message subscripton work-around
Another forum I use switched over to vBulletin 3.5.1 last week.
They moved from phpBB, another very nice bulletin board package.
http://www.videoredo.net/msgBoard/
That move was a bit more rocky, with things not getting transferred, and they lost all the user subscribed messages, too.
What I did there, was to search for the messages I'd posted to, took the ones that had comments in the last two months, and batch-activated them to become newly subscribed messages.
Not a full solution, but one that worked okay.
here's how I did it:
Code:
Search
Advanced
User Name ;fill in your user name
Enter ;you'll get all threads you've posted to, starting with most recently updated.
do ;pick a thread you're not subscribed to and click on it.
click Thread Tools
click Subscirbe to this Thread
click Add this Subscription
click your browser BackButton 3 times ;maybe [B]4[/B] times if you are slow
loop
end
I'd have expected the translator script which updated this board to do a better job since we were coming from an older copy of vBulletin.
(this is my first post on this new version, and my editor isn't set up right, either)
edit: the insert link button isn't working in the editor!
Can this please be fixed immediately? that's one of the best features of 3.5.1 !
Crap! the italic/bold/underline editor buttons don't work, either!
not during initial entry.... they seem to as an after-thought edit... very inconsistent.
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