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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby Kevin Thomas Riley » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:39 am

I am trying to adjust to the new look, but I may go back to the old one.

The biggest problem is that the new one doesn't clearly show who is posting. The name of the poster is far too small and is overshadowed by the much larger subject title. If a user has no avatar it's even less clear.

The separation between posts is also too indistinguishable.

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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby CX » Mon Aug 06, 2007 12:55 am

dark_rain wrote:Ok guys, you've got a choice...

You can either have the old theme (which is default)
--or--
The new theme

You can select which one you want in your profile. I might post a howto later.

Thank you, and thanks for changing it for me too. :)
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby dark_rain » Mon Jul 07, 2008 1:09 am

Just a quick note to say I'm playing with some settings again. There shouldn't be any downtime but styles might go a bit weird. Just a heads-up.
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby dark_rain » Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:50 am

I think that just about wraps it up. I am worried about subsystem integrity in a few places, so please keep me posted with any issues that you may notice, as you do anyway.

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P.S. Just a heads up that we might have to go back to the new board theme, depending on whether or not the current one is causing some issues which I am currently investigating.
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby dark_rain » Wed May 27, 2009 4:34 am

Taking a site snapshot prior to a board software update. Fiction and BBS systems might be a little slow for a while.
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby dark_rain » Wed May 27, 2009 5:06 am

That's about it for this run folks. We now return you to your regular nattering ;)

As always, please report anything that was gone weird following this lot.
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby dark_rain » Sun Dec 13, 2009 1:28 am

There is a board update coming up at some point in the next few days. Possibly tomorrow if I get around to it. Nothing major so I doubt that you will notice anything.

phpBB Changelog wrote:
[Fix] Allow ban reason and length to be selected and copied in ACP and subsilver2 MCP. (Bug #51095)
[Fix] Force full date for board online record date.
[Fix] Correctly reset login keys if passed value is the current user. (Bug #54125)
[Fix] Correctly set last modified headers. (Bug #54245, thanks Paul.J.Murphy)
[Fix] Show correct HTML title when reporting private messages. (Bug #54375)
[Fix] Correctly exclude subforums from ATOM Feeds. (Bug #54285)
[Fix] Do not link to user profile in ATOM feed entry if post has been made by the guest user. (Bug #54275)
[Fix] Make word censoring case insensitive. (Bug #54265)
[Fix] Fulltext-MySQL search for keywords and username at the same time. (Bug #54325)
[Fix] Various XHTML mistakes in prosilver. (Bug #54705)
[Fix] Correctly show topic ATOM feed link when only post id is specified. (Bug #53025)
[Fix] Cleanly handle forum/topic not found in ATOM Feeds. (Bug #54295)
[Fix] PHP 5.3 compatibility: Check if function dl() exists before calling it. (Bug #54665)
[Fix] PHP 5.3 compatibility: Disable E_DEPRECATED on startup to keep set_magic_quotes_runtime(0) quiet. (Bug #54495)
[Fix] Correctly replace table prefix before inserting schema data into the database. (Bug #54815)
[Fix] Correctly take post time instead of topic time for the overall forum feed statistics row. (Bug #55005)
[Change] Send time of last item instead of current time in ATOM Feeds. (Bug #53305)
[Change] Use em dash instead of hyphen/minus as separator in ATOM Feeds item statistics. (Bug #53565)


The above info is pulled from the phpBB3 Changelogs at http://www.phpbb.com/support/documents. ... =changelog I'm going to get into the habit of posting anything which might be relevant when I update.

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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby Alelou » Sun Dec 13, 2009 2:23 am

Does that last item mean our stories will have our em-dashes instead of hyphens now?

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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby dark_rain » Sun Dec 13, 2009 3:52 pm

I'm afraid not, as this software update only affects the BBS. Sorry :(
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby dark_rain » Sun Dec 13, 2009 4:17 pm

Sorry about that little intermission folks, I got stuck in an interesting redirect loop before the update had even started, so I've reverted back and I shall look at this again at about 2100GMT.
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby dark_rain » Sun Jan 03, 2010 11:42 pm

The update is now live, and the above changelog stands. As usual, please report any bugs.
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby Distracted » Mon Jan 04, 2010 3:45 am

The "active topic" listing has been erased. When I click on "View active topics" I get nothing. Is that a side effect of the update?
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby Alelou » Mon Jan 04, 2010 5:57 pm

Yes, Asso and Panyasan and I are noticing this too, much to our chagrin, in a separate thread, since of course we didn't see this one...
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby WarpGirl » Mon Feb 01, 2010 4:49 pm

Um I'm not getting any update e-mails any more. :oops:
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Re: Board upgrade, possible downtime

Postby Aquarius » Mon Feb 01, 2010 7:02 pm

Mine are working but yesterday I noticed sometimes they took hours to be sent--I found this out by checking the board, and hours later when the alert came thru, no new updates had been made to the topic since my last visit.
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