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You guys take as much time as you need. I've been through the code many times over the years and calling it a dumpster fire of cobwebs is being nice. I originally thought it was already on php8 and didn't realize it till the other day when I had to switch wamp over to 7.x for it haha. To be honest 8 gives me the vibes of Vista.. just a pushed on change that no one really likes and many are just waiting to skip over.. Hopefully it'll be worth all the headaches performance wise like 7 did coming from 5. I have some really good old themes I made that I'll need to convert over. I never did bring them over to the bootstrap framework lol. How much of a pain was the conversion for older themes?

Appreciate all the hard work the two of you have continuously put into the project over the decade.
One small question IF possible can you elaborate on what's included in the pro version of BlackMagic? I have the current commercial one purchased and eager to know more about the the next iteration of the theme with the updates being applied to nuke. Do you think it'll be more of a evoxtreme 3.0 release time frame and feature lists due the big change and possibility of phpbb being removed?

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Topic: 2.0.10 Update is coming soon
Replies: 28 Views: 565	Forum: Evo Updates & Bug Fixes Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 10:55 pm Subject: Re: 2.0.10 Update is days away
	You guys take as much time as you need. I've been through the code many times over the years and calling it a dumpster fire of cobwebs is being nice. I originally thought it was already on php8 and didn't realize it till the other day when I had to switch wamp over to 7.x for it haha. To be honest 8 gives me the vibes of Vista.. just a pushed on change that no one really likes and many are just waiting to skip over.. Hopefully it'll be worth all the headaches performance wise like 7 did coming from 5. I have some really good old themes I made that I'll need to convert over. I never did bring them over to the bootstrap framework lol. How much of a pain was the conversion for older themes?
Topic: 2.0.10 Update is coming soon
Replies: 28 Views: 565	Forum: Evo Updates & Bug Fixes Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 4:44 pm Subject: Re: 2.0.10 Update is days away
	— Lonestar Here is what to expect from the new BlackMagic PRO theme. 01. Designed with the latest release of BOOTSTRAP 5, current version is BOOTSTRAP 4. 02. Better Crossbrowser compatible 03. Multiple banner carousel (default version only has one banner) 04. Ability to modify individual blocks with custom backgrounds. 05. Custom colour picker, allow you to change any part of the site content to any given colour. 06. Custom AJAX contact form located in the footer (hopefully with be fully bot protected) 07. Custom Profile page, will be very different to the default profile layout. 08. New Cover feature has been added, currently the default theme only shows the banner in the profile, but the PRO version will show it in the member list and group user listing page. 09. Parallax blocks (if I can get this fully working, as trying to create my own script, instead of a 3rd party script.) 10. Upload your own backgrounds 11. Custom Profile editing page, layout will be much different to the defautl version and will be very well documented. 12. Custom Module layouts (this will take some time, as the module need to be updated to use the new template system first) 13. Custom Administration panel, will look very different to the defautl layout, will have a few graphs and extra info been displayed, such as donations to the site, tracked user visits, latest forum topics and much more. 14. Custom login popup. 15. Custom page loader. 16. hopefully will have finished the mega menu, I have been working on. We do plan on removing the PHPBB forums and making our own, this will only be done after I have finished the plugin system, This will enable us to hook functions to various parts of the CMS, and will prevent the need to do core edits in the future, Which in turn will make update the CMS much easier and possibly automated. That's an impressive suite of improvements and honestly sounds like a CMS improvement more so than theme capabilities when you write it out like that lol. I know over the years the cms has transformed more from a curator article/file content submission system into more of a friendly platform for gamers. Will there be a good variety still moving forward for such kind of content? There's a community that's like the rising phoenix from the ashes of a old game that does a lot of custom content to keep new life into it (thank you beamdog), but they're using drupal and the site imo is trash. I've always had a softspot for nuke and want to push a change to it and lead that development. https://neverwintervault.org/ Is the site for some reference. Would similar functionality still be retained with all the major rewrites you two are doing leaning out the cms?
Topic: 2.0.10 Update is coming soon
Replies: 28 Views: 565	Forum: Evo Updates & Bug Fixes Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2023 2:34 am Subject: Re: 2.0.10 Update is days away
	Appreciate all the hard work the two of you have continuously put into the project over the decade. One small question IF possible can you elaborate on what's included in the pro version of BlackMagic? I have the current commercial one purchased and eager to know more about the the next iteration of the theme with the updates being applied to nuke. Do you think it'll be more of a evoxtreme 3.0 release time frame and feature lists due the big change and possibility of phpbb being removed?