Downtime Warning - A Tale of Maintenance Past

So hey, there's this thing called "updates" we need to do, and we're going to be doing it somewhat soon.

This coming weekend, August 12th and 13th, we'll be messing with things for a while, and there'll be some time during that with-messing that the forums will be off.

We do have backups and such, so in the event of catastrophic update failure, we'll probably be fine. Probably. Maybe.

While we do these things, we'll be keeping people up to date in the Discord. Want up-to-the-minute status reports on exactly what's going on? ...I mean, that's a bit much, but you can hit Schazer or I up on Discord and we'll probably give you something, at least.

If there's anything specific you think we should look at while we do this, some time this week would be a good time to prod us about it. We'll be updating both the platform (version of PHP, SQL, etc) and the software (MyBB), so this is as good a time as any to look at possible additional tweaks.

Is it perhaps possible to fix the threads that are miscounting replies and therefore produce an error when the forum thinks they hit a new page? I made a list of all the affected threads way back when, it should be somewhere in this subforum and I can dig it up if you think there's a chance of actually fixing this.

The current Post Making Contest thread is also having a different postcount-related issue where it doesn't acknowledge the existence of the most recent page until three posts in. Again, no idea on the details, but it is a currently unresolved issue so it would be nice to do something about it if possible.

Can you fix the "FUCK," prefix in HAWKS IN SPACE?

This is approximately what it should look like (you can mess around with the shadow a bit, I just guessed about what it should be)

Code:

<span style="color: red;text-shadow: 0px 0px 2px firebrick;"><font face="Lucida Calligraphy" color="red"><b><i>FUCK,</i></b></font></span>

FUCK, is a feature, not a bug

Can you in fact make the FUCK, code worse?

Imagine my shock when the current software straight up ate a baguette emoji!

Well, I’m not sure I feel too good about it being part of Unicode, but the device vendors of the world have already crossed the Rubicon.

... lemme guess. There’s already a rub icon.

Is it perhaps possible to fix the threads that are miscounting replies and therefore produce an error when the forum thinks they hit a new page? I made a list of all the affected threads way back when, it should be somewhere in this subforum and I can dig it up if you think there's a chance of actually fixing this.

I'm not sure if the MyBB portion of the update will address this or not, and I don't know if it'll make any related changes, so we'll have to see afterwards.

FUCK

I'm FUCK,gnostic on the issue, so I'm going to err on the side of not touching it and seeing what happens.

Also, things will be starting in 2.5-3 hours, so hold on to your pants and get ready for an exciting (read: boring) ride!

Alrighty, the bulk of the update is complete! We've now moved past the main phases and into the cleanup step, which involves fixing things (like the corners of tables and some missing graphics) that the update knocked out of place. We're aiming to get these mostly done over the rest of the weekend, but if you see anything that jumps out as busted after that time, this is probably as good a place as any to drop a note and let us know.

clicking on the most recent post of a subforum on the main page brings me back to the main page

Buglog (consolidating also what people have mentioned):

• everything has curved corners now and I Do Not Like It (the red is intentional, we have that as the forum bg color so we can see when things are messed up)
  
• new topic button in subforums and new reply button in threads are plaintext instead of image
  
• text sizes have gone wonky in some places like Signatures (e.g. fogel's). Edit help files to explain how they work now
  
• Edit Options no longer has an option to show/hide images and videos (must be done by an admin through ACP)
  
• Thread status images need updating in Search
  
• ---User Control Panel---
  • Icons all need replacing
    
  • Saved Drafts doubles up on text when you have drafts
• Contact Details box on user profiles has been reset
  
• Broken image hotlinks now stretch avatar areas
  
• Advanced Reply no longer has the box of myBB shortcuts
  
• tables look Real Bad, Folks - big thanks to awkwardCarapace for helping me find a solution
  
• Users who didn't have a user title have had it change to "( )"
  
• --Inside threads and replies--
  • multiquote has upped and vanished from under posts
    
  • Delete button doesn't show up/no longer works
    
  • buttons underneath replies: for PM, Edit etc have been stripped of their images
    
  • Signatures no longer separated from post content by dividing line
• A bunch of buttons like Search Thread at top and bottom of threads, Post Reply+Preview Post under the quick reply box, looked worse then I took the corners off them. will do some further improvements on this later using css3.css stylesheet and this page for reference
  
• ---Pagination---:
  • Jump to page button at top of threads looks bad and doesn't work (fixed via removal as we didn't have it previously
    
  • Page numbers except for the one you're on have curved corners
• ---Frontpage:---
  • Subforums on the front page no longer display read+unread posts status
    
  • Subforums now display on a new line underneath the heading Subforums
    
  • The little toggle image to show+hide forums needs replacing
    
  • Clicking on thread names on index.php goes to index.php instead (probably an issue with $newpost_link)
    
  • Times and dates displaying weirdly (showing X hours ago on front page and also in threads), compare with archived homepage
• Annoying red bits:
  • Around announcement posts
    
  • around previewed posts

Wow, that's weird.

I guess people can just click on it and see which thread they arrive in.

There's no bar between post content and signatures

We've also got that when using the quick reply it does post but doesn't really look like it does -- the post doesn't appear on the page like it did before and it doesn't even refresh to make up for the fact that this functionality is lost.

MOH HO HO now nothing can stop baguette ?

(Nope, but now it does convert to question mark.)

((Smilies don't seem to work on click at the moment.))

If I preview a post, there's a red border around the preview. I guess that means part of the page isn't being filled in?

I've still got the same dumb problem that Wheat has, myself. Not sure why it didn't fix itself for whatever you did on that front, but nothing's changed on my end. Mind, I haven't seen if logging into another account is any different, though considering that logging out doesn't cause the problem to show up, then, I'd presume I'm probably in the same boat, so... Hell if I know why things aren't any different on my end.

For anyone having the same issue as Wheat and Dis, it's an issue with your user settings. Prior to the update you used to be able to change this setting yourself through the UCP but now I've gotta push a button through the admin control panel?

If anyone else has this issue PM me and I can get it fixed up quicksmart until I'm able to figure out how to get the option reinstated in regular users' settings panel.

I think this is a bug. "Saved drafts" is repeated in the control panel if there is a saved draft (like so).

The "Location" setting underneath people's profiles doesn't say "Location: <text>", it just says "<text>".

I don't know if this was always the case or not, or if it was intended, but users who have no or little personal information filled out for their user page will be missing a whole table/sections of a table completely, rather than just having a table with empty entries. (Example)

the word "location" doesn't even appear under a poster's profile pic

the word "location" doesn't even appear under a poster's profile pic

That's what I meant.

When previewing a post, the link "Get More" underneath the emoji section doesn't work. Not a top priority thing

E: clicking on the emoji also doesn't do anything

I'm getting a red border when I look at a PM.

This applies to both PMs in my inbox and in "Sent Items".

I looked and I didn't see it so sorry if this was reported before, but I think I used to be able to click on the little squares that sit to the left of each subforum to mark that subforum as read, and now they just appear to be images that are shaded if there are new posts and blank if there aren't (so like before, except I can't click them to mark a subforum as read).

I'm already starting to wonder if I'm conjuring false memories about this because nobody else seems to have reported it, it is a fairly common message board feature so it's possible I was confusing this board with some other one, but hey... it'd be convenient?