BlueEye

Hi JD -

I've already talked with Terry about this.  We got the posts in the groups to show up in the new posts/activity stream and now I am working on getting them to show up on the new topics sidebar links and homepage as well.  I think I have found a fix for that and will be testing it for us this week.

Thanks again guys!

Chad

Nice catch Ed!!

Welcome aboard Phil!  We're glad to have you.  I have added you to the charter captains group.  You will now have access to those forums.  Enjoy the site!

Chad

Sorry to hear that Phil.  Our condolences to Nick and his family.

Welcome spincast! Glad to have ya. Great photos.

If you look at the tab at the top of the site titled ACTIVITY, you will see a drop down option for VIEW NEW CONTENT there.  This should be on every page site-wide for quick access.  Here is where you can also create and save your own custom activity streams as well (for example if you only wanted to see posts and not new gallery images).  Create your own custom stream link:  http://www.greatlakesfisherman.com/fishing-hunting-outdoors/discover/?do=create

You can find that under ACTIVITY > My Activity Streams > Create New Stream

Hi Aaron -

Sure I can help.  Here is how you view your own gallery images:

Hope this helps!

Chad

Welcome trouttracker! Glad to have you aboard. Lots of great guys here

Welcome back Josh - glad to have ya!

Nice fish Ed! Interesting gloves there as FBD points out

Hi guys - I appreciate all the feedback, both good and bad.  I understand the frustration and appreciate the patience while we work out the bugs.  This is why the upgrade was planned for this time of the year while the site traffic is at its seasonal lowest Dec - Feb. 

I've made a couple updates and fixed several bugs with the mobile version of the site.  I'm hoping this helps to fix some of the overlapping issues that were referenced to above.  With respect to finding new posts, here is a screen shot of where you do that easily. 

I'm going to move some of these posts to the forum upgrade post to keep everything in one place regarding the upgrade.

Thanks again for the continued support!

Chad

Welcome Sean - glad to have you!

Just wanted to wish all a very Merry Christmas and happy New Year!  Hope you get a chance to relax and spend some quality time with family and friends.  Look forward to seeing everyone in the new year.  

Hi Chummer -

I agree with Ed - we usually mark the item as SOLD/CLOSED vs. deleting it all together so there is some record of it.  I'm in the process now of putting together a "Tutorial Series" for the site for tasks like this.  Here is an example of how to mark an item as SOLD/CLOSED:

STEP 1:  Be sure that you are logged in and go to your post on the site.  Click on the EDIT link

STEP 2:  Update listing to SOLD / CLOSED.  Click Submit and listing will be updated.

Hope this helps.  Sometimes its easier to see with screen shots. 

Thanks,

Chad

Thanks Frank!  I worked all this week on trying to get the apps working as expected again.  Last night I was able to finalize the iOS app and push that up to Apple for release.  The work next will begin on Android / Google Play version.  I'd expect that one to be updated around February.  Here is the the link to updated iOS version:

https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/great-lakes-fisherman/id881258100?mt=8

Thanks again guys for your patience while I continue to tie up the loose ends here.  Transitions like this are never easy or smooth so that is why we waited till the off-season.

Chad

If I am having trouble logging in, how do I reset my password?

Hi guys -

Another update for you.  Spent the whole weekend working on the upgrade and everything went fairly well.  So where do we stand now...

1. Upgrade to forum complete
2. Members / Usernames & Passwords Transferred successfully
3. Forums / Topics & Posts Transferred successfully
4. Calendar and Events Transferred successfully
5. Navigation & Links Transferred successfully
6. Sponsor Forums and Banners Transferred successfully

What still needs to be done:

1. Work out any bugs and/or issues identified by moderators and/or members
2. Work on converting over the rest of the old photogallery
3. New GROUPS section of the website can be setup now as well
4. Looking more into getting custom weather report transferred over like was on old site.

Use this post for any bug reports and/or questions you may have with respect to the upgrade. 

It's late now and I'm exhausted so I'm going to call it quits for the night.  Here are a couple pics from my last trip of the year out and the family - testing the image uploads.

Thanks again for the continued support!

Chad

Hi guys - quick update for you. I've put in a lot of hours this week looking at options for us. The upgrade is proving to be significantly challenging as the old software has trouble converting to new board format. This is especially true for the current photogallery which is powered by a very old legacy software called Photopost 2.5. It's so old that it will most likely require a manual upgrade which will take me a significant amount of time. 

So the plan I'm thinking is to upgrade the board, calendar and associated pages to the new format and then try and tackle the challenge of the photogallery and photopost 2.5. I hope to have the entire board converted this month so I can then dedicate time to the gallery portion. 

I'm VERY EXCITED about how the board upgrade is going so far. I think its awesome and head n' shoulders above the current system. I still got a lot of work to do but hoping to maybe get that converted this weekend or by next week.

I'll keep you posted and thanks again for the continued support.
Chad

Cool

Agreed Don - looking like it would cost around $1500 for the software and conversion fee's not including time. I'm going to continue to look into our options here.

Yeah that is kind of how I'm feeling.... do we really have a choice? I'm not a big fan of change on forums because members get very accustomed to a look/feel to the site. If we do go forward with the upgrade, hopefully it will be the last upgrade the site would need for many more years ahead. Thanks for the feedback!

Hahaha will do!

Thanks for the feedback Ed - Hope you and the family had a great Thanksgiving as well. My wife Katherine and I recently celebrated the birth of our 2nd daughter (Caroline) so I am out numbered now 3 girls to 1 guy in my household... times are busy to say the least but it makes the holidays fun

Hi guys -

First off, Happy Thanksgiving! Hope you had some quality time off with family and friends.

I wanted to get your thoughts on the idea of investing in an upgrade to the site in terms of core forum software. I'm thinking over the holidays here of putting in some time and monetary resources to upgrade the site to a more modern, stable forum software. This upgrade I also feel would help with overall site participation (per our other topic discussion).

We are currently running version 3.X of vBulletin and it is very old and outdated to say the least. VB has officially announced that they will stop all support for this version of software (which scares me a little).

My estimates would be about 80-100 hours of work to design/code, test and implement the upgrade.

If we think this is something that we would like to move forward with then I'd like to get started soon while the site traffic is typically the lowest during the off-season.

What do you guys think of this? Good idea/bad idea?

Thanks in advance!

Chad