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Hi All,

I thought I'd share with you all part of our GrandOldTeam 'roadmap'.

Approaching 7 years since we started, it's probably fair to say we've grown to become the biggest Everton community. That brings a degree responsibility as we work to ensure we deliver a top notch platform for Everton fans and that our platform accurately represents the Evertonian community as the very best in the footballing world.

So, we're making some improvements to our forum and website.

Starting with the priority;

Forum

We're ditching the software we're currently on. We've been with 'vBulletin' since day one but as a piece of software, it has become stagnated and its future looks bleak. To progress, we need to move to a faster, responsive and current solution.

I've set-up a development forum, and you can see some screen grabs below showing some key components.

1. Forum Home - Link

2. Tagging and Alerts

You'll be able to 'Tag' users as so which will give that user an alert. Within your accounts 'Alert Preferences' you can opt to receive an alert for a multitude of forum actions, so whenever someone replies or quotes you, you can receive an alert like so.

3. Responsive Design

The new forum has responsive design, meaning a separate skin or style isn't required for mobile, iPads etc. It will just adapt the desktop version to whatever platform you've viewing it on - Like here.

4. Immersive

It just 'works'. Everything is easier. As an example, here's how easy it is to insert an image. Drag and drop (or even copy and paste!)

[video=youtube;zvUACUzZrr4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvUACUzZrr4[/video]
Testing

I'll be posting a link in the Upgraded Forum soon for some wider testing, keep an eye out if interested. If you'd like to demo/test the new software, drop me a PM.

Launch

We will be migrating the database across to the new platform in the coming weeks, taking the opportunity to also move to a new shiny server which will cause some downtime/inaccessibility. Further details will follow on that.

Website

We're also working on implementing a new front page website (Click here) which we hope to release soon. More details to come soon.
 
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SerenityNigh said:
Will the new software be able to handle forum capacity better? Derby and January window, maybe it's just the users but it seems like everything is a bit less stable recently. I want to be far from the epicenter if Naismith scores Tuesday.
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I think it uses quite a bit less resources so hopefully it'll be more stable. Having had a play around with the test forum for a few weeks, it really does run smoothly.
 
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Well done to all those that work behind the scenes to bring us a truly wonderful site.
But a pound to a penny says you are bound to upset someone on the way but it won't be me
 
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Alerts for when someone quotes you? Ace! I always hated the thought that someone might reply to your post but for whatever reason you wouldn't always see it.

The new homepage looks good also. Everything looks really good actually, I especially like the ease of posting pictures.

Nice one.
 
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Looking boss this. Like BLF said the seeing replied/quotes is boss. I thought the same, especially in a busy thread in the Everton forum it's easy to lose what you put and then see the replies.
 
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