JWSE 3.0 is finally here - built of the Invision Community V5

The upgrade to Version 5 of Invision Community has been done. It was a fairly painless process and while there are plenty of bugs still, I feel good about this upgrade.

With the upgrade in place I can now start building new templates again for the databases. Yesterday I had some fun working with the Stories database, which is what I will focus on first. Once the Stories is done, I will focus on My Projects and then Awesome People I think. This is just my current plan, and it can change at any time depending on where I feel I want to put more effort in.

Prominent bugs are that all images uploaded in the content is broken and there seem to be some issues with uploading images to the gallery. This does not affect uploading new images in the content, like into this post for example, but it will require quite a lot of work to fix if there is no good way to update it programmatically in a future release. It’s not that bad though as I have a plan to go over every bit of content anyway and change the graphics and perhaps the content a bit.

The biggest work will probably be to change all the Videos as they now require an image. It used to be that I programmatically set those, but I am not sure if that is how I want to set that up again or not. There are advantages if there are static images, but then again that will cost a lot of storage as well… so I am not sure yet how to proceed.

Overall though I now have a “blank” canvas again and I can start building things again. There is a lot of work to be done, but I am loving it!