Everything from the old forum should be migrated to the new forum (including posts, attachments, and users). All previous active BigFix forum users should have gotten an email explaining how to login to the new IBM forum.
The new forum seems to have many benefits:
Looks better (IMHO)
Easier to see what posts are new (it was very hard to figure it out in the old software)
Better attachment support
Better RSS support
Better anti-spam controls
Easier to admin for us
“Mark thread as Question” feature – seems neat
Probably more…
I haven’t found a big downside yet (other than need to learn the new markup language).
Note that if your display name was already registered as a developerworks user (with a different email address than your BigFix forum email address), then your display user name was changed during the migration.
You can easily change your username in the forum account settings.
has anyone experienced any issues with viewing the new forum in IE? It shows fine with chrome and FF, but when I view it with IE9, it is really really small (so small I can’t even view the words). My IE works fine for other sites.
Thanks, cstoneba… I had IBM send you some glasses to your registered address… Hope that helps… just kidding :)…
If you make the font bigger (I usually hold CTRL and scroll the mouse wheel), does it help? and does it affect your other pages?
I just tried IE9, Chrome, and Firefox 8.0.1 and they are all working fine for me…
I think a couple people said that they couldn’t login properly (it just stayed as Guest) and after they tried to login, the forums got very slow… We are trying to figure this out…
ctrl+scroll works, but it zooms all the page contents in as expected, which is not good. It has to be something with how IE is rendering that frame, because all the page banners are showing as normal. I’ll try and figure something out.
