After 12 years the forum will be being upgraded to new software over the next couple of days. It will become a UBB Threads forum simply because this is the only system that was able to import the old forum. So ( all being well ) all old postings and membership records and passwords will be imported into the new system.

Hopefully all postings over the next couple of days will show up in the new forum, but you may want to keep a backup of anything you post just in case.

The new forum will provide security fixes ( which was my primary concern ) and also sticky posts and personal avatar pics plus other features that we will all find out about when the new forum is online.

So just be aware of this if there are any hiccups over the next couple of days.

Also the URL for the forum will definately change. I will post it when I have it on http://synthzone.com/bbsredir.html

Sounds good, thanks Nigel

Dennis

Thanks for the Heads up Nigel,Hope all goes Well.

Gilbert.

Thanks guys ... It's always very scary doing an update on a system after 12 years ... who knows what will happen ... nothing bad I hope lol.


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Cheers, Nigel. The 'stickies' feature will be most useful.

Nice.

That's good news.
Thank you for these first 12 years, Nigel!

Yep. Now we can just put up "mine is better than yours", "Yamaha has a processed, cd-like sound", "Korg has a more 'live' sound", "Audya has great latin styles - when it's working", "the G70 weighs a ton", "Donny's 'flavor of the day' MEETS HIS NEEDS", "it's the player, not the keyboard", "Dom (MS) puts up lousy demos", as stickys and save a lot of folks here a lot of repetitive posting, and newbies a lot of searching and browsing.



chas

WOW Chas

you just made a summary that got it all, so the only thing needed to chat about
in the "new" board is the new board and the weather....

Cheers
GJ

Appreciate the humour there, Chas, but take a look at the 'stickies' section on Korgforums - a lot of useful stuff in there.

Nigel, this is truly exciting! Almost unbelievable to imagine I've been a Synthzone member long enough to have witnessed both Synthzone's first and second coming. Welcome to the second decade of the 21st Century !

Stick it to'em, Chas!


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Bo pen nyang

lol @ Scott.

You make it sound like the Resurrection!

Taike

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Bo pen nyang

Great News Nigel!! Thanks for all your hard work over the years!! Look forward to the the new format.

Nigel,
Thanks for all your hard work to provide this great forum.
Lee S.

Nigel, You are indeed "THE MAN".
Thanx for the ride, man.

Things are going to get sticky around here Thanks for your hard work Nigel.

Nigel, good move.... excited to see it happen.

Thank you for your efforts.

Great news, Nigel.

Wow! 12 years.

That's longer than Donny ever had an arranger...

Ian

thats the reason I'm seriously looking into the Liontracs Groove

Yeah Scott, you and I are two of the old timers here.
Thanks for the Christmas Card you sent. It would not open and in fact crashed my computer twice so I gave it up. I did not find an email address to thank you and it isn't here in the forum so I have to use this method of thanking you for the card.
Bebop and Jann
Thanks to Nigel for the update of the forum.
Bb

Bebop, its the Schmidt House Santa was looking for!! Ah, I just thought you probably don't get what I'm trying to say. Short story Scott's card there's a photo of Santa stuck on the chimney of an out house while his reindeer are on the ground. Santa says something to the effect it's the Schmidt's House roof he wanted to land on.

Nigel thanks for keeping the site going with it's new look.

Hi Bebop. True, and as I recall we both share the same birth 'day' too, albeit a number of years apart. No idea why you weren't able to open the card or why it crashed your PC?! Though I don't cite my email address in my sz member profile, I've included my website address , of which includes a ' contact ' page with email link, if anybody wants to email me.

Ok, here's my 2010 Christmas Card for all of you at Synthzone.

Tks Nigel !
Great work as usual.
Chico

A picture is worth a thousand words!!

Thanks Nigel. I couldn't imagine putting in the time and effort it requires to keep this site going and current. Looking forward to the changes ...
Ciao,
Jerry

Great move! Thanks, Nigel.

Nigel - with all the changes to Windows and the web you definitely deserve a prize for your continuing wizardry. Thanks for creating and maintaining such a great forum!

Randy

noooooo.....I am really against all this update stuff. If it works, why fixing it?

Nigel knows what he's doing, I'm excited....can't wait for the NEW format!

Thanks Nigel!!

I feel like I'm beconing part of history!!!

Happy New Year! -charley

The primary reason is due to server security problems with such an old script as this one. But it will be nice to also get the new features that come along with it.

Thanks so much Scott. And a very happy holiday season to you too. I hope you are having some great gigs over the Xmas and New Year.

Nigel ... there is no way to say "THANK YOU" which would equate to what this forum has meant to ALL of us ...
t. - another "old timer" direct to S-Z from the original "technics forum" ...

Scott ... that's funny ... thnx
t.

Hi Nigel, Thanks mate.
Ray

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Ray The Saint

Are you certain that vBulletin won't import this UBB structure? Everything I have read seems to indicate that it will.

Unfortunately not Rich. I looked at the link you gave me and vBulletin can't import this version of UBB Classic. And even the later version that it could import is also no longer supported. See http://www.vbulletin.com/forum/showthread.php/367989-Importing-from-UBB-5.45c?highlight=ubb+classic

For us dummies...what are sticky posts, and how are they a good thing?
Anyway...the saga continues. Thanks Nigel
Larry

Sticky topics are designed to always stay on top of the topic overview. A sticky post (or sticky thread) is a feature of many online forum and bulletin board tools. This allows a post to be stuck or pinned to the top of the screen. If it wasn't pinned in this way then it would slowly be displaced by more recently posted items that are moved to the top to indicate activity. Generally, normal users can not create sticky topics, but moderators and administrators can.

Ah, too bad. Darn shame because vBulletin is a very powerful package, and pretty much a standard for message board systems.

But I feel your pain. All upgrades and server moves are a real pain in the butt.

Good luck!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sticky_post

And me hopes that stickies will be used sparingly, for sure, I can't stand to go to forums with numerous stickies!

Of course they will be Bill. I do not want stickies dominating the posting listings. And even when I do post stickies they usually won't be permanent.

Xmas/New Year has delayed this upgrade somewhat but it will be happening very soon.

As long as by then you've taken off the Xmas ornaments, Nigel. They usually get around doing that around July or August here in Taiwan. No kidding!

Best wishes for 2011!



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Bo pen nyang

Hi Nigel

I have not noticed any change in the URL to this forum as announced a week ago?

Regards
J�rgen

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The Unofficial YAMAHA Keyboard Resource Site

Aye Nigel, when is this going to happen..

I think its a bright thing to do tough, these modern boards have a lot more fun options


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Nigel....will the new SZ BBS format be something like this one..... where you can put profile pics...links etc etc ...or?
http://forums.musicplayer.com/ubbthreads.php/topics/2248908/NAMM_2011_Keyboard_Corner_Dinn

Yep, that is also a UBB Threads forum. The changeover sort of got held up because of the holiday season but it definately is underway.



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Can't wait...... Thank you for your efforts!

well, here it is! nice and new. it will take a while for all of us to get used to it. a progress nevertheless.

looks very similar,

thanks for all ur hard work

Nigel,
It looks great. I had to log into this new forum but that is now problem.
the only problem I have noted is that my log in for daily topics is now a broken link. Do you have a link to replace this one:
http://www.synthzone.com//cgi-bin/search.cgi?action=getdaily

that no longer works.
thanks,
Bebop

wow had did all that garbage get put on to my signature. Don't need it. I will go see how to take it off.
Bebop

I think I got it fixed so trying one more to make sure.
Bebop

Familiar and new at the same time.
Keep on the good work Nigel

Cheers
GJ

Nice!!!

Great Job Nigel!!! Thank you

Quick Question: What is "report post" and how are we supposed to use it?

Nice Job, Nigel. When you get time, could you correct the link to 'The Bar'. Thanks.

chas

I also see no EDIT in the messages.

Don't need one Nedim, there is a "review" post prior to posing function now.

Personally I agree 100% with no editing. Means once you post its is there for all and sundry to see.

With the way my typos go, I am happy with a "review before post" option

Dennis

Just testing how posting works now.

Thanks Nigel.

We are not there yet. This isn't the new forum, but to import the old forum into UBB Threads it had to be updated to a later version of UBB Classic which has just happened. So the forum will be changing once again over the next 24 hours.

Cool...even more to look forward to..Thank Nigel..

Looking good so far m8

Dennis

Hi Dennis! I trust you, Rikki, Nick, or any other SZ Aussie members here weren't affected by the terrible floods that hit Australia recently.

Nigel - great work as always! Onward and Upward..... SZ ROCKS! Thanks again!
Randy

Nigel, I don't see an option to reply by quoting an existing message.
Thanks for all you do!
DonM

No, I don't either Don. But don't worry too much because this isn't the new forum yet. This is just an intermediate step that had to be done to be able to import the old forum into UBB Threads. We will see what that has to offer soon.

Right, I'm looking forward to it. It will actually be the SECOND big format change I've seen since the arranger forum started.
DonM

Very Interesting Indeed...

Looks like Don is runnin' the lowest member number....Hmmmm

'cause I'm OLD.
DonM

I guess that would be when I changed it over from the script I first setup for Chris Hansen ... that is going back about 13 years now. Boy how time flies when your having fun. Haven't seen Chris for a few years now but he does pop back in from time to time. It was Chris that first got me to setup the General Arranger Forum. Never would have guessed that it would last this long.

Nigel. Your work is appreciated...Well Done.

"I guess that would be when I changed it over from the script I first setup for Chris Hansen ... that is going back about 13 years now. Boy how time flies when your having fun. Haven't seen Chris for a few years now but he does pop back in from time to time. It was Chris that first got me to setup the General Arranger Forum. Never would have guessed that it would last this long"

Yes, that's right. There were long strings of staggered entries that would drive you crazy trying to follow them. There are still a few of us around, including Uncle Dave.
DonM

Thank you Nigel, for your trouble and dedication on maintaining and improving the forum, and also in putting up with us. I really appreciate your work.

I may have some things to suggest regarding the forum, but it is too early, after all they may be not that significant.

What happened to the "Donate" button? Now it is needed more than ever.

Theodore

Hi Nigel.
My sincere congrats.
You made a fantastic job.
Chico

Thanks Chico. I still have to set posting permissions for each forum individually but I have already done that for this forum, Technics, Ketron, Lionstracs, Wanted To Buy And Sell, The Bar and The General Discussion. The rest will be activated shortly.

Thank you so much. Yep I will get that back later tonight.

Wow!!!

Looks super Nigel...well done m8

Dennis

Very nice, thanks a lot

I came, I saw, I Donated

Thank you again

Nigel, Very nice, slick look to the forum! Great enhancements, thank you.

I think that's longer than even I have used an arranger for...

I can only echo the comments already posted! BRAVO! Great work Nigel! Now if our keyboard makers could only take a lesson on how to handle upgrades from you!

Randy

can someone please tell me where the "post new topic" box is. I am logged in but I don't see anyplace to start a new topic

never mind....I just found it!

Thanks so very much. You guys are great.