Downtime and bugs

[roddy]

Hi folks,

Been upgrading to the latest version of forums software this afternoon, took a bit longer than planned. There are still a number of issues (search is one) but I've turned us back on for now. If it gets too annoying I'll close it down again till it's properly fixed. Apologies for the distress.

Roddy

[roddy]

Ok, I think everything should be as it was. If you spot any problems (or, ahem, want to remind me of any old ones) let me know.

[gato]

Under the mobile skin, new thread links are going to the first page rather than the last page like it used to.

[roddy]

Sorry, thought I'd replied to this. This is working fine for me - are you using an old bookmark to get to the new content page directly? That might be the problem. Could you try getting to the home page and then clicking through to new content? If it's not working, can you paste me the actual URL of your new content page?

[icebear]

If you spot any problems (or, ahem, want to remind me of any old ones) let me know.

This forum is too enjoyable and detracts from study time. Ok, I'll pipe down now...

[roddy]

Right, that's icebear banned. Anyone else?

[gato]

Indeed it was because of an old bookmark. Too smart, Roddy.

[roddy]

To be honest, they really should be making it so that old bookmarks work, or at least tell you that they're not working. I think last update I hacked it to work. Anyway.

[jbradfor]

Anyone else?

No reply button that automatically quotes the text and puts in a reference to the post in which the quote appears.

[you asked....]

[edelweis]

for some reason when I'm using Windows/IE the window title and tab title become #number instead of the title of the thread.

It doesn't seem to happen with Linux/Firefox.

[roddy]

I thank Jbradfor for his kind offer to spend the rest of his life editing posts and explaining rules when, every single day, some new registrant quotes seven acres of text and says at the bottom "Yes, I agree."

Edelweis, what version of IE are you on? Because hopefully I can blame that.

[edelweis]

It's IE7, the issue appears when I click on the front page to go to the latest unread post in a thread.

The title is actually #comment-NNNNN.

Not a big deal actually, but I don't recall ever having this issue before the last forum upgrade.

[roddy]

I shall pop round later and upgrade you to IE8.

To be honest I'm not sure what the problem is, but my suspicion is an IE bug.

[jbradfor]

I've noticed there are now "warning points" next to my name in blog comments? [And shockingly mine is currently "0".]

Want to tell us about this new feature?

[roddy]

Oh, is that there? I should edit that out I guess. It's an old feature, I've already hidden it from view on forum posts, they must have added it in there. Is it just next to your name, or everyone's?

[jbradfor]

Just by my name -- my reputation proceeds me.

[Lu]

I hadn't gotten around to complaining that the quote button wasn't working for me (you know, the one that gives you [ quote ] and [ / quote ] in one click) and now it's already working again. Thanks!

[roddy]

Going to need to upgrade the site (minor upgrade, shouldn't be little if anything in the way of noticeable changes) at some point today / tomorrow. Should be fairly smooth but could be some downtime.

Roddy

[roddy]

Ok, took a few hours but I think we're done.

[roddy]

Ok, emoticons need fixed. Will get to that tomorrow...