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HiP Nation => Welcome => Topic started by: tron on July 05, 2014, 05:50:18 PM

Title: A much needed update
Post by: tron on July 05, 2014, 05:50:18 PM
  :wigglypanda:

Yaay it's back, and up to date finally.
Sorry about the downtime, the forum was getting hammered by Chinese spam bots which were making accounts for themselves. Infact they were making 1000 new accounts on here per day. They were just never actually logging in with them because we had modified our forum to require full email address to login. Which you should no longer need to do.

Anyway a lot of maintenance had to be done to get it back up and running so that's why it was down for so long.
We're also on a new server so it should be a lot faster although we're still moving things across so the forum is the only thing on this new server at the moment.

Stryfe is still fixing up some some things so if there's any strange issues just report them here and we can look into it.

The Dark style theme is still unavailable while that's being fixed.

The Thankyou mod (which was actually one of the things preventing us upgrading easily) had to be dropped but we found another mod that's similar and we'll try to hack it to work as the thankyou mod did, possibly.
The thankyou's are still in the database, we just have to modify this "like" mod to use them instead of it's own.
Title: Re: A Much Needed Update
Post by: ebc on July 05, 2014, 05:51:40 PM
I just realised I posted with the test account, ohwell it's the same person.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: frosted_tuna on July 05, 2014, 06:06:30 PM
I hope i'm posting in the right spot.  For some reason, even after clearing my history and my cookies, the site still gives me this "Maintenance Mode: ..um boobs? wait, sorry we are having some issues atm, please try again later."  I'm currently replying to this post via a proxy, which allowed me access into the website.  I live in the West coast of USA.  Is this my issue only?
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: ebc on July 05, 2014, 06:09:47 PM
^
That's cause it's still hitting the old server. It's most likely the DNS change hasn't updated for everyone. You can try running ipconfig /flushdns from command prompt and see if that fixes it but otherwise it should be back to normal within 24hours.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: frosted_tuna on July 05, 2014, 06:13:37 PM
^
That's cause it's still hitting the old server. It's most likely the DNS change hasn't updated for everyone. You can try running ipconfig /flushdns from command prompt and see if that fixes it but otherwise it should be back to normal within 24hours.

that worked. thank you very much~
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: RenX on July 05, 2014, 06:38:14 PM
The thankyou's are still in the database, we just have to modify this "like" mod to use them instead of it's own.

Just curious, about the thankyou numbers, are they gonna be restored as likes?
e.g. : a user has got five hundred thankyou's before this update and after the update, that user gets five hundred likes.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: ebc on July 05, 2014, 06:50:47 PM
^Hopefully yes, the thanks will be restored to likes, (we may even rename the like to thankyou so it looks the same as before) although it depends how Stryfe goes with the modifications.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Stryfe on July 05, 2014, 06:51:16 PM
Just curious, about the thankyou numbers, are they gonna be restored as likes?
e.g. : a user has got five hundred thankyou's before this update and after the update, that user gets five hundred likes.

Yeah, they'll be restored and added to the current likes/thank you's. Just keep on liking stuff. :thumbup
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: t-motion on July 06, 2014, 10:57:23 AM
Thank you for the update! It was about time!  :P XD
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Yoshino on July 08, 2014, 09:22:28 PM
Don't know if others have had this problem or whether it's just with Firefox but when you're doing a post you don't get any borders and the text just goes on and on and on....

(http://picroda.jphip.com/misc/jphip07342.jpg)
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Stryfe on July 08, 2014, 09:56:44 PM
Anyone else have that problem? I can't replicate it in my firefox at least, looks fine for me. What are your computer/firefox specs/version?
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Yoshino on July 09, 2014, 03:27:36 AM
Never had this issue before, don't know what the FF specs are but it's version 30.0 which is their most updated version. Using Chrome or Internet Explorer there are borders when writing a post but really don't like using either one for here, been using FF for many years and never had a problem until this latest update.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: oaxiac on July 10, 2014, 07:47:46 AM
^I use Firefox 30.0, too. I don't have a similar issue.

EDIT: SCREENCAP

(http://i.imgur.com/DtLOMUR.jpg)
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: winner on July 10, 2014, 01:04:55 PM
^^same here home and work firefox 30.0 looks normal.

any chance its a firefox add-on playing tricks?
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Yoshino on July 10, 2014, 04:02:29 PM
It's back to normal now, just wasn't for the first few days after the update, I didn't do one thing unless Stryfe made an adjustment.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Jul3 on July 12, 2014, 09:06:56 PM
I'm getting the same problem as Yoshino and I'm in Chrome on Windows 7....

Sometimes it's stuck to the left like in Yoshino's screencap, but other times stuck to the right and I can't even see the emotes...

Edit: this is what I mean by "stuck to the right"

(http://s10.postimg.org/b08yuklgl/brokenjphip.jpg) (http://postimg.org/image/b08yuklgl/)
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Yoshino on July 13, 2014, 04:43:56 AM
Don't know if it makes a difference but I'm using Windows 8.1 on Chrome and didn't have that posting problem with no borders on it.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: winner on July 15, 2014, 10:17:34 AM
Any chance can add the 'Thanks' received total (the one over there on the left).
To show on the profile page (http://forum.jphip.com/index.php?action=profile;u=1567), like before too? :D
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Stryfe on July 15, 2014, 11:34:51 AM
^ Yes, that's on the to-do list.

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Anyone still getting that post window being too wide problem, if it happens, grab me the source (view page source) and pm me the file.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: kevinwkl on July 16, 2014, 09:57:59 AM
Hello... Just a simple question.. Is there any way to view the full list of the people who left thanks on your post? If I have like more than 13-14 thanks in my post, the name list just gets cut off at the very bottom.. Just a suggestion.. Maybe the moderators can make the list scrollable(?) Coz sometimes, I might be curious of who left a thanks in my post  :P :P
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Stryfe on July 16, 2014, 10:19:10 AM
Is there any way to view the full list of the people who left thanks on your post? If I have like more than 13-14 thanks in my post, the name list just gets cut off at the very bottom

Also on the to-do list. I just haven't bumped into a big enough list for my screen yet, I guess...  :P
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Stryfe on July 19, 2014, 11:46:29 AM
Some of the more common social media sites added to the profile. Add your sites/handles at (profile/modify profile -> forum profile).

At the same time, trying to make the topic profiles (left of each message) a little less busy. I'll see what looks best...
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: twissie on July 19, 2014, 08:22:42 PM
^
I can't figure out how to add my Google+ to my profile. I made a customized URL for my Google+ account a while back, and I don't know where to fetch my ID from anymore 8D;
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Stryfe on July 19, 2014, 08:41:22 PM
^ It should now allow you to use the customized handle as well. Added some information and filters on the fields, only use the handles/ids instead of the whole URL.

Also SMF is a bit silly so it doesn't inform you when you enter invalid characters, instead it happily tells you everything is a-ok and just clears the field. So keep an eye on that. :P
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: Stryfe on July 20, 2014, 06:38:38 PM
Thanks received are now displayed on the profile page as well. There's no ready support for quickly displaying Thanks given in the database, so those will have to wait.

Also fixed the hovering message previews on the thanked messages display pages in the profile and adjusted the list of people you get from clicking ie. "(13 people left a thank you)" to take less space.
Title: Re: A much needed update
Post by: pootsy on November 09, 2014, 12:36:44 AM
It's not a major vulnerability, but it is possible for clever and attractive users with too much free time to thank their own posts.