Captain's Log

[Second Summer]

The server was down for a while over night, not quite sure how long. The hosting company had to restart their server in order to install some important security patch. (They had told me in advance, but I forgot to pass on the info. Oops.)

 

[KLS52]

NOW you tell me. [emoji12]

 

[Second Summer]

I've created a new "Support Area" section at the top of the main page, and moved the veg*n forums in there. shyvas remains the main moderator of these forums.

Edit: The purpose of the new section is to make it more obvious that the forums inside it are support forums.

 

[Second Summer]

The domain name registration has been renewed for another year.

 

[Second Summer]

There is a feature I wanted to mention which hasn't worked up until a couple of days ago:

At the bottom of the pages there is a line with the name of the style (e.g. "Plain Blue"), then "Contact Us", "Help", "Email Subscription" ... Right, that's the one, Email Subscription. This will allow you to get a daily digest of new threads sent to you per email.

 

[Second Summer]

Just upgraded to latest version of the forum software.

 

[Dedalus]

I'm not getting all my alerts - as a red bubble.

It will tell me I have one alert but when I look there are actually several more. Like the software is combining them if they are on the same posting. Is that expected behavior?

 

[Second Summer]

I'm not getting all my alerts - as a red bubble.

It will tell me I have one alert but when I look there are actually several more. Like the software is combining them if they are on the same posting. Is that expected behavior?

Possibly, yes ... If there are more than one post in a thread you are watching, then there will usually be just one alert. Though I think there are scenarios when there are more alerts.

 

[Dedalus]

4 likes combined into one is like 1 like.

 

[beancounter]

4 likes combined into one is like 1 like.

You get more than one like at a time?!?. I feel so inferior.

 

[Second Summer]

4 likes combined into one is like 1 like.

Ah, I thought maybe that was one of the scenarios where you would get more than one alert ...

 

[Dedalus]

Ah, I thought maybe that was one of the scenarios where you would get more than one alert ...

In the past that was how it worked. No more.

You get more than one like at a time?!?. I feel so inferior.

Secret: cat pictures

 

[Second Summer]

There seems to be a widespread problem with double posting, or rather, "multiple posting". Looks like the server-side of the forum doesn't report back to the client-side (i.e. the browser) correctly that the posts have been received.

 

[Second Summer]

Right, there were some errors related to an unused add-on, so I've just disabled it. Let's see if it's better now.

 

[Second Summer]

It seems the problem was actually the upgrade of the Tapatalk add-on last night. I've temporarily disabled it, but will try to install an older version in a bit.

 

[Second Summer]

OK, now running with an older Tapatalk version.

 

[ledboots]

It seems the problem was actually the upgrade of the Tapatalk add-on last night. I've temporarily disabled it, but will try to install an older version in a bit.

Another forum I am on found tons of double posts from Tapatalk users after Tapatalk recently "upgraded."

 

[Second Summer]

Another forum I am on found tons of double posts from Tapatalk users after Tapatalk recently "upgraded."

Ah, here it was from non-Tapatalk users ... but the bug was in the Tapatalk add-on though.

 

[Second Summer]

There was a new version of the Tapatalk add-on, so have just upgraded to that. They promised it didn't have the problems we saw recently, plus it supposedly have other bug fixes and improvements, so I thought it was worth a shot.

 

[Second Summer]

Upgraded to the latest version of the forum software last night. Just a maintenance version, so no new features. There has been talk of a version 2.0 for a while now, but no one except the developers know much about it. Should be interesting.