Captain's Log

[Second Summer]

A slight problem with installing an add-on caused the whole board to crash. Will need to investigate what exactly happened ... Let me know if anything is still not working.

I'm aware that the subforums are displayed in drop-down menus in all the styles now ... This was something I was working on when the board crashed. Will see if I can fix that later / tomorrow / one of these days.

 

[Pickle Juice]

A slight problem with installing an add-on caused the whole board to crash. Will need to investigate what exactly happened ... Let me know if anything is still not working.

I'm aware that the subforums are displayed in drop-down menus in all the styles now ... This was something I was working on when the board crashed. Will see if I can fix that later / tomorrow / one of these days.

I like the subforum drop-down menus. Makes the main page look cleaner.

 

[Second Summer]

Another board crash but I had turned on the "maintenance screen" add-on, so you got that while I was fixing things. The problem occurred while I was upgrading an add-on.

 

[ledboots]

Another board crash but I had turned on the "maintenance screen" add-on, so you got that while I was fixing things. The problem occurred while I was upgrading an add-on.

Sorry you have to deal with this!

 

[Amy SF]

Sorry you have to deal with this!

Yes.

And let's give a round of applause to Karl for staying on top of things and getting the board working again rather quickly.

 

[Second Summer]

^ Thank you, thank you

Since this is a log of sorts, I guess I should mention (even though everyone will have noticed by now anyway!) that yesterday I installed the forum icons Blobbenstein provided. It looks pretty good now, but some minor tweaking may still be necessary.

Also, I have arranged for our domain name to be registered with a new registrar. The changeover is expected to happen this coming week. Hopefully you won't notice any problems or difference, but there is always the risk that the site becomes inaccessible for a short period.

 

[Second Summer]

Just upgraded a behind-the-scenes add-on in preparation for upgrading XenForo (the forum software). A new release of XenForo became available yesterday, so I'm hoping to install this as soon as possible. It has mostly bug-fixes, but there are also a couple of new features.

Also, looks like the domain name transfer is supposed to be completed by tomorrow morning.

 

[Second Summer]

Just ran another add-on upgrade in preparation for the forum software upgrade.

 

[Second Summer]

Forum software upgraded! It all went smoothly.

 

[Second Summer]

Also, overnight the migration to the new domain name registrar has completed. Not sure if there was any "downtime" (as in the site being unavailable) since I was sleeping, but obviously things are working fine at the moment.

 

[Second Summer]

Have just upgraded the spoiler and tag add-ons. I had reported the bug in the spoiler add-on which somehow gave us nested quotations, and this is supposed to be fixed now.

 

[Second Summer]

Apparently the spoiler tags were still not working properly. I've just changed some settings so I think it works now, but it's ugly.

Spoiler

This is what it looks like

 

[Amy SF]

Ugh. Well, as long as the spoiler tags work, we can try to ignore the color thing. At least with text. I don't know about pics that are put inside the spoiler tags.

 

[Spang]

The spoiler tag was always working for me.

Spoiler

But now it's too spoiler-y, and I can't read what's inside the tag.

Spoiler

Unless I change the color to black.

 

[Second Summer]

It might be possible for me to configure it the spoiler tag colours a bit. I will try to look into it.

Lately I've been working on setting up automatic backup of the database. I think the backup itself is now working, but I also need to encrypt the file and then copy it to a different server.

 

[Second Summer]

We'll be offline for about 25 minutes this afternoon (GMT) for a server upgrade. After the upgrade we'll have a whole gigabyte of memory!

 

[Second Summer]

All done, back to normal. (Plus the extra memory!)

 

[Second Summer]

Just upgraded the Responsive Design add-on. (This is the add-on that makes the forums look decent on smaller monitors such as tablets and smartphones.)

 

[Second Summer]

Installed 3 new add-ons today:
- Display forum moderators at the top of the forum in question
- Ignored sections list to select forums from which you don't want to see in "What's New". Configure this under Preferences --> Ignored sections list editing
- Report alerts for moderators

 

[Second Summer]

Just upgraded the Tapatalk add-on to the latest version. I've left my phone at home today so I can't test it to see if it's working still ... The new version is supposed to have some bug fixes for search and mod features. Also, the tag feature (@username) had apparently been removed in a previous version, but has been added back in this version ...