Migration downtime 19th/20th - Complete

[tobyd]

Hello,

We've got to move AS off the existing host in the next few weeks so going to need an extended period of downtime to get this sorted. Weekend of the September (this month!) 19th and 20th is the date this is all going down.

I hope it won't take ages but from midnight on Saturday 19th (the start of saturday, rather than end) anything you were in the middle of posting might get lost. Not entirely sure when it'll be back up but i'll post something here when its safe to start posting again, tenatively hopeful for mid-afternoon saturday but if it all blows up it might slither into sunday.

[brownnova]

Bump for a reminder that this is happening! 

[tobyd]

Migration Update.

The site and all its content has now moved and had some minor upgrades along the way. A few things behind the mouldy curtains have changed so if things start to act out let me know.

Less minor is the upgrade of the forum software - this is a bit more sudden. Everything should be roughly where it was before but there are a few wrinkles in some corners that will be rectified as we go. If you can't find something you might want to try switching the theme back to default (very bottom of the page, dropdown called 'Theme') and seeing if it reappears - please let me know about things that are missing.

[cort16]

Thanks for the hard work.

Not sure about the posting summary on the right I can see how much of my life I've wasted posting shite in the ebay tat and liability threads. Any way to turn that off?

[LightBulbFun]

Awesome work! I see the forum software itself has had a bit of an upgrade  

hopefully the ol editor bugs have finally been squashed? 

 

 

nice to see the posting summery thingy is back from the old forum software, but as above it would be nice if that could be made collapsable? I dont want it gone, but it does leave a lot of dead space to the right of the page once im scrolling down etc

[wuvvum]

1 minute ago, LightBulbFun said:

nice to see the posting summery thingy is back from the old forum software, but as above it would be nice if that could be made collapsable? I dont want it gone, but it does leave a lot of dead space to the right of the page once im scrolling down etc

I just came on here to post that...

[Tadhg Tiogar]

Lovely shade of blue.... although I don't quite understand why Android phones don't show the "strike out" option in addition to the usual Bold, Italic and Underline buttons....

[SiC]

Tapatalk is broken for me. 

[LightBulbFun]

8 minutes ago, wuvvum said:

I just came on here to post that...

yeah theres also quite a bit of dead space on the top of the forum which means even on my fancy 2560x1440 monitor I can only see the first 3 new posts! (ignoring the stickies) without having to scroll down

 

I think if the "follow" and "start new topic" buttons are brought to the same line as "Autoshite" is that would cut down on a lot of the dead space  

otherwise new forum software has been working well for me so far  nothing new has blown up or gone missing that I have noticed

[Twiggy]

Excellent, thank you.

[tobyd]

There are a few quirks with the brown theme that'll need ironing out, I'll take a look at it over the next few days once I've got everything else running happily.

Tapatalk may have been disabled during the update. I'll see whats up with it.

 

[High Jetter]

I have dead space on the right in notification list and most topics, but not this one. Am using Firefox & Vivaldi.

[Aston Martin]

Thank fuck for that 

[brownnova]

Thank you so much to the technical wizards who keep us running smoothly and have completed this update with minimal fuss! 

[tobyd]

Tapatalk should be back now @SiC

[Stanky]

21 minutes ago, High Jetter said:

I have dead space on the right in notification list and most topics, but not this one. Am using Firefox & Vivaldi.

can you get a screenshot?

[High Jetter]

Now, it's only doing it on this page, topics are OK.

[tobyd]

There should be a box to the right, maybe try a force refresh by pressing CTRL-SHIFT-R?

[High Jetter]

Nope, can't get that box on either browser. Not entirely sure why it should be there, squeezing everything over to the left. Anyway, thanks to all who are involved in running and maintaining this forum, it's the best and busiest I use.

[SiC]

25 minutes ago, tobyd said:

Tapatalk should be back now @SiC

Thanks it works now. 

Is there an option to enable BBCode input into the text editor in this version? Would be nice to not have to use this god awful editor that is a lot more awkward on mobile than it needs to be. Other forums I'm on have an option to switch between Rich Text Editor and BBCode. E.g.

Ta. 

[808 Estate]

1 hour ago, LightBulbFun said:

yeah theres also quite a bit of dead space on the top of the forum which means even on my fancy 2560x1440 monitor I can only see the first 3 new posts! (ignoring the stickies) without having to scroll down

 

I think if the "follow" and "start new topic" buttons are brought to the same line as "Autoshite" is that would cut down on a lot of the dead space  

otherwise new forum software has been working well for me so far  nothing new has blown up or gone missing that I have noticed

Same for me with the dead spacxe at the top.

Otherwise, all OK. Thanks.

Also, the brown text on brown background on the forum index page is quite difficult to read.

[bunglebus]

My only quibbles would be the "Home" button text is almost impossible to see, the Autoshite logo isn't displayed in full, and the reply area would be better in white rather than matching the background - only minor points though, main problem was getting withdrawal symptoms while it was offline!

[tobyd]

Haha, yea thats pretty naff. Logo should be fixed now.

Button text colouring is bad everywhere, will try and fix that asap.

[loserone]

I have my default stream set as

https://autoshite.com/discover/26/

This used to work so that clicking on the topic title opened the first unread post, but it doesn't work anymore.  Can't seem to find the option to fix it on my phone either.

[tobyd]

hmm, I'll have a look.

[tobyd]

@loserone - this now appears to be the blue dot before the topic name - that will take you to the last unread post, the topic name itself takes you to page 1. Seems backwards to me, I'll see if there is an config for it.

[loserone]

1 minute ago, tobyd said:

@loserone - this now appears to be the blue dot before the topic name - that will take you to the last unread post, the topic name itself takes you to page 1. Seems backwards to me, I'll see if there is an config for it.

Yes, this is the default setting.  You used to be able to configure a stream so that the topic title worked in the same way as the dot, and that's all that stream was configured to do.

 

I use a pretty small scaling on my phone, so clicking on the dot is pretty much impossible.

[tobyd]

I think its just been reset by the update. If you click on your account icon at the top right, then settings

 

You can adjust the default in here to Last Unread.

Although this is a global setting for the forum and the stream so might not be a 100% fix.

[loserone]

Well that's a totally different way of doing it, and that option wasn't there in the last version, but it does do exactly what I need.  Thanks!

https://autoshite.com/settings/links/

[LightBulbFun]

as a side note I was wondering if it would be possible to increase the max amount of messages you can have in the PM inbox to something above 200?

mine is getting a bit full, but id like to avoid having to delete a bunch of messages if possible