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Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

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Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby Martin Blank on Sat May 01, 2010 7:19 pm

Beginning sometime this evening Pacific time (GMT-7), I'll be performing some maintenance on the forums. This will involve taking them offline, sometimes for a few minutes, sometimes perhaps for several hours. I'll be doing some backups, code clean-up and changes, and some internal maintenance. You probably won't be able to immediately see many changes (if any at all), but I hope to be able to unveil some significant changes in the next couple of weeks.

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Re: Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby Martin Blank on Sun May 02, 2010 12:55 pm

The maintenance window got started a little late. I had planned on getting up around 10pm, but overslept until around 12:30 and then had to get something to eat. Still, it lasted about as long as I'd expected (three hours or so) and I got a couple of things more done than planned. Most importantly, though, we're at a properly stable codebase for the changes that I want to do in the next couple of weeks... or sooner, if things work as I think they will.

If you find anything broken, please post it here so that I can fix it.
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Re: Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby bagheadinc on Sun May 02, 2010 1:10 pm

Martin Blank wrote:If you find anything broken, please post it here so that I can fix it.
:glare: Looks like you broke......... :cool: .........my heart. :cry:

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Edit: Haha! Looks like I broke out of some shitty web designer's layout....oh wait, that's me.
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Re: Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby BtEO on Sun May 02, 2010 1:24 pm

Actually, as layout breaking goes I think the text running outside boundaries is much better than those boundaries becoming distorted. Ain't nothing in HTML/CSS alone[1] gonna break up a long word so better to maintain the layout.
[1] You can of course use JavaScript to manually insert a breaking character such as a soft hyphen or zero-width space.
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Re: Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby bagheadinc on Sun May 02, 2010 1:39 pm

Well, if I had thought about it before, I'd have probably thrown in a overflow:hidden to prevent it from flowing outside of the post box. Also CSS3 has word-wrap:break-word that will fix just a situation. Maybe I'll throw them both into the CSS next time MB has me update the template (or I finally get around to finishing the fluid width template).
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Re: Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby BtEO on Sun May 02, 2010 2:23 pm

Interesting, I didn't know about that part of CSS3. How's the browser support, from my testing it actually seems perfect, but I don't keep older versions of browsers around for testing?
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Re: Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby bagheadinc on Sun May 02, 2010 5:42 pm

It works in Internet Explorer 8 (works in IE7 compatibility mode, don't know about actually IE7, don't have it installed), Opera 10, Firefox 3.5+, Chrome, and Safari 4.
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Sorry for the additional downtime. I realized that I hadn't completed something important this morning.

On a happier note for some, I believe that the occasionally-mentioned login redirect issue should now be fixed. Baghead, you may want to have a look at this phpBB post for the small fixes to three files that are needed.
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Re: Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby bagheadinc on Sun May 02, 2010 9:04 pm

Ah, cool, I'll see about fixing that up tonight and send you over the files. Perhaps I'll and in the CSS word-wrap as well.
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Martin Blank wrote:Sorry for the additional downtime. I realized that I hadn't completed something important this morning.

On a happier note for some, I believe that the occasionally-mentioned login redirect issue should now be fixed. Baghead, you may want to have a look at this phpBB post for the small fixes to three files that are needed.


I noticed that when I loaded up Opera it took me to the forum index instead of the error message I usually get. Thought that was kinda weird.
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You know the features that some software packages add in which seem to work fine for 94% of the people out there but make the other 6% want to take hatchets to electrical lines in hopes of ending it all but still imposing misery on others? That's phpBB's AutoMOD.
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Re: Forum maintenance: 01-02 May 2010

Postby Rorschach on Mon May 03, 2010 7:58 am

WAIR ARE THE JURNALS?!

Thanks boys. I have no idea what you're gibbering about with your operas and your C3-POs. But I'm sure it's all good.
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Sir Spankspeople wrote:I noticed that when I loaded up Opera it took me to the forum index instead of the error message I usually get. Thought that was kinda weird.


Spoke too soon. When I loaded Opera I got the "The forum you specified does not exist" message like I usually do. =\
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