Update: This has now been completed. Thanks for waiting!
Hello everyone, the forum will be down for an update this Wednesday, February 9th starting at 8:30 AM EST. We will be updating the forum software to Xenforo 2.2. This will be our biggest software update since moving to XenForo in 2020. Due to this and because of the large size of the forum, we unfortunately do not have an estimate for when we'll be back online. However, we will announce updates on our Twitter and, as always, our Discord server will be open to use for discussion in place of the forum.
You will probably not notice a large amount of changes on the front-end after the update, especially because we will wait to utilize some of the new features such as thread types. Thread types will allow us to use article-like threads in boards like The Bulletin Board and it will also allow us to better organize site suggestions in Bell Tree HQ. This and a couple of other features will be announced sometime after the update is finished so we have time to prepare them.
Features that you'll see right away include an update to the post editor and activity summary emails. Activity summary emails are emails from the site that will be automatically sent to you if you've been inactive for a period of time. They will summarize some of the popular discussions that you've missed across the forum. This is an optional feature that will default to the status of your "receive news and update emails" setting in your account preferences. After a while, activity emails will stop being sent if you remain inactive.
There will also be a lot of small changes here and there that you may or may not notice, including many bug fixes. As you may know, The Bell Tree is powered by XenForo and several XenForo add-ons, all of which will be updated at the same time. Even if things may not look too different, a lot of changes will be applied at once, so please bear with us if this takes a long time or if we need to work out any issues after we're back online.
In other more exciting and non-technical news, this update will also be taking place in the middle of a new TBT event. We will be starting a Valentine's Day event tomorrow, February 7th! This will be a small, standalone creative event that will reward collectibles and bells. Look out for that tomorrow and thanks in advance for being patient during our update!
Hello everyone, the forum will be down for an update this Wednesday, February 9th starting at 8:30 AM EST. We will be updating the forum software to Xenforo 2.2. This will be our biggest software update since moving to XenForo in 2020. Due to this and because of the large size of the forum, we unfortunately do not have an estimate for when we'll be back online. However, we will announce updates on our Twitter and, as always, our Discord server will be open to use for discussion in place of the forum.
You will probably not notice a large amount of changes on the front-end after the update, especially because we will wait to utilize some of the new features such as thread types. Thread types will allow us to use article-like threads in boards like The Bulletin Board and it will also allow us to better organize site suggestions in Bell Tree HQ. This and a couple of other features will be announced sometime after the update is finished so we have time to prepare them.
Features that you'll see right away include an update to the post editor and activity summary emails. Activity summary emails are emails from the site that will be automatically sent to you if you've been inactive for a period of time. They will summarize some of the popular discussions that you've missed across the forum. This is an optional feature that will default to the status of your "receive news and update emails" setting in your account preferences. After a while, activity emails will stop being sent if you remain inactive.
There will also be a lot of small changes here and there that you may or may not notice, including many bug fixes. As you may know, The Bell Tree is powered by XenForo and several XenForo add-ons, all of which will be updated at the same time. Even if things may not look too different, a lot of changes will be applied at once, so please bear with us if this takes a long time or if we need to work out any issues after we're back online.
In other more exciting and non-technical news, this update will also be taking place in the middle of a new TBT event. We will be starting a Valentine's Day event tomorrow, February 7th! This will be a small, standalone creative event that will reward collectibles and bells. Look out for that tomorrow and thanks in advance for being patient during our update!
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Last year's Valentine's event was the first one I participated in; I can't believe it's been a year already.
