OptiBoard Upgrade - Saturday July 29th, 2006

**Steve Machol** · 07-28-2006, 12:29 AM

OptiBoard will be undergoing a major upgrade to the vBulletin software this Saturday. Because it's a major upgrade with lots of changes, the site may be unavailable most of the day. Sorry for the inconvenience but I think you'll like some of the new features.

**hcjilson** · 07-28-2006, 06:24 AM

OH BOY, OH BOY, OH BOY!

Anything we can do to help??

hj

**Sean** · 07-28-2006, 06:53 AM

Originally Posted by hcjilson

Anything we can do to help??

hj

I'll second that. Aahhh...... nothing like that new software smell in the mornig.:)

**Steve Machol** · 07-29-2006, 02:29 PM

Okay, the upgrade is done. The biggest immediate change you will see is that many of the posts and threads you have read previously now show as 'unread'. The reason for this is that the new version of vBulletin now keeps track of threads you've actually read, rather than automatically marking them as 'read' when you log out or your session expires.

All you need to do is go to 'New Posts' and read any new threads you want to. After this you can click on 'Quick Links -> Mark Forums Read' to mark everything as 'read' and start fresh.

There are a lot of enhancements that may not be readily apparent at first. Rather that provide a list of all the new features (and because I'm lazy ;) ) I'll let you find these out for yourself.

There will probably be some glitches. If so please report them in the Feedback forum. Enjoy!

**Joann Raytar** · 07-30-2006, 07:43 AM

Phew, thank you. Those were alot of posts. It's very early on a Sunday morning and I haven't finished my first cup of coffee yet. Don't do that!:hammer: