Downtime and switch to PHPBB3
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Just going to report about my experiences with cookies and logging on and off... first, it was the usual getting-logged-off-after-logging-in-instantly-bullshit, but yeah... I tried deleting my cookies and stuff, but that didn't initially work.
Today, I couldn't even stay logged on long enough to enter the UCP, so I was deleting my cookies again, and guess what: Now I have no cokkies from rmxp.org, yet I'm permanently logged in. And no, I don't mean a session login, it has cookie functionality. Well... works for me, as I can finally post now, so just saying ^^
So regarding the character limit on posts, is that issue still recent, or did you guys drop the cap on this one?
Oh, and let me just get one thing straight...
That's really hard to understand for me here, as the amount of URLs in a post has no possible way to harm... so if you could please make this unlimited, or at least something around 30 or so. Thanks in advance
Today, I couldn't even stay logged on long enough to enter the UCP, so I was deleting my cookies again, and guess what: Now I have no cokkies from rmxp.org, yet I'm permanently logged in. And no, I don't mean a session login, it has cookie functionality. Well... works for me, as I can finally post now, so just saying ^^
So regarding the character limit on posts, is that issue still recent, or did you guys drop the cap on this one?
Oh, and let me just get one thing straight...
Are you guys fucking serious? You raised the limit from 5 to 10? XD
That's really hard to understand for me here, as the amount of URLs in a post has no possible way to harm... so if you could please make this unlimited, or at least something around 30 or so. Thanks in advance
Roph":1s657lwj said:What trouble were you having with SMF?
Do you feel it was SMF's fault or yours?
Is there any specific reason you continued to run a version that had been deprecated by a newer, patched verion well over a year ago? =o
The problem was SMF, on both Falcon and on this server, would crash and start delivering empty screens through the fault of some buggy process in the software. The program would get caught in some kind of loop with Mysql that would eat up all of the server's resources. This had been a problem since SMF was installed. When we moved these crashes became a daily occurrence despite the server having greater processing capacity and the night of the transfer not only did it crash but nothing was bringing it back up. We noticed that the phpBB3 test board we set up meanwhile was fine and completely functional. So stuck between having an extended period of downtime or just biting the bullet and moving we decided to move.
Second the reason we were using a deprecated version (deprecated by two updates) is because it was a sure thing in regards of working for the SMF -> phpBB3 converter we had procured. Yet aside from that the fact was the white screening was a problem that we've had since moving to SMF in the first place. And no newer version since then had done nothing in regards to improving that situation.
Yet there were other reasons for wanting to move that have nothing to do with SMF's love affair with randomly breaking. PhpBB3 has more features, some of which were necessary ones we needed to run a forum this large with any semblance of efficiency.
Necro_100000
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Wow I LOVE the new layout! It's awesome! See a few things in it that i disagree with but you said it isn't quite done yet. gone for two days and a lots changed! Got to say though shadow it's pretty amazing!
rey meustrus
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The phpBB skin is pretty good so far, and I'm impressed by how quickly you guys were able to get it looking like normal. I really have to ask that you replace the thread icons with the old ones, though. It's really hard for me to tell when a topic has new replies because of the minute difference between a thin line of red and a thin line of gray.
Somebody said something about the page jumping down to the bottom, and I know why it does that. It does the same thing in most web forum software, and it's really more to do with the browser and your connection speed. Your browser renders the page as it downloads it, and some of the content isn't there yet, so it starts at the top of the page, but there's a command in the URL to jump straight to the first post you haven't read yet (the stuff after the #). Once the page loads, it tries to jump down there. I think that at this point, since you've been scrolling down already to follow the page loading, the browser jumps too far, until it's at the bottom of the page. It might just be some browsers, but the page is always going to jump like that. It only does this if you click the icon to the left of the thread or to the left of the last poster in the right column; clicking on the text of the title doesn't have this effect.
Somebody said something about the page jumping down to the bottom, and I know why it does that. It does the same thing in most web forum software, and it's really more to do with the browser and your connection speed. Your browser renders the page as it downloads it, and some of the content isn't there yet, so it starts at the top of the page, but there's a command in the URL to jump straight to the first post you haven't read yet (the stuff after the #). Once the page loads, it tries to jump down there. I think that at this point, since you've been scrolling down already to follow the page loading, the browser jumps too far, until it's at the bottom of the page. It might just be some browsers, but the page is always going to jump like that. It only does this if you click the icon to the left of the thread or to the left of the last poster in the right column; clicking on the text of the title doesn't have this effect.
Zekallinos
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Is it just me or the search function returns very few matches? Say I search for the word "color" it returns me a grand total of 24 matches, which isn't really a lot. I can't find 9/10 of topics I often check that way.
rey meustrus
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Oh I just thought of something else, a lot of posts that had [ img ] tags lost the beginning of the tag, leaving us with something like
http://imageshack.us/somecrappyimage.f-ingjpegs[/img]
Rather than the actual image (which in this joke case probably looks like shit anyway, hope it was marginally funny)
http://imageshack.us/somecrappyimage.f-ingjpegs[/img]
Rather than the actual image (which in this joke case probably looks like shit anyway, hope it was marginally funny)
dadevvtsvre
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They're fixing this issue soon I believe.rey meustrus":3as0r377 said:
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