It'll look a little different. Some of that is down to the newer versions of software, and some of that is down to the new graphical theme. Hint: it's not blue. We know you can't please all of the people all of the time, so not everyone will like it I guess.
It'll still be Postnuke and PNphpBB2 based. We looked at migrating to other forum packages and portal frameworks, but nothing out there that we would be happy to use allowed us to migrate what we already have without loss. TMC has been running for 3.5 years, so losing all of that content would be a disaster.
In the first instance the forum and the FAQ will be cut over. The legacy content will also be cut over. It brings us traffic and a lot of the articles continue to be useful. However this cutover may happen a day or three later.
Subsequently we have a bunch of new features for the immediate future:
- Member-created content (articles, reviews and the like)
- News aggregator. We've always had the news block on the front page, but it won't display more than one feed at once. In future the news will go on its own portal page, wich opens things up big time
- A wiki for members to share useful information and techniques
- Possibly a picture gallery, although I'm unsure about the need for that stand-alone (i.e. outside the content). Maybe pictorials of the UKBC and the like could go up there unless members want to keep such things on their own sites - which always has been and continues to be a problem. We live in an increasingly federated world I guess.
Best
Phil
On behalf of the TMC Team