Forum Upgrades coming soon! - Orchid Board

Marty · #1 05-06-2008, 11:11 AM

Just want to get you guys mentally set for upgrades that will be coming here shortly. It will be a big one that will get us to the latest and greatest version of the forum software. I have to research if all the modifications that we have will be compatible with the new version first.

anyhow, the cool thing is that user profiles will get turned into a myspace/facebook like profiles. In effect we will become an Orchid social network with a kick ass forum! It's going to be very cool and much more sociable here. One big orchid party! I don't want o do it now because there's a potential for a disaster and down time. Lets let the Spring Sale run it's course first.

Royal · #2 05-06-2008, 11:14 AM

I didn't think it could it get much better?

Thanks Marty!

Tindomul · #3 05-06-2008, 11:14 AM

Is the place gonna look different?
I hope it looks as nice as the one we have now. Don't mind me, I just don't like change. Even the good kind. Otherwise I would be married by now.

Royal · #4 05-06-2008, 11:15 AM

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Originally Posted by Tindomul

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cb977 · #5 05-06-2008, 11:17 AM

More sociable???

How is that even possible?

Marty · #6 05-06-2008, 11:51 AM

It will look exactly the same, colour scheme isn't changing. We will just get more cool features. For example,

the search/tag cloud will give us a real picture of what is being discussed and searched by displaying a 'cloud' of key words. The larger the font the more frequently it has been tagged by users. When you click on a term on the cloud it will display a list of forum posts/articles/profiles where the discusson took place. Of course, it will be all orchid related

Users will be able to create interest groups... say the "miniatures group" or "paph group", "Women of OrchidBoard"

, etc. You can then see who else is in the group and shares your interest, etc

Like I already mentioned, the profiles will be much more interactive and will look somewhat like this, but with our colour scheme of course will be 100% customizable by you so you can change the default look and feel of your profile.

In addition to the gallery that we have, users will be able to post photos to their profiles.

There's a lot of changes, coming, all for the better IMO. It will make this place better, more secure and much more happening! It will be easier to interact with other members via the profiles, but at the same time the forum will also have a lot of improvements as well. Over all this will be a good change and our look and feel won't be changed, just few more features will be added, making us much more current with todays web technologies and trends

Dorothy · #7 05-06-2008, 02:37 PM

Marty, You are da man!

Thanks, Chief