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I think it should be called “FantasyBeast” without an “r”. I don’t know who is in charge of fixing such a minor typo but I’m just letting you all know...

Scorekeeping works again in the arcade, for example.

As a result of the 3.2 major upgrade, there were also many other things which weren't working quite right.

Updated the modules that I've installed, so that they all now work the way they're intended to work.

Updated skins with skin packs which are designed to work with this version of the board.

As soon as the techs get back to me with a schedule for the upgrade, it will be posted, and the forum will be inaccessible during that time. Usually, the upgrades take less than an hour, when major.

In essence, if you add an emoticon to your status update, at the END of the line, it screws up how the columns draw. So, if you're going to use emotes, use 'em in the middle of your sentence, beginning, but not the end.

This is because the spambots have gotten smarter, and were bypassing recaptcha, and other things already set to keep them off the forum.

Facebook Like box for AFF's FB page

Emoticons enabled for status bar messages

An enhancement to the forum's Spam Protections Service, which automatically matches IP and email to KNOWN spammers, and denies registration.

An Admin Only option, giving us extended ability to edit member profiles from within the forum, rather than the ACP.

Archive FAQ suggestions

Suggestions (all subforums)

Report (all subforums) for reporting various TOS violations.

In the process, confirmed a bug and reported it to IPB. See this bug in our own tracker.

I'm hoping they fix this quickly, so I can re-enable the rich text editor.

Anyway, I'll be adding games to this likely throughout the day

Disregard the categories, that seems to be inoperative as well for it.

I also provided a new FAQ titled "Why was I refused permission to join the forum?" which is pretty self explanatory.

So, hopefully they will still work afterwards. As there's not much difference in the language versions (from 4 to 5 on php, mysql was already written for 5.x), I'm keeping my fingers crossed.

Because this is a major update, expect the board to be down for at least 3 hours while I do it. I will make a date/time announcement at least a week beforehand. I expect to get this done sometime in the next three weeks.

Also, version 3 of IP.Board has been publicly released, so when upgrade day gets closer, you'll be notified, so keep an eye out for the announcement!

So, I've done a forced reset of all user profiles, so that we are all using the 2.2 skin for now.

I am working on correcting this issue for the other skins, as well as re-porting in the modifications so that they work again.

Two, actually.

One is to bring the board current, the other is a fix for the guest posting to hopefully avoid the spam we've been getting lately. An enhancement to it.

Before I do the version upgrade though, I will be making sure that any modifications in place, are not affected. That will affect how long the version upgrade will take. To combat the spam, I'll putting all guest forums on posting moderation. What this means, is that when you post, the topic won't automatically appear, it'll have to be approved. A pain for all of you who are supposed to be able to use the forum, but it'll kill the spam. So, don't freak if the post or topic doesn't appear immediately, there will be someone going through all the queues fairly regularly, several times a day.

Also, Invisionboard has announced that 3.0 is going to be ready for beta turn of the year. So, I'll be putting up a test forum to have a look at what it's got, and then prepping the forum for the full release after beta is over. There are significant changes in code, which means that the modifications may or may not carry over properly. So, until the mod developers catch up to it, we may have to do without some of the toys at first. But, that is a few months away at least, so not a problem at the moment.