You may have picked up on the fact that there is a new forum in the works, this is true, the timeline for cutting over still has to be determined, we did want to start introducing you to some of the changes that are coming:
- We will maintain sections of Members Only discussion and content while retaining our philosophy of embracing the wider MX-5 community by continuing to have Open areas.
- The forum software is 'discourse', you can look here if you want to find out more (https://www.discourse.org/)
- We will migrate all content from the current forum, we may not make it all available as we're going to slim down the number of categories. Rest assured that 'Area Discussion', 'MX-5 Chat' and the 'Technical' areas will be made available immediately, other existing content will be presented as necessary though maybe in a differently named/slimmed down section.
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Direct photo upload will be supported, do I hear cheers in the back?
- Discourse is great on mobile devices.
- Search is better.
- Personal messages (PM's) will not be migrated, there is a facility currently to export the contents of your PM folders to XML / CSV / Text - you will need to do this yourself if you want to keep any PM's.
- Accounts that have not been active in the last 12 months will not be migrated.
- Signature blocks are not supported, so no car history, COG membership credentials or other taglines I'm afraid.
- Post counts are history, sorry, it's an old metric that ultimately means very little.
- It is a little bit different to the current forum software, ultimately we think the more up to date features and way of use will prove useful in keeping connected on any device type you prefer, you can see more detail on standard features of discourse here: (https://www.discourse.org/features)
- We will not be customising the forum software to support anything that isn't standard in its features, customisation is the road to hell and difficulty in keeping current with feature updates and security patches.