Avatar Problems and Other ForzaPlanet Merge Issues

[Jordan]

As scheduled, ForzaPlanet.net's forums have been merged into GTPlanet's forums, and are now available here.

Merging two separate forums is a very difficult technical process, and unfortunately there are some issues which may impact you:

• Unfortunately, avatars of ForzaPlanet members were not successfully imported. If you had an account at ForzaPlanet and GTPlanet, you may also notice your avatar has shrunken in size. Unfortunately, I did not encounter either of these issues during my testing. If you notice your avatar is missing or has been reduced in size, please upload a new image here.
• If you had an account at ForzaPlanet with the same username as that of a user at GTPlanet, "imported_" will now appear at the beginning of your name and you will need to change it. Send me a private message with the new account name you would like to use.
• If you had an account at both ForzaPlanet and GTPlanet, but your accounts were not successfully merged together, send me a private message.
• Thread subscriptions from ForzaPlanet were not preserved. If there is a topic you were watching on ForzaPlanet, you can re-subscribe to it by clicking on the "Thread Tools" menu in the red bar, then select" Subscribe to this Thread".

There are likely to be many other small problems and quirks - please report them here so I can investigate. I apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused.

 

[photonrider]

Jordan - I can't see a 'New Thread' button in this section (main board? general board?). Why am I not looking at the right place?

 

[Jordan]

photonrider, that's not a forum designated to hold posts. You'll need to click on a game's subforum to start posting.

I understand this is confusing and will experiment with different arrangements of the ForzaPlanet forums over the coming days.

 

[photonrider]

Thanks, Jordan!

Great job so far . . . happy to see the Forza chatter is back. 👍

 

[Eks]

Were there many topics deleted in the process? The FM3 forum had many more topics than what it does now.

Edit - Ohh wait, I think I know what happened. FP's FM3 topics replaced GTP's FM3 topic, right?

 

[Jordan]

No topics or posts should have been deleted. Looking at the FM3 forum on ForzaPlanet's now-closed forum, I can confirm it has the same number of topics as the new on here on GTP as expected.

 

[Robin]

I seem to have lost my signature in the process, I don't know if others have but I thought I would report it. Also my avatar changed size but that was easily fixed.

EDIT - The sig has suddenly reappeared, maybe after I uploaded a new avatar.

It's great to have the two communities come together and welcome established FP members over to GTP.

 

[Eks]

No topics or posts should have been deleted. Looking at the FM3 forum on ForzaPlanet's now-closed forum, I can confirm it has the same number of topics as the new on here on GTP as expected.

I mean that, before the merge, GTP's FM3 section had alot of topics in it. But now, the FM3 section just contains (what was) FP's FM3 topics. So all FM3 topics made originally on GTP were replaced by FP's FM3 topics. Am I understanding this right?

 

[Jordan]

If you didn't have a signature on your FP account and made posts there, note that those imported posts from ForzaPlanet still won't display your signature. You'd have to click Edit -> Go Advanced and then select "Show Signature" in the post options for them.

I mean that, before the merge, GTP's FM3 section had alot of topics in it. But now, the FM3 section just contains (what was) FP's FM3 topics. So all FM3 topics made originally on GTP were replaced by FP's FM3 topics. Am I understanding this right?

We just had a "Forza" forum, not a dedicated Forza 3 forum. GTP's old Forza forum is still available here. The moderators will have to manually move the topics in there which mention FM3 to the new, dedicated subforum.

 

[Eks]

Oh, so that's where they all went. Thanks for clearing that up.

 

[SlipZtrEm]

I noticed our PM's all shipped over safe and sound; I started deleting en masse just before the closure when I was worried I might hit the 2000 ceiling .

Post counts don't seem to reflect the merger yet Jordan, will those "kick in" after time?

 

[Jordan]

I've just refreshed everyone's post counts now. Does that look better?

 

[SlipZtrEm]

Looks about right, I think 👍

If anybody needs me, I'll be tidying up over in the general Forza section!

 

[Fazerfan]

Jordan was the wedding ring good looking or ugly? Did Forza has good dress on it?

 

[Darren.]

I don't know if this is a problem, but XBL Gamertags don't seem to be on our information underneath our avatars. Maybe I'm missing something?

 

[YakieS1]

I don't know if this is a problem, but XBL Gamertags don't seem to be on our information underneath our avatars. Maybe I'm missing something?

What he said! Would love to have my GT displayed as it was at FP. Good job on the merger!

 

[Watchman]

 

 

[porthillking]

What he said! Would love to have my GT displayed as it was at FP. Good job on the merger!

Couldn't you just put your gamertag/PSN ID in your sig? 💡

 

[Jordan]

I don't know if this is a problem, but XBL Gamertags don't seem to be on our information underneath our avatars. Maybe I'm missing something?

OK, XBL tags are back, and will be displayed in place of the PSN names in all of the ForzaPlanet forums.

 

[Joey D]

I have the Forum Page Width setting on "Wide" but when I go over to the Forza section the forums there display as "Normal" width. Not a huge deal, but just a bug I found.

 

[Jordan]

Thanks, Joey, that issue should be fixed for you now. 👍

 

[Joey D]

Thanks, works just fine now 👍

 

[1241Penguin]

Not entirely sure whether this is a problem caused by the merger, but instead of the dates showing "Yesterday," it shows the full date:



March 10 would've been yesterday.

 

[Moglet]

I wondered why my avatar had shrunk in size! Unfortunately the original image is stored on my other computer and I can't be bothered to go upload it so I'm keeping it like this.

 

[Wiegert]

Not entirely sure whether this is a problem caused by the merger, but instead of the dates showing "Yesterday," it shows the full date

I noticed it the day after the merger, but I think it only lasted a few hours before reverting back to "Yesterday".

Also, I've been having problems loading threads and profile pages in the past 2 days, and in some cases the forum pages only partially load. It seems to be an intermittent issue which isn't just on my end, having asked another member if they had trouble loading pages yesterday.

 

[Brend]

Great idea to merge the two! I couldn't be bothered making a ForzaPlanet account!

 

[Jordan]

Also, I've been having problems loading threads and profile pages in the past 2 days, and in some cases the forum pages only partially load. It seems to be an intermittent issue which isn't just on my end, having asked another member if they had trouble loading pages yesterday.

The server has been acting a bit wobbly over the last 24 hours or so since a high traffic spike yesterday. I've done some work, but let me know if it continues causing problems for you.

 

[Robin]

I just had problems logging into the site, I could see everything fine but when I tried to login I got a 'page cannot be displayed' message quite a few times before I finally got in. Might be due to the issues mentioned above.

 

[Tornado]

I'm assuming it's related to the server move, but PM Read Receipts don't seem to be working for PM replies. Only logs them for "new" PMs.

 

[Samus]

I noticed it the day after the merger, but I think it only lasted a few hours before reverting back to "Yesterday".

Also, I've been having problems loading threads and profile pages in the past 2 days, and in some cases the forum pages only partially load. It seems to be an intermittent issue which isn't just on my end, having asked another member if they had trouble loading pages yesterday.

I'm also having this issue a lot. Pages take a while to load and a lot of images don't load at all, I just see the alt text.