The News & Views upgrade was not what I would call smooth, exactly…
Firstly the upgrade itself failed resulting in a call to Technical Support. I hate calling support; I feel such a failure. And, I have this sneaky feeling that I’m being stupid, or that the technicians will see me as just another dumb user. Still, sometimes you just have to grit your teeth and go with it.
24 hours after submitting the ticket, I got a message that everything was sorted. Except I couldn’t see any of the messages. I was told that this was because my skins had not upgraded and they were causing the problem. Only… Why didn’t the standard Invision skin work either? I rebuilt the cache and then it did. Okay, I then upgraded all of the custom skins. I’ve been working on and off for the past 24 hours getting the skins working smoothly and little bits of code – such as the spell checker – back up and running.
I’m still waiting on Invision sorting out the gallery as that failed, too.
Having said that, the upgraded forum is an improvement – I just hope all the work is worth it.
It was well worth it Mark.