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As you may have noticed, Dakka is now powered by shiny new forum software. Behind the scenes, a brand new server that is both much faster and more reliable than the old one will make your visits to the site more enjoyable.

We've been toiling away these last three months to create a custom set of forum software that gives each user an incredible set of fun and useful tools. As a regular Dakka poster, I am very happy that I'll finally be able to use this software to post and navigate around the forums. It really is leaps and bounds better than the previous incarnation.

So what is new?

There are just so many new cool little features, it is hard to list them all (so I won't). Instead, I think the best way for you to find out all the great stuff the new Dakka offers is to jump around the forums and try things out for yourself.

If you have any questions about the new software please check out the Dakka Dakka FAQ, which will hopefully answer your questions but also offers a good place to post your question if you don't find an answer.

There is one feature that I just can't resist gushing about though: the ability for all posters (not just DCMs) to attach up to 30 files into their forum posts. All files attached this way are then hosted on our fabulous server available for you to link anywhere else on the internet.

In essence, you can now use Dakka as your picture host by attaching pictures directly into your posts. Unlike other forums, pictures attached into posts on Dakka don't appear as tiny little thumbnails, but rather are automatically sized for optimal forum viewing! The only requirement we have is that all files attached to posts must be related to miniature gaming, but beyond that feel free to attach away!

Once you start looking around, you might notice that most of the areas outside of the forums seem a little, well, under-developed. We had a choice to make: either hold off on implementing the new software for months until every part of the site was fully polished or switch to the new forum software when it was ready and continue to work on the rest of the site at the same time. We chose the latter route because in our opinion having a vastly improved forum experience outweighs the temporary rough edges in the other parts of the site.

That means Dakka isn't finished improving, not by a long shot. We will have several feature upgrade 'releases' in the new year. Once all of these upgrades are finished, Dakka will have a pretty incredible set of tools for users to create and view miniature gaming content.

Finally, a big, giant, enormous shout-out to the co-owner of Dakkadakka.com: legoburner, the person who has put the real blood, sweat and tears into making this fabulous new custom forum software. You'll be seeing more of him around the forums so don't forget to take a moment to give him some thanks for all of his tireless work.

Enjoy!

If you have any comments or questions about the new site or would like to report issues or bugs with the software, this is the thread to do so.

Also, if anyone would like to submit entries for the Dakka glossary, army rank tracks or the funny little sayings that appear at the top of the window, please do so in the Nuts & Bolts forum.

Lookin good!

thank you yakface

I tried to use the 'Blood Angels' ranking and where it should come up in my details in posts is blank.

IG is working, as is the default one.

Waaagh_Gonads wrote:I tried to use the 'Blood Angels' ranking and where it should come up in my details in posts is blank.

IG is working- I am a lord commander in a plush chair.

We put some of the rank tracks in earlier.

The rest I am entering right now as we speak, so will be blank for a while (as I have to enter them all one at a time).

So be patient and all the rank tracks will start popping into place.


Same with the glossary definitions.

Running this from Australia this site is unbelievably fast compared to the last incarnation.

It seems to be just as fast as when it was in test mode and noone else was using it.

All hail Yakface and new (old?) Dakka!

Looks great, guys. Keep up the good work.

Viva le I!

Wait, no.

Viva le New Dakka!

Oooh, snazzy java quick reply goodness. Cool.

Lookin' good, Dakka.

We're still probably under-utilizing it, and it's a Saturday night here in the States, so I don't imagine there's a lot of people pulling stuff down right now.

I really doubt we'll notice a difference even under full load, though.

To DAKKA!

Looks great, performs great. Where can I find my Commodore/Admiral M'Dhu BFG Battle Reports as Short Fiction?

Glad to see recognition of the power of the machine god too.

Knowledge is Life, Use It Well.

ArchMagosAlchemys wrote:Looks great, performs great. Where can I find my Commodore/Admiral M'Dhu BFG Battle Reports as Short Fiction?

Glad to see recognition of the power of the machine god too.

Knowledge is Life, Use It Well.

Everything should be exactly where you posted it before, so if a thread or post is missing make sure you let us know.

Is something missing, if so, what forum was it in?

BUG? I have to push the "back" button twice to actually back up.

EDIT: Okay, now it seems to work fine. Never mind, I guess.

They were in Short Fiction, but are not there any more. I used the Search function and none of them came up.

Search seems to actually work! Yay!

Thanks for all the hard work, looks great so far

Pariah Press wrote:BUG? I have to push the "back" button twice to actually back up.

EDIT: Okay, now it seems to work fine. Never mind, I guess.

Maybe it's 'cos you're using quick reply (so when you go back one page it takes you to the same page but with your answer missing).

I don't really like the firing gun icon, it's too distracting.

ArchMagosAlchemys wrote:They were in Short Fiction, but are not there any more. I used the Search function and none of them came up.

When was the last time you read the thread, and do you know what the exact title of the thread was?

It was in the 'Dakka Fiction' forum, correct?

the back button 'bug' is kind of a bug... it is because the banner ad refreshes if you stay on a page for more than 5 minutes. Every 5 minutes it will reload and so pressing back just goes through the banners. It is on my to-fix list but DCMs can turn it off anyway.

Wow, awesome. Reminds me of a previous site that looks eerily similar. Also for YDMC:

Whoo-hoo! I can post real replies, without changing browsers! Life is good.

One oddness - I have banners turned off, but I have a empty white rectangle up where the banner WOULD be.

This morning.

Yes Dakka Fiction

Commodore M'Dhu: Treachery at Marxos
Commodore M'Dhu: Exercise Interruptus
Commodore M'Dhu: The Empire Strikes Back
Commodore M'Dhu: Test of Orthodoxy
Admiral M'Dhu: The Battle for Caldur

I think

Inquisitor Roberto Brake IX: Death of a Commisar
Inquisitor Roberto Brake VII: Solution

are also missing.

Hmm, this is strange. Different. I hate and ph34r it.

Never actually saw this version of Dakka. Definitely better than the previous version though.

Very sexy Yak. Thanks for the upgrade.

ArchMagosAlchemys wrote:This morning.

Yes Dakka Fiction

Commodore M'Dhu: Treachery at Marxos
Commodore M'Dhu: Exercise Interruptus
Commodore M'Dhu: The Empire Strikes Back
Commodore M'Dhu: Test of Orthodoxy
Admiral M'Dhu: The Battle for Caldur

I think

Inquisitor Roberto Brake IX: Death of a Commisar
Inquisitor Roberto Brake VII: Solution

are also missing.

Well we've been making regular backups leading up to this, so I think it should be possible to find this stuff, but the bigger question is why it is missing in the first place. I shall get back to you.

Yes, I have the stuff on file too. As you say, the big question is why?

When I chacked this morning, I had started the 12 most recent posts to Dakka Fiction, all of the old 'first page'

The new site looks great, and so quick loading, fantastic.

I do have one minor quibble - is there any way to turn off the post previews? I find them very distracting.

All I can say is that my 'Imperial Armor Apocalypse' thread can through fine and I posted it around 11:30 - 12:00 Eastern.

Arstahd wrote:The new site looks great, and so quick loading, fantastic.

I do have one minor quibble - is there any way to turn off the post previews? I find them very distracting.

Agreed. It would also be nice if we could set the time for the posts locally (right now they're all set to Greenwich Mean Time). Other than that, it all looks great and the color scheme is how Dakka was meant to look

EDIT: Saw mention of getting the correct times in the 'Nuts & Bolts' forum. I guess the 'home time' for GW will do for now