Hi All,
Firstly Happy New Year to all!
We are going to be moving WLSurgery over to a software called xenforo. We have just done the first month on MiniMins with the new software and people are reacting very positively to it.
There is no real future with the current software and it weighs on my mind every day that WLSurgery is being left behind.
Some of the new features:
Full social integration (written by yours truly) https://www.minimins.com/threads/soc...ration.352867/
Which allows the embed of most social networks, with the obvious big networks included (pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, twitter) and some fun ones like vine.co and the video network vimeo and youtube.
It allows you to seamlessly log in with your Facebook/Google/Twitter. Even if you have an account registered here already you can move it over
The interface is what is called a fully responsive interface. As your screen gets bigger you see more content. For example on a mobile phone using the native browser when you rotate it sideways everything changes. In portrait mode it does not show signatures and in landscape mode it does. You can see some screenshots here: https://www.minimins.com/threads/can...mobile.353131/
The photogallery is correctly integrated.
The amount of emails I get on MiniMins on the previous software was just crazy with people not able to register or to log in etc etc. I have had 3 or 4 emails on the new software... and only 1 member couldn't register. This would be beneficial for the WLSurgery community so it can grow. And growing is beneficial to everybody.
There are some things we will have to say good bye to.
These are: Mobile Apps (the amount of time and the value they deliver is massively disproportionate and the new responsive interface takes care of those issues and unifies the experience of using the site).
The arcade is going. It would be going regardless. If anybody has the modern flash on their PC it feels like every time you start it up you have to upgrade flash, java and -then- use the pc. Browser people like Google and Firefox have decided that Flash needs to go and it will be going.
Private messaging. With the integration of full social networks and a site that actually works the Private Message feature is no longer needed. For those who want to just use the site privately without the fear of being solicited privately I think this is a major benefit. You can of course post your email to each other in profiles (at your own risks!) or whatever you wish but Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat should be enough to make sure that you can still contact each other privately.
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So when is this happening?
I have just ordered the new server for WLSurgery because trying to run both on the server at the moment doesn't look like a runner.
Ill setup the new site on a different address so you can go over and look at it etc with no content or users.
On a specific date (once the new server is in place and the site setup I can give that date) we will import the data from what we have now.
We will then switch them and the new site will be live. The old site will be frozen in time for a month or so. This will allow you to go to the old site to check stuff if it is missing etc.
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What do you need to do?
Keep using WLSurgery of course! But the one thing it does not appear to import is if you have a gallery under your profile here on WLSurgery you will need to download and save those pictures.
But don't worry you have a month to figure if anything is missing!
Questions & Comments welcome.
Pierce
Firstly Happy New Year to all!
We are going to be moving WLSurgery over to a software called xenforo. We have just done the first month on MiniMins with the new software and people are reacting very positively to it.
There is no real future with the current software and it weighs on my mind every day that WLSurgery is being left behind.
Some of the new features:
Full social integration (written by yours truly) https://www.minimins.com/threads/soc...ration.352867/
Which allows the embed of most social networks, with the obvious big networks included (pinterest, Instagram, Facebook, twitter) and some fun ones like vine.co and the video network vimeo and youtube.
It allows you to seamlessly log in with your Facebook/Google/Twitter. Even if you have an account registered here already you can move it over
The interface is what is called a fully responsive interface. As your screen gets bigger you see more content. For example on a mobile phone using the native browser when you rotate it sideways everything changes. In portrait mode it does not show signatures and in landscape mode it does. You can see some screenshots here: https://www.minimins.com/threads/can...mobile.353131/
The photogallery is correctly integrated.
The amount of emails I get on MiniMins on the previous software was just crazy with people not able to register or to log in etc etc. I have had 3 or 4 emails on the new software... and only 1 member couldn't register. This would be beneficial for the WLSurgery community so it can grow. And growing is beneficial to everybody.
There are some things we will have to say good bye to.
These are: Mobile Apps (the amount of time and the value they deliver is massively disproportionate and the new responsive interface takes care of those issues and unifies the experience of using the site).
The arcade is going. It would be going regardless. If anybody has the modern flash on their PC it feels like every time you start it up you have to upgrade flash, java and -then- use the pc. Browser people like Google and Firefox have decided that Flash needs to go and it will be going.
Private messaging. With the integration of full social networks and a site that actually works the Private Message feature is no longer needed. For those who want to just use the site privately without the fear of being solicited privately I think this is a major benefit. You can of course post your email to each other in profiles (at your own risks!) or whatever you wish but Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat should be enough to make sure that you can still contact each other privately.
-----------------
So when is this happening?
I have just ordered the new server for WLSurgery because trying to run both on the server at the moment doesn't look like a runner.
Ill setup the new site on a different address so you can go over and look at it etc with no content or users.
On a specific date (once the new server is in place and the site setup I can give that date) we will import the data from what we have now.
We will then switch them and the new site will be live. The old site will be frozen in time for a month or so. This will allow you to go to the old site to check stuff if it is missing etc.
---------------
What do you need to do?
Keep using WLSurgery of course! But the one thing it does not appear to import is if you have a gallery under your profile here on WLSurgery you will need to download and save those pictures.
But don't worry you have a month to figure if anything is missing!
Questions & Comments welcome.
Pierce
