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Offline ChrisSmolinski

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We're doing it this time.
« on: October 01, 2017, 2311 UTC »
The HFU will be upgrading servers and software in the next week. Really. This time for sure.

You can test drive it here: http://www.hfunderpants.com/board/index.php

Note, that is a copy of the real website, taken this morning. Feel free to post on the site, send messages, delete stuff, whatever. It's just a copy, and will disappear when we make the real move. I should have the Wiki working shortly there as well. Eventually the 30 Below blog, the last post was from March 2016, so maybe I am not in a hurry?

The actual HFU site URL will stay the same after the move, and ideally there will be no glitches (haha, famous last words). Downtime should be minimal, I hope an hour or two, and will try to do it one weekday morning. I was going to do it Saturday night at 9 PM when Wolverine was on, but someone told me that would be a bad idea.

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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #1 on: October 02, 2017, 0101 UTC »
Could always ask Pedro if he has a backup server you can use during the migration.

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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #2 on: October 02, 2017, 2249 UTC »
FYI: The HFU Wiki is locked for no more edits, until after the server move.
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2017, 2145 UTC »
I'm targeting tomorrow, Wednesday, at 1300z for the server move.  The test moves of the message board, wiki, and 30 Below blog went OK. As of now, Tapatalk will NOT be implemented on the new server. It's a horrible mess, even by open sores standards.

Cross your fingers  ;D
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #4 on: October 04, 2017, 0901 UTC »
Are we there yet?
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #5 on: October 04, 2017, 1333 UTC »
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #6 on: October 04, 2017, 1339 UTC »
So far so good...
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #7 on: October 04, 2017, 1340 UTC »
Quote from: skeezix on October 04, 2017, 1339 UTC
So far so good...

There's a distinct lack of Squid. I will rectify that later today.
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #8 on: October 04, 2017, 1440 UTC »
Looks good here. 

Been under the weather with a cracked molar and infected jaw while awaiting extraction, and was a little confused when I first tuned in to HFU this AM.

Pain killers will do that, I guess.
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #9 on: October 04, 2017, 1443 UTC »
Quote from: jFarley on October 04, 2017, 1440 UTC
Looks good here. 

Been under the weather with a cracked molar and infected jaw while awaiting extraction, and was a little confused when I first tuned in to HFU this AM.

Pain killers will do that, I guess.

Ouch! Hopefully they can quickly address that. Hopefully on some good antibiotics as well?
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #10 on: October 04, 2017, 1451 UTC »
Quote from: ChrisSmolinski on October 04, 2017, 1443 UTC
Quote from: jFarley on October 04, 2017, 1440 UTC
Looks good here. 

Been under the weather with a cracked molar and infected jaw while awaiting extraction, and was a little confused when I first tuned in to HFU this AM.

Pain killers will do that, I guess.

Ouch! Hopefully they can quickly address that. Hopefully on some good antibiotics as well?

Yes; I am on a new antibiotic distilled from squid blood.
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #11 on: October 04, 2017, 1500 UTC »
Quote from: jFarley on October 04, 2017, 1451 UTC
Yes; I am on a new antibiotic distilled from squid blood.

Now you can pick up WABC on your filling. But only if you're inside the A&P supermarket.
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #12 on: October 04, 2017, 1516 UTC »
I like the new HFU layout!  ;D
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #13 on: October 04, 2017, 1629 UTC »
Looking good. However, there are a couple of issues right off the bat.

One, the ad for the squid was covering up the login fields. I was able to input so they weren't hidden, just seems to be displaying in the wrong area.

Two, it wouldn't let me login with my memorized password the first time. I would always get that if I had had the home page up but the computer had gone to sleep since my last login (this happened with every platform and in every browser, but wasn't anything to complain about), but it's going to be a pain if this happens when I visit the page for the first time after launching the browser.

EDIT: Three, where are our stars ? ? ? ?  :'(

Thanks for all the work you put into this forum, Chris. It's a truly valuable place.
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Re: We're doing it this time.
« Reply #14 on: October 04, 2017, 1650 UTC »
Quote from: MDK2 on October 04, 2017, 1629 UTC
Looking good. However, there are a couple of issues right off the bat.

One, the ad for the squid was covering up the login fields. I was able to input so they weren't hidden, just seems to be displaying in the wrong area.

Yeah, I need to work on that still. I shrunk the squid, hopefully that helps.

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Two, it wouldn't let me login with my memorized password the first time. I would always get that if I had had the home page up but the computer had gone to sleep since my last login (this happened with every platform and in every browser, but wasn't anything to complain about), but it's going to be a pain if this happens when I visit the page for the first time after launching the browser.

That should be a one time thing. There is a setting when you long in, how long you want to stay logged in, be sure to set that to forever.   Otherwise, it's up to your browser to store your account info (name, pwd) for auto logging into websites.
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EDIT: Three, where are our stars ? ? ? ?  :'(
Thanks for all the work you put into this forum, Chris. It's a truly valuable place.

They seem to be inside those boxes by our names ::)

And yes, if anyone sees anything that seems to be working incorrectly, please let me know so I can fix it. Also, as this is an updated version of the forum software (actually written in this decade) it's going to have more features and settings than before. So it may be a case of tweaking the settings to get the behavior we want.  Maybe we make this the bug report / feature thread while we sort out the changes.
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