NEWS

[Rhiannon]

To give this board a push, there will be some updates along with the release of the new Proboards software PB staff is currently working at (to all board owners who haven't heard about it yet: the software update will be done automatically, posts, members, etc will be unaffected).
The new features we plan to add to Rivendell include a real Chatroom, Archives and, uh, a new color scheme.
During the changes, the board will be put in maintainance mode for a few hours, probably Saturday (Saturday morning in Europe = past midnight in the USA) or Sunday. This means that only admins will be able to view the board. So please check back later if you can't access the board this weekend.

Thanks,
Rhia

PS: This is not another "Gossip" thread but reserved for real news regarding this forum. Any other posts will be deleted.

[Rhiannon]

Note: I just learned that after the software updates number of posts will be corrected after threads got deleted. Which means that the number of posts you had in a thread will be subtracted from your post count. I don't know if this will automatically change your number of posts you already have or just apply for posts after the update. I'm going to backup number of posts today as the update is scheduled some time later this week.

So if your post count suddendly drops, don't panic !  ;D I'll try to correct it as soon as possible after the update has taken place

And, maybe those who have their own boards should think about backups and archives, too  

[Rhiannon]

The release of the new Proboards Software is due tomorrow (9th June). So the board will be much faster  then.

On the less obvious new features of this board:

-Threads will now have a TIME LIMIT from 1 week (parties) to max. 6 weeks (stories) to have new threads on a regular basis and to avoid e.g. stories to become boring... ;D

[Rhiannon]

Upgrade status: currently it's server 11 & 12 being upgraded so I'm doing another post count backup today. Staff was sensible enough to run a test on server 11 first (proboards homepage & support forum) to let users report bugs etc...so that's why there's a delay.

[Rhiannon]

Upgrade has been done although there seem to be a few bugs left...THIS PINK CATEGORY BACKGROUND is most certainly not the one I put there...

[Rhiannon]

If you miss your stars and the titles going with your number of posts: This is not a bug. two or threeadmins complained about them so they were take off... .Now the support forum is flooded with posts to give them back so they will be put back soon.

[Rhiannon]

The Fairies board got removed. Reason: to spare us further discussions about what is Tolkien and what's not (there are no fairies in Middle Earth). Also, there are no fairy members posting right now, so it was deleted. Threads can be found in the archives ("Other" because moving them to "Races" didn't work. Also, the number of moved topics isn't displayed correctly, probably another bug...).

Fairies, please choose one of the other races.

[Rhiannon]

Getting Rivendell ready for the TTT release, a lot of threads have been moved to the archives or deleted. The number of threads in the archives is still not displayed correctly. So if you miss a topic, please check there first anyway.

[Rhiannon]

There was another upgrade on Proboards' Software so there will be some bugs. If you find one, please don't report it here but check the list at Proboards Support forum at proboards.proboards11.com thank you.

[Rhiannon]

Sorry for the inconvenience but our previous picture host doesn't allow hotlinking for free accounts anymore. Anyway, the layout pics were moved and are back again