50,000 Members Celebration + MyBB Upgrade = Tons of Awesome!

Welcome back to this new, slightly fresher World Beyblade Organization!

As you can see, we've successfully upgraded to the latest version of MyBB, which was long overdue. Since we just did a relatively big step in terms of versions, there are a few cool features associated with that version that will surely make you jump from joy:
  • There is a Search function for private messages!!
  • Videos can now easily be embedded into posts.
  • Users currently reading a thread can be seen on the page of the topic.
  • No more accidental, automatic double-posting for Internet Explorer users!
  • In the Member List, you can smoothly choose the letter a member's username begins with instead of going through the pages to reach that letter eventually.
  • The time of long quotes with several messages in them is gone! There will now be a limit of 2 quoted messages per quote.
  • We will have an easy and fast way to delete all of a banned user's posts, if we ever get such bad times again.
  • If we are ever to use prefixes again, there should be no technical problem with them not showing up sometimes since they will now be directly integrated in the system.
  • This issue wasn't so spread, but avatars that were just changed will now automatically be recognised by everybody's browser, insteaf of temporarily showing the old avatar until you actually refresh a page where the user with that avatar has posted.

On top of that, we have added some extra protections against SPAM accounts, for both bots and actual human beings.

(Some things like the header need some more work, but if you notice any bigger errors or details that should be changed, just send me a private message!)



... Where have Pegasis and Storm Pegasis gone, you ask?

… What is this, 50,000 members?!? It’s time for celebrations!!


As you can see, we used this opportunity to introduce a slight change of layout. Our banner now features Big Bang Pegasis and establishes a parallel with TAKARA-TOMY's abstract new designs for the 4D boxes and images.

Furthermore, the Pegasis forum icon has been replaced by Big Bang Pegasis as well. It was hard to work with it since we wanted to keep a blue and orange colour scheme, but I think we have managed to do it well, and we couldn't have done it without The Fire Wyrm's very generous help with this sprite!


But this isn’t nearly enough for a celebration of this milestone of users, so here comes the rest!



We hope you enjoy these news with all your Beyheart!
amazing news thanks Kai-v (yippeee first)
Nice, a site update, this should be interesting. The banner looks great btw.
Wow, that banner looks beautiful.

Great job guys!
Contests wrym!

This amazing, what the committee did. I told Kai-v I knew what was going on
How can we embed videos?
Wow, the updates seem very good.

Thanks to the Committee and TFW!
Weehee! 50,000 Bladers! And The banner is amazing! And the new features are really cool! xD

The Committee really did a great job! Thanks!
(Aug. 14, 2011  5:48 PM)BeyBladestation Wrote: How can we embed videos?

When you post ("Full" Reply), there is a button on the right, just above the post field. It has a clear television icon.
Like this:
Code:
[video=youtube or other]URL[/video]
So it would look like this:

By the way, this is awesome!!! Face Trading, a new contest, and an art contest!

EDIT: Beat by Kai-V
Thanks, Kai-V.

This is a hue upgrade for the Beyblade videos thread. Let ME be the first!
Just one question; where is this Big Bang Pegasis sprite? I can't see it anywhere Confused
All I see is Pegasis Unhappy
Awesome! I love this site and congratulations on 50k members.
(Aug. 14, 2011  5:58 PM)NoodooSoup Wrote: All I see is Pegasis Unhappy

Hm, that should not be happening, but just refresh your browser when you are on the index.
Aha, fixed. Looks great Grin Congrats on the 50k members, too!
This is awesome, thanx.
Lets keep going 100K is the next goal!
(Aug. 14, 2011  5:22 PM)Kai-V Wrote: We hope you enjoy these news with all your Beyheart!
I like how my username popped up in here. XD

Amazing! I love seeing Big Bang Pegasus rather than the old Storm Pegasus. Joyful_2

Cool that we can now embed videos rather than link to them. Big steps. XD

And a new Face Contest! Kai-V, you guys have really made me happy today. Grin

Grin hooray thank you committee for this awesome news! When 100K comes 'round, even bigger celebration!
Oh, hey what about the post bug? That solved?
A congratulation is definitely in order for this. 50,000 members!!! What an incredible feat!

CONGRATULATIONS !
(Aug. 14, 2011  5:22 PM)Kai-V Wrote: There is a Search function for private messages!!
This is the single greatest release on this forum. Now I don't have to wade through 300 pages of PMs to find information from months before.
Seeing as I'm on a roll being a carp, (dare I say a "dickroll"?) I'mma just state my concerns before I get to praise, which I'll just post here rather than specific threads, as to not spam up yo board.

>The time of long quotes with several messages in them is gone! There will now be a limit of 2 quoted messages per quote.

-This prevents us breaking up larger quotes into single sentences so people know what parts of the post we're replying to. It doesn't prevent people quoting huge messages or images, which is IMO the main problem.

>New BBP Titlebar: Ew. I knew nothing good would come of xlr8's thread asking for new/different themes or whatever. Too overwrought for my somewhat minimalistic tastes, though I'm sure it'll appeal to more people than it will irk Tongue_out

On the flipside:

PM SEARCHING: THANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOUTHANKYOU!! IIRC My inbox was too big for exporting as anything but text, ahah. I'm guessing it'll make your job much easier too Smile

FACE TRADING!!!!!!!!!!!! Finally! I'm sure I'm not the only person glad to see this happen Smile Nice work!

New Campaign: I like the prizes more than last time. Were I still buying MFB, it'd give me something I'd want to buy, with the rare MFB beys (Infinity Libra, Mercury Anubis, etc). Nice that there are two face boosters to choose from too Smile It'll probably keep poor Daegor quite busy, on the flipside, he'll be far more visible as a committee member now.

Video Embedding is sweet, I'm guessing youtube only. I'm assuming adequate measures have been taken to avoid abuse, anyway Tongue_out

Seeing as it wasn't mentioned:
Glad to see the subscription bug fixed, I just tested it on this thread Grin Grin Grin

I'm assuming this means many of the other issues that we had are fixed too? (Post bug, issues with removing suspensions, that kinda thing?)
(Aug. 14, 2011  6:40 PM)Deikailo Wrote:
(Aug. 14, 2011  5:22 PM)Kai-V Wrote: There is a Search function for private messages!!
This is the single greatest release on this forum. Now I don't have to wade through 300 pages of PMs to find information from months before.

Try 1150 pages ... And wonder why it was such a task for me to find things within all those private messages ...


Shabalabadoo Wrote:Oh, hey what about the post bug? That solved?

It does not seem like it got fixed unfortunately. The "Build me a combo! #2" topic still showed the incorrect number of posts ...
(Aug. 14, 2011  6:50 PM)Kai-V Wrote: Try 1150 pages ... And wonder why it was such a task for me to find things within all those private messages ...
I assumed that, unlike me, you would purge through your PMs.