[Darth-Apple]

After over two months since MyBB's initial release, we've finally become fully prepared and ready to make the upgrade here at Makestation. You'll notice the difference very quickly, as we've also pushed a brand new, 100% custom theme, built entirely in-house. For nostalgia's sake...



Our old design was not bad for MyBB 1.6, but 1.8 has a number of improvements worth noting: 

• Various improvements across the forum (including buddy list improvements, theme switchers, better default avatars, thread rating improvements, postbit improvements, edit reasons, better image resizing, etc. )
  
• Our new customized theme that works much better on smaller monitors and larger monitors alike. 
  
• Our registration form was fixed. (/oops)
  
• Better post editor
  
• We've taken a gamble to enable guest posting. Yes, captchas will be displayed, and yes, new guest posts will have to be approved before they go live. Of course, registration is still encouraged by all means, but our feeling is that visitors with something quick to contribute shouldn't have to go through MyBB's painful registration system to write a single post.
  

This was actually the second phase in upgrading software on the forum. The third phase will be the plugins phase. We hope to have some of the following in store within the next few months: 

• Much better status updates plugin that will be significantly improved and have full support for status notifications and replies. (May be rolling out in the next week or so. )
  
• Significantly improved forum notifications
  
• Content management system/community wiki? Development is in the early stages, so I won't promise much, but some cool stuff might be planned...
  

What are your thoughts? As always, if you notice any bugs or have any improvements to suggest, feel free to post them here!

-Darth Apple