We just added a mod that allows you to align your text when you are posting on your forums.
You should now see a drop down box with “left”,”right”,”center”, and “justify” options.
This may not work on all skins. This is known to work on subSilver and smartDark. If it doesn’t work on your current skin let us know and we can fix it for you.
A new style “smartDark” has been added to the forums.
It looks pretty nice you should try it out. You will need to login to your admin section and install it using the styles admin.
Many of you may have noticed the ads that started showing up after about the 3rd or 4th post. Most of our forum users were not bothered by this much, although a small handful really didn’t like it. The ads you see on the top and bottom of the forums help us recover our costs that we spend out of pocket for running these free forums. We have decided that we will go ahead and remove the after 3rd or 4th post ads. We want to keep our users happy and we think this is a good way to do it.
Also a few members have requested a way to make their forums ad free. We will be implementing a paid plan real soon to do so. It will probably be something reasonable like $5.00/mo. We will try to bundle it with some extra goodies to give some added value also.
If you have any other suggestions that would make this a better place, we would love to hear them!
The database upgrade was very successful.
Thanks to everyone for being patient.
-webmaster@bestfreeforums.com
We are going to be upgrading the database software tonight.
If you experience any problems with pages loading please try back in 15 minutes.
Thanks,
Webmaster@bestfreeforums.com
There is now a way to change your default phpBB logo on your forum. In the admin section you will now see a “Change your Logo” link. Just paste in a link to your logo and it will show up on your forum. Currently there is no way to upload your logo to the forums so it must be hosted remotely somewhere like imageshack or something. And sorry but this only works using the subSilver style.
This morning around 6:00am PST we had a hard drive start to fail in our server. Wait a minute hasn’t this already happened? quick check on server uptime… less than a day of uptime?? This sounds all to familiar! Ok ok enough of my bad humor.. Apparently the new drive that was replaced yesterday had 8 bad sectors on it. Here we go again.. Since we were planning on a server move anyways.. Most of the content was already over on the new server. We decided it would be quickest to put the new server into production. Unfortunately the DNS took longer then expected to refresh and some people didn’t start seeing the sight for a whole day! We want to send out a BIG SORRY to every who has had problems accessing the server lately. All the problems should be resolved now.
This morning around 6:00am PST we had a hard drive start to fail in our server. The machine had an uptime of 521 days with no problems at all. The tech team at the data center quickly worked to replace the hard drive and got the machine up and running with a new OS in about an hour and a half. We then began to transfer our backups from our off site backup location to the new server. This went a little slower then predicted due to some un expected network latency. As of 12:00pm pst the machine is fully functional with all of it’s data restored. Please let us know if you expierence any unusual problems. On a side note in the next few days we will be migrating to a faster machine with more ram and hd space. The migration should go pretty smooth with hopefully no more then 5 - 15mins of downtime while we sync databases. Thank you to everyone for helping make Best Free Forums a great success!
Forum software was just upgraded to the latest version. Please let us know if you see any problems. Thanks, Webmaster@bestfreeforums.com
We have a new modules for your enjoyment: Advanced Dungeons & Rabbits Create your character and battle Monsters and Other Players. Buy and sell items from shops. This is a really great RPG mod. Have fun.. Also the Admin Section now has a section at the top called “BestFreeForums” You will be able to Enable and Disable mods from showing on your forums.