Upgrade Issue Thread

[Kayzee 4,032]

Also: Has everyone noticed all the mojibake everywhere? Like in PhoenixSoul's location?

Also also: Do the announcements, which is barely ever updated, have to be always viable on every page? Maybe that's a bit to petty.

Edited July 19, 2017 by KilloZapit

[PhoenixSoul 1,404]

2 hours ago, KilloZapit said:

Also: Has everyone noticed all the mojibake everywhere? Like in PhoenixSoul's location?

Also also: Do the announcements, which is barely ever updated, have to be always viable on every page? Maybe that's a bit to petty.

I'm about sick of having to redefine all of my profile stuffs everywhere too...

I had just noticed this myself...what the bloody Hell, damn!

[Amysaurus 734]

Yeah, I'd suggest everyone go back and make sure their topics are still up to snuff. Even in cases when the text is fine, a lot of topics I've seen have had the line spacing messed up.

>>> This is a PSA that the default spacing for this forum is doubled. If you want single-spacing, use Shift+Enter to make a new line. <<<

Hmmm... I think most of what I've noticed has been pointed out already. Hopefully we get the option to have signatures back soon ^^

[Tarq 746]

About the new way likes are handled, are they intended to be anonymous? My notifications say 'Somebody liked x post' and the posts themselves no longer contain the info.

Its not too big of a deal, and carries certain benefits even, but this version is strictly about quantity gained whereas I treated likes as a 'Tarq approves this message' kind of thing :3

[Rikifive 3,411]

18 hours ago, Lord Vectra said:

"Why are some notifications disallowed? "

-It's fixed now. You should be able to toggle them.
By the way, every e-mail notification is now disabled by default. Not everyone likes to get tons of e-mails, so that should be optional.

 

11 hours ago, PhoenixSoul said:

I still vote for a revert back to old settings.

This forum update is broken still.

I know it has many cons, but as @KilloZapit said, the 'reasons' were only visible behind the scenes. Basically, the previous version is no longer supported by devs, so that started to generate problems over time. I also liked the previous version more, but at least the system is kind of more stable.

 

10 hours ago, KilloZapit said:

Also: Has everyone noticed all the mojibake everywhere? Like in PhoenixSoul's location?

Only if you'd see mine... It was sooo long and totally broken. 

That's because special characters/symbols got replaced by these during the downgrade upgrade.

 

10 hours ago, KilloZapit said:

Also also: Do the announcements, which is barely ever updated, have to be always viable on every page? Maybe that's a bit to petty.

No, they don't have. That's another side effect of the upgrade - these used to be displayed in specified areas, but they decided to go wild and appear everywhere.

Fixed.

 

19 hours ago, kaz said:

You should be able to - I can and we  have the same settings- the options are at the top of the topic now.

Seems moderator options works ok

Mhm, as I thought. Back when I was a local mod, I had assigned areas- these tiny settings overwrote my permissions and basically turned me back into a local mod, because everything was disabled besides the ability to moderate few areas.
The same thing applied to Seriel and Charlesthehurst. Since they're admins/globals, where each admin/global has the same permissions, I just removed their specific ones and threw them under group settings.

That means, that Seriel and Charles should be able to moderate things, as they should now.

There are another specific restrictions for local mods (to set them areas to moderate), but they seem to be fine, so I didn't touch them.

Everything should be okay now.

 

16 hours ago, Chaosian said:

So my question is where the activity feed went off to, I can't find where people's stupid little microblogs went! Those were great!

Do you mean status updates?

Yeah, that was a shame.
 

Fixed- recent status updates are displayed on the main page. Along with that, 'recent posts' and 'who's online' have been added as well.

 

6 hours ago, Amysaurus said:

>>> This is a PSA that the default spacing for this forum is doubled. If you want single-spacing, use Shift+Enter to make a new line. <<<

That's true.
Eventually if double spacing is a pain, it can be disabled I believe, so that it would be just like it was in the previous version.

 

6 hours ago, Amysaurus said:

Hmmm... I think most of what I've noticed has been pointed out already. Hopefully we get the option to have signatures back soon ^^

Ayyyy I didn't even notice at the beginning! 

Fixed- Signature tab should be available in Account Settings.

 

I knew I forgot about something..

5 hours ago, Tarq said:

About the new way likes are handled, are they intended to be anonymous? My notifications say 'Somebody liked x post' and the posts themselves no longer contain the info.

Its not too big of a deal, and carries certain benefits even, but this version is strictly about quantity gained whereas I treated likes as a 'Tarq approves this message' kind of thing :3

No they aren't intended to be anonymous - everything should be displayed now.  

[Kayzee 4,032]

3 hours ago, Rikifive said:

I know it has many cons, but as @KilloZapit said, the 'reasons' were only visible behind the scenes. Basically, the previous version is no longer supported by devs, so that started to generate problems over time. I also liked the previous version more, but at least the system is kind of more stable.

I am surprised there wasn't a fork project based on the old version or something.

3 hours ago, Rikifive said:

Only if you'd see mine... It was sooo long and totally broken. 

That's because special characters/symbols got replaced by these during the downgrade upgrade.

It probobly got converted to another character encoding and back or something. Either that or the encoding is just set wrong. I think you could probobly fix it without reimporting everything as long as no information was lost. Might need a script to run on the database though.

3 hours ago, Rikifive said:

That's true.
Eventually if double spacing is a pain, it can be disabled I believe, so that it would be just like it was in the previous version.

I think it would be nice if you did. Does it effect old posts? Also what about code?

Edited July 19, 2017 by KilloZapit

[Rikifive 3,411]

17 minutes ago, KilloZapit said:

I think it would be nice if you did. Does it effect old posts? Also what about code?

Then it can be changed, if that will be demanded.  

Not sure, but I've noticed, that few existing things got auto-double entered (*next lines* replaced with *next paragraphs*)...

As for code... What do you exactly mean? I haven't checked that one yet.  

 

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Gotta go to work.  

[Kayzee 4,032]

I mean text inside code blocks.

Like
This

Hmmm... looks like that's not effected.

Edited July 19, 2017 by KilloZapit

[Saeryen 299]

13 hours ago, KilloZapit said:

Also: Has everyone noticed all the mojibake everywhere? Like in PhoenixSoul's location?

I had to fix all the apostrophes and colons in the Catty Lands topic since they were replaced with that...

[Kayzee 4,032]

Just now, Saeryen said:

I had to fix all the apostrophes and colons in the Catty Lands topic since they were replaced with that...

Probably gonna have to refix them if all the old text gets fixed maybe?

[Saeryen 299]

Just now, KilloZapit said:

Probably gonna have to refix them if all the old text gets fixed maybe?

Ugh, I hope not.

[Kayzee 4,032]

It's gonna be much easier to batch replace all the messed up text everywhere then expecting people to manually fix everything. But a batch replace might likely also break all the fixed text.

Also: Mojibake is such a fun word. For anyone interested in the history of this kind of thing, this video is pretty neat.

Edited July 19, 2017 by KilloZapit

[kaz 1,338]

On 7/19/2017 at 3:25 AM, KilloZapit said:

Also: Has everyone noticed all the mojibake everywhere? Like in PhoenixSoul's location?

Also also: Do the announcements, which is barely ever updated, have to be always viable on every page? Maybe that's a bit to petty.

The announcements will be move back to the top eventually- it is all work in progress!!

 

Late to the party as usual Riki fixed it.

[+ Takeo212 1,079]

Mines is more a preference than a problem.

On mobile, is it possible to have a 'jump to last page' option for topics 2 pages and over? Pages load slow at work and each pages uses up my data so just wondering.

Not a major request, but possibly a future addition?

[Rikifive 3,411]

18 hours ago, KilloZapit said:

I mean text inside code blocks.

Oh that- then yeah, it's a different thing. 

 

On 19.07.2017 at 4:25 AM, KilloZapit said:

Also: Has everyone noticed all the mojibake everywhere? Like in PhoenixSoul's location?

Apparently it didn't affect only location box - posts, usernames and everything else, including codes, got messed up as well if there were special characters in them.

 

20 minutes ago, Takeo212 said:

Mines is more a preference than a problem.

On mobile, is it possible to have a 'jump to last page' option for topics 2 pages and over? Pages load slow at work and each pages uses up my data so just wondering.

Not a major request, but possibly a future addition?

I just checked that on my mobile device and it seems, that there is a button for that.  

For example, let's assume that a thread has 22 pages and you're on the second page. You'll get the following buttons:

 <<   PREV   1   2   3   4   5   6   7   NEXT   >>   Page 2 of 22▼ 

~where  <<  and  >>  should jump you to the first/last page.

[+ Asharonapaul 276]

I'm not able to eat my honey and not get a messy keyboard with the new forums. :cry: sad

[AceOfAces_Mod 34]

I tried to post something on my game's thread, but there's neither an indication of being locked, nor the option to post anything.

http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/33207-immortal-sins/

Edited July 20, 2017 by AceOfAces_Mod

[Kayzee 4,032]

1 hour ago, Rikifive said:

Apparently it didn't affect only location box - posts, usernames and everything else, including codes, got messed up as well if there were special characters in them.

I know, I was only using the location as an example. It's the kind of thing you will probobly need to fix by reimporting over anything that hasn't been updated since the upgrade, or by a regex, or something. Assuming you plan to fix it at all.

[Tarq 746]

@AceOfAces_Mod I was able to post fine just now, although I'm normally able to reply closed topics anyways (not that that should matter as its not locked). Can a regular member confirm please?

[Kayzee 4,032]

Well there is no reply box on that topic for me.

[+ Takeo212 1,079]

@Rikifive Sorry, never specified. I mean with the "unread content" search. The updates give me the newest information for threads, but when I click that response, I get taken to the OP of that topic and have to manually try find the reply. It's not a big problem - just more a convenience.

@AceOfAces_Mod Nah, I don't have a reply box either. Seems members don't have permissions for your topic.

 

On that note; I don't see a reply box on my resource topic either. 

[Rikifive 3,411]

1 hour ago, AceOfAces_Mod said:

I tried to post something on my game's thread, but there's neither an indication of being locked, nor the option to post anything.

http://www.rpgmakervxace.net/topic/33207-immortal-sins/

Literally the settings have been flipped (previously disabled things were enabled, where previously enabled were disabled), that's why.

It's fixed now, you should be able to post there.

That also explains and fixes the problem of not being able to create threads in submission areas. 

 

1 hour ago, KilloZapit said:

I know, I was only using the location as an example. It's the kind of thing you will probobly need to fix by reimporting over anything that hasn't been updated since the upgrade, or by a regex, or something. Assuming you plan to fix it at all.

To be honest I'm not sure, as that probably would be kind of tricky. At least at the moment, I have no idea how to approach that.

 

1 hour ago, Tarq said:

@AceOfAces_Mod I was able to post fine just now, although I'm normally able to reply closed topics anyways (not that that should matter as its not locked). Can a regular member confirm please?

You are a global, so you can cheat and post even in void.  

 

5 minutes ago, Takeo212 said:

Sorry, never specified. I mean with the "unread content" search. The updates give me the newest information for threads, but when I click that response, I get taken to the OP of that topic and have to manually try find the reply. It's not a big problem - just more a convenience.

Oh, okay, no worries.

There should be a blue dot before the topic title- clicking/tapping the dot should take you to the first unread post in that thread. I'm kind of lazy to turn on things on my mobile device to check that , could you take a look and tell me if that exists and works for you?  

Eventually it is possible to force it to take you to the first unread post when clicking the topic title.

 

9 minutes ago, Takeo212 said:

Nah, I don't have a reply box either. Seems members don't have permissions for your topic.

 

On that note; I don't see a reply box on my resource topic either. 

Exactly- settings got messed up a little- it all should be fixed now, hopefully.

[+ Takeo212 1,079]

I'll check the phone update later. I may have just missed it to be honest. Will update later

Also, I still can't reply to either my own topic or AceofAces. Did you also update the "sponsor" member group?

[+ Asharonapaul 276]

unrelated. I have a penalty from last year.... is it permanent?

[kaz 1,338]

3 hours ago, Asharonapaul said:

unrelated. I have a penalty from last year.... is it permanent?

nope its gone i fixed it