Forum Upgrade 2017

As long as I can access the site and the basic look remains I’m cool. So I’m a fan of the upgrade.

 

Since everybody is ignoring @Nanaki who asked about Tapatalk, I'm asking, too. A bunch of us use it to catch up with whatever's new, without essentially using a browser and a more complex interface. It's just handy on the go. It's not only a couple of weirdos using it.

Another thing that would be awesome to have as an option would be to expand quoted posts by default, should we want it that way.

Other things I noticed so far:

- The horizontal rule BBCode does not work.

- The smiley pop-up is not loading and, from what I have seen, it's supposed to load on the bottom of the edit box.

- The option to edit the topic title is confusing and once accessed, it's not possible to change prefixes as well.

- When an user info modal pops up, the username is barely visible - on a high-quality desktop computer monitor. The contrast is low.

Other than that, since I stalked you on social media throughout and bugged you more than anybody else did - thank you so much for everything you have done. When I saw that the theme was called "FlatAwesome" I had some concerns because the whole flat trend tends to be kind of blah, but it turned out beautiful. Search works, MULTI-TAGGING IS FINALLY THERE...so, yeah, almost perfect, overall. BRAVI E BRAVE!

 

Had a nice hour long outage just now.

 

Nice look, well done
Merry christmas for all The Force page!!

 

I wrote up a post here before the update. Then copied it over to a Word document (as I often do). Then today when the forums came back up I pasted it in to post it, but whenever I try to post, preview or more options, I just get a "500 Internal Server Error" message.

Can you not successfully post copy/pasted things from other programs in here now?

 

are the boards working right ?

when I click on a board icon (Senate for instance ) I just get "No new threads have been posted "

 

I have a question about conversations. I get messages from others fine, but where it says conversation participants, instead of something like 2, it says 0. When I try to reply, I get "A server error has occurred. Please try again later."

 

Yep, same here.

 

I dig the new layout!

 

Looks good.

I appreciate all the work you folks are doing. Especially as some one who is very much not a tech savy person.

 

Due to RL (I'm giving my phone a few minutes charge before I head across country), I cannot check my sources until maybe Wednesday, but when I ran a SW club website, I deliberately investigated making my content suitable across platforms.

That, I believe is the correct approach, but not if you have set width to "Fixed", which I believe was a response we got earlier in this thread.
If you set width to a number of characters across the screen, then regardless of resolution or platform, what passes for memory with me, thinks that that the characters will expand or shrink to fit the environment, but you will always get that character count across your screen.

 

I'm getting the Error Code 500 when trying to paste from Word, too, and don't see the smilies.

Still, seems to be running more smoothly! Yay, @Grahame & all the hard-working Admins who have been sweating over this for a few months! If I could give you your own as a thank you, I would!

 

Looks great, lets see how it runs.

 

Sorry for any brief interruption there, I left a log turned on and it filled up the temp space. All fixed now.

edit : this may also have been the source of the problem with server 500 errors when pasting from word, but not 100% sure on that.

 

What about restoring the posts cut by the update in 2012?

 

My post just worked, that might've been it Thanks!

 

There's definitely an issue with Tapatalk, server error log is full of errors. Hopefully @Grimby can take a look later, I'm not well-versed with the intricacies of plugins here yet (I just handle the server-side stuff).

 

Oh, while we had the downtime about 20 minutes ago I also took the opportunity to upgrade PHP to v7.1 (we were on 5.4 because it was the last version that worked with Xenforo 1.1.x). Upgrading PHP seems to have fixed the speed issues.

 

Darned youngsters always changing stuff. Didn't need any of this fancy frippery back in '98. Harumph.

Don't mind me; I'm just feeling curmudgeonly.

 

will take time to get used to.

 

Aaaand...until this moment, I thought @Grimby and @Grahame were the same person, that one changed the username to the other. Now I'm laughing.

I get this when I try to respond to you. Maybe we're cursed.

That is not how CSS works. There is no point in teaching web developers how to use message boards and how to do their own job. Sure, we're the people who think everybody else is an idiot, but daaaaarn, aren't we smart?

However, this would help:
https://j.eremy.net/confused-about-rem-and-em/

That's the spirit! They totes deserve droids!

 

I checked the CSS through Firefox's "Inspect Element" feature, and the forum is using a declaration of "max-width: 1180px;". So it is indeed a maximum width and not a fixed width. Also, I was using the forums on my phone earlier this morning, and it adjusted to the screen width just fine. So that's working.

 

@jcgoble - cool, okay! That's good.

Although, there must be a setting that is creating the black vertical bars on the side...

 

I am glad the boards are back on line this Is like a second home to me In a way Your all like family I was sad I might not hear from any of you during the Holidays.