Astahost Forum Upgraded :)

There are a few more goodies that are different from the old version. Firstly MyCent is working but there are funkier versions of the lo fi pages The link to Xisto was Xisto.com/forums.html but now is Xisto.com/index.php

please make sure to keep the / at the end of the url or else it won't open

 

 

[*] http://forums.xisto.com/(the lo-fi version of the forums) [*] /latest/(This lists the 100 latest topics/replies made in the forum)

 

The special BBcode looks really cool and has anyone tried the twitter feature? So how do you like the new forums? And good news, shoutbox will come back to the top of the page soon. I know there are some modules missing or dysfunctional, OpaQue will look into it first thing in the morning

So thank you OpaQue for the wonderful forum upgrade

Thanks, OpaQue, good job.

Nice work on upgrading the forum, both Xisto and Xisto look the same now, I wonder if some new logos will appear?

I see that fine looking logos for Xisto and Xisto have appeared, well done!The only thing I can say, that on Xisto mycents have updated, but on Xisto, for over 3 days it seems that mycents are the same even though I post, hope it will update and I won't loose any of those cents.

Velma,The link from forums.html to index.php may be simply a re-map done through Apache. Some web masters configure Apache to display the .html extension instead of the .php extension becuase they believe that it improves their web site's ranking in search engines. It may no longer be true but some people do it anyway so having the Xisto link changed from forums.html to index.php will not really affect the ranking much. However, the folks managing the web application install and maintenance at Xisto does have to ensure that they deals with the page not found 404 errors that the search engine bot gets when it attempts to connect to the old URL to ensure that it retains the page ranking for the old pages, especially if it has a lot of backlinks pointing to forum.html.I tried accessing the lo-fi version of the website but for me it loads slower than the full-featured version of the website because when I am logged in, the forum does not display any advertisements but the lo-fi version of the website does display image based advertisements and that makes the forum load slower than it does right now. Also the navigation in the lo-fi version requires me to navigate through two levels of the forum categories before I can access the posts so I would much rather use the full-featured version or put together a script that picks up posts from the news feed (I'm assuming that the news feed has also been enabled for the new version of the website).Quatrux,I've seen a lot of posts by you on Xisto in the past and have not seen much of you on Xisto but recently I have seen you more often on Xisto than on Asta Host. I haven't been on Asta Host in ages but I decided to check it out to see what theme they have on there. Also, Velma's post mentioning that the upgrade to the Invision Power Board software was on both forums so that prompted me to take another look. I could not find references to the Xisto website on the Xisto - Web Hosting website so I simply assumed that Xisto was not around any more but with the upgrade, I got the link again and I stand corrected - Asta Host is as active as ever, or perhaps more active than it used to be.BTW, the new logos for Xisto and Asta Host are up! Xisto had a different logo when I checked yesterday but it changed now. Also, I noticed that the logos have a plain-color background unlike the gradient that has been applied to the header bar so it looks a little out of place... it is the kind of thing that happens when you scroll and Windows (the operating system) only refreshes a part of the window (the GUI container).

The only thing I can say, that on Xisto mycents have updated, but on Xisto, for over 3 days it seems that mycents are the same even though I post, hope it will update and I won't loose any of those cents.

Lol I never earn on Xisto so I can't comment on that but did you get any mycent report recently? You won't lose your mycent but it might take longer to earn it.. Has anyone else had any issues with their mycent?

Nitin,

Firstly, Welcome to Xisto and coming to the lo-fi version.. The /discuss/ pages actually loads much faster than the full version on my end.. And Opa is having the forums optimized so the speed of both the forums and lo-fi version should improve. Yeah, Opa was having different versions of the logo made to see which suited the boards the best.. so far so good

Velma,I am usually on Xisto most of the time so I do not earn much on Xisto either. I remember a long long time ago when the MyCENT script on Xisto was stopped for upgrading the forum and right after the script was back online, I got credit for all of the posts that were made so I can vouch for the fact that we never lose any of the MyCENTs. I have never had any unaccounted posts and the credit does get added to my account somehow even if it is a bit delayed.The Lo-Fi version of Asta Host is slower for me because of the advertisements that have to load with the website. The full-featured version does not have any advertising while I am logged in so it loads so much quicker. In either case, I doubt I would be using the Lo-Fi version of the website for the most part - I am quite happy with the full-featured version of the website.BTW, whenever I got to Xisto through Google, I would land on pages with a pink theme and they looked rather nice. Do you happen to have a screenshot of that theme or perhaps even a saved web page of it? I only got to it once when I had cleared by browser's cookies and cache. Although it was visually rather appealing, it was hard to figure out how to log in - I found a "full-featured interface" link that I followed to get the login link on the upper right of the website. The Lo-Fi version of Xisto did not really compare to that of the old Lo-Fi interface of Xisto though... if there's some way to get the theme ported to the new version of Invision Power Board, that would be really great.