At some point over the next 48 hours, I will be upgrading the forum software. This could mean the forum is down for several hours, and it could also mean it won't look quite right for several hours after that while I update the skin.
Yeah. I own vBulletin 5 now as well but it's still pretty dire, so we'll be upgrading to the latest stable version of vBulletin 4 (which is 4.2.2 PL4 I think). The one thing I don't like about vB4 is the broken search function, so I may buy/install a separate one (reading up about Sphinx AWS).
Sigs suck, they're ugly. Part of what makes CricSim better than regular forums is the clean look it has.
Sigs are alright if there's a limit on how much stuff you can put there, but when they start to get a lot longer than the messages you're posting then it's just stupid.
Yeah James disables those; not vBulletin itself. I'll also be working to get some sort of competent search function going as VB4's is awful.
I presume this hasn't happened yet, but there's been some strange things going on in the last couple of days - with the last post in some threads not being there when you open it - then having to post to get it to appear.
Yeah, some of the prep I did for that would have caused that. It'll be fixed when I rebuild the caches after the update.
There's also a strange thing going on where until someone else posts the odd thread shows a new message. You can view it but it still shows as a new thread when you refresh.