Forum Software Change!

[Rys]

Rys can you make the forum stats on the various forums appear on mouse over instead of always? It's a bit too busy at the moment and that's not really information needed at a glance.

Done.

 

[Rys]

I've turned on HTTPS. If you're having problems using any non web-browser clients, let me know in this thread:

https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/forums-only-available-over-https.56253/

 

[Rys]

Additionally, if your web browser supports SPDY, the forums support you talking SPDY to them too. That's most modern clients (Safaris on OS X 10.10 and iOS 8, Chrome on all platforms, Firefox on all platforms, etc). SPDY is a touch faster than HTTPS at the protocol level, so the site will be a bit snappier as a result (although I can't tell in practice).

 

[Pete]

Good stuff, Rys! I knew a dark theme was just a matter of time, and it only took a decade!

 

[I.S.T.]

Links in sigs area available for Veterans and up.

I'd change that to less than the Veteran rank, because there are a lot of devs here who show up and have maybe 150 posts at most...

 

[Rys]

Do those developers really want to put links in their signatures?

 

[Shifty Geezer]

Some link to personal blogs and stuff.

 

[Rys]

Links in sigs is available to all now.

 

[Kaarlisk]

With the floating bar on top, using PageDown or spacebar for scrolling results in too big a jump – it is possible to miss a post or a topic.
Though it is probably impossible to solve without causing larger problems.

 

[Rys]

I'll take a look. Might be doable to put per-post navigation on a couple of other keys (space and pgdn are special, don't want to mess with them).

 

[AnarchX]

So every link to the old vBulletin content is dead...

 

[Rys]

There was no way to keep the existing content IDs and have the redirect system work, unfortunately.

 

[Malo]

Doesn't the migration create a redirect map with old and new id's?

when I did my migration it was into an empty database so it was a 1:1 for the ids and I just had to write the regexp 301s.

 

[Rys]

The content IDs didn't migrate 1:1 so unless I'm mistaken there's no easy redirection from old to new. I'm not terribly concerned. Looking at the referral logs, there's not a large body of incoming traffic looking for the old URLs.

 

[Malo]

The content IDs didn't migrate 1:1 so unless I'm mistaken there's no easy redirection from old to new. I'm not terribly concerned. Looking at the referral logs, there's not a large body of incoming traffic looking for the old URLs.

Did you do this part during the migration?

https://xenforo.com/help/import-redirection/

 

[Rys]

Embarrassing. I didn't think you could use the import log to redirect unless you took all the content IDs 1:1. 301 redirects from old URLs to new should be working now (tested with 4 random threads from the old boards).

Thanks, @Malo!

 

[Shifty Geezer]

We have a post here without Font tags that is drawing black text in the dark theme:
https://forum.beyond3d.com/threads/games-giveaway.56259/#post-1808458

I don't want to change the font until Rys has had a chance to investigate what's happening.

 

[Rys]

In l-b's original post, the colour was set to black either on paste in to the box, or using the editor. It's not black by fault of the theme, it's black by l-b's choice (including by accident of course).

The post doesn't have font BBCode, but it does have a color BBCode block.

 

[Rys]

I've now edited the posts in question to remove all formatting.

 

[AnarchX]

Embarrassing. I didn't think you could use the import log to redirect unless you took all the content IDs 1:1. 301 redirects from old URLs to new should be working now (tested with 4 random threads from the old boards).

Thanks, @Malo!

Great!