8wayrun.com Now Running The Xenforo Beta!

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You may already notice... 8WayRun.Com has been updated and completely overhauled! I think we can all agree that the upgrade to vBulletin4 a few months back was a mistake; it should never have been done and it did nothing but hurt this community. Thankfully, some new software has just entered it's beta stages, and it's already so polished that I'm taking the risk and upgrading our community to it.

With any new software, there are of course some changes you will have to get used to. The biggest change you will notice that when you click on a thread name, instead of it bringing you to the beginning of the thread, it will bring you to the most recent unread post (as far back as 28 days). It will take a bit to get used to this, but before you know it... you'll be browsing other forums and wondering why the feature is missing! There are other small changes that you will figure out in time.

The chatroom has been temporarily replaced with Mibbit IRC until Addonchat brings up support for XenForo. The Wiki is also relatively empty as I will be working for the next few days in converting our data to the new format. The Events RSVP system has also been completely overhauled... in which case, all existing event information and RSVPs has been lost. If you have an upcoming event, just make a new event thread, then send me a message and I will merge the old thread with your new one.

You may also notice that "premium" membership has been disabled. I'm working on ideas for the new premium membership system that will give higher incentives for people to join... things like physical goods and prizes, as well as true motivators. If you are a current premium membership and wish to get a refund for overpaid months, message me. Of course, I ask if you would instead kindly chalk it up as a donation for 8WayRun.Com and let it go.

 
Jason Axelrod

Jason Axelrod

Owner and Operator of 8WAYRUN
There is no transparency on editing in the current version of XenForo...

No "edited on:" message... nor is their an edit countdown (as in, can't edit after 6 hours).
Yeah that's pretty bad. Kinda seems like one of the first things you should implement.

@ Justkill: Alerts are more or less self descriptive. They're really nice. Haha.
 
Will there be skin options with this new design? I kinda miss the darker skin.

And by kinda, I mean really. :(
 
Jaxel: I clicked the link for flexile and it's still a mostly white background. Also: I'm getting ads, but since I'm a premium member shouldn't that not be here for me? Or have you yet to set up that kind of thing since this is new?
 
arch, as of now there is no premium membership any longer. if you are paid ahead for premium, you can leave it as a donation to help pay jaxel for the xenforo service and server, or you can PM jaxel for a refund. it's up to you. as a whole, xenforo has boosted ad revenue, so there are less necessary. what is there, however, you can't really avoid.
 
Okay... as of now, I think the transition from VB4 to XF is complete...

The entire wiki is populated. I have only copied over the base wiki articles, and frame data. Any frame data articles that were "placeholders" and relatively incomplete have not been copied over. None of the user written guides have been copied over either. If you wrote one of these guides and would like to get access to it, you can find it on the old site. The old site will not be around forever, so get it while you can: http://beta.8wayrun.com/wiki/

The media library has been completely copied over... right now there are no "favorites/likes" yet. Comments have been copied over as well.
 
Any chance of the blogs returning? Unless of course they're already here and I haven't been looking in the right place.
 
Scroll down to the bottom left of the page and click the link for "Flexile"

I saw that link before, but it didn't offer any options. It changed only the tiny tiny part of the page at the bottom and the top.
It's not even there, now. There's an MS Office ad, and the Xenforo link, that's it. Could there be something wrong with my Firefox interpreting the site? 'cause I can't believe it is this ugly, even on default.

But I've noticed the character images have returned! Hurrah.
EDIT: Also is it possible to force ignore bbcode tags forumwide, because :(B):s have become bold text tags all over the forum. Disastrous for archived discussion.
 
It's white.
It's all white. There's some, i dunno, is this orange? Rose? That's all I get. I can't stand it. Get some blue in here.
But I'm sure it has to be my browser, now, because the boxes and stuff don't look formatted right. There's no borders / frames. There's just text kinda sitting there, and the buttons.
 
Oh right, good idea.
I took three:
xenforotop.png xenforoquote.png xenforobottom.png
I converted them from bitmaps to .png with MS Photo Editor.
 
I can no longer access my vids I posted up through my profile page.

I CAN get them if I search under the criteria in the media section. But no easy access anymore? Or am I looking at the wrong spot?

HRD
 
I can no longer access my vids I posted up through my profile page.
This feature has not been added yet...

Oh right, good idea.
I took three:
View attachment 3186 View attachment 3187 View attachment 3188
I converted them from bitmaps to .png with MS Photo Editor.
You're on a laptop aren't you? A lot of laptops do text resizing automatically on your computer. Its why all the fonts look weird, even the fonts on the menu bar of Firefox. I'm not on a laptop right now, nor do any of my laptops have the feature installed, so I forgot what it was called. You should turn the feature off, as it will make everything on your computer look better.

Untitled-1.jpg
 
I can no longer access my vids I posted up through my profile page.

I CAN get them if I search under the criteria in the media section. But no easy access anymore? Or am I looking at the wrong spot?

HRD


HRD the linking to videos in the media section has changed. if you find your videos in the media library, click them, and off to the right you will see three columns. the bottom one will have the word medio, then a 4 digit number, then /medio.

so [media=xenmedio]XXXX[/media]

that is the new link to your videos, all vids have just a 4 digit number. it makes linking and embedding videos FAR easier once you get all your video numbers.=, plus you get the sexy ass new embed format. see my OP in this thread: http://www.8wayrun.com/threads/match-of-the-year-2010-nominations.6118/

if you have trouble with it still, pop in to chat for a walkthrough or PM me and i can just edit/fix the links for ya.
 
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