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Colin

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What did the upgrades do? The font seems a 'lil bigger and better... anything else new?

I see the smilies are on the same page. Cool! /forum/images/graemlins/driving.gif
 
There were some nasty bugs and security threats that needed fixing with the upgrade. Then, UBB Threads "awesome" auto-upgrade script stopped working right because it's full of bad code in and of itself. It took way longer than anticipated, like all things seem to do when you're talking about UBB. The upgrade messed up a few of the layout settings, but I'm working to get them all squared away before I leave the office tonight.

I realize a few features were disabled, but I'm working on getting everything back to the way it was before, along with fixing user-uploads and user-avatars.

Sorry for the delays, and enjoy a hopefully better Tree Buzz experience.

-Colin Moore
Tech Support
Raphael Webscapes, LLC.
 

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Lemme look.

I'll go with green day for awhile. Wild could make you go blind!!! /forum/images/graemlins/crazy.gif
 
Looks like a private block list is new. Someone inquired about that recently.

/forum/images/graemlins/Screen_of_Death.gif Man, what did I do now? I hope that Avatar gremlin is getting chased out, too. The other item on my short laundry list of TB/UBB bugs is that Received Private Messages lists 2 but I only have one.

Good skill on the upgrade!

Tree Limb Jim

[20 minutes after original post:]
Avatar: It will hide my ugly mug if I tell it so but most certainly will not replace it. Permissions?????
 
Avatars are fixed.

Templates are (almost) fixed. There are a few CSS things here and there that need to be done, but for the most part everything is almost back to normal.

I'm going to be leaving the office very soon. If you (and that means ANYONE) need help with something, or want to suggest a mild change, I can do it from home and reply back with a witty comment about how I fixed what you asked for.

Just simply email me: treebuzz@colinmoore.com

Thanks for your patience!

-Colin
 
"remember" on the login page would be nice to have back soon.

I just added

``<input type="hidden" name="remember" value="1" />''

to a local copy and logged in with it. We'll see... I don't think I have a local copy of the former form code (guessing the variables would be the same to provide a non-session-only cookie) so that was just a wild guess.

HTML enabled would be nice.

Glen
 
Well, that doesn't net me a persistent cookie...

Hey, while you're at it, enable compressed page delivery for browsers which can accept it. The uncompressed pages are killing me here.

Glen
 
uhm, the remember part is seconded by me. I picked the green day coloring too, the one that came up default when I first came back tonight was a bit too bright on the eyes for me. anyone try any other cool schemes?
 
The default look/feel is different now (and not better) than earlier. The link text going white on mouse-over has got to go (we don't need the text to change to tell us we're on a link -- our cursor already does that).

Also, please don't discriminate against non-Windows users with Windows-specific font declarations in the stylesheets this time.

The persistent login cookie really should be on the front burner (and I really miss the new post counts in red within the forums listing).

I'm sorry the upgrade wasn't a simple matter for y'all, but you needed to address the serving of non-compressed pages, at least, anyway (and still do as of this time). Please don't spend a great deal of time on the eye-candy (after putting it back to something workable) until you get the performance-related stuff worked out.

Thanks,
Glen
 
One other thing. If it's at all possible to opt out of getting shown all those obnoxious "graemlins" on the editpost and newreply pages, please make the process readily available, post haste.

Glen
 
Thanks Colin and Mark.

Can see lots of new avie's already.

Two points of comment though. Mouseover text makes the text unreadable to me and makes me wonder if it was the right text to select.
Can we get the opening of the attachments in a new screen back? Now (if you use the page back arrow) you have to start at the top of a thread again with scrolling down to where you were, or in the habbit of clicking on the x, opening Firefox again to get on the internet./forum/images/graemlins/zha.gif

But still, if it's not fixed, it still is the best forum on the web.

Wolter
 
Colin,

ubbcentral.com reports that at least as of version 6.0 from June 5, 2002, they've had "an option to use zlib compression if available". zlib compression is available on every vanilla GNU/Linux installation I've encountered in the last several years. If this one for some strange reason isn't so configured, it's a very simple situation to rectify. Please enable it. Really. Even if it does cost a marginal performance hit on the server, everyone will benefit overall, and you'll be drastically reducing your outgoing bandwidth requirements. A 50ms delay on the server trumps a several second (typically double-digits, here) delay of bandwidth-choking traffic over the wire, every time.

I'm sure you'll also find the server has ntp software installed. Please configure and fire up the deamon (or maybe just fire it up). The server clock can be kept to accurate time so easily it's almost silly to let it drift, especially as much is this one does. Even a cron job to run the client bit of the software daily would suffice to make it so much better.

If you absolutely must have hovered links change their font color, at least ensure it's not one that makes the text disappear. Please.

<font class="small">Code:</font><hr /><pre>pre {
font-family: verdana, helvetica, san-serif;
font-size: 10pt;
display: block;
white-space: pre;
}</pre><hr /> looks a bit wrong to me. Preformatted text should be rendered with a fixed-width font.

I can re-write this kind of stuff on the way into my network, but I shouldn't have to, and it doesn't benefit anyone else since I'm behind a POTS modem here and can't offer proxy service.

Please enable HTML on the forums. It's quite trivial to set up a filter for the word "javascript" (in it's various possible forms) to ensure no nasty code gets injected. ( I don't understand the allure of promiscuously browsing with it enabled anyway. Drop-down menus, et al. can be readily implemented via CSS [as if even they were needed], as you well know.) There's no excuse for having links be javascript code only. I think I've seen a few around here now. Please opt out of that if it's possible (it should be if it isn't).

And yet another reminder: we need the option of a persistent cookie for identification purposes.

I really don't appreciate being inundated with inane "graemlins" on the reply and edit pages. It takes an inordinate amount of time for the server to respond with 100 "yeah, the image you have cached is still current"s, not to mention having to scroll past them to submit the page with option. I realize, and certainly wish to leave room for the fact, that some users get off on that kind of stuff; but I consider it a personal affront. Please toggle the (surely there are!) options to let users select them via their profiles on an opt-in basis.

This all just off the top of my head at the moment.

I realize it can be somewhat time-consuming to get a forum like this fully configured, but you'll agree with me that it's really quite simple work in the scheme of things, right?

This almost needn't get asked (for reasons of a most-likely obvious answer), but would it be possible to provide me with an ssh/shell account into the box so I can install the http://imagemagick.org/ software suite and set up a cron job to automatically resize the avatars to 80x80 max? It's evidently too much to ask of the users in general to handle that on their ends. I prefer bash (it should be on the box already). GCC should already be on the box, too. If not, it's readily available and I'll take care of that. I can do all this stuff from lowly-userspace given appropriate permission on the avatar directory.

Thanks,
Glen

(dang, I had to go and log back in just to submit this post!)
 
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