Moving to a New Platform

[Cory Smith]

It's hard to believe we are coming up on a year since we relaunched PrintPlanet. In that time you have created over 2500 threads and 15,000 new posts! Thank you to everyone for your participation. I hope you find it to be a great resource.

We have received some great feedback since the relaunch and in order to implement some of the changes our members have requested, we have decided to move to a new platform. This new site will offer many of the requested features as well as provide flexibility for new ones. All critical information will be automatically transferred over (accounts, threads and posts), while some information like signatures and profile options will need to be recreated once we move. A year ago we successfully integrated two communities running on wildly different platforms. We hope you'll continue to give us the great feedback that enabled us to make that successful as we begin this new chapter at PrintPlanet!

[SlaveToTheMan]

Nice! Can't wait to see what it brings for imprvoved posting & display options. B-)

[Cory Smith]

Hello,
I wanted to give everyone a preview of the new site.

http://dev1.whattheythink.net/index.php

The content here will be flushed and a new import done over the weekend. Anything that is posted there will not be kept.

*A few things that the new forum will bring:*

* Ability to view all new posts since last visit
* Jump to newest unread post
(those were the two most requested features)

* Suppress Signatures
* Supress Avatars
* Ignore Users
* More robust Private Message capabilities
* Email Threads
* Attach polls to threads


If you have some time and would like to provide feedback, please send it to me at cory@printplanet.com.

Thanks!

http://dev1.whattheythink.net/index.php

[Lukas Engqvist]

Looks great, more efficient use of screen (if content and discussions are good I would be active anyway, but I am greatfull for good efficiency)

Lkas

[doubting_thomas]

The look is definitely much cleaner and more intuitive
to me. I'm more interested in the new module's feature
set, which sounds nice.

[DavidMa]

overall, a good look, but the text is a little small, I find it hard to read. The font size and readability of the current forum is good for me.

thanks Cory, nice job!

edit...(due to a second look at the new version)
maybe it's the use of the serif font that makes it look smaller, I noticed your using a sans serif font here, easier on the eyes.

Edited by: DavidMa on Aug 7, 2008 4:01 PM

[Cory Smith]

Thanks All.

After looking at the font, I agree..I upped the site on everything a bit.

[Lukas Engqvist]

Will attatchments work better? Some things in the graphic industry are better described graphically, tried attatching a small screen dump in one forum, and I can't get it to work either in safari or firefox. Is it a windows world, or do I need special permissions? Or is there other things like naming conventions? File size/format?

[Cory Smith]

yes, file attachments will work much better with expanded file sizes and more file types.

[DavidMa]

Much better! Way easier to read.
thanks Cory