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Hey guys! This is alberthrocks, your friendly invisible CoT! A couple things to clarify:This is technically Omnimaga v2.0, big upgrade. No kidding, we did a super big upgrade, which is no small feat!That said, the upgrade is a WIP. Call it Omnimaga v2.0 SUPER ALPHA ALPHA ALPHA. Consider the website in alpha right now, with tons of bugs and problems at the moment. We're actively working to fix all of them, but for now, we ask that you bear with us during the upgrade. To repeat, the upgrade is not complete yet!The old theme WILL be back - we've planned this from the start. This is just a temporary theme that we'll continue to tweak to make better until upgrades are complete. Once done, we'll begin working on porting the older theme to v2.0, and bring it back eventually. You'll have the option to pick the current new theme or the old theme once the upgrade is done.We upgraded to protect you from hacking! The reason why we are upgrading this fast is because we were running on an older, unsupported version of SMF. For you guys, that means spambots, super prone to hacking attempts, etc. (Some bots even managed to start going through accounts and steal personal info, like your email!) We upgraded to stop that from happening, as we believe that's really important to protect!Help us help you! Please report issues using this form, not here! We want to make this upgrade a success, so please report issues there! Reporting it on that form helps us more than posting about it here!Finally, please stay put as we work through this - don't harass/complain/etc. until we announce that we're done! We know there are issues, so please use this form to report it! We're working around the clock to fix it, and we'd appreciate if you tell us about the problem! Once we get out of alpha, we'll open up for changes and such. For now, to keep our admins sane, please use the form to tell us about issues and hold tight till its done!Thanks for reading!-alberthrocks
Hi everybody!So as some of you might know, Omnimaga has long been waiting on an upgrade to SMF2. This upgrade has been in the works for a while and very shortly, the site will be migrated over to SMF2 for everybody to use. This means that there will be a lot of changes, some of which you might not be happy about. There will be a lot of new features, but there will also be some features that either go away for good, or are temporarily gone until we implement them all. For a list of what we know will be broken look here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1HeBItJBoBIix_ErZa7wg1UInyLSAVWZ5XRwR3AjC8_Q/pubOmnimaga has had a downloads section for a long time, but with the upgrade to SMF2 the mod we are using for it will no longer work. The downloads section isn't going completely away though, it will remain in the read only form that was recently introduced on http://www.omnimaga.org/files/. If you want to update files you have in the downloads section after the upgrade, please email the admins with a request.The old themes will temporarily be unavailable for use and everybody will be stuck with a new theme that is still in the works, but is usable. This new theme will eventually be flushed out better, and the old themes will be ported to the new version of SMF. The current theme is a Work in progressDuring the transition to SMF2, the forum will be disabled for a period of up to an hour. When this happens, keep an eye on IRC or our facebook or twitter accounts for updates on the situation.On behalf of the Omnimaga admins,Nathaniel "Eeems" van Diepen
Old Post Links - Will be fixed Table update script just not made yet(id’s have changed)Downloads section will be read onlyRecent posts page - Needs to be polished but is there in a rather sad stateRules will only be available in english until we can get them re-translated into all the languages they use to be available in.
The "New Posts" is still (kind of)there, it's just not a button at the moment. On the forum drop down menu at the top go down to "Unread" and click on it. This will show you all posts you haven't read, starting with the most recent.
First impression thoughts/queries:1. New Posts: there should be a quick button, i agree with Hayleia.2. Attachments: where are the post's attachments? Do the old links still function?3. Users reading the post: not available?4. Tutorial: people used to the old theme, will feel a bit lost, at first. Please write a short how-to, when possible.I think i can understand the huge amount of work going on behind the scenes and probably it's just a matter of time for people to get used to the new theme looks and functionality. Thanks for the hard work.
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