Testing vBulletin 4.x with a new EV site.. Please take a look!

I've been looking for a way to test the 4.x version of the vBulletin software in preparation for upgrading the forum software here on NSX Prime.

I also find electric vehicles (including hybrids) increasingly interesting. It's clear they are where the entire industry is headed. Even the rumors for the NSX 2.0 are for a hybrid powertrain.

So I set up a new forum to bring the NSX Prime style to the EV world. This will also help me test vB4 and figure out how I want to use some of the new features.

I'd appreciate if you would take a moment to register and post a question about EVs, or a quick introduction if you already own an EV or hybrid of any time.

The only issue I am aware of right now is that I customized the colors and some of them are not ideal combinations; it's not always clear every place a given color element is used in the style template. I'll keep working on that; if you run across any really bad color combos please post the URL in the Site Questions & Announcements section.

Anyway I'd like to get feedback on whether you'd like to see some of the differences on the new site implemented here when I upgrade this site to vB4 in the near future.

http://www.evprime.com/forums

Thanks!

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Hi Lud,
I made a test post in the For Sale section and was unable to upload a file from my computer. The option to upload from a URL only worked if the "store file locally" box was checked. However the image was resized by the board's software to about 1/4 the size of the original file.

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I signed up but never received a email.

Mike

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I signed up and tried to use lud as a referrer but it kept kicking me out. i did get in but i left referrer blank.

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Hugh said:

Hi Lud,
I made a test post in the For Sale section and was unable to upload a file from my computer. The option to upload from a URL only worked if the "store file locally" box was checked. However the image was resized by the board's software to about 1/4 the size of the original file.

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Interesting, I just posted a reply and uploaded a picture from my PC and it worked fine.. Did it give you a particular error message or just not work?

The resize is because the system generates a thumbnail within the message. If you click on the small pic it pops up the big version.

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comtec said:

I signed up but never received a email.

Mike

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In looking into that, I discovered that you had flagged an e-mail from NSX Prime as spam on May 25, 2012 - 12:34 PM (perhaps an accidental click?).

Anyway, when someone does that my mail server puts the e-mail address on a "do not deliver" list, so you haven't received any e-mail from my server in a few months. I just cleared you from the "do not deliver" list so you should get e-mails from the server again.

I also told the EV Prime forum to send you a new activation e-mail.

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Ko-nsx said:

I signed up and tried to use lud as a referrer but it kept kicking me out. i did get in but i left referrer blank.

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I don't have a user account on there under my name yet, just an admin account. So it was probably having an issue because the a referral user ID didn't exist. :wink:

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NSX Prime said:

In looking into that, I discovered that you had flagged an e-mail from NSX Prime as spam on May 25, 2012 - 12:34 PM (perhaps an accidental click?).

Anyway, when someone does that my mail server puts the e-mail address on a "do not deliver" list, so you haven't received any e-mail from my server in a few months. I just cleared you from the "do not deliver" list so you should get e-mails from the server again.

I also told the EV Prime forum to send you a new activation e-mail.

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Hey thanks, was wondering why i no longer get PM emails. Cool

Mike

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NSX Prime said:

Did it give you a particular error message or just not work?

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The latter.

*Edit* Working fine now Lud. I posted 2 replies in the original thread.

Re: Testing vBulletin 4.x with a new site.. Please take a look!

Lud, didn't help. Still didn't get the activation email or PM emails. Getting nothing in spam folder.

Thanks
Mike

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comtec said:

Lud, didn't help. Still didn't get the activation email or PM emails. Getting nothing in spam folder.

Thanks
Mike

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My fault. Apparently I'm an idiot and somehow didn't actually remove your address from the "do not deliver" list even though I was sure I had done so. Sorry about that!

Anyway I just did it (for real this time), and watched it successfully deliver the activation code e-mail to verify that it was working correctly.

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On another note, I'd really like some more folks to test it and give feedback on what they like or don't like so I know how to best implement the vBulletin upgrade on this site. Maybe move some of the EV discussion from this section over there? Thanks in advance!

NSX Prime said:

when I upgrade this site to vB4 in the near future.

http://

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This upgrade will preserve saved PMs and subscribed threads?

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NSX Prime said:

My fault. Apparently I'm an idiot and somehow didn't actually remove your address from the "do not deliver" list even though I was sure I had done so. Sorry about that!

Anyway I just did it (for real this time), and watched it successfully deliver the activation code e-mail to verify that it was working correctly.

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Hey Thanks Lud, that did it! :smile:

Mike