New forum observations thread

[Jerry Doe]

Hello everyone,

Finally we are live with the new forum. I know there are still things that need doing. Some colors are off and some fonts are wrong. My programmer and I are fixing these things while the forum is live. We have spent hours lately and need a rest.

Please dont email me if you see any oddities. Update this thread and let me know what you are seeing that needs fixing.

This is phase 1 with basic functionality and over the next weeks you will see some cool things added.

Thanks
Jerry

 

[gortnipper]

Is the avatar upload file size limitation really 100 bytes? With a recommended 200 x 200 pixel size? Cant do much with that. In fact, haven't been able to upload the most highly compressed jpg I can make at that size which is about 3.5kb.

 

[Jerry Doe]

I have adjusted the avatar size from 100KB to 512KB. Please try and upload it now.

 

[gortnipper]

Sweet, just what I was doing. Hope it doesn't come across as pissy, didn't mean to.

 

[Jerry Doe]

No problem. I appreciate your help to find bugs. I think I know about most of them

 

[gortnipper]

What is the desktop avatar display size?

 

[Jerry Doe]

I dont know- sorry

 

[gortnipper]

Your file size is set to bytes not kilobytes.

 

[Jerry Doe]

Try again now please

 

[gortnipper]

Ok great. I need a better photo, but this is the one i was fooling with. 65kb @ 360x360.

 

[zotz]

I have 3 alerts listed that say I have been awarded a trophy. I didn't click on them in case it was some kind of weird spam.

 

[WZ507]

I've got the same "3 Trophies" notification zotz mentioned above. Also, when I am not logged in I can not see any thumbnail images attached in threads, e.g., in "The Official 2017 Barber" thread Swoosh recently posted some images near the bottom of the final page and when I click them, am informed that I must be logged in to view them. Of course they show up perfect when logged in, but most of the time I am not logged in when viewing.

 

[Jerry Doe]

Thanks for letting me know- I will look into the photo viewing for non-logged in users.

 

[lcrken]

I just noticed that links in my old posts, to other posts on the forum, no longer work. I assume that's because they point to the old forum locations. Is there any way for you to fix them with a batch process, or do we need to replace them one by one with the new addresses?

Ken

 

[Jerry Doe]

Hi Ken, the links to old threads will need to be manually updated. This is a completely different platform. Its been a rocky ride to get here and we are still working on things. Unfortunately I was forced to do this due to security reasons. The other forum was insecure and had major problems. It had security holes and was hacked several times. I did not mention much about it here as I did not want to tell the hackers how I fixed it. Sorry for the inconvenience. We are kind of in this together, although I am the driver

Jerry

 

[Jerry Doe]

A quick update:

1) I am working on the mobile version and things will look better in a few days.
2) I know the font is different in the text editor and we are going to fix that.
3) Styling is off in a few buttons and I know about that.
4) Facebook login integration is not working and I know. I will be implementing Google auto login as well later.
5) I am working on the media section and image upload area. It is working, but needs to be fine tuned.
6) I am working on another lighter theme so you have a choice.
7) I am working on help pages.

Once I get the basics sorted out there are some really cool add-ons that I am excited about.

I have been slammed with this for the last 4 days. Please continue to let me know any other bugs you see. I have to go do my real job now until the end of the week.

Thanks
Jerry

 

[Nater_Potater]

Is the "View Your Posts" option still there? I can't find it anymore...

Thanks,
Nathan

 

[gortnipper]

Is the "View Your Posts" option still there? I can't find it anymore...

Thanks,
Nathan

Click on your username in the upper right, and then on Your Content. That will take you to your list of posts.

 

[gortnipper]

Last night I was attempting to upload a photo to my album via my phone and cancelled the upload. I was then unable to access the site after trying to re upload, which failed and then navigate away from the page.

Today on my PC I had a similar thing happen, this time got an error that couldn't upload image, tried again- wouldn't do it, so navigated away and then got timed out. Still times out after 5 min.

I could immediately access site on my phone though, so am assuming the forum thinks my behavior is suspicious and blocks my IP?

 

[gortnipper]

error message.

I just repro'ed this with a different photo, both are 1200x900, one is 1.1mb and the other is under 400kb.