Okay guys, so I got the PM from proboards saying that V5 is going to be automatically updated on all forums at the end of the month. However this is an opt out until the end of the year that I can choose. So I'm going to address all of you lovely members about how you'd like me to handle this. I'm currently requesting some more information from Proboards regarding what the transition will do to our current layout, how things will change up for you guys, and all that fun stuff, and will update you all when I start to get some answers. If you guys have any questions, feel free to post them below, also post what you think of the transition, and if you'd prefer that we opt out until the end of the year.

Thanks guys!
--Dyzz

I've only heard bad about v5 and saw the layout myself and hated it. So no, please no.

OPT OUT OPT OUT OPT OUT OPT OUT

Guys, please noticed her wording, Opt out until THE END OF THE YEAR. We will have to switch over eventually. keeping old proboards pages for ever will only slow down the servers.

on that note, OPT OUT. It's full of bugs and shit, so I'd opt out until they have more time to fix any and all problems. That way we can still do our for the time being. I know a few site who restarted their current sites under a new proboards page to see the differences and such, so the move would be easier when the time DID come. They kept the old pages as the main site until they were confident with their PbV5 sites

Yeah, I know. I want time to redo my table coding so that it doesn't get all f'ed to hell when the switch happens. It happened on another site and made it all pitiful and it's taken quite a while to get it back up to par.

Yeah, we're going to have to swap over by the end of the year as Dyzz said, but I agree with Annie's point about the bugs and stuff. Hopefully by the time the change over comes they'll have it running well even though I still agree we should opt out until the end of the year. By then, it may be getting some better comments said about it, you never know xD

So far this is one response I've gotten on http://support.proboards.com:

V4-v5 was a big step for my forum. But I'm honestly liking it a lot better since each skin has it's own headers and footers and you can still make JUST as beautiful codes and graphics with V5. Have you considered getting a test forum and messing around with V5? Some codes from V4 won't work with V5. Such as the side tables. You would need a plugin to run it. You can still have wonderful side table images and such. I personally love V5 especially when making skins as you can see how the skin will look the moment you change the color because it has a window that you can watch the colors in. I highly suggest opening a test forum to move codes and plug ins. Then all you have to do is export it and inport it when your forum switches over. It will make for a smoother transition.[/qupte]

I'm thinking about leaning towards opting out until the end of this year, and doing a test forum to work on making sure we get this same layout when we do HAVE to change. Just because it will be a big change to everything and my main goal is to make everything as smooth as possible. Not just for the site, but for all of you guys as well.

Love the idea of a test forum!

I like the test forum idea (:

The test forum idea sounds great!

I think that it wouldn't hurt to wait a little until we upgrade. I have a site of my own that I designed the skin for, and the coding really isn't that bad. I think a test site definitely works great to test out new skins and whatnot as you need to. Overall, I actually like v5 more, especially when you see all the options there are for upgrades and other cool stuff.