As you have noticed if you've gotten this far, we have new state of the art board software. I, like you, will take some time to get used to the new look and feel of our board. As stated elsewhere, this change was necessary to allow us to bring our online Chat sessions to a more user friendly platform.
This topic will be for the BOARD only, and we will address the Chat elsewhere.
For now, the first change I see is that if you have an avatar picture that normally appears by your name on board posts, you will have to manually add it once more by attaching an offline or online photo to it.
I believe that most of your other attributes such as the number of posts, birthdays, location, etc. have been successfully copied from the old software.
I am also seeing that we no longer have the 2 lines for topic and subtopic (or use of the second line to continue a long first line). I will investigate how many characters are allowed in the remaining one line. The subtopic line was replaced by a "Topic Tags" field, which to me is really unnecessary if we stick to the standard transit agency acronyms we have used all along -- that allows posts to be found by the board search engines.
More as we go along and make our own discoveries. If you have any issues, questions, or observations about the new board please post them here.
EDIT: Remember we have a "sandbox" area called Learn Invision Board where you can play with things and test some of the attributes outside of our on-topic posts. http://www.on-track-...hp?showforum=16