2023 Forum migration and upgrade complete.

[MetalAges]

The passion project known as Ultimate Metal has been migrated to a new server, upgraded to the newest software, and search has been restored to its former power and glory!

We'll be sharing all the new features, but I would have to say my favorite is... native GIF responses! When creating threads or replies, there's now a "GIF" button you can utilize, along with many other new features for posting.

 

[Slammed]

Nice job, but is there a dark theme or will I have to create my own? My eyes hate all that white?

 

[MetalAges]

Nice job, but is there a dark theme or will I have to create my own? My eyes hate all that white?

Hopefully by end of the evening I'll have a light and dark theme in place together, user selectable.

 

[Slammed]

No worries, thanks. That will save me doing it

 

[Bloopy]

Nice work!

Would it be possible to have all https://ultimatemetal.com/forum/* links redirect to https://ultimatemetal.com/* links? A lot of existing links posted would still work if the /forum/ bit was automatically stripped out, such as the link in my signature for example.

The subforums are also a bit more hidden away now, which mostly doesn't matter, except for GMD Social Forum as it's one of the most active. Maybe it deserves to graduate.

I also miss seeing a bit more info about users (such as post count) under their avatars in threads but I'm sure things can be added back over time. And circular avatars are silly - especially if some metalheads use album art for their avatars. A bit of that corporate Facebook smell. (these are fixed now, cheers!)

 

[Wyvern]

I thought the site crashed or had a back time travel . Lots of old threads surfacing, color changes, etc.

Glad to know that is an ongoing overhaul, thanks for your effort \m/

 

[MetalAges]

Haha - just a little refresh and update!

 

[Bloopy]

Lots of old threads surfacing

Maybe you mean that there are more threads listed per page, but they seem to be ordered as normal from where I'm sitting.

We could just do with a thick line to separate sticky threads from regular threads more clearly. (fixed!)

 

[MetalAges]

The "Similar threads" is new and I am liking those.

 

[MetalAges]

Nice work!

Would it be possible to have all https://ultimatemetal.com/forum/* links redirect to https://ultimatemetal.com/* links? A lot of existing links posted would still work if the /forum/ bit was automatically stripped out, such as the link in my signature for example.

I have to think this one through still.

 

[Slammed]

I have to think this one through still.

Don't do it!
Don't do it!
I changed my bookmark so if you put in a redirect I've wasted 15 seconds of my time

 

[Wyvern]

Maybe you mean that there are more threads listed per page, but they seem to be ordered as normal from where I'm sitting.

We could just do with a thick line to separate sticky threads from regular threads more clearly. (fixed!)

Yeah don't mind me. It was the initial shock

 

[MetalAges]

Fixing it up, brick by brick! \m/

 

[Wyvern]

Fixing it up, brick by brick! \m/

So far looks neat, a deep thanks for all your efforts.

 

[Bloopy]

The bold effect on the titles of unread threads doesn't seem strong enough in the UM Light & UM Dark themes. It's hard to notice which threads are unread. If you switch to the UM Clean theme it's amazing to see how much more obvious they are there!

 

[MetalAges]

The bold effect on the titles of unread threads doesn't seem strong enough in the UM Light & UM Dark themes. It's hard to notice which threads are unread. If you switch to the UM Clean theme it's amazing to see how much more obvious they are there!

How about now, refresh.

 

[Bloopy]

Nice, no squinting need now, thanks!

 

[SonOfNun]

I need to know what happened to the animated emoji of the little guy hoisting his beer mug in approval

And also the side-eye purple guy with the shocked face and not this Wal-Mart version:

 

[MetalAges]

Some were lost in transfer If you find them online I can add them in.

 

[Bloopy]

@MetalAges The Internet Archive to the rescue:

@SonOfNun Is

the shocked one you were thinking of? I struggle to remember, but seems like the forum had a bunch of smilies in one image, so I cropped it from there. But wait, there's more!