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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 28, 2013 1:52:11 GMT
All the proboards forums including this one will be updated to the BetaZone system this year. If anyone of you like me has the old square retro screens it'll take some getting used to.
Get ready for the future!
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 5:52:36 GMT
they are awful to view from a tablet.
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Post by zoey on Jan 28, 2013 13:57:43 GMT
they are awful to view from a tablet. Normally I can view the forums well with my smart phone, log on and post if I want to. It's easy to view on a regular computer but not so much on my phone, with the upgrade. It's possible but not as easy as it was. It's just very different... I do have a newer, Dell computer, wide screen, so no problems for me to view with the new format. Hope you get used to it though Gib and Anna!
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Post by Hunny on Jan 28, 2013 14:35:24 GMT
You have a square screen Anna? Is it a CRT?
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2013 23:30:22 GMT
they are awful to view from a tablet. And an iphone
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 13:05:00 GMT
they are awful to view from a tablet. And an iphone is that so even with your proboards app ?
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 29, 2013 17:21:03 GMT
It's just a total disaster so I've created a back-up board (so far no posts on it except a welcome - can we transfer posts to other forums?) abitofthisandabitofthat.hyperboards.com/So far I'm the only member but please join just in case and if we could find a way to move posts over there as well and anything else we need to do that would be wonderful. (God I wish I was a techie!)
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Post by Hunny on Jan 29, 2013 18:43:03 GMT
I've signed up and I left you a comment there, Lin. I think if we were to look for a new site host, though, Forumotion would be far superior to hyperboards Example (I just made this for a friend): riseofthedinosaurs.forumotion.com/And check out the right hand column on this one (those are 'widgets"). Forumotion allows SO many things one can do... www.ferbles.com/_________________________________ As to your question, no, you can't transfer posts...you can only re-create threads by copy and pasting one post at a time, and we have 54,000 posts, so...basically, a new forum could be made, but it'd have no history. If you really wanted to go with the hyperboards site, I have saved our settings and artwork, so I could do best that can be done, making a copy of this site there. But I honestly wasn't impressed by hyperboards. It has very few features. Your other option is to wait until they force us to change in April. Maybe by then some of the missing details will have been added. This 'Version 5' is after all "beta" (it means "unfinished", still has the bugs to be worked out). As I said, I have saved all our settings and art, so I can do my best to make the Version 5 site look and act as much like this one as possible. If things disappear, i can put them back - as much as it will allow.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 29, 2013 20:29:13 GMT
So has it happened? I can't notice any difference.
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Post by Hunny on Jan 29, 2013 21:14:08 GMT
lol, no, not yet. As far as I know we're waiting till April to do it. And when we do, you will definitely notice! (it's very visually different and functionally annoying
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♫anna♫
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 31, 2013 3:54:50 GMT
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♫anna♫
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The Federal Reserve Act is the Betrayal of the American Revolution!
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karma:
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Post by ♫anna♫ on Jan 31, 2013 4:13:11 GMT
they are awful to view from a tablet. Normally I can view the forums well with my smart phone, log on and post if I want to. It's easy to view on a regular computer but not so much on my phone, with the upgrade. It's possible but not as easy as it was. It's just very different... I do have a newer, Dell computer, wide screen, so no problems for me to view with the new format. Hope you get used to it though Gib and Anna! Hi Zoey, When the switch first came a proboards BetaZone forum looked like this:
The proboards support forum anticipated this problems and had their own forum set at 90% of the full pixel setting which was fine for me. In the mean time the pbs forum was reset to 80% for the ultra retro screen users. That's even a little too narrow for my screen.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2013 6:52:49 GMT
lol, no, not yet. As far as I know we're waiting till April to do it. And when we do, you will definitely notice! (it's very visually different and functionally annoying If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
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Post by Big Lin on Jan 31, 2013 10:35:01 GMT
I can't see why they want to make changes for the sake of it. Hunny, I'll check out Forummotion; I only tried Hyperboards because someone else has set up a mirror site on there.
I know when I tried to post on Tapestry it was incredibly difficult and I found it impossible to send a PM so I dread the problems the new Beta is going to create.
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Post by zoey on Feb 2, 2013 22:33:14 GMT
And an iphone is that so even with your proboards app ? Proboards mobile apps cost $ 2.99. At least that's what it shows for me. I just log on normally to the forum on my phone and avoid downloading the apps, which cost 2.99. If it says "would you like to download proboards mobile app, I check no. The website still comes up for you and you can still post! I really don't know what the app does that makes the board any better anyway. Probably just a way for proboards to make money.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 3, 2013 0:52:28 GMT
is that so even with your proboards app ? Proboards mobile apps cost $ 2.99. At least that's what it shows for me. I just log on normally to the forum on my phone and avoid downloading the apps, which cost 2.99. If it says "would you like to download proboards mobile app, I check no. The website still comes up for you and you can still post! I really don't know what the app does that makes the board any better anyway. Probably just a way for proboards to make money. Yes it's the PB app.I post at Debates & Discussions(another PB forum) and it's formatted(I think that's the word) to the screen and the font is larger and easier to read.Other forums the font is microscopic and hard to read,even with reading glasses.VERY annoying
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