Website upgraded
Topic Site - Information
Posted by LombudXa on
Hey all
Finally I have done the most part of the upgrade for our website. I will go on completing things which are missing yet.
What has changed? Well, there are numerous of changes including many bug fixes, security & performance improvements and some new features for the users and admin. Some highlights:
Site is a lot faster due to performance improvements
Collapsible blocks (will be stored in your cookies)
New Main Navigation block
New Donations block
New Userinfo block
New Site Map
2 new BBCodes -> Google Video and You Tube Video
Improved BBCode Box for Quick Reply
New Theme called Centrium-Shellz (you can change themes in Your Account)
I already discovered a few bugs unfortunately but not too bad actually. One is the forum statistics but that seems to be a problem on our server. Then the TeamSpeak module doesn't work with the upgrade anymore. Maybe I find an alternative. I also look for a game server module. Maybe I can fix/port over the old we used or I maybe find a new solution.
For further performance improvements, I have moved the shout box block to the right side on our home page because it uses a lot of resources and thus will make everything else faster.
Please test if the Arcade Games still work. I've heard that it might not record your new scores anymore. I don't hope so. Also test out the new donations block. I really hope that one works for us too lol. I've also noticed a problem with the «eS][Admin» block on the left side. You know, where you can access our UT game servers (WebAdmin). Does that block show up for you or not? Should be just below the Main Menu block. Let me know, thanks.
Other than that, there are a few forum mods missing which I will add later on again. I'm planning to re-add the buddy list mod, country flags, birthday mod and board message mod. What do you think about having the opportunity to also collapse the forum categories? There's a mod which will do so similar to the blocks. Let me know about this mod, I think it could be handy.
I've also removed vWar for now since it's known for security issues but our version should be fine though. I've fixed a lot of problems so that shouldn't be really a problem for our site but because we don't use it really, I won't add it right now. Furthermore I've removed the UTMapPreview module because it was just too much work and our map list isn't up-to-date anymore anyway. The calendar is gone for now too. I think we don't need it right now. All the stuff could be easily installed which isn't available right now so if you think we should have something back, let me know.
If you know something we used before and you would like to have it, please let me know and we can take a look at it. Maybe there's need of a new gallery module again or something similar dunno. For now, there isn't a gallery module available.
Ok, the site is basically ready to be used again. I'm sure you will come across certain bugs but I'm also still working on it so be patient  Feel free to report bugs and other things, thanks.
Have fun and enjoy 
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