Forum Upgrade March 2022

[fattima]

Thanks Robert, Search working again yay! Appreciate all your work.

[Robert]

Still in here fiddling with remaining bits. I had noticed that any attachments to posts or profiles that were done in the old forum software version were not present in the new – just broken links. I’ve retrieved the old attachments from a backup and loaded them into their correct spot in the current forum. I’ve checked a couple and they seem to be right now.
If anyone finds anything missing, please let me know and I’ll try to get it right.

[Robert]

Further update. The ads (via google) I've had on this site for the past few years to try to cover costs have broken. Turns out the new version has deliberately make some things difficult around this to push things to their own advertising partners. After a day's worth of time messing around with code trying to find a better way, I've reverted to an automated setting for google ads. In the old code, I had the ability to customise a bit, or to display less or no ads to specific usergroups, but this is no longer the case.
Also, I don't know yet how intrusive the new ad settings will be. I did find one pop-up that annoyed me, but it's too early to judge. It may take a few days depending on traffic for the settings to start adjusting.
Apologies to any that are upset to see ads here. Over the last few years the revenue they've generated has been a lot less than the cost of software licenses and hosting, so I've covered these costs myself. Please bear with the ads (and even click an ad every now and then if you want to support the forum) and hopefully this can remain sustainable. I will try to tune the ads better as we go on.

[Robert]

Thanks Tony. Glad it's working for you too. I've sent you a private message as well. If you've not found the messages yet in this new version, you'll find the link to at at the top right for messages and notifications next to your login.

[Tony From West Oz]

Here is one from my HDD

Looks to be working correctly now.
Well Done Robert.

[Tony From West Oz]

Test post with image.

[Robert]

Some progress. I think I have fixed the first 2, but I've spent most of the day working on posible related back-end clean up issues and then only done minor tests on the first 2 issues after this.
I've uploaded an image to this post (which didn't work before, but does now).

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Tony From West Oz, please confirm if this fixes the issue for you too please. I have also rebuilt a whole bunch if indexes including the search index. I've done a few test searches and they seem to be working. I have a little more work to do on item 3, but I think I'm probably the only one that's bothering at the moment.

[Robert]

Hi All,

After the initial push to get the upgrade done, I expected there would be bits not working, so thanks for posting anything you notice. I will make a list and chip away at them:

1. Images/Storage issues
2. Search function
3. SSL errors

I will work on these in the background over the coming days/weeks and I'll post back in here when I make progress,

Cheers,

Robert

[Tony From West Oz]

Hi Robert,
I tried to send a message to Tilly with an attachment from my PC. I get an error message:

Power Window electrical diagram.png
The attachment storage directory does not exist or is not writable.

I get the same error here.

Can you please see if this can be fixed?

Thanks,
Tony

[fattima]

Hi Kevin. Not sure if it is just me but the search function does not appear to be working.

[Kevin]

I know most of you guys dont understand DNS, and thats cool, but it's been over 48 hours, and all my checks say propagation is finished. Im shiutting down the old servers

[Kevin]

Thanks to you Kevin for the server stuff, a largely underappreciated skillset.

You have no idea LOL, All is well that ends well. I really think once you and the folks get used to it, you will be happy. Everything has to evolve

[Tony From West Oz]

Robert. WOW, this is a big improvement! I am still getting the personal settings sorted to my liking. Using a larger font for reading the posts has helped me heaps. Old Eyes!

[fattima]

Thanks for the work on the upgrade, looks good.

[Kevin]

Im learning from you, just glad we kept the original data, just really impressed how far you came so fast THATS MY HORSE, i found it in the profile