A week ago I was trying to encourage Basil, who found that his members did not like v7.

Well I spent the whole of Christmas Day, upgrading mine - only to find that people do not like the layout, do not like the colours and generally want to go back to the old forums

But I am not about to give up (yet!) - although it has been tempting just to shut up shop LOL

I think the biggest problem is the features which were in 6.x like ubbcode in signatures, postrow highlighting, checking if a post is a duplicate etc., are missing and so people have got used to these normal items, and can't understand when in affect I take them away and give them a poorer forum.

Well now that's not quite true. There are many other new cool things in 7.x and Rick is working/promising to return many of those features in upcoming releases.

Hang in there,
after time they will come around.

Any that you loose over cosmetics, arnt worth worrying about.

Do a What's New Topic
that shut my bunch up, and i love them really.

Ive allready turned off the shout box and there still
here the members that is.

They dont like change!!

Hang in there..

The colors are easy enough to port over and the post row highlighting will be making a return soon. This is going to worth the wait as the tweaks get applied over the next year.

Your users need to realize that all of the basics of a really nice forum are in place. Patience is going to pay off.

So you saying I shouldn't buy a new license quite yet

With the changes from 6.5 to 7, we did cut out some features that didn't fit in with the immediate rewrite. With 7.1 I think we've brought everything back except for a couple things like the highlighting of the entire row on a new post.

Ian, what's the complaint on UBBcode in signatures? Most everything can be used, we only exclude a few things like quote blocks.

Oh no I'm not.

You should break out a credit card and buy that Gold lifetime license tonight. It's well worth it.

I'd love to but think the wife would make me wish I hadn't. I will probably buy the basic tonight though. If the board does do well then perhaps I'll buy the Gold at that time.

ntdoc, I love the UBB products, been with the company since the late 90's, and don't plan to ever go elsewhere due to the friends, the easy to understand code, etc...

As for wanting to back out ian, things can only get better :nod:...

though you should install some of my themes if they're whining about colors lol