The forums are up again! Migration to new forum platform

KanataEXE

Since I use a dark theme, some of the words are hard to read since they're dark.

You guys should change it to lighter colors.

TwistedTwigleg

cybereality

Will do!

KanataEXE

Yeah, changing the colors to make dark mode more usable is what I plan to work on next.

duane

Good job getting an entire system rebuilt and loading the data in such a short time. I probably would have spent the first twenty-four hours cursing at the backup software. 🙂

TwistedTwigleg

duane Thanks!

There was some frustrated words said, but in the end I was just stubbornly trying to fix the mistake and get the forums up again 😅
(Annoying the backup software didn’t work though! Now I know never to assume it will work and make manual backups)

ShalokShalom

TwistedTwigleg I love ZFS and particularly btrfs for this reason. Since they provide snapshots of the entire filesystem, its easy to just rollback at a desired point in time.

Is super useful on my desktop (Garuda) and I am sure, it does also help in cases like that.

Btrfs has an integration of GRUB, so even my grandma can rollback to an earlier state.

And that is definitely faster than restoring a backup.
Cheers 🕊️

cybereality

Yes, I've used Vanilla for a different forum I used to work on. It's definitely better than some open source options (like PHPBB, which is super dated) but I found that many small things have been broken for years, and they seemed to have to no desire to fix them. I mean, I still liked it overall (I'm willing to make compromises) but I think you made a good choice with the new software.

Megalomaniak

OK, for whatever reason it wouldn't accept my password so I had to do a recovery(and the mail went into spam, of course). But I got it sorted at least.

Yeah, flarum is what I've been eyeing myself too for a while now. Guess we'll have to redo the whole CSS work again at some point. Then again we never really did get around to truly completing it the last time around... 😊

cybereality

Right. Everyone's password was reset so that is normal. The CSS definitely needs work, but it's functional at least. Let me know if you need design help for the CSS, I used to work as a web developer.

cybereality

It appears that old forum links are not redirected to the new threads. This is not a high priority, but it's fixable. I had to do that once for a PHPBB forum, let me know if you need help with that as well.

Wolfe

cybereality It appears that old forum links are not redirected to the new threads. This is not a high priority, but it's fixable. I had to do that once for a PHPBB forum, let me know if you need help with that as well.

Coming from a search engine looking for answers, it gives the impression that the forum is offline/dead. The only reason I know to go to the front page and copy-paste the thread title into a forum search is because I'm aware of what happened here.

The first day I was clicking on broken links, I thought the forum was temporarily down again. All those search engine results have the resemblance of being inaccessible and lost.

EDIT: Fixed the quote. This new software is overwhelmingly modern for me to navigate comfortably.

pkowal1982

Any chance that unanswered category will be recovered? Can't find anything similar.

cybereality

pkowal1982 Any chance that unanswered category will be recovered?

I always found that feature to be kind of clunky. Most things on the forum (or at least in the help section) are asking for help, thus almost everything is a question. I guess it was sort of nice that the answer jumped to the top, but I don't know if that is supported here.

Tomcat

I returned the missing avatar and edited the posts to make the quotes look as they should be.

In general the new design is a little nicer and in some ways even a little more convenient... maybe... But to my deepest regret a bug appeared which won't affect the majority of users — long forum threads are badly perceived by Google Translate

TwistedTwigleg

Tomcat - for translation of threads, we might be able to add something to help with this. I will add it to my TODO list of things to look into in the future.

DaveTheCoder

I guess it was sort of nice that the answer jumped to the top,

That was a terrible feature. It rearranged the order of the replies, making the thread confusing. It could have added a "here's the accepted answer" link without rearranging the replies.

Megalomaniak

DaveTheCoder That was a terrible feature. It rearranged the order of the replies, making the thread confusing. It could have added a "here's the accepted answer" link without rearranging the replies.

TBF we had a customized version of the plugin which kept the original comment visible in it's place as well, the one that appeared at the top was actually a duplicate of the accepted answer, with the plugins original version hiding the real post. We just had it not css display:none the original post in the customized version.

There was one point where it broke and went back to the original version though, perhaps you are thinking of that time.

cybereality

Well that was what I was saying about it being wonky. It never really worked right.

TwistedTwigleg

Yeah, the best answer was a nice idea, but it made things a little disjointed. I added a plugin where replies can be marked as “best answer” when I set everything up, but I have no idea how it looks.

TwistedTwigleg

The theme coloring for dark mode has been adjusted! Now it should be a little easier to use. I kind of slapped it together quickly, so it will likely need to change when we make a more permanent solution, but for now it should make a lot of the harder to read text more visible.

cybereality

Lot more readable now.

SnapCracklins

Question: does Markdown stick work? Or is it a different process?

Megalomaniak

SnapCracklins Question: does Markdown stick work?

yes, it still works.