CM Announcement Forum Maintenance Tuesday 20th April

[maxd]

Dear forum members and visitors, during a routine maintenance tomorrow, Tuesday 20th April, we will be limiting the option to create new threads, post replies and react on existing threads for about 2 hours starting at:
03:00 Central Standard Time (GMT-6)
09:00 Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
10:00 Central European Time (GMT+1)

In techno speak: we are aligning our widgets and tuning our whatchamacallits for maximized efficiency.

 

[The Dude]

And to reiterate - the forums will be open for your viewing pleasure. You just can't post anything, or send me your lovely PMs

 

[paul7388]

Is that the updates finished then.

Do not know if it was intentional but if you hover over a members name and click on messages it no longer shows the last posts they made. Figured that one out as hovered over my name as usual to find a post and unavailable so tried it with other members names.

Actually on checking again it shows any messages member made since update none from before using the simple way. Not important just thought i would mention.

 

[pereblue]

Is that the updates finished then.

Do not know if it was intentional but if you hover over a members name and click on messages it no longer shows the last posts they made. Figured that one out as hovered over my name as usual to find a post and unavailable so tried it with other members names.

Actually on checking again it shows any messages member made since update none from before using the simple way. Not important just thought i would mention.

Gmorning @paul7388 , this issue should be fixed, please confirm you could click and get messages.

 

[The Dude]

The forum needed reindexing with its database. So yeah - it should be working now. There are perhaps a few other things that aren't discovered yet, so we are still checking things out at the moment.

 

[paul7388]

All working fine this morning thanks.

 

[The Dude]

Still working on the mail server. Some of us are not getting email notifications. This should be ironed out shortly

 

[The Dude]

Mail server is running properly now. Microsoft is still blocking our IP since we just moved servers (outlook, hotmail, live, etc.), but not to worry - this block should be lifted shortly hopefully.

 

[Kroffe]

I dont like the new 'like' notification.
Dont get me wrong, i dont dislike the like itself, what i dislike about the like is you know like how the like is presented and stuff.
I much preferred when the 'like' was thumb-like, the new like looks nothing like the way i like it.
Not much to like about the new like.

I speak for everyone when i say we want the thumb back, because that is what we like.

 

[mcgameboy]

I dont like the new 'like' notification.
Dont get me wrong, i dont dislike the like itself, what i dislike about the like is you know like how the like is presented and stuff.
I much preferred when the 'like' was thumb-like, the new like looks nothing like the way i like it.
Not much to like about the new like.

I speak for everyone when i say we want the thumb back, because that is what we like.


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It seems that the "Shield" notification has also lost its accompanying shield.

So, depending on what reaction is being used, you will either get....

"(name of user) reacted to your post in (name of thread) with "Haha" or "WTG" (with the "crying with laughter" or "clapping hands" emoji visible)

OR

"(name of user) Liked or Shielded your post in (name of thread)" (without the "thumbs up" and "shield" emojis visible).

Not sure what the situation is with the other reactions (Thanks, Angry, Piecake, Sad, Wow).

Perhaps it is just some temporary "widget issue"?

 

[Kroffe]

It seems that the "Shield" notification has also lost its accompanying shield.

So, depending on what reaction is being used, you will either get....

"(name of user) reacted to your post in (name of thread) with "Haha" or "WTG" (with the "crying with laughter" or "clapping hands" emoji visible)

OR

"(name of user) Liked or Shielded your post in (name of thread)" (without the "thumbs up" and "shield" emojis visible).

Not sure what the situation is with the other reactions (Thanks, Angry, Piecake, Sad, Wow).

Perhaps it is just some temporary "widget issue"?

Its not a big deal really, just noticed it had changed.
But i think i prefer it the way it was, probably mostly because ive gotten used to it being that way.

 

[paul7388]

i can see the shield i just gave you.

 

[News Hound]

Likewise with the one I gave you

 

[News Hound]

This was taken using the Opera browser ( No cache history ) and also whilst not logged in. Strange, will report to the dev team.

 

[mcgameboy]

I think Kroffe was referring to how things are displayed on the user's own Alerts page.

I too can see the Shields, Wows, Likes under each post within a thread.

 

[News Hound]

I'll get my coat

 

[mcgameboy]

I'll get my coat

Long live The Fast Show

 

[paul7388]

Well what a waste of a shield that was.

Think i will just take it back.

 

[mcgameboy]

No! I don't get shields often!

Gimme back my shield! I flippin' earned it

 

[Kroffe]

I think Kroffe was referring to how things are displayed on the user's own Alerts page.

I too can see the Shields, Wows, Likes under each post within a thread.

Correct.
I need to get better at explaining things.

But in my defense, i said it was the "like notification" i did not like.
So instead of me getting better at explaning things, perhaps people just need to get better at understanding me.
Would save me alot of work.

 

[slotmaster]

Correct.
I need to get better at explaining things.

But in my defense, i said it was the "like notification" i did not like.
So instead of me getting better at explaning things, perhaps people just need to get better at understanding me.
Would save me alot of work.

Hard to understand a toddler.

 

[Kroffe]

Hard to understand a toddler.

You dare show your face here after that picnic incident.
Have you no shame?

 

[The Dude]

So are we good with the reactions? I did make some slight changes with them yesterday. So maybe that was it?

 

[Kroffe]

So are we good with the reactions? I did make some slight changes with them yesterday. So maybe that was it?

I dont know, please like this post and ill get back to you.
I need to see the thumb before i am ready to call this matter settled.

But we all know this was just the start.
The real issue is of course the new size limits on pictures & moving pictures (i think they are called gifs or something)
I see that so far people have managed to quell their rage about it, but i figured i would mention it, even tho i dont really use the function all that much.

 

[Kroffe]

Issue is still the same.
No thumb.

 

[colinsunderland]

The forum has been extremely laggy for me since the server move. Sometimes it's fine, but can take 10-20 seconds to load pages or alerts etc at times. The screenshot below was after 15 seconds from clicking the alert, and it's taken over a minute to upload the image, usually takes a few seconds.

 

[paul7388]

The forum has been extremely laggy for me since the server move. Sometimes it's fine, but can take 10-20 seconds to load pages or alerts etc at times. The screenshot below was after 15 seconds from clicking the alert, and it's taken over a minute to upload the image, usually takes a few seconds.

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Agreed it has been very laggy.

Thought it was just my internet but other sites working fine.

 

[interlog]

Yep, the lag is real for me too................

 

[News Hound]

We are aware - servers guys are on it now.

 

[The Dude]

Issue is still the same.
No thumb.

Try it now.

 

[Kroffe]

Try it now.

Like this post, for science.

 

[Kroffe]

Back to normal again.
Bless.

Now we can move on to the gif size issue.
Just like people, gifs comes in all sorts of shapes and sizes.
Whats the next thing, will new rules be implemented saying 'no fatties allowed'?
This size-shaming that is going on is a slippery slope.

Edit: This gif of a naked lady dancing illustrates the problem.

 

[colinsunderland]

getting bad lagging again just now

 

[The Dude]

getting bad lagging again just now

Seems the issues with Apache have been solved. I hope.