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WELCOME BACK!!

Post by Duvel78 » 09 Jan 2009 03:00 am

It's 2:45 AM, I would be sleeping now but... Here we are again, the V3M forum is back!

Sorry for the shock with the new colors :D :D, and the absence of a real V3M banner, that is just temporary and it will change with the whole website redesign. That was the first step!

In fact the forum has moved from the PhpBB 2 version to the PhpBB 3, which was really urgent to do, and that's not the easiest thing! (because of the mods, security patches against the spam, the problem of rebuilding a huge index search table etc etc...)

The biggest new feature on the forum is the possibility to upload your own pictures in your messages! The only restrictions are that you can't upload more than 6 pictures by message, each picture with a maximum of 450 Ko. The width and eight aren't important, the pictures will be automatically resized to a 700px width. It's a big improvement for all of you using websites or own server spaces to store pictures! Please not that there are two ways of adding the pictures:

- Uploading and leaving all the pictures at the end of the message
- Uploading and then using the "place inline" button, so the pictures appear inside your text with the [attachment] [/attachment] tags.

Little remark concerning the pictures inside signatures: we have decided to restrict the size to 600 px width and 120 px height, it would be nice if the members with larger signatures could change this!

Thanks to all for the patience during these days! Don't hesitate to contact me if you see strange problems on the forum!

Cheers

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Collection: '78 343 Black Beauty, '82 345 GLS, '83 340 DL 2.0, '84 340 DL vario, '88 360 GLT 5d (2x) & 4d (2x), '89 GLT, '91 340 vario
Dad's cars: '87 340 vario, '89 340 vario
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Re: WELCOME BACK!!

Post by foggyjames » 09 Jan 2009 03:22 am

Great to have it back, Aymat. Thanks for your hard work!

cheers

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Post by jtbo » 09 Jan 2009 08:43 am

Ah, my shaking hands can relax now, just need to figure out what to do with this huge ball of human hair now :lol:

Great work Duvel, it is indeed very big amount of work that such upgrading needs, also very boring work that can be at times. I wait in horror when I have to upgrade either of my boards, one is phpBB3 and another is SMF based, sadly in every upgrade it is required to build everything from ground up again. It would be great if upgrade would parse old files and find mods and themes from there, but I guess that is too difficult to make by board software makers as there is so many different mods around.
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Post by volvosneverdie » 09 Jan 2009 09:25 am

Well done sir!
Thanks for all your hard work.

Great to have the boards back.

340pw .

oooh. a new pic thingy.

How very modern.

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Post by trabitom99 » 09 Jan 2009 09:34 am

For me, the standard design is OK. Not quite so conspicuous when accessing V3M at work ;-)

Thanks for putting in the effort, Aymat.

Cheers

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Post by SteveP » 09 Jan 2009 09:44 am

Good work Aymat, I'm pretty impressed with PHPBB3 already! :D

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Post by redline » 09 Jan 2009 09:51 am

Well done Aymat ,

twas a bit of a shock when I logged on the other day and we werent there anymore , but well worth the wait
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Post by jtbo » 09 Jan 2009 10:01 am

trabitom99 wrote:For me, the standard design is OK. Not quite so conspicuous when accessing V3M at work ;-)

Thanks for putting in the effort, Aymat.

Cheers

Tom
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Post by SteveP » 09 Jan 2009 10:45 am

I know this has been said before but what are the chances of having a 'Projects' section so members can have a thread about their own cars within this section?
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Post by trabitom99 » 09 Jan 2009 10:58 am

Ah yes, a "The Family! [we need your pictures!!]" section ;) The "members' cars" threads do get a bit lost in "General Discussion" ...

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Post by Chris_C » 09 Jan 2009 11:15 am

Theres a restructure coming too... Aymats priority was to get the back end in place so that we weren't without a forum for too long!

Cheers Aymat!
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Post by classicswede » 09 Jan 2009 11:26 am

Great to have it back. Wow what a change, great to see the forum moving on. :D
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Post by filthyjohn » 09 Jan 2009 02:13 pm

*phew*
Nice one, it'll take some getting used to the new look but I'm sure it's worth it.
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Post by trabitom99 » 09 Jan 2009 02:23 pm

The "user control panel" seems pretty cool. You can save drafts, spam people with PMs :-) , define "friends" and "foes", manage bookmarks, attachments, subscribed threads etc ... Nice!

A good thing about having a V3M header would be that you could go over to the rest of the site easily and access the brochures, the french forum, etc ...

Tom
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343 L Junior B14.3E MT4 (155) 229000kms 1981 (scrapped)
343 DLS B19A MT4 (155) 167900kms 1982
360 GL Injection B200F MT5 (231) 348598kms 1988 (scrapped)
360 GLT B200F MT5 (302) 230000kms 1988

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Post by sven360 » 09 Jan 2009 03:14 pm

Thanks for all your hard work sm4
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