DoA v5 Test Board

[Ayen]

As some of you may know by now, ProBoards is in the beta stages of the new v5 software that all future ProBoard forums will be upgrading to as soon as its ready. No release date has been set but from what I remember hearing they wanted to get it rolled out by the end of this year. They are currently allowing admins with forums to make a copy of their site with the new software to test it while it's still in beta. So, for those of you interested checking out DoA in v5 here's the link,

doav5.freemessageboards.com/

Note: You do not have to register. This is a copy of the forum, meaning your accounts are already there. You just have to log in with your username and password. It will then ask you to upgrade your account to the global login. Here's a video on how the global login on v5 will work,



If you only have one account that's fine too. It just means in the future you'll be logging in with your email instead of your username. If you find any bugs while on the forum please alert me so I can forward it over to Support. Or if you have an account there yourself you can just tell them yourself.

support.proboards.com/index.cgi

Any questions can be asked in this thread. As well as any comments you have on the new version in general can be stated here. Let us know what you think

Keep in mind this is only a beta and is available for a limited time so anything posted on it will be gone as soon as it's closed. Also what you post there does not affect this site as it is just a copy, and vice versa.

[Walter C. Dornez]

So it basically updates ProBoards to have all the same features as other forum hosts have had for years, rip off social networking sites features and remove everything that made the previous version useful and easy to use.

Only thing I like so far is the post box and the global login.

[Sincara]

Is the current login really such an inconvenience for people when switching between accounts? I could log in, log out and log into another account in the time it'd take to upgrade to the global login, link all my accounts and then switch between them. Switching forums is as simple as pressing ctrl + t and writing in the forum's URL. Again, no reason for a global login.

[Red Queen]

My main gripe with v5 is that it forces you to completely relearn how to use Proboards, particularly for admins, to such an extent you may as well be learning how to use a different forum host altogether. IMO that destroys the purpose of an upgrade. An upgrade should be improving upon the previous version and making things more simple, not changing it so much you don't recognize what you're looking at and making it more complicated than it needs to be.