MFG Forums upgraded to CS 2007

[Ace]

The MFG Forums have been upgraded to CS 2007.

Come check out the new look, and let us know what you think.

More and better skins are coming soon!

[Duo]

It's more visually appealing than the previous setup, but that really isn't saying much. Other then that, it is loading slightly faster and the random 5 minute freezes appear to be gone.

[Sharky]

Enhancements:

• Updated Manage Licenses page.
• Updated GetBodySummary to support specifying a CSS class instead of static colors.
• Update User Cache keys to avoid conflicts with numeric user names vs userid.
• Updated Chameleon list controls to not render any standard templates if there are no items to bind and the NoneTemplate is not defined.
• Updated TagCloudBase, InlineTagEditorBase, InlineContentEditor, and ContentPart controls to not render class attributes when the class name is empty.
• Added ParentSectionID and ParentSectionApplicationKey properties to the SectionQuery control to support specifying/overridding the parent section used when querying sections using Chameleon controls.
• Restored support for "Require authentication for profile viewing" option.
• Updated PreTemplatedPagerBase to set its visibility to false when there are no items to render.
• Corrected markup issue on the search page of the traveler theme.
• Fixed post view counting in all applications. Count now increments only on full post view except for forums.
• Fixed extraneous closing div tag in Traveler blog theme.
• Corrected markup issue on Simple blog theme's post.aspx page.
• Updated Thread that the user is monitoring was modified, and Forum that the user is monitoring was modified email templates.
• Added support for TruncateQueryFiltersAt, QueryFilterTruncationEllipsisText/ResourceName/ResourceFile properties on the SearchForm control.
• Updated TagBreadCrumb control to always honor ShowAllTags property.
• Fixed issue with some CSS markup in emails on gmail with IE7.
• Added support for EnableFileDateVersioning property on Script and Style controls.
• Added Rss LinkTo option to File Gallery GroupData control.
• Corrected ApplicationType-based queries for tags in the File Gallery TagCloud control to retrieve tags for FileGallery instead of Weblogs.
• Updated logic for the RssComments LinkTo value of GalleryPostData to match the display conditions of the related feed.
• Added support for GroupID in ForumThreadQueries.
• Password removed from create user email except for situations where the password was generated by Community Server.
• Updated GroupID query support in forums to include sub-forums.
• Added check to not render post tag editable lists when there are no tags to render and the control is not editable.
• Forum post objects are now more fully populated when creating/editing them.

Bug Fixes:

• Fix for missing row ids, which cause the photos posteditcontrol to break if a user disables trackbacks or ratings for a gallery.
• Removed the beta warning message on homepage welcome content part.
• Correcting TinyMCE editor issue in IE6 on Windows 2000/Windows XP (pre-SP2)
• ForumPostAnswerToggleButton - corrected check to enable thread starters to toggle answer statuses (updated logic to match Visible property)
• Sub forms now fire after committing the new user to the database in the CreateUserForm
• Aggregate Post Size in the Blog Presentation Settings now works
• Corrected issue preventing scored blog posts from being paged.
• Removed requirement to identify whether a URL contains a querystring when calling FormatUrlWithUserNameToken. This also corrects issues where the querystring flag was incorrectly set.
• InviteUserForm now has IsValid check performed on SubForms before committing invitation.
• Corrected over-paging issue in the ScrollingPager control when GroupedItemsPerPage > 1.
• Report Abuse no longer displays exception whenever a registered user reports a post as being abusive.
• Corrected constant redirection when clicking the latest post link and viewing in threaded view.
• Update to moderation form change -- corrected JavaScript/AJAX error in FF and correct premature redirection to the main moderation page.
• Fixed "# of moderated posts" calculation in Weblog Create/Update/Delete sprocs
• Fixed ThemeConfigurations class to not blow up when it’s trying to get configurations under a non-web environment (windows services).
• Fixed the Filter Unread Posts drop down so that it works correctly when applying the changes permanently
• Updated JavaScript used by the DefaultButtonTextBox control to properly cancel the keydown event.
• Rolled Feed Username now is properly Html Decoded.
• Fixed blog CP comments screen to not lose the feedback formatting when using the bulk publish/unpublish buttons.
• Fixed delete comment issue on default blog and on lean and green blog theme.
• Removed invalid JavaScript link around thread status icons
• Fixed an issue with Users.FindUserByEmail which failed to find users in the aspnet tables who don't yet have a Community Server profile
• Fixed error caused by an ampersand in a username.
• JavaScript updated to work in IE and FireFox for ConfirmationPage
• When threaded viewing a thread that has more than MaximumPostsToDisplay (200) the warning message is now formatted correctly.
• Corrected downloading PDF in IE6 issue in DownloadEntryForm control
• Updated improper use of Response.Url in ReturnUrls to instead use CSContext.RawUrl
• Added check to see if role already assigned to user before trying to assign it.
• Fixed issue when you use a TextPart with no values inside a blog post, such as "[name]" so that it now returns null when trying to access the value, instead of throwing an exception.
• Modified MetaBlogExtender CSModule to ignore TextParts with null values.
• Corrected cache vary-by parameters for avatar caching.
• Now you can delete a role that was assigned to a permission (global or section) without causing an exception.

[Gangsta SabZ]

It doesn't look A LOT better, but it's alright. To be honest, it doesn't look too different. What I hate is the side bar with all that "popular tags" shit. It makes the forums narrow and unattractive, because it takes up a third of the space on the page.

[Pyro Bastard]

I kinda gatta agree with SabZ. Before the upgrade, the "Popular Tags", My Discussions", and "Unanswered Topics(I think that's what it's called)" where a lot skinner. Now they take up half the page for me. Plus, as with SabZ, I still don't see why we have the "Popular Tags" thing. As for that, I really don't see any other problems.

[Teen Goten]

It looks alright. It could use some images of characters from DBZ, Naruto & Bleach to make it look more lively.

[Amerowolf]

Side bar does need to be narrower, and a new banner would be cool. I'unno I kind of like it. Everyone go view a profile because I think the new layout of the profiles is pretty cool.
The only think I don't like really, is that when you hold your mouse over a persons' name on the 'Who is online' list it doesn't show what they are looking at anymore.

[Punxx]

Amero's right, the profiles look badass. That's such a cool layout, very nice feature.

Oh and I'm using the Lean and Green skin and the side bars don't look abnormally big. Try it out, it might help, but to be honest I have no idea if it's different as I changed to it immediately. I do like the colors of the new default better, the lean and green looks like the old default, I think...

[dbzgtafman]

It looks good

[Ace]

Originally Posted by Gangsta SabZ

It doesn't look A LOT better, but it's alright. To be honest, it doesn't look too different. What I hate is the side bar with all that "popular tags" shit. It makes the forums narrow and unattractive, because it takes up a third of the space on the page.

I agree that the sidebar was too wide. Fortunately, changing it was an easy thing to do with CS 2007's new online theming capabilities. I hope you like the new width better.

BTW, I suggest giving the tags feature a try -- it only makes sense and adds value to the forum if people actually tag their posts with relevant keywords.

[Raditz The Ruthless]

I like the new look! Looks cleaner.

[Superior]

Good job on getting the Tags back down to size; however, the above links like 'Home, Blogs, Forums, Photos, Downloads, ect' are still overly huge. Not for sure if that can be fixed, other then that, everything is looking on the up and up.

[Blazing Hyuuga]

I like the updates but one thing that seems to be missing is that there's no more Topic reply was : YESTERDAY or TODAY sign.

[Punxx]

I noticed this as well. I think it looked better that way as well but in all honesty it's exactly how it was back in the IPB days. But it would be sweet if we could get that back. Dunno if it's possible.

The Avatars are humongous! I can literally see every large pixelated block in everyone's ava, it's driving me insane. If possible, please fix, if not, I'll deal...

[Superior]

Yes, back during MFG FoRuMs v.3.0, it was like this. No Today or Yesterday's were shown, though they did grow on me, so if we can get those back it'd be good. And if you can't, I don't care. One way or another people will find out what the date is, afterall, they did back during MFG's peak of greatness!

As for the Avatars... please do fix. They're driving not only Punxx insane, but me as well.

Edit: Also, is there a way to get a "Mark All Posts As Read" button yet?