ProBoards v4 Coming VERY Soon

[Libra]

Surprised no one has started a topic on this already...[/font]

Hello everyone,

Now that v4 has been released to the support forum, I can give a better estimate of exactly when all of the servers servers will be updated.

The reason for upgrading the support forum before other boards, as previously stated, is to make sure that everything will be 100% smooth when it comes to upgrading your boards to version 4. This has given us an opportunity to stress test version 4 and find new bugs which the beta testers have not found.

Over the last 24 hours many new bugs have cropped up that I am currently working on getting rid of. I estimate that it will take between 24 and 48 hours to handle all of these bugs. I do not plan on releasing version 4 to all servers until I am confident that all the bugs that have been found have been smashed. If this means waiting an extra day or two for other servers to get v4, then that is what will happen.

My current goal is to have all the bugs out of v4 by the 4th of this month. After that time I will begin upgrading servers, doing between 5 and 10 per day. I am looking to make sure this transition is as smooth as possible for everyone, so just sit back and relax, you all will get v4 soon ;)

Patrick Clinger

[mst3k]

I assume this means that our board may be down briefly during the transition, so please nobody panic if that happens.

[Chelsea Press 2]

mst3k said:

I assume this means that our board may be down briefly during the transition, so please nobody panic if that happens.

If you or the other Mods and Administrators find out the exact time of this change, could it be announced like a day or so in advance, if that is possible.

[allow that]

Disco said:

If you or the other Mods and Administrators find out the exact time of this change, could it be announced like a day or so in advance, if that is possible.

We're not going to find out until it happens either.

[Chelsea Press 2]

Captain said:

We're not going to find out until it happens either.

That's okay. Let's hope the transition is not that long.

[Matt4319]

Man, it's about time. This has been coming "very soon" for about a year now.

[The Rebirth Of ffej]

LMAO i'll probably go through withdraw

[Libra]

An update:[/font]

Hello everyone,

Alright, now that a few days have gone by, and many tireless nights of work, I believe I can set a final schedule for the release of v4. We will begin rollouts to all servers beginning on Monday the 9th, hopefully ending before the 13th (which is the day of ProBoards meet).

Each day has brought some new bugs that have had to be fixed, and I am confident that there are very few left to be found now. Now all that needs to be done is getting those last bugs out, which will still take a couple more days. By the 9th we should have all the kinks 100% worked out.

Patrick Clinger

[Chelsea Press 2]

I was on at another Proboards forum, and they had this banner on the top of the screen.

This forum will be upgraded within the next 24 hours to ProBoards Version 4. This message board may be unavailable for up to 24 hours during this upgrade. For important notes about this upgrade, please click here.

For a list of new features, check out this post.
support.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=v4&action=display&n=1&thread=1099555771

[mst3k]

Disco said:

I was on at another Proboards forum, and they had this banner on the top of the screen.

So at least we will have a little warning when it happens to PMB (the ProBoards admins are the ones who will post that banner here when the time comes).

LMAO @ this new feature:

Karma (optional feature). Each user can have their own karma, which other users can praise or smite a user to increase or decrease the users karma.

[Chelsea Press 2]

Any thoughts on those new features? Particularly on the Karma feature. ;)

[mst3k]

Disco said:

Any thoughts on those new features? Particularly on the Karma feature.  ;)

I like the idea of being able to smite a user, although I'm not sure if Matt's gonna add the Karma feature to PMB.

At least for me, this one should be good for some laughs in certain artist threads:

When viewing the threads on a board, you will be able to click on the number of replies. Doing so will popup a small window showing which users have participated in the thread and how many posts each person has made. The list of users will be sorted by who made the most posts in the thread.

[Chelsea Press 2]

mst3k said:

I like the idea of being able to smite a user, although I'm not sure if Matt's gonna add the Karma feature to PMB.

At least for me, this one should be good for some laughs in certain artist threads:

I noticed that one too. I saw the new interface at that Support site. It looks pretty good. Hopefully, the transition will be as smooth as it can be.

[Deleted]

LOL Matt already told us he's not adding the karma feature.

[Andy]

Good luck with the transition, it should be happening soon for you...You'll get 24 hours warning as well, we are on server 40, so you will be a way ahead of us, hope you dont have any probs and everything goes smoothly...

[automyskin89]

can't wait! ;)

[Chelsea Press 2]

Orange said:

LOL Matt already told us he's not adding the karma feature.

No need for it.

[crash46]

Disco said:

Any thoughts on those new features? Particularly on the Karma feature. ;)

As long as it's a totally meaningless feature that can never result in any extra, or loss of, priveleges, then I'd say go for it. No reason for it to be resoundingly shot down.

[reception]

I use it often but I was actually hoping for an improved search function. It works most but not all the time for me.

[Love Plastic Love]

mst3k said:

At least for me, this one should be good for some laughs in certain artist threads:

Oh yeah!!!


Id like an improved search function as well. Perhaps I am just stupid, but it rarely works for me. Or I will search an artist name in the music news forum and so many topics will pop up that have NO mention of that artist. ???

[allow that]

Love said:

Id like an improved search function as well... it rarely works for me.

[automyskin89]

when is this going to happen ??? thanks.

[johnm1120]

Servers 1-11 are being upgraded tonight so Pulse will probably happen Tuesday night/Wednesday morning maybe.

[johnm1120]

There's the notice.

[Matt4319]

Expect the server to go down around 2 AM Eastern time tonight, and be back up sometime between 2 PM Wednesday and 2 AM Thursday (approximately 12 to 24 hours later).

[JCMF3]

Matt4319 said:

Expect the server to go down around 2 AM Eastern time tonight, and be back up sometime between 2 PM Wednesday and 2 AM Thursday (approximately 12 to 24 hours later).

Wow, what will some board members do with being able to post for 12-24 hours!!!! :o :o :o

[Matt4319]

JCMF3 said:

Wow, what will some board members do with being able to post for 12-24 hours!!!! :o :o :o

I'm going to the beach myself.

[jimmy74747]

We may need to setup a crisis hotline

[Chelsea Press 2]

jimmy74747 said:

We may need to setup a crisis hotline

ROFLMAO! ;)

[KikiMets]

JCMF3 said:

Wow, what will some board members do with being able to post for 12-24 hours!!!!  :o :o :o

This couldn't come at a better time for me, since I'm moving out of my dorm tomorrow