Think we made it! OrangeTractorTalks forums are now migrated from vBulletin to XenForo. Along with the update comes numerous usability improvements, mobile device support, bigger picture attachment sizes (1MB, no cap on dimensions) and a path to keep the forums updated for years to come.
If you are a returning member, welcome back! You should find everything as you left it - your user profile, avatar, threads, posts and PMs should all be intact. You can login using the Login link in the top right of the page. Once logged in, the navigation around the site should feel similar - there's a big orange "Post thread" button if you want to start a new thread, and posting replies to existing threads is as simple as entering comments in the text editor and hitting post. We hope you find the upgraded forums a better OTT experience!
Help pages available here: https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/help/
Feel free to use this thread to post your comments, questions and raise any issues you might be seeing (or send to bugreports@orangetractortalks.com). We'll use this top post to collect a list of ongoing issues reported and investigation status into each. Thank you again for stopping by and hanging in there as we upgrade the site!
Awareness
Things to be aware of:
Things we are investigating or fixing:
If you are a returning member, welcome back! You should find everything as you left it - your user profile, avatar, threads, posts and PMs should all be intact. You can login using the Login link in the top right of the page. Once logged in, the navigation around the site should feel similar - there's a big orange "Post thread" button if you want to start a new thread, and posting replies to existing threads is as simple as entering comments in the text editor and hitting post. We hope you find the upgraded forums a better OTT experience!
Help pages available here: https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/help/
Feel free to use this thread to post your comments, questions and raise any issues you might be seeing (or send to bugreports@orangetractortalks.com). We'll use this top post to collect a list of ongoing issues reported and investigation status into each. Thank you again for stopping by and hanging in there as we upgrade the site!
Awareness
Things to be aware of:
- Font size is close to what we had on the prior forum software. If you want to adjust the size yourself, you can! Navigate to your preferences to update your font size, timezone and other settings: https://www.orangetractortalks.com/forums/account/preferences
- Avatar images may no longer be centered. You might need to go into your member profile (link at top right) and reupload your avatar and adjust the image to be a bit more centered. You can click and drag the avatar preview image to recenter it.
- The first time a member or visitor visits a thread the new forum software has to do a little bit of work to cache the posts. This process will take a second or two and might mean that pages take a little longer to load. This should only happen once per thread, and only for the first visitor.
Things we are investigating or fixing:
- [fixed] Viewing posts is blocked with an "An account upgrade is required to view this message." message.
- [fixed] Members are not able to edit their posts.
- [fixed] Font size is too small.
- [fixed] Equipment list (eg. B2650) is missing from user info block on posts.
- [fixed] Premium and Lifetime membership banners not appearing.
- [fixed] Performance improvements to make pages load faster.
- [fixed] Ads are currently disabled across the forums (woo!). We'll fix this soon (boo!).
- [fixed] Users cannot upload images directly from mobile devices.
- [fixed] Premium and Lifetime subscriptions currently have no effect, other than banners appearing.
- [fixed] No way for members to view all of their images in one place (eg. personal media / gallery). Fixed! We created a Media gallery (see navigation up top or check out this thread).
- [in progress] 2-step authentication via email is not enabled. We think this impacts anyone with a comcast.net email account. We're looking into it.
- [investigating] Tapatalk integration is no longer supported.
- Some signature style and text settings do not take effect.
- No option to sort thread view by newest post at the top.
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