I closed the forums down for 30-40 minutes today to allow me upgrade the site to the latest forum software.
You probably will only see one manjor difference and that is the way url's are on the forum. For the last year or two i have been using a script which converts threads and pages on the forum to something more friendly for search engines. This was implemented in order to boost traffic from search engines (obviously!).
I have decided not to reinstall this script for the moment so that i can monitor the site with the script off. The 2 main things i will be looking at are the downtime and the
blank pages (Blank pages?) problem - there is a chance that one if not both of these problems were caused with this script. Although the script does increase traffic etc the most important thing is the forums to be online and to be working properly for members so im hoping that both of these problems will now be a thing of the past.
As usual, if you see anything on the site which isn't working correctly since the update let me know and ill look into it
thanks guys,
Kevin