Pending Upgrade

Can you tell what new features we will get to see after the upgrade ???

Hi Ezimhel,
Recently almost every day the forum is down for some time. Is it part of the upgradation process or I am the only one seeing this.

Thanks

Hi Erich,
Thanks for clarifying. As a fellow developer I can understand the problems u r facing. Nothing to worry about from my side, as long as u are working for making it better.

ALl the best

Raghu

Hi,

these unplanned outages are directly related to the hardware issues that have forced us to postpone the upgrade.

We apologize for these, and are working aggressively to isolate and remove the cause. There will likely be another scheduled outage before the upgrade to accommodate any fixes required.

Thanks for the question,
Erich

Hi,

thanks for the question.

Apart from the items we've listed in the Announcement (which include a new landing page, a "My Favorite Forums" area, Watch summaries, and combined thread views within a Category) the changes you will see will be minor at first.

- Announcements: these will appear as non-Forum content, in their own portlet

- WYSIWYG Editor: text can be more easily formatted

- New icons

Some features the upgrade provides will not appear immediately, as we must test them. These include Polling, RSS support, hierarchical or tree thread views, virus-scanning attachments and Avatars.

I hope this gives you a taste of what's coming. Unfortunately, we'll have to wait a little bit longer to see these.

Thanks again,
Erich

Virus-scanning attachments? Does this mean user will be able to attach attachments to their posts now? What is going to be size limit in that case?