Notice - System Work Thursday Night

[Scott Greczkowski]

On Thursday Night (sometime after 8PM ET) I will be taking the site down and doing a software upgrade to our forum software.

This update is supposed to fix a number of the bugs that exist in our current software (they claim over 400 bugs are fixed... what all those bugs are I don't know.)

In addition besides fixing bugs the software upgrade will allow us to move over to a new Arcade system, with this new Arcade system not will all of our exisiting games continue to work, but also will give us access to a few thousand other new games. Our Arcade is important to us as it gives all of us a break as we know we can't all talk tech all the time. The arcade update will happen sometime shortly in the future but the first step is the forum software update which is needed.

I hope that the update will take about a half hour. I did the upgrade tonight on our test site and all went well.

Thanks for your understanding and support.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Just a reminder... server work tonight.

I am excited about the upgrade as I have a few things planned.

 

[tigerprowler]

After the server work, clicking any of the "Forum" links takes me to the homepage. Just FYI.

 

[turbosat]

Is the forum changed forever?

Just a reminder... server work tonight.

I am excited about the upgrade as I have a few things planned.

I can't figure out to fix things, the forum comes out in a text format--can barely find anything, nor read it! The background is white, nothing is formatted like it was. I have the latest Firefox but something is seriously wrong with it, or the site. If anybody can email me or PM me on how to fix things, I'd appreciate it, I can find PMs , and email. Thanks Turbo-confused

 

[Foxbat]

It may be a long not for Scott. In addition to tigerprowler's comment about the "Forums" menu taking the viewer back to the Home Page, it also appears that the Smileys are broken. http://www.satelliteguys.us/images/smilies/smile.png shows a broken/missing image icon and trying to bring it up by itself returns "Page not found"

 

[tomcrown1]

On Thursday Night (sometime after 8PM ET) I will be taking the site down and doing a software upgrade to our forum software.

This update is supposed to fix a number of the bugs that exist in our current software (they claim over 400 bugs are fixed... what all those bugs are I don't know.)

In addition besides fixing bugs the software upgrade will allow us to move over to a new Arcade system, with this new Arcade system not will all of our exisiting games continue to work, but also will give us access to a few thousand other new games. Our Arcade is important to us as it gives all of us a break as we know we can't all talk tech all the time. The arcade update will happen sometime shortly in the future but the first step is the forum software update which is needed.

I hope that the update will take about a half hour. I did the upgrade tonight on our test site and all went well.

Thanks for your understanding and support.

I wish you had not update this site a lot of things are broken. First do away with the mobile site it is worthless and I do not like the idea that I can not choose not to view the site in mobile form from my iPad. This site is now iPad unfriendly.

What happen to the reply button I now have to use a quote in order to reply not right. Please downgrade to the way it was before this site worked better that way.

 

[rodder]

i cannot get in normally it says server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.
i got in thru facebook to post this.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Looks like the issue with the index.php is fixed.

Turns out the old index.php file was not overwritten with the new one which was causing the issue.

DOH!

 

[rodder]

i get in ok now but it still goes to home page when you click on forums.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Funny how one file can screw things up.

Sorry about that!

 

[Rey]

After the server work, clicking any of the "Forum" links takes me to the homepage. Just FYI.

i was about to say the same except in this case its just the forum link at the top of the page. i see some changes i like scott.

 

[eurosport]

...Now every smilie shows up as a red X.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Some of the stuff that was broken in the last version of the software (that I coded around to fix) are now fix which in turn have broken my fixes. So I am now working on it.

 

[jayn_j]

Some smileys still broken.
I also have had a couple of replies disappear. I think I was doing quick reply with quote.

Edit: Hmmm, they worked now, but not 5 minutes ago over in the Pub.

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

For the Smilies the new software comes with .png files instread of .gif files. It changed all the smilies to .png when I am still using the .gif (I like the old Smilies better)

 

[Scott Greczkowski]

Since yesterday afternoon all files have been served by the SatelliteGuys Servers and not by the CLOUD CDN servers.

Has this made things faster, slower or about the same?

Thanks!

 

[jacobm69]

I do like how I can now see poles on my android phone

 

[sundude90]

Since yesterday afternoon all files have been served by the SatelliteGuys Servers and not by the CLOUD CDN servers.

Has this made things faster, slower or about the same?

Thanks!

When it on the Cloud servers it loads faster on TWC Cable Connection, but slower on my School (Mid-Maine Connection). When its on the Servers it's the exact oposite.

 

[Foxbat]

The "Quick Links :: My Posts" at the top of the page is still broken (it does the same search as "Quick Links :: My Threads"). Am I the only one who uses this feature?

 

[raoul5788]

The reply links still look funny, but they work fine.