Announcement PF5 Release Update: Coming Soon Before GoT S8!

[Greg Bernhardt]

Sat March 23rd is now the hard date to update. More information on what to expect coming next week.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We're so excited to finally roll out PF5!

We will commence upgrade to PF5 starting around 9am CST on Sat March 23rd. The site will be closed for 2-3 hours. My primary goal is to get basic functionality returned. What this means is that if you visit Saturday after we reopen you'll almost certainly see PF in a less than complete stage. Things like the top navigation, sidebar content, video section, plenty of features and permissions, will be incomplete or wonky. I'd rather not have the site down for several days as I make it perfect and instead get basic functionality online quickly. That being said for the first 24-48 hours after coming back online I would please kindly ask you to only message me or start a feedback thread regarding an actual error message you receive rather than ask why feature X or function X is missing or why the navigation and sidebar is broken or make style preference requests. Be aware the first 24-48 hours expect a lot of movement and flux. What I need is time and space to get core parts configured as I have near 100 things on my list to do. There will be time after to debate preferences.

As mentioned before the new style is very similar to current and there should be little learning curve even though there are dozens of new features and improvements.

Remember that the mobile app for Apple and Android will be discontinued immediately after upgrade. Please use PF with a mobile browser. Here is a video on how to get a shortcut to PF on your iPhone home screen https://www.icaew.com/adding-an-iphone-shortcut and once we upgrade we'll have a notice about how to active push notifications for your browser/mobile.

Insights will also be overhauled but not at the same time. We are testing a new forum to WordPress bridge and it's not quite ready yet, but hopefully in the next 7-10 days. When ready Insights will adopt the PF style for better cohesion. Until then readers won't know the difference but the current bridge for authors might brake, I am not sure yet.

This upgrade event will be as big as when we moved from vBulletin several years ago. I'm going to try to make it as smooth as possible, but again for the first 24-48 hours expect wrinkles and give me time to iron them out.

Feel free to ask any questions.

 

[Raschedian]

Thank you for the valuable work you're going to do. Much appreciated Greg!

 

[pinball1970]

If I like it I'll go full gold member

 

[Orodruin]

Feel free to ask any questions.

Does it come with more badges?

 

[Matt Benesi]

I like how PF5 translates to P=16 f=6 5, which is 1665, or 3^2*5 *the 12th prime. I like the 12th prime story... but like it's makers more. :D

 

[pinball1970]

I like how PF5 translates to P=16 f=6 5, which is 1665, or 3^2*5 *the 12th prime. I like the 12th prime story... but like it's makers more. :D

Please do this in arrow notation

 

[Matt Benesi]

Please do this in arrow notation

That post \uparrow \uparrow \uparrow \uparrow \uparrow is the 12th prime post. :p

 

[pinball1970]

That post \uparrow \uparrow \uparrow \uparrow \uparrow is the 12th prime post. :p

Thanks. I can't imagine any more iterations other than 3. 3 seems semi normal. Please join the discussion on Graham numdr on the other thread. We need more mathematician guys 44 is being evasive and I not sure where 22 is

 

[pinball1970]

PF5 COMING! no side tracks

 

[DennisN]

Thanks for all your work, @Greg Bernhardt!

Does it come with more badges?

I've heard that in PF5 the badges flags are stored in one byte only, so when you get nine, you'll suddenly have zero badges. Like I have now.

 

[mfb]

Does it come with more badges?

Asking the important questions!

 

[Stavros Kiri]

Feel free to ask any questions.

Stupid question: why do an upgrade? Old was working just fine! ...

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Stupid question: why do an upgrade? Old was working just fine! ...

newsgroups worked just fine too

 

[Stavros Kiri]

newsgroups worked just fine too

Yep!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Yep!

Maybe going back IS the upgrade

 

[Stavros Kiri]

Maybe going back IS the upgrade

Hmmm, ... On second thought I like the forum better ... Time to move on! ...

 

[Wrichik Basu]

@Greg Bernhardt Best of luck! Don't know whether I'll be able to check back before Tuesday, but hope to see PF in a whole new look when I return.

 

[cobalt124]

Good luck, thanks for the heads up!

 

[jtbell]

newsgroups worked just fine too

I still have the Perl scripts that I wrote when I was head moderator for a newsgroup from 1997 to 2007. They even accommodate multiple moderators. sci.physics.physicsforums, anyone?

 

[dlgoff]

Today's the day. Hope all goes smoothly @Greg Bernhardt.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Just completing a final backup, PF will close in the next hour.

 

[Wrichik Basu]

Goodbye PF4. Spent some happy days with you.

 

[symbolipoint]

logging in works (obvious according to this ability to make the post).

 

[jim hardy]

Drop-downs don't drop down anymore. How do i check "Watched Threads" ?

win7, Chrome

 

[phinds]

Drop-downs don't drop down anymore. How do i check "Watched Threads" ?

win7, Chrome

HMMM ... tried it w/ Chrome and only got one drop down and had to click to get that:

OOPS ... was not logged in. When logged in w/ Chrome, I get the full drop-down but ONLY if I click on the header ("FORUMS")

OOPS & OOPS ... did not actually get "drop-down" via hover in FireFox. Got the same clickable dropdown as in Chrome

 

[gmax137]

I like the look. Thanks for all your hard work!

 

[jim hardy]

OOPS ... was not logged in. When logged in w/ Chrome, I get the full drop-down but ONLY if I click on the header ("FORUMS")

Thanks - Found it ! I have to click the little arrow adjacent , not the word...

That's a LOT BETTER than those pesky dropdown-on-hover(or more often just pass by)

Thanks Greg !

 

[BillTre]

I found out that the upload button function (which I used a lot) is now the Insert image (picture icon), the tool bar.
Or maybe its "Attach files" button, below the type text area.

 

[mfb]

I have to click the little arrow adjacent , not the word...

As we have the same link target at the big "PhysicsForums" to the left it might make sense to make the whole word leading to the dropdown.