SITE UPGRADE

Arkady

UPDATE 07/02/17 15:12 It seems that new registrations are broken too - but users should be able to log in with their Google, Facebook, or Twitter accounts until such time as I get that fixed. ... UPDATE 06/02/17 14:30 OK you may find that comments that you make stay as a draft and don't appear to have been posted until you refresh. PLEASE JUST CLICK SEND ONCE (OR IT WILL CREATE A DUPLICATE POST), THEN RETURN TO THE HOME PAGE OR REFRESH. Working on a fix. ... 03/02/16 IT'S THAT TIME AGAIN. The site outage a few months back was caused by a server upgrade that broke the forum software. Former stroudgreen.org elder-statesman David kindly provided a fix, but most of the plugins broke in the process. We're running Vanilla 2.2.1, and Vanilla 2.3 came out in November. At some point in the next few days I'm going to have a crack at updating it. Then I'll be able to add back some plugins such as HTML formatting. You never know, we might end up with a new theme as well, just after you all got used to this one. The upgrade may break things for a while. I'm probably going to be doing it myself, which makes that even more likely. Don't panic. Ben/Arkady

Sutent

Thanks Arkady. Good luck with it

Arkady

Tinkering. Emojis work again :-). As **does** _HTML _~~editing~~. even _italics_. Avatars updating properly again. New users might want to visit http://en.gravatar.com/ to get an image next to their name.

trainspotter

Good luck Arkady! Just a suggestion but would it make sense for threads to open at the latrest page rather than the first? Perhaps iir depends on the thread but with long running ones like the city north one I always haoto do a bit of scrolling through historic sdtuff uve read before to find the latest posts

trainspotter

Sorry about all the typos! Wine + kindle typing don't mix

Sutent

@trainspotter on chrome it always goes to latest post

trainspotter

Thanks for the tip Sutent

Arkady

Top drunk posting trainspotter.

Which browser are you using? I've never come across that issue before.

trainspotter

Firefox I think?

trainspotter

On second thoughts maybe it's just the difference between being logged in and not?

Arkady

Yep that might be it. I don't think it tracks what you've read if you're not logged in.

miss annie

Yes. The current page always shows first if you're logged in.

Arkady

Upgrade done. Some plugins broke, including the one that makes the links work on the right hand side. Will try to fix it.

Arkady

Twitterers should now be able to log in using their Twitter username and password rather than setting up a separate account.

Arkady

And Google+ now. I'll try for Facebook too, but that looks more difficult. Still, maybe we'll get some new blood this way. EDIT - Facebook login should work too. Be cautious about logging in with one of these social media profiles if it uses the same email address that you use for stroudgreen.org as it may overwrite your Avatar and username.

Arkady

OK you may find that comments that you make stay as a draft and don't appear to have been posted until you refresh. PLEASE JUST CLICK SEND ONCE (OR IT WILL CREATE A DUPLICATE POST), THEN RETURN TO THE HOME PAGE OR REFRESH. Working on a fix.

_Bee

@trainspotter I think @Arkady is right - if you aren't logged in the site goes only to the first page of a thread.

_Bee

@arkady - I get a weird pop up when writing a comment. It's something code-y that I don't quite understand. Oddly, didn't appear when I wrote this comment. (iPhone using safari) I'll send you the details when I see it again

_Bee

it appears to be a content editor explaining what is wrong with the code
Ex: for this post it said something like "draft model: delete(int) is deprecated, try using draft model: deleteID(int)"

_Bee

(Sorry for the multi post)

Arkady

Thanks Bee, that's precisely what needs to be fixed. The SQL and PHP both need upgrading on the server, which I've requested and hopefully will happen soon. In the meantime please follow the instructions above to avoid this issue.

trainspotter

Arkady it seems to create a duplicate message even if you do only post once.

trainspotter

Or maybe not! That worked OK.

HolbornFox

Is this the political echo chamber I keep hearing about?

Arkady

test

Arkady

Sweet, problem fixed.

Arkady

I'm having a few problems with the plugins so I'm going to be messing around again - weird things may happen, including things breaking for a bit.

Arkady

Things will be a tad unsightly for a while, but otherwise everything is working again.

Arkady

Mobile site might be down for a while. You might need to select 'select desktop mode' or similar in your phone browser if you get an error message.

Sutent

On android mobile chrome there is no option for desktop site

Ilovegreyhounds

On iPhone there is no option for mobile site