Good News - Bad News - major software upgrade to take place next week

[Peter Gariepy]

To fix the latest round of spam issues requires I either patch or upgrade the forum software.

• A patch is a short term solution.
• An upgrade is a long term solution.

I've chosen the long term solution to upgrade the software.

 

BUT

 

Like all our previous upgrades the furniture is gonna move around a bit, so the dogs will start to howl.

 

To be up front. People will start whining:  

• "what was wrong with the old software?"
• "there was nothing wrong with the old way it worked - why change!?"
• "who authorized this change!?"
• "hang the webmaster!"
• "we pay him to much!"

Please - do not feed into their comments. They will go away in a week and all will be well. Move them to the forum questions forum and let them wallow there. Do not let them litter the real forums.

 

One BIG change I know that will piss some people off.  The new software no long supports a "display name". Your login name IS your display name.  There is nothing I can do about it, so no sense getting into a debate over it.  Its the way it is. If they don't like it... tough!

 

Thanks in advance.

 

Peter

[MCHinson]

OK. Sounds good.

 

How many people use a different display name from their log in name? I was not aware that was even an option until a disgruntled member changed his display name to "Screw the BCA" a while back. I fixed that one. 

[Peter Gariepy]

not a clue. we'll find out.

[rocketraider]

I log in as rocketraider and pretty sure it's also my display name. Will that change?