Following on from the new features already presented, we will now look at further improvements that significantly enhance the user experience in many areas of the WoltLab Suite. In addition to visual adjustments, the focus is primarily on optimizations in interactivity and performance.
With the upcoming update, we are bringing a breath of fresh air to several key areas of WoltLab Suite. The upgrades range from a complete overhaul of the WoltLab Suite blog to new display formats for articles and conversations — always with the aim of pushing technology, design, and expandability to a new level.
With the release of WoltLab Suite 6.2, we are expanding our product portfolio with a completely new tool: WoltLab Suite Database – the most flexible way to manage and present structured content based on your own requirements.
With the update to WoltLab Suite 6.2, we are expanding the WYSIWYG editor with a revised quote management feature, an emoji picker, and the ability to sort file attachments. We are also adding image compression and optional removal of EXIF data.
With the update to WoltLab Suite 6.2, we are modernizing a central component of the user experience: the user profile. A lot has happened since the introduction of the cover photo in version 3.1 — but a lot has also accumulated. It's time for a clean break and a targeted overhaul.
With the upcoming version WoltLab Suite 6.2, we are saying goodbye to our outdated image viewer and introducing a completely redesigned successor that not only looks more modern, but is also much better positioned in terms of technology and functionality.
This blog article starts our series of articles in which we would like to present the most important new features and improvements in WoltLab Suite 6.2 in more detail over the next few weeks.
18 months after passing the 10k cars milestone we are pleased to announce that the 8Coupe team has managed to again add more than one thousand new 8ers to the archive which on this 11-11 coincidentally holds data for 11.111 8-series cars.
The overall per annum distribution did not change significantly and we now see more than 50% archived for the production years from 1995 onwards with the maximum at near two thirds for the last production year 1999.
Less than a year after passing the 9,000 cars and the 30% archived threshold we are proud to announce having reached another milestone. As of this month we are in the 5 digit range and now hold data for more than 10,000 8-series cars in the 8Coupe archives. Only a few hundred cars need to be added to achieve yet another long term goal - 1/3 of the entire production. We hope to be able to surpass this number during Summer 2014.
This past year saw near linear increases based on last year´s…
A very busy year of the 8Coupe team has led to another milestone - more than 9,000 cars were in the archives at the end of May 2013 and en route in the same month we also passed the "magic" 8er number of 8,888 cars. During the past year and despite one of the major markets, Japan obviously running out of cars, the 8Coupe team managed to find and identify more than 1.000 E31´s previously unaccounted for.
With more than 9,000 cars in the archives we are only a few cars shy of 30% (9187 cars) of…
A new milestone - 8.000 cars in the 8Coupe.com archives has been reached today. Passing this mark we now have knowledge of 26.1% of all produced E31´s one way or the other.
A near linear growth rate has been maintained for more than 3 years now and on average just over 100 new 8ers were added to the archive every month.
The 8Coupe archive currently contains 124.000 pictures, nearly 69.000 PDF files and some 10k misc files.
We now store more than 200k files adding up to near 27 GB of data.
After more than 7 years of data collection the fundamental milestone of archiving one quarter of the worldwide 8er production has been reached on February 29th, 2012.
Numerous 8er enthusiasts have contributed to the growth of the archive over the years, first and foremost Jud Spencer, who retired from his active duties for 8Coupe.com in August 2010. Most of the content of this website is a direct result of this enthusiasm and dedication which has continued to date.
Just ahead of Santa Claus the 8Coupe.com team has eventually managed to finish a project long in the making.
The Vehicle Build Sheet Report (VBS-R) is filled to the brim with VIN specific unique background information that puts every conceivable statistical aspect for any given 8-series vehicle into a perspective. The information contained is not available elsewhere and by far surpasses what even the manufacturer would be able to offer. You will find precise figures for your car in relation to the…
Nearly ten years after the first steps into becoming the worldwide 8er registry and archive were made, we have received the personal registration of the 2.000th 8-series car today. The 8-series was delivered to more than 80 countries and owners from no less than 66 thereof have signed up with 8Coupe.com
The majority of cars registered are located in North America with 50% of all registrations from the US (1.008) and more than 150 from Canada. The largest number of registrations in Europe stem…
Half the produced E31´s today exceed the age of 20 years. 22 months into the series production but with almost 8 years to go, the majority of 8-series Coupé´s roamed the streets worldwide. The onset of the production for the E31 was very bright but a sharp decline in demand and consequently production numbers late in 1991 reduced the output from a maximum of near 70 cars per working day to only 20 and below in the years to come.
By October 1, 1991 the distribution of cars looked like below - all…
Nearing 7,000 cars in the 8Coupe.com registry archive in the following is an overview of how those cars are distributed amongst the different production variants.
On average more than 35% of each variant has been archived with the largest percentages for the cars with higher intrinsic values (Alpina, CSi), later model years and North American (NA) based cars. The lowest rates are assigned to the old M70 based cars, be it with manual or automatic gearbox of which many did not survive the tides of…
