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Title: Post-server move issues
Post by: The E on October 26, 2017, 02:34:43 am
There seem to be a few issues with the site right now:
-Top nav bar is missing
-User info panel and user action bar (or whatever it's called) isn't skinned properly:
(https://i.imgur.com/IkzLR4F.png)
-Other skinning issues:
(https://i.imgur.com/CRacyU8.png)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Zacam on October 26, 2017, 03:58:45 am
The Quick Reply sizing isn't constrained to the browser canvas size, so it rolls right off the side:

(https://i.imgur.com/GVv1iIc.png)


Also, Avatars are now presenting under Badges now (as opposed to over), though that's a minor difference over what it used to be.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on October 26, 2017, 06:00:55 am
The folder order is all jumbled as well.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Colonol Dekker on October 26, 2017, 11:24:07 am
Mobile phone view is atrocious.  But I appreciate the effort to achieve the server move xx
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: PIe on October 26, 2017, 12:41:34 pm
I'm not getting topic notification emails and posts in political discussions are showing up in unread, whereas they didn't before.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Spoon on October 26, 2017, 12:56:27 pm
The tabs on the top of the site desperately need updating and pruning. Several dead links in the External sites part, and I guess the hosted projects part is a work in progress? Cause if it's not...
Mantis is barely used anymore by the SCP, since most of it seems to have transferred to git, yet there is no link to git in there.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: General Battuta on October 26, 2017, 01:19:12 pm
Mobile is extremely balls, also my forum ignore list got wiped and I had to acknowledge the existence of real dumb **** for nearly half a second
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Spoon on October 26, 2017, 01:20:48 pm
Board order is in a different order than it used to be
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: mjn.mixael on October 26, 2017, 01:33:42 pm
Seems like we lost an whole set of CSS files among other things.. Sandwich, what did you do?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on October 26, 2017, 06:46:11 pm
Links to specific posts aren't working; it always takes you to the first post on that page.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: karajorma on October 27, 2017, 12:41:17 am
The folder order is all jumbled as well.

The odd thing is that in the admin panel they were in the correct order, so I just reset one of them at random and then put it back. That seems to have fixed it. Tell me if you spot any of the boards are in the wrong place.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: BlueFlames on October 27, 2017, 03:59:21 am
Forum search pitches an error 500 on any search attempt.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: mjn.mixael on October 27, 2017, 07:18:53 am
(https://am24.akamaized.net/tms/cnt/uploads/2016/08/post-64231-this-is-fine-dog-fire-comic-Im-N7mp.png)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Thisisaverylongusername on October 27, 2017, 07:40:34 am
On a lesser note, the clock under the "show unread" links seems to be about 13 minutes fast.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: ngld on October 27, 2017, 08:11:02 am
The link to expand signatures is missing.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on October 27, 2017, 12:28:05 pm
The folder order is all jumbled as well.

The odd thing is that in the admin panel they were in the correct order, so I just reset one of them at random and then put it back. That seems to have fixed it. Tell me if you spot any of the boards are in the wrong place.
I think it looks good now, at least as memory serves.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: jr2 on October 27, 2017, 01:36:59 pm
The link to expand signatures is missing.


(http://i0.kym-cdn.com/photos/images/facebook/000/000/578/1234931504682.jpg)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Spoon on October 27, 2017, 05:00:02 pm
Get the damn wiki back online please. It's kind of important to modding.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on October 27, 2017, 05:32:11 pm
Go to wiki.hard-light.net.  We'll have a URL redirector up at some point.

It turns out rev_posix used a nonstandard forum migration procedure (copy+paste, instead of install and import).  I'm going to look into this.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: PIe on October 27, 2017, 08:46:42 pm
diaspora.hard-light.net is back to the old, pre-redesign website.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: LaineyBugsDaddy on October 27, 2017, 11:56:34 pm
It turns out rev_posix used a nonstandard forum migration procedure (copy+paste, instead of install and import).  I'm going to look into this.

You had one job!
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Scourge of Ages on October 28, 2017, 12:37:44 am
The little orange "jump to first unread post" in the thread just jumps to the first unread post from before the move, it's not updating.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: LaineyBugsDaddy on October 28, 2017, 01:00:44 am
So that's what's going on. Explains a lot. Good catch.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: AdmiralRalwood on October 28, 2017, 01:59:23 am
The little orange "jump to first unread post" in the thread just jumps to the first unread post from before the move, it's not updating.
It's not just "new post" buttons, and it's not the first unread post from before the move, either.
Links to specific posts aren't working; it always takes you to the first post on that page.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: karajorma on October 29, 2017, 12:18:35 am
diaspora.hard-light.net is back to the old, pre-redesign website.

Thanks for that. I'll see about getting it fixed.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: ngld on October 29, 2017, 10:21:13 am
The [size] tag doesn't seem to work. No matter what number I put there, the resulting text is always 5pt.
The textarea for posting can't be resized with the bar at the bottom (the builtin resizing of Firefox and Chrome still works).

EDIT: Is there anything we can do to help?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on October 29, 2017, 02:19:30 pm
EDIT: Is there anything we can do to help?

Possibly.  Catch me on IRC or Discord.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on October 29, 2017, 04:56:08 pm
I've figured out the hosted website issues.  All of the hosted websites dated from our earlier backup on July 30, 2016.  The current backups are available but I have to restore them manually for each website.  The diaspora, fsport, and scroll websites have been brought up to date.  (Although scroll is redirecting to the main page for reasons I don't understand at the moment.)

I will eventually make my way through each website, but feel free to squawk and I'll put yours at the top of the queue.

Also, if you need FTP access to your mod, let me know and I'll enable your account.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on October 29, 2017, 04:57:03 pm
I'm just about ready to pay cash money if someone will prioritize fixing the Quick Reply box.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Sandwich on October 29, 2017, 07:22:48 pm
The tabs on the top of the site desperately need updating and pruning. Several dead links in the External sites part, and I guess the hosted projects part is a work in progress? Cause if it's not...
Mantis is barely used anymore by the SCP, since most of it seems to have transferred to git, yet there is no link to git in there.

Register at http://www.hard-light.net/users/ for a website account. Those accounts belonging to responsible and identifiable forumites (i.e. use your forum email address) may be granted access to modify stuff belonging to the mainpage. :)

Seems like we lost an whole set of CSS files among other things.. Sandwich, what did you do?

Nada. I haven't been involved in the move at all, besides preparing the new website. I'll gladly look into the missing CSS once I'm told that things shouldn't be broken anymore but still are for some reason. ;) In the meantime... KCCO. ;)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Scourge of Ages on October 30, 2017, 12:59:53 am
Can't seem to upload a new avatar, there's a message says the attachments directory isn't writable, or something.

P.S. Keep up the good work getting the site up and running 100% again, and thanks to all the staff for looking out for the future.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: chief1983 on October 30, 2017, 09:50:22 am
Is fs2netd.game-warden.com part of this move as well?  It's been down since last week.  I've been distracted by a funeral last week and just now am catching up on the fact that there even was a server move.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Spoon on October 30, 2017, 10:05:33 am
http://wingsofdawn.hard-light.net/ there used to be a page of mine here. Now it just shows a half working version of the main page.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Phantom Hoover on October 30, 2017, 02:06:54 pm
why is the quick reply box approximately as wide as the bayeaux tapestry
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: CT27 on October 30, 2017, 03:24:53 pm
Are the pictures of "highlight" projects (and the pictures are links to the appropriate threads) going to return to the top of the page like they were before this move?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: jr2 on October 31, 2017, 12:30:49 am
The Google Plus page (https://plus.google.com/117946939162790533636) is out of date (2013) - OT, I know.  Should I start another thread?  I only realized cause I was poking around the new site and it's linked there.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on October 31, 2017, 01:39:02 pm
I'm just about ready to pay cash money if someone will prioritize fixing the Quick Reply box.

I'm going to do a forum reinstallation either today or tomorrow, just like I did with the wiki.  That should fix all the formatting and bookmarking issues.

Is fs2netd.game-warden.com part of this move as well?  It's been down since last week.

As far as I know that is not managed by any of the HLP staff.  Do you know who's in charge of it?

http://wingsofdawn.hard-light.net/ there used to be a page of mine here. Now it just shows a half working version of the main page.

A number of subdomains were misconfigured like this.  A two-part fix was required.  I just finished fixing all of them, and I'm waiting on rev_posix for the final reconfiguration.

Are the pictures of "highlight" projects (and the pictures are links to the appropriate threads) going to return to the top of the page like they were before this move?

Yes.  Sandwich will take care of that after the forums are fixed.

The Google Plus page (https://plus.google.com/117946939162790533636) is out of date (2013) - OT, I know.  Should I start another thread?  I only realized cause I was poking around the new site and it's linked there.

Yes.  That's not something you need to ask permission for.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Sandwich on October 31, 2017, 04:44:06 pm
Is fs2netd.game-warden.com part of this move as well?  It's been down since last week.

As far as I know that is not managed by any of the HLP staff.  Do you know who's in charge of it?

The IPs for game-warden.com and our new hard-light.net server differ by one digit (GW is 66.187.72.108; new HLP is 66.187.72.107), so it stands to reason that there might be some sort of connection there...


Are the pictures of "highlight" projects (and the pictures are links to the appropriate threads) going to return to the top of the page like they were before this move?

Yes.  Sandwich will take care of that after the forums are fixed.

Are you referring to the highlights at the top of the forums, or on the website?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Novachen on October 31, 2017, 05:31:59 pm
Next that signatures are not shown entirely, some formats in the forum are also broken.

Try to use another font size and you have to use a magnifying glass to actually read it.

THIS IS BIG!
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on October 31, 2017, 09:03:59 pm
The IPs for game-warden.com and our new hard-light.net server differ by one digit (GW is 66.187.72.108; new HLP is 66.187.72.107), so it stands to reason that there might be some sort of connection there...

Yes, but that doesn't answer my question...

Quote
Are you referring to the highlights at the top of the forums, or on the website?

Both.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: chief1983 on October 31, 2017, 09:40:32 pm
Well, I guess taylor was maintaining it, and then it was handed down to me to an extent when I wanted to set up SquadWar.  Not sure how many other people knew this but I had sudo access to the old box for some years now so I could do that and help with FS2NetD.  fs2netd.game-warden.com is actually pointing to 96.31.94.82 currently.  This is what it has always pointed to I believe, as I can still log in with the fs2net account.  I was under the impression that the GW/HLP IPs were the CloudFlare IPs or whatever, and that this FS2NetD is the direct IP to the old host itself.  Perhaps this is the issue, FS2NetD was never put behind the CloudFlare firewall, and seems to have been forgotten in the DNS migration.  It appears that apache is no longer running on the old host.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: rev_posix on November 01, 2017, 05:26:11 am
Hosted projects should be working now.

fs2netd.game-warden.com is MP's thing, I believe.  Adding fs2netd.hard-light.net is easy enough, and I do believe I was able to find and save all the binaries, so it could be set up on the new HLP box, I believe.

Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Spoon on November 01, 2017, 05:32:26 am
A number of subdomains were misconfigured like this.  A two-part fix was required.  I just finished fixing all of them, and I'm waiting on rev_posix for the final reconfiguration.
Hosted projects should be working now.
Good, thanks.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Sandwich on November 01, 2017, 06:14:39 am
Hosted projects should be working now.

fs2netd.game-warden.com is MP's thing, I believe.  Adding fs2netd.hard-light.net is easy enough, and I do believe I was able to find and save all the binaries, so it could be set up on the new HLP box, I believe.



But do you believe?? :p
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: rev_posix on November 01, 2017, 06:20:17 am
Hosted projects should be working now.

fs2netd.game-warden.com is MP's thing, I believe.  Adding fs2netd.hard-light.net is easy enough, and I do believe I was able to find and save all the binaries, so it could be set up on the new HLP box, I believe.



But do you believe?? :p
The only things I believe right now are:
I'm beat and going to bed
I may be catching a cold
Windows updates suck the lamas ass
A beer right now doesn't sound half bad :P
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: chief1983 on November 01, 2017, 06:51:22 am
Too bad the updates don't whip the llama's ass, eh?

Now might be a good time to try out the node-based daemon then.  If we have node that is.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Sandwich on November 01, 2017, 10:35:54 am
I've changed the frontpage a bit; now instead of a hard-coded slideshow, it shows the latest 4 entries from the Highlights section of the website.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: CT27 on November 01, 2017, 05:50:25 pm


Are the pictures of "highlight" projects (and the pictures are links to the appropriate threads) going to return to the top of the page like they were before this move?

Yes.  Sandwich will take care of that after the forums are fixed.

Are you referring to the highlights at the top of the forums, or on the website?


My question was about the highlight pictures/links at the top of the forum.

Anyways, Goober and Sandwich, for what it's worth I set up a Fenris donation.  I wish I could do more but income isn't 100% reliable right now.  I've enjoyed all the campaigns and things I've got from this place over the years I wanted to at least do the minimum to support. :)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 01, 2017, 09:33:39 pm
Anyways, Goober and Sandwich, for what it's worth I set up a Fenris donation.  I wish I could do more but income isn't 100% reliable right now.  I've enjoyed all the campaigns and things I've got from this place over the years I wanted to at least do the minimum to support. :)

Very much appreciated, thank you. :)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Sandwich on November 02, 2017, 06:36:50 am
Very much appreciated, thank you. :)

:nod:
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on November 05, 2017, 04:35:51 pm
Not to be a nag, but any progress on fixing the forum theme?  The site is nigh-unusable on mobile right now due to this absurdly-wide Quick Reply box.  (Yes, you can collapse it, but you need to do so for every single thread you open, which is super-obnoxious.)  Jumping to new posts also being broken is a major drag too.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 05, 2017, 04:57:02 pm
For some reason, there are a lot of errors that need fixing (see the news announcement).  I put in several hours of work on the first attempt, and although a lot got done, there is still more to do.  I ought to have time to do more today though.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Sandwich on November 05, 2017, 05:29:43 pm
For some reason, there are a lot of errors that need fixing (see the news announcement).  I put in several hours of work on the first attempt, and although a lot got done, there is still more to do.  I ought to have time to do more today though.

To be clear, I've intentionally been hands-off trying to fix the forum theme issues until I get the go-ahead that you've restored it as far as you can and I should take over. ;)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 05, 2017, 09:28:11 pm
The [size] tag doesn't seem to work. No matter what number I put there, the resulting text is always 5pt.

This was due to a PHP incompatibility that kicked in after our move to PHP 7 on the new server.  It should be fixed now.


I'm just about ready to pay cash money if someone will prioritize fixing the Quick Reply box.

Send cash money my way, please. :)

Not to be a nag, but any progress on fixing the forum theme?  The site is nigh-unusable on mobile right now due to this absurdly-wide Quick Reply box.  (Yes, you can collapse it, but you need to do so for every single thread you open, which is super-obnoxious.)  Jumping to new posts also being broken is a major drag too.

Ditto.  This was the problem:

Code: [Select]
#quickReplyOptions form textarea
{
height: 100px;
width: 635px;
max-width: 100%;
min-width: 100%;
margin: 0.25em 0 1em 0;
}

The middle three lines were supplied in the default theme, but not the HLP theme.  I guess they became required on the move to the new server.  I have no idea why. :confused:


EDIT:

To be clear, I've intentionally been hands-off trying to fix the forum theme issues until I get the go-ahead that you've restored it as far as you can and I should take over. ;)

Yup, understood.  All yours now -- see my post on the other thread. :)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Hunter on November 05, 2017, 10:40:43 pm
Sounds like everything is in hand, but if you need any help just let me know (SG resides on a gigantic server). Having falling flat on my face several times with server moves, it's something of a touchy subject ;)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 05, 2017, 11:07:20 pm
Thanks. :)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on November 06, 2017, 02:03:09 pm
Hmm...not sure if it's a cache thing or what, but I'm still getting the super-wide reply box on both my phone (Chrome) and my ancient iPad (Safari). And I'll be damned if I know how to force-refresh on either one.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: The E on November 06, 2017, 02:07:59 pm
Only way to do it on mobile seems to be to delete all site data.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on November 06, 2017, 07:59:20 pm
Looks like clearing the cache did the trick. :yes:

One more very minor issue way down the priority list: there's still something on the page that seems to be generating a horizontal scroll bar, whether in a maximized or resized browser window.  It only appears when viewing an individual thread, and it only scrolls for a few pixels in either direction.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Sandwich on November 06, 2017, 08:06:40 pm
Looks like clearing the cache did the trick. :yes:

One more very minor issue way down the priority list: there's still something on the page that seems to be generating a horizontal scroll bar, whether in a maximized or resized browser window.  It only appears when viewing an individual thread, and it only scrolls for a few pixels in either direction.

Yeah, that'll probably remain as-is until I fully recreate a theme for the forums. Rorry!
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 07, 2017, 12:53:07 pm
Yeah, that'll probably remain as-is until I fully recreate a theme for the forums. Rorry!

Do we have an ETA for that? :nervous:
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on November 07, 2017, 02:07:54 pm
Another probably - related mobile issue is that text doesn't seem to scale properly. Even with the quick reply fix it's still microscopic.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: BlueFlames on November 07, 2017, 02:50:06 pm
Maybe the solution is to get a real computer with a proper web browser.  You damn kids and your fancy-pants flip-phones....
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: PIe on November 08, 2017, 04:57:56 pm
The captcha for editing wiki links is broken, so I can't actually edit links.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 08, 2017, 05:14:07 pm
The captcha for editing wiki links is broken, so I can't actually edit links.

What, specifically, is broken?  Error message?  Screenshot?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: PIe on November 08, 2017, 05:33:23 pm
I couldn't attach a screenshot (another bug?) so I'll put it on Discord.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: CT27 on November 08, 2017, 08:53:04 pm
Sandwich/Goober5000,

A suggestion for donations:  maybe add a "Colossus" option at $10? 

In keeping with the humorous donation descriptions, it could read something like "Hey, this big ship failed...but your big donation won't fail to help keep HLP afloat".
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 11, 2017, 01:41:39 pm
I'll leave that to Sandwich.  Although I think the "Colossus" option should be a lot larger. :p

I've also been investigating the issue where the browser doesn't jump to the correct post.  I can't figure out what's wrong.  The pages have the proper
Code: [Select]
<a id="anchor"></a>lines, and the anchors have the IDs specified properly.  I would hope that Sandwich's new theme from scratch (currently under construction) will fix this, but on the other hand it doesn't appear to be broken in the current theme.  Anyone have any ideas? :confused:
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: ngld on November 11, 2017, 03:49:48 pm
It's a CSS problem. Remove float: left from the post_wrapper class.

EDIT: Here are more CSS fixes to fix the post appearance:
Code: [Select]
.post_wrapper { float: none; margin: 8px 4px; }
.moderatorbar { clear: both; }
.windowbg, .windowbg2 { background: none; }
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 11, 2017, 11:53:04 pm
Ah, looks like that fixed it.  Too bad I can't give you another gold star. :)

EDIT: I removed the background: none change because that just completely removed the HLP-style color shading.

EDIT2: Minor nitpick: the browser doesn't jump to the top of the post, but rather the location where the text starts.  Would be nice to adjust that.  Or maybe that's one of those things that'll be fixed in the new theme.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 13, 2017, 02:32:14 pm
Ok, I found out that some of the directory paths hadn't been changed on the move to the new server.  That looks like it's fixed almost all of the remaining issues. :yes:
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: General Battuta on November 13, 2017, 03:51:58 pm
Also got a guy on Twitter telling me he's locked out of registration.

e: got a database error trying to post this, lol. Retrying in new thread?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 13, 2017, 04:24:39 pm
Yeah, I just had a bad mod conflict that made a bunch of boards inaccessible.  All that has now been fixed.

The only remaining issue, AFAIK, is the forum registration as described here (http://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=94114.0).  I'll need someone to help with that because I'm not familiar with .htaccess.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 13, 2017, 04:59:48 pm
Ok, the registration captcha issue and the attachments issue are both fixed.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: PIe on November 13, 2017, 06:27:06 pm
The wiki captcha is still broken.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 13, 2017, 10:21:20 pm
With the mediaWiki update to version 1.29, using MathCaptcha now requires installing the Math extension and an entire rabbit hole of dependencies.  Considering that wiki registration is now done manually, I just disabled the captcha.  Try again.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: PIe on November 13, 2017, 11:51:40 pm
Works; thanks.
I just remembered that email notifications are still MIA though.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 14, 2017, 12:13:48 am
Email notifications for the forum?  Rev_posix determined that our hosting provider is on somebody's blacklists, so emails may or may not go through.  Yahoo lets them through; Hotmail doesn't.  I asked him to coordinate with MatthewPapa to get the host off the blacklist.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Hunter on November 14, 2017, 12:25:25 am
You can ask to be removed from their blacklist here:

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/getsupport?oaspworkflow=start_1.0.0.0&wfname=capsub&productkey=edfsmsbl3&ccsid=635688189955348624&wa=wsignin1.0
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: niffiwan on November 17, 2017, 05:00:16 pm
Not sure if it's already been reported - but the next page / previous page arrows for threads longer than a page are missing.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 17, 2017, 09:19:45 pm
I don't think it has, but I have some information from Sandwich that might help me fix it.  Will take a look when I get a chance.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Spoon on November 19, 2017, 05:24:45 am
The tabs on the top of the site desperately need updating and pruning. Several dead links in the External sites part, and I guess the hosted projects part is a work in progress? Cause if it's not...
Mantis is barely used anymore by the SCP, since most of it seems to have transferred to git, yet there is no link to git in there.
This still needs happening.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on November 19, 2017, 08:58:06 pm
I've always had my bookmark set to the homepage, and looking at it now gives me a thought: we really need some sort of big prominent blue button to head straight to the forums.  Right now the only indication on the page that we even have a forum is buried under the HLP drop-down listing.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: jr2 on November 19, 2017, 09:34:39 pm
I've always had my bookmark set to the homepage, and looking at it now gives me a thought: we really need some sort of big prominent blue button to head straight to the forums.  Right now the only indication on the page that we even have a forum is buried under the HLP drop-down listing.

The reverse is also true.  Perhaps call it the "Landing Pad" or "Hard Light Central" or something, to take you back to the main non-forum page.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on November 19, 2017, 09:40:01 pm
I've always had my bookmark set to the homepage, and looking at it now gives me a thought: we really need some sort of big prominent blue button to head straight to the forums.  Right now the only indication on the page that we even have a forum is buried under the HLP drop-down listing.

The reverse is also true.  Perhaps call it the "Landing Pad" or "Hard Light Central" or something, to take you back to the main non-forum page.
I think that will come once the top navbar gets fixed to display on the forums as well.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on November 21, 2017, 06:03:20 pm
The tabs on the top of the site desperately need updating and pruning. Several dead links in the External sites part, and I guess the hosted projects part is a work in progress? Cause if it's not...
Mantis is barely used anymore by the SCP, since most of it seems to have transferred to git, yet there is no link to git in there.
This still needs happening.

Thanks for the reminder.  I'll take a look at this, hopefully in the next day or so, otherwise after Thanksgiving.

Regarding the forum's navbar, I've been trying to schedule a session where Sandwich and I can coordinate, but that depends on both of us being available simultaneously.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Grizzly on December 08, 2017, 05:18:51 pm
Quick test post
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Grizzly on December 08, 2017, 05:20:07 pm
Right, yeah, that's weird. According to the forum I made that post an hour and a quarter later then I actually did. I can chalk the hour down to timezone related grubbins but not the quarter. It's currently 00:06 here.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on December 08, 2017, 11:17:18 pm
I just checked; this is due to the server.  The current time is skewed by about 15 minutes.

We'll fix this at some point, but considering all the other stuff on our plate, this will be a low priority.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: chief1983 on January 12, 2018, 09:45:45 am
It looks like Mantis was upgraded with the server move, and new user registration on Mantis was disabled during that process?  No one can find a link to sign up for it.  If that was intentional, I need to request an account be added by an admin for wookieejedi.  If it wasn't intentional, can someone check the value of $g_allow_signup in config_inc.php?  I think that's where the setting would be.  I am not an admin, only manager level, so I can't manually add users it seems.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: rev_posix on January 14, 2018, 04:04:54 am
If it wasn't intentional, can someone check the value of $g_allow_signup in config_inc.php?  I think that's where the setting would be.  I am not an admin, only manager level, so I can't manually add users it seems.
Setting changed. :)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: wookieejedi on January 14, 2018, 09:22:41 am
Thanks!
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on April 20, 2018, 11:38:51 pm
:bump:

The top-nav-bars on both the forums and the front page have been updated.  I fixed broken links and pruned some dead entries (like the Game Warden sites and some inactive/deleted ModDB sites).
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: jr2 on April 21, 2018, 07:56:03 am
Under Installing FreeSpace Open, Knossos (https://www.hard-light.net/forums/index.php?topic=94068.0) needs to go in there soon, if not now with a (beta) tag on it.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on April 21, 2018, 06:06:48 pm
It's already there, just disabled.  I initially had it enabled, but then decided to disable it until it's out of beta.

Per discussion on Discord, the developers want to be careful about introducing it to the general public until they're ready.

(FSMods is also there, but disabled, until we complete the migration of the old site to fsmods.hard-light.net.)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on April 21, 2018, 06:41:37 pm
So fsmods will come back? Thought it was gone forever-
Q: does it still look like the original FSMods or will it get HLP colors and layout?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on April 21, 2018, 07:12:36 pm
It will be back.  We have the internal configuration and all the files that were stored on it.  The difficult part is rebuilding the site and linking all the files to their proper entries.  Chief1983 is working on it when he has time.

Right now we're focusing on just getting the site working.  It is likely that we'll need to install the latest version and use the standard theme, but I'm sure members of HLP could recreate the custom theme for us.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on April 21, 2018, 07:33:02 pm
Ah, good to know. :)

Little thing I've found- while viewing the user profiles the signature is (if it's longer) always cut off and the "expand" button is missing. Not really relevant, though.

Is anybody working on the main page? IMO it doesn't seem as professional as HLP is when on the main page mostly short descriptions, 404s and Lorem ipsum can be found.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on April 21, 2018, 07:41:34 pm
Sandwich is working on a new forum theme, so hopefully the signature issue in the profile will be fixed with that version.

Main page work is being done sporadically.  We could really use additional help generating content: descriptions, flavor, promotions, projects, whatever.  Are you interested? :)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on April 21, 2018, 07:58:50 pm
Hmm I don't know if I need to reinvent the wheel for that- with that I mean most things have already been written in the thousands of posts here in a very useful and easy-to-understand way (for example the getting started board), sometimes over and over again. One could gather them and bring them on the main site (maybe a bit edited). For info on hosted projects (as well as for the wiki), I think the best way would be to ask the project heads to do some advertising for their nice things. :)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on April 21, 2018, 08:05:19 pm
Naturally.  It's not very hard, it just requires a little bit of effort - as you said, tracking down posts and possibly editing them together in an easy-to-understand way.

Karajorma has asked the project heads to contribute descriptions for their projects.  Some have responded; some have not yet responded.  We'll probably make another round of requests soon.

But again, we need help generating content, whether it's content from scratch or content that's already on the forum but needs editing together in a form suitable for the main page.  Are you interested?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on April 21, 2018, 08:09:53 pm
Sure, I've got time :)

How much I can do depends on how long the articles should be and how heavily they have to be edit. Also English isn't my first languange, so it needs to be checked, anyway.

Also, I'm rather good at writing, not HTML or so...
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: PIe on April 22, 2018, 12:44:20 am
The link to the hosted projects Mantis should be https://mantis.hard-light.net or https://www.hard-light.net/mantis/ should redirect there.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on April 23, 2018, 03:46:46 pm
The link to the hosted projects Mantis should be https://mantis.hard-light.net or https://www.hard-light.net/mantis/ should redirect there.

I'll change the link.  Redirects were put in place a while ago, but they were temporarily disabled because rev_posix was investigating some problems on the server.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on April 23, 2018, 05:17:51 pm
Sure, I've got time :)

How much I can do depends on how long the articles should be and how heavily they have to be edit. Also English isn't my first languange, so it needs to be checked, anyway.

Also, I'm rather good at writing, not HTML or so...

That's fine. :)  Just post or PM the text you want to include, and we'll do the rest.

For starters, take a look at the top of the front page, where it says "THE GAME", "WHO WE ARE", and "GET INVOLVED".  See what you can come up with for those pages.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on May 22, 2018, 05:58:24 pm
Anything become of this?
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on May 22, 2018, 07:52:06 pm
I got backed up with other tasks, sorry.  It's still on the front burner.  You should see movement soon. :)
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on June 22, 2018, 02:06:40 am
The top navbar still contains dead links. Particular annoying is the BTA one which links to a spam website on my end.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on June 25, 2018, 05:44:56 am
Thanks.  I've updated and rearranged the Hosted Projects dropdown.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: mjn.mixael on August 23, 2018, 04:56:05 am
So the main page is somewhat lacking...

The Game page is very, very bland. Not even a single picture is on the page.
Who We Are is very, very short.
Get Involved goes to a 404.
News has really outdated news about a server switch that happened almost a year ago.
The Get Started button goes to a placeholder page.
Download Now should probably link to Knossos. Along with the Installer/Installation Guide just below.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on August 23, 2018, 05:13:39 am
One of the things the admins don't really do very well is generate interesting blurbs to read.  (Except for Axem, but he can't be everywhere.)  We can update links and fix pages, but filling them with content is where we fall down.  That's why Sandwich has often said that he really wants the community to chip in and generate interesting content.

So, can anyone come up with fun stuff to post?  It's fairly easy to change, and we can always edit it later if we need to.

In fact, Nightmare sent me a draft of the Getting Involved page awhile back which I still haven't put up on the site.  I'll do that tomorrow.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: PIe on August 23, 2018, 05:16:55 am
The last item in the highlights scroll is clipped in Firefox.  See attachment.
The clock is half an hour ahead.
The highlights really, really need to be synced to the forum highlights or at the very least changed to something more recent like the Inferno and MVPs releases.
Edit:  The Who We Are page could include bits about TCs like Diaspora, TBP, WCS.

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Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Mongoose on August 23, 2018, 05:28:09 am
I think we also desperately need a big ol' link to the forums.  The only way a newbie would know they existed is if they bothered to check through the drop-down menus.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: jr2 on August 23, 2018, 12:10:26 pm
I think we also desperately need a big ol' link to the forums.  The only way a newbie would know they existed is if they bothered to check through the drop-down menus.

That and wiki-style fast editing for selected community members, would probably do a lot of good.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on August 24, 2018, 01:25:28 am
This is good, we might have critical mass now to get some community content. :)  I did some editing this evening on the main page, and I'm in touch with Sandwich on some things (such as the highlights, and a few hurdles I ran into) that are currently in progress.

Syncing the highlights with the forum is going to be a bit complicated, code-wise, but for the HLP moderators it should be simpler.  The process will switch to posting a highlight on the front page using Craft, rather than posting a thread in the forum.

If anyone who is a HLP moderator would like the ability to post highlights on the front page, let me know and I'll set you up with an account.  Extra points if you want to copy some of the highlights from the Highlights forum to the front page.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on November 07, 2018, 03:31:28 pm
2 things on the main site:
-Why is there an Ancient ships pic to celebrate the release of a campaign without any ancients (SAH)?
-The order of entries seems a bit messed up; I think the "Unleash your inner starfighter pilot" thing should be always on top, currently it's MVPs - FS advertisement - S:AH, which is neither chronological nor importance wise sorted.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: jr2 on November 08, 2018, 09:29:51 pm
2 things on the main site:
-Why is there an Ancient ships pic to celebrate the release of a campaign without any ancients (SAH)?

1) That's my bad
2) I think it's cause they're both sickied

EDIT: Fixed.  MVPs is no longer stickied, however (no way around it that I can see).
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on December 06, 2018, 08:53:56 pm
Again, 2 things:
-Could FSMods be added to the top nav bar again? Without the link in the "news" (which has been up for long enough now) it's much harder to find the site.
-QuckLinks is visible even when I'm not logged-in.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Goober5000 on December 08, 2018, 12:28:01 am
Again, 2 things:
-Could FSMods be added to the top nav bar again? Without the link in the "news" (which has been up for long enough now) it's much harder to find the site.

Re-enabled, thanks for the reminder.

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-QuckLinks is visible even when I'm not logged-in.

That I don't think can be fixed.  The top nav bar links are not tied to the forum login.
Title: Re: Post-server move issues
Post by: Nightmare on December 08, 2018, 02:47:54 am
What's the purpose of Quick Links, anyway? If you log-in normally, you would see them directly at the top of the page anyway. The only reasonable thing would be that you hit them while not being logged-in, and get redirected immediatly once you entered username and password.