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502 UPDATE: Monday 8th July
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Mark
Full Member

Morning!

We have a lot to do. The indexing over the weekend went well. before installing that we are going to work on fixing some of the obvious bugs. Starting with memberships – Some of you are experiencing glitches in your account status dropping from full member to free member. You are our priority first thing today.

Thanks for the reports on the STW issues thread.

Here’s how we are dealing with those.

They all get copied into a document of reported bugs. From there I personally copy them to another document and put them in what I consider to be priority order. It’s this list that Andy and Anthony are working from. My criteria for priority is not simple. It depends on the issue and how it affects our operation. Financial considerations come into it but UX and especially UX for our full members is my general priority.

As ever, I’ll keep you updated.

Cheers
Mark

Posted 4 months ago

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goldfish24
Full Member

Mark, on his doorstep this morning

This will take a while.

But have no doubt that the work of change begins – immediately.

Have no doubt – that we will rebuild singletrackworld

Posted 4 months ago

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scotroutes
Full Member

Are we giving him 5 more years?

Posted 4 months ago

ossify
Full Member

What! You mean the emojis are not top priority?!

😉

Good luck and glad it’s gone well so far 🙂

Posted 4 months ago

lorax
Full Member

Thanks Mark, good luck with all this.

Posted 4 months ago

Cougar
Full Member

What they said. Good luck.

Posted 4 months ago

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Mark
Full Member

We think we have sorted everyone’s membership levels now. Seemed to result from a failed import of user roles from the old server.

:yahoo: <- Oh and then there’s that

Posted 4 months ago

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tjagain
Full Member

I have emojis!!!!!!!!!!! ~Wooohooo. I am gonna go be like a hyperactive kiddy in a sweet shop.

B-) 🙂 :unsure: 😉 :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo: :yahoo:

Posted 4 months ago

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tthew
Full Member

Can you make those emoji’s not so synchronised please. It’d be nice if TJ’s ones did a Mexican wave. Thanks. #priorities.

Posted 4 months ago

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ThePinkster
Full Member

I love the new emoji options on desktop (not checked my phone yet as I’m at work :whistle: ) you guys are doing excellent work and it all seems to be coming together great.

Posted 4 months ago

ThePinkster
Full Member

Ooh, I like how it puts the page number in the tab on desktop now (in Edge, at least). Very useful in the UK Election thread as I keep losing my place.

Posted 4 months ago

desperatebicycle
Full Member

We think we have sorted everyone’s membership levels now.

Mine still shows as free member. Which ain’t right and caused some absolute hilarity from Cougar when I posted on the “issues” thread.

Posted 4 months ago

ossify
Full Member

What! You mean the emojis are not top priority?!

Oh and then there’s that

:good: :heart:

Posted 4 months ago

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Drac
Full Member

:good:

Old skool forum.

Posted 4 months ago

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maccruiskeen
Full Member

Old skool forum.

I’d genuinely rather have adverts. Emojis in posts is fine – have them dancing around a the bottom of the text box as you type is just grim

Posted 4 months ago

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Ambrose
Full Member

I too hate the animated emojis. I’m not a 13 year old. They are too distracting. It’s like a budget version of Ling’s cars.

https://www.lingscars.com/

Posted 4 months ago

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Mark
Full Member

Anthony is off today on childcare duties. Both Anthony and Andy are back tomorrow. I’m here today but my tech level is a lot lower than theirs :-). I can help with account issues, login stuff, so if that’s a problem for you then contact me direct on mark@singletrackworld.com and I’ll do my best.

The Smilies are the default setting for a new plugin. We can swap them out for nicer images (that don’t jiggle). That will take a bit of creativity on our part but we will change them for a smaller selection of subtle smilies soon 🙂

On a technical note and for those web tech experts out there who are interested in this stuff, the site is currently running with no page caching. That’s not intentional, it’s just the stage we are at. Once page caching is running page refreshes and moving from page to page will become very smooth. At the moment it’s a bit jiggly (technical term) when pages load because all the assets are being dragged directly out of the database rather than cache. But still, on the old server if we’d turned off page caching the entire site would quickly grind to a halt. Just thought I’d mention that as it demonstrates the power of the engine we now have under us 🙂

Posted 4 months ago

nixie
Full Member

When you do get to updating the emoji icons the current ones look crap in dark mode as they do not have proper transparency.

Posted 4 months ago

Mark
Full Member

Gotcha

Posted 4 months ago

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blokeuptheroad
Full Member

The Smilies are the default setting for a new plugin. We can swap them out for nicer images (that don’t jiggle). That will take a bit of creativity on our part but we will change them for a smaller selection of subtle smilies soon

Creating bespoke images sounds like extra work you could do without? Couldn’t we just be given back the ability to use the standard emojis everyone has access to on phones etc. which we had before the upgrade?

Posted 4 months ago

nixie
Full Member

?

Posted 4 months ago

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Tom-B
Free Member

Am I missing something….why do we have random emojis akin to the internet 2 decades ago, and not just the ability to use a standard smiley from a phone keyboard as per everywhere else on the internet for at least the last 10 years?

Posted 4 months ago

desperatebicycle
Full Member

Am I missing something

Yep, a thread about it and a bunch of other posts

Posted 4 months ago

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Mark
Full Member

The emojis you see are a stand in as we have discovered that standard emojis are not active on wordpress VIP by default. I’m sure that can be sorted but it’s not at the top of the list right now – ergo these odd 90’s throwbacks that we quickly installed as a stopgap. If we can get the standard issue ones back we will but if not we’ll make these ones better.

Posted 4 months ago

Cougar
Full Member

Weirdly, it seems to convert old-school smilies into emoji. 🙂

[EDIT: I thought it did, it now converts to the animated ones.]

Posted 4 months ago

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martinhutch
Full Member

We think we have sorted everyone’s membership levels now.

Not quite, I fear. I did email you as requested over the weekend.

Posted 4 months ago

martinhutch
Full Member

I’m now down as a full member on my profile, but a free member on the forums. And getting loads of lovely ads, obviously. Do you need me to email you again?

Posted 4 months ago

timbur
Free Member

Will I be allowed to post in the classifieds soon? Still saying I’m not logged in when I am. Facebook market place isn’t an entertaining place to go shopping for spares!

Thanks

Tim

Posted 4 months ago

filks
Full Member

Hi

My access to members only stuff is also not working although I think you did temporarily fix it after I emailed you directly as requested. Do I need to directly email again?

Thanks

Posted 4 months ago