgrade is now here!!!

I hope everyone enjoys the new Larry's 66 Diner!  Now that we have the upgrade, please be patient as I continue to improve it and customize it to the needs of Larry's 66 Diner.

[Midge]

I'm still getting used to the new format. One thing I don't understand is the smilies menu. I get that you have to click on the smiley to access the menu, but the regular smiley -- the one on the menu bar -- isn't one of the options. 

[Larry's 66 Diner]

Midge,

Actually, the smilie on the menu bar is supposed to be one of the options, but I accidentally over-wrote it this morning when I was uploading the smilies one-by-one to the forum.  So I will have to re-organize it back into its default position and move one over.  CAUTION: Please try to minimize the use of smilies for the next day or so to give me the chance to correct my error; otherwise, when it is re-written, you might have a happy face in place of an angry face as a final result.

[Midge]

OK, Larry, thanks for the information. Some of the smilies are new to me, and I'm not sure what they're supposed to represent.

[Larry's 66 Diner]

I'm not really for sure if I like the new smilies, or whether I'll see if we can revert back to the other ones.

[Larry's 66 Diner]

Ok, I saw that the problem was NOT that I had over-written the old ones, but that the smilie "drop-down" continues in a long strip across the screen, in which many of them were appearing off the screen and the strip would not allow you to scroll to get to them either.  With the new default smilies that were supplied here, as well as many of the old ones which I had tried incorporating, there were just too many of them.

For now, I have deleted all the old ones and we'll stick with the new ones -- at least until I can get a plug-in or code which will break the bar and drop additional smilies down to a second line or something.

[Midge]

I'm glad to hear that the fault wasn't yours, Larry. I expect that with any new version of software there are going to be a lot of glitches that will need to be ironed out. Is it OK to use smilies again, or are you still working on that?

[Roger Thornhill]

The new version is working well for me.

[Larry's 66 Diner]

You may go ahead and use smilies; I have set them back to the forum default settings for now.

[Midge]

 OK, thanks, Larry!