[Sticky] The New Forum

Posted by: rockhopper70

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The toilets in there are also weird, apparently based on submarine toilets. 

Designed for depth charges?

What gives

I suspect from no tech knoledge but reading what Mark has said.

Its vastly more complex than most fora given tbe integration with the magazine membership status and the history.   

They are trying to produce a rolls royce service on a skoda budget

 None of the off the shelf software does what stw need it to do

Thepost above appeared instantly fyi

Are Flickr pictures working again?

https://www.flickr.com/photos/stu-b/54197991039/in/dateposted/

Edit.

8 minutes to appear and still doesn't work. 🤔 

At least the emoji's work though.

My posts onother threads are not appearing 

Posted by: tjagain

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What gives

 

I suspect from no tech knoledge but reading what Mark has said.

Its vastly more complex than most fora given tbe integration with the magazine membership status and the history.   

They are trying to produce a rolls royce service on a skoda budget

 None of the off the shelf software does what stw need it to do

 

 

 

yep I bet that sums it up nicely. 
it’s plainly a gargantuan task. 
and as you intimated STW is hardly in a position to chuck an IT team at it. 
Fingers crossed it can all be fixed. 

when Adobe switched their user forum SW there were issues for months. It’s not just STW. 

Why does the link - Singletrack World Magazine Forum – Singletrack World Magazine no longer go to a combined forum? Is that what the latest tab is for? Why not just go there first like before rather than the sub directory page?

If the "latest" is the new combined, why does it need to tell me what part of the forum each post comes from? Surely I can work that out from the thread title.  Seems to be surplus information that's just cluttering the place up. It is very busy now. 

Sorry that's a bit of moaning,  I do like this place and you all have my sympathy in having to sort this. 

Best of luck.

Yes! The little sticking out tab thing has gone from bottom left that obscured text! 🙂

Now we (me I suppose and admit) just need navigation buttons at the bottom of a thread page 👍

Does having 'paged' rather than 'page' in the URL have any bearing on anything?  Is that not going to break a load of old links?

Not sure if this is a new issue, but I posted a new thread in the bike forum. I can only see it in the latest posts view even tho it is tagged as being in the bike forum. 40 mins or so since posted and replies not showing (I added one to see). If this is a known issue, please ignore!

Posted by: Kayak23

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Now we (me I suppose and admit) just need navigation buttons at the bottom of a thread page 👍

Not just you that wants those!

Anyone else having trouble seeing replies to threads they've started? The forum list shows I posted 20 minutes ago and someone replied 5 minutes ago. When I click on my tread, I can't see any reply.

I don't know if this is already covered here but.... how do I now embed youtube videos? I used to paster the YT Share url into the Link panel. I tried that on the Gorrick race related thread but it just posted the url as a link and never embedded it.

how do I now embed youtube videos? I used to paster the YT Share url into the Link panel. I tried that on the Gorrick race related thread but it just posted the url as a link and never embedded it.

It's the same with Flickr links.

Was working yesterday morning and now doesn't.

I'm still waiting for a post of mine to show from two hours ago too.

Seems to be getting worse again for posts not displaying.

Posted by: Onzadog

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Anyone else having trouble seeing replies to threads they've started? The forum list shows I posted 20 minutes ago and someone replied 5 minutes ago. When I click on my tread, I can't see any reply.

Yep same - they show in the tree at the top, and then are only visible as a popup when clicking the tree, but are not visible in line.

Posted by: Cougar

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Does having 'paged' rather than 'page' in the URL have any bearing on anything?  Is that not going to break a load of old links?

Nope. Our redirect rules are taking care of that.

We are testing a fix for the update bug in the morning. Andy is preparing our test server now. If it works we'll push it live tomorrow.

No doubt a daft question but has there been a change to the styling over the last 2 days?

I'm now struggling to read the blue thread titles against the black background. Aware many others have posted about this already, but the blue thread titles now appears to be darker and thinner and is now really difficult to read.

I'm assuming this would be a stylesheet change to the colour...any chance it can be a brighter colour?

At a guess this colour scheme is now failing accessibility levels. Suspect it wasn't much better before but last 2 days the blue has almost disappeared against the black background for me.

Everything else about the forum.aeema.to.be improving, which is brilliant - hats off to all the hard effort getting this in.

Nothing has changed in the last few days. But styling will get our attention as soon as we can get the forum working properly. 

Posted by: Kayak23

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Yes! The little sticking out tab thing has gone from bottom left that obscured text!

Oh balls. It's back 😔

Couldn't it go on the right at least so it doesn't cover text you're trying to read so much?

Yes. It can. We'll move it soon enough

I made two posts on the Ukraine thread this morning. The first appeared instantly and I let out a small whoop. I thought "wahay, they've cracked it"! I even edited the post and that went through straight away. My second post still hasn't appeared 😔 In a Bullseye "look at what you could have won" moment.

We just pushed an update. Let us know how it goes with the posting dealy bug.

The layout has gone weird. Big blank space down the right, forum list slightly right justified, with the singletrack stuff squashed over on the right.
(Chrome on normal resolution monitor)

We just pushed an update. Let us know how it goes with the posting dealy bug

This is 10.18

Edit, posted immediately. 

Edit 2, and showed Edit immediately 

👍looks good.

Posted by: desperatebicycle

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The layout has gone weird. Big blank space down the right

That's odd, I had a big blank space down the left.

Gone now though.

Post appeared immediately.  Took an age to actually post though.  I'll time this one.

"Working" twirly thing took 10 seconds.  It was another 10 seconds before the page actually refreshed.

Definitely an improvement.  Nice work.  What was the issue?

Posted by: Cougar

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That's odd, I had a big blank space down the left.

Gone now though

Had the same, if you scrolled up to the top of the page there was a message saying there was a critical error on the page. I just thought they were being over dramatic about Mark's spelling of delay 🙂

Is there a difference in posting delays between Bike and Chat (he tested)?

Posting at 10:49. Test. 

Wow. Appeared immediately. Chapeau IT gnomes. 

Now adding a small image. 10:51

Post appeared fast but without the image. 
made file

select and check

Clicking “insert into post” does nothing <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> 
 

hit reply. <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> 

Ooh. Strange effects up there

<!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> 

Posted by: Cougar

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Is there a difference in posting delays between Bike and Chat (he tested)?

Posts on this thread are appearing on refresh.  I've made a few posts on the "testing posting delays" thread maybe 10-15 minutes ago and, ironically, they still aren't showing.

That's odd, I had a big blank space down the left.

Me too, but I also had a brain fart 🤪 

Anyone worked out how to embed videos yet?

I have been on here less last few days and ventured back in this morning, made some comments on a post, edited them, all showing up straight away.  I'd like to say a big thankyou to Mark and the team for the huge amount of work that has clearly gone into this, and the time it has taken out of your already busy lives to get us here. 

Yes, it's not quite perfect yet, but it seems now to be pretty functional and back to being a great place to spend a coffee break seeking knowledge and finding happy things  👍 

Deffo getting there.

Anyone worked out how to embed videos yet?

No response needed. Just found by testing in the test thread that it works with the URL or with the [ video ] tag now, so that's fixed.

I have been on here less last few days and ventured back in this morning, made some comments on a post, edited them, all showing up straight away.  I'd like to say a big thankyou to Mark and the team for the huge amount of work that has clearly gone into this, and the time it has taken out of your already busy lives to get us here. 

Happy to echo this. Seems to be running well on iOS and macOS Safari. Thank you.

It’s running as smooth as fresh tarmac for me today. Appreciate the hard work from the team!

We've taken a welcome step forward today. I dare say there are still issues and we are monitoring very carefully.

@cougar you asked: The issue is that WPForo uses it's own inbuilt cache syste, VIP has its own cache and specifically it doesn't cache anything for logged in users. We need to use cache for logged in users in order to get the forum to work so there was a conflict there. Getting under the bonnet it was apparemt that WPForo was trying use a part of the server for cache that VIP doesn't allow any access to. ie. A conflict of access between VIP and WPforo. In short WPForo, out of the box, is not compatible with VIP file system. So we had to build the brideg betwixt the two using Object cache instead of the standard WPForo method.

We have also restarted the migration of old to new. Only 8 million posts to go. 

In case it's not been mentioned - the Insert Link dialog has white text on a white background (for both the labels and edit boxes) in the dark theme.

 might be being daft, but i cant see the 'insert image' icon any more.  you used to be able to insert from local pc, is this kaputt for the time being?  and if its a photo from flickr/imgur etc, do you just put the address between html img and /img tabs and hope for the best?

ta

EDIT:  might have found it, use My Media below the text box?

EDIT:  test

I hope I don't jinx it with this post, but it really does seem as if the lag has gone. Wahay!! I'm sure the last week or two has put a few years on you Mark! Thanks to you and the team for working so hard to fix it and keeping us informed along the way. Have a beer or two to celebrate, you deserve it! The styling and layout tweaks can wait until you catch your breath.

Edit: Yup - 5 or 6 seconds tops to post that 😀 

Ooh, I've been out and about today so not had the chance to see what's been happening.

Now seems like a good time to try out Mark and the IT team's hard work 

<Edit> well that seemed to work very well, about 15 secs from posting to screen refreshing with this post in it.

Congratulations folks, you've been doing some excellent work over the last few weeks and it's certainly appreciated here.

I know you've still got loads of work to do, but I hope you'll all have a celebratory drink this evening.

<Edit 2> and just because it now looks like I can, here's a photo taken today 

OK, the photo didn't work but that might have been because of the file size 

Yep, user error 

Thanks everyone. Today has been a good day - we hope to have another tomorrow and can start making a lot of adjustments and improvements.

I think I’m following the right process to post an image but none are appearing. 
click my media

click add files 

seiect from iPhone photo library. 
file appears - await checkbox and check it. 

Edit - No image appeared but some weird “font awesome” notices appear 
now in presume I should click “insert into post” <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> <!-- Font Awesome fontawesome.com --> 

nothing reported when I do that. 
now click “reply” at 18:12