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Coming Soon: CheersandGears - The Next Generation

Drew Dowdell

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Coming Soon:

CheersandGears - The Next Generation

Well it's time for us to upgrade to the next platform of the software CheersandGears.com runs on. It is a pretty big jump, so it won't all happen at once. A couple of features won't work right out of the box and all of our skin templates will need to be re-written.

Improvements coming with the upgrade:

  1. Vastly improved search function.
  2. A new area for articles separate from the regular forums, the forums will still be used for comments on the articles.
  3. View New Content is now more customizable, you'll be able to select the forums you want to monitor.
  4. View New Content will FINALLY work correctly and not forget to show you forums you haven't read just because you've logged on in the interim.
  5. We will be far more visible to the search engines (we're already pretty good in this area given our size)
  6. We will have an entirely new front page portal.
  7. Drastically improved page loading speed.

Along with a whole host of other improvements.

During this time:

  1. Advertising will be suspended. Any members that have purchased Premium Memberships will have their memberships extended by an equal amount of time.
  2. The current front page portal will go away until the new portal is in place.
  3. The skin template will look choppy until I get it's replacement installed.

I will post again here when the upgrades will actually start.

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Sweet deal! Lookin' forward to seeing the changes.

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View New Content will FINALLY work correctly and not forget to show you forums you haven't read just because you've logged on in the interim

This is a big part of the problem with activity here. This function not working properly has absolutely killed boards out there that run the same software. The manufacturer was so stubborn about fixing it that I was contemplating taking us to a different software entirely just to get it fixed (a major undertaking), this release fixes the issue.

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Will the new C&G actually have, you know, activity?

That came out more snipey than I had intended. What I'm saying is that it seems posting has fallen off a cliff and mote often than not anymore every topic is just an echo chamber. Will the new software endear itself to new users?

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Well my reply still applies. I'm on C&G almost daily and even I miss threads because of the stupid software flaw. If you are missing threads because View New Content can't see them, then you certainly can't reply in the thread.

But yes, there will be a couple of format changes that I hope people will like.

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No, the article section is for us to write articles in.

Newsfeeder can come back at any time, but I can't be the only one to maintain it... and that is what was happening.

It's bad for the site to just be the comments area for AutoBlog.

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We're having an issue with the second page of some threads not loading properly. I am aware of the issue and I'm working on a fix.

Also, before anyone complains about the look/feel, this is just the default skin. We will be moving to a custom skin in a few days.

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Looks good, for the most part. I had to change my avatar, but otherwise, seems OK ... other than the issue I had last night with receiving the "server" issue messages....

Cort | 38.m.IL | pigValve + paceMaker | 5 Monte Carlos + 1 Caprice Classic

* PRE-SURGERY PARTY = ~5:30p-10:30p, Saturday, 10/29/2011 at Beef Villa, 1225 W Spring St, S Elgin IL *

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Seems to work ok for me..took a couple tries to figure out how to embed a YouTube video, but it's pretty simple once I figured it out. With the standard skin the forums look identical to another forum I frequent that uses the same software, so I have to pay attention to know if I am posting about 1:1 cars or model cars.. :)

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You may be working on it olds or I may be doing something wrong; but unlike the previous software, when I click the newer topics the content goes straight to the first post. I would like to view the newer posts just like the previous times.

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You may be working on it olds or I may be doing something wrong; but unlike the previous software, when I click the newer topics the content goes straight to the first post. I would like to view the newer posts just like the previous times.

Click the blue dot next to the post title in the list. That takes you to the most recent unread post.

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