[Spicylicious Chocolate]

So what happened?
Okay so you asked, Guest. SAR has been offline for almost a whole week, due to the fact I was actually thinking of closing SAR for good. Yep, 4 days ago I wanted to close SAR for good and move on from this. So I deleted the forums and purposely replaced it with a 'blank page'.

But then 2 days later, I've been thinking...and maybe I've made a mistake. I know some people here they call this place home and I demolished it. Also I've been doing a new skin for this forum software (you're looking at her! <3) behind the scenes for a couple of months. I was thinking all that....wasted. So yes, I decided to give SAR another shot, but this time in the new IPB 3! Luckily, I didn't delete the database that held all our past information of this place so the upgrade was possible.

IPB 3 & Sonamy Revolution
For some of you, this place will be confusing for you there and there but you'll get used to it. IPB 3 is very slick and more clean than the previous IPB software we used. Everything here has been changed (or upgraded in a superior way) and you may love the great new features. Today guys, I want you to explore the features. Have a look around. ^^

Avatars & Signatures
You guys will notice straightaway. ^^ Um...when the upgrade performed, it wiped out all our siggys and avatars (but yay, it didn't delete our photo pics!) so yeah you'll need to personalize yourself again. >.<;;

Missing Features
Shop & Rings, Gallery, Trophies, Shoutbox, Challenge Arena and Blog will return in future. It's just the matter of when.
Gallery and Blog will return in 1-2 weeks. The others are unknown at this time. (And don't worry, your "rings" have not been deleted - they are safe...it's just you can't access them at this time.) All past PMs have been removed.

Any questions and feedback, please note it down here. Also, as I said before explore SAR under IPB 3 and enjoy! =D

NOTE TO ALL AFFILIATES
We just upgraded, so please give me time to put your links back up. It will be back here within a week. Thankies~

Oh and btw, this site looks even more pretty if you use Firefox. I recommend you to get Firefox! =D

Another note - European users here won't get their hands on the new SAR forum until tomorrow. So don't expect them to visit today.

[Spicylicious Chocolate]

We don't have a teams mod anymore until the creator upgrades it to support IPB 3. So we have to plan a workaround until then.

Also remember to start giving people reputations! 8D

[Rouge Fan]

I suppose we could just move them to the proper rank once they gain enough posts.

And yay! I'm the second highest rated member. :P

[JAZZilicous Caramel]

great now things will be even harder for me now, we cant personalize our profiles like before?

also what is this reputation thing and status?

This post has been edited by JAZZilicous Caramel: 15 August 2009 - 05:39 AM

[Oni]

Oh. Really cool update.

[Spicylicious Chocolate]

Rouge Fan, on 15 August 2009 - 01:15 AM, said:

I suppose we could just move them to the proper rank once they gain enough posts.

And yay! I'm the second highest rated member. :P

That works too...

You're second...for now. =P

JAZZilicous Caramel, on 15 August 2009 - 01:37 AM, said:

great now things will be even harder for me now, we cant personalize our profiles like before?

also what is this reputation thing and status?

You mean the Socialiser Profiles? I have no plans to return them, but also right now the creator of Socialiser hasn't updated it to work with IPB 3.

Reputation System is where people rate you. You can only get rated by your posts. Look at the bottom-right corner of somebody else's post. You will see a +, - and a "0" (on the posts that haven't been rated). If you like the person's post. Click "+". If not, "-". Whatever you do then, will affect the person's current reputation. It's still not entirely finished, I'll give you more info on this when it's done.

Oni, on 15 August 2009 - 02:10 AM, said:

Oh. Really cool update.

Thanks Oni! And good to have ya back. =D

[Barrylicious Caramel]

Also though the fact that all of our signatures have been deleted now.

[Edward]

SAR Europe had the early upgrade and now can access the new forums.

[Spicylicious Chocolate]

Barrylicious Caramel, on 15 August 2009 - 09:20 AM, said:

Also though the fact that all of our signatures have been deleted now.

If you really want your old avatars and sigs back, I can dig them out for you using the old backup...but it will take a while... @.@

[Jessylicious Chocolate]

Oh my God, so that's how I wasn't able to access SAR for a while. Wanted to tell Steve something but I couldn't. D:

This new SAR is soooo lovely! Everything's just more perfect than before! Also the new messaging system is more than awesome! :D

Nothing can beat the first ever skin SAR had because that was the skin that gave SAR its true personality, but this one is the 2nd best skin ever made. You're right. It's much more cleaner. The moderation stuff is new to so us mods so we have to learn how to use them. >_<

But this is great Sam!

[Mewielicious Chocolate]

*_* It's so pretty and spiffy!

I am very glad you didn't close this place down. It is much too fun here.

[Spicylicious Chocolate]

Well it wasn't fun in my eyes since July 7th to be honest... DX

But hopefully this will give SAR another huge boost Guest.

[Barrylicious Caramel]

True that is what we need since it was starting to lose activity.

[Jessylicious Chocolate]

We already lost 70% of it...maybe even worse... ;_;

[JAZZilicous Caramel]

i really should make a chat for you Spice =(

[Emerald Emblem]

It's good to be back Sam, wanting my attention much? lol

This update will take some getting used to but I can tell I'll love it.

[Shooting Star Kaylen]

I like the update. Hopefully this will also boost activity. The site looks better so more people might join, and the innactive ones might decide to come back.

[Spicylicious Chocolate]

JAZZilicous Caramel, on 15 August 2009 - 12:33 PM, said:

i really should make a chat for you Spice =(

Um...talking about that here is sorta unnecessarily... D= I will chat with you again though...

Emerald Emblem, on 15 August 2009 - 12:54 PM, said:

It's good to be back Sam, wanting my attention much? lol

This update will take some getting used to but I can tell I'll love it.

*nods* As I said in the first post - you'll need to explore this whole place. Everything has been arranged differently. =3

~Azure-Chan, on 15 August 2009 - 02:08 PM, said:

I like the update. Hopefully this will also boost activity. The site looks better so more people might join, and the innactive ones might decide to come back.

I really do hope so! +1 for you! =D

[Shooting Star Kaylen]

Spicylicious Chocolate, on 15 August 2009 - 11:16 AM, said:

I really do hope so! +1 for you! =D

Oh neat |3

Oh yeah, Spice, I tried the reputition system and it won't let me add or subtract from reputition.

[Spicylicious Chocolate]

Whoops, it's not activated for all groups except my group and Family Mods. =/ Fixed now. =3

[Shooting Star Kaylen]

Spicylicious Chocolate, on 15 August 2009 - 11:44 AM, said:

Whoops, it's not activated for all groups except my group and Family Mods. =/ Fixed now. =3

Oh neat. Also, is the reputition different for each thread? or do you have the same for every topic you post at? I went to another thread and I had 0.