Temporary Forum Oddities

[admin]

As some of you guys may have noticed, grymm has been hard at work on adding some nice new features into the forums.  We now get reports of posts here over in the Discord channel, as well as being able to post better colored code inside custom codeboxes, while also adding much better QBJS support and capabilities.  Go grymm!!

Another thing you might notice is that not all of these features have trickled down to all the extra themes which we offer, and our banner/logo may have changed, or things may not be quite as centered as they once was...  These little quirks aren't any fault of grymmjacks; instead, they're an unfortunate side effect from us updating to forum software to the latest version available.  Some of our custom theme settings got tweaked back to the defaults, and it'll take us a little while to sort out which themes were affected and what might be off with them.

Feel free to post any issues/changes that you guys notice where one of the themes isn't acting quite like it used to, (and include a screenshot if possible, along with browser make and model and such), and we'll see about addressing any issues once we're aware of them...

Well, we'll address them tomorrow.  For tonight, I think we're all off to bed.  Uncentered banners/images aren't the end of the world, and neither are missing buttons or whatnot.  If you have issues and can't bare to wait for us to fix them, click back over to the "Default" them, as it appears to be working as advertised for now.  We'll let you guys know once everything else is 100% again, as soon as we get all the little reported issues sorted out again. 

[grymmjack]

Thanks

I have tried to fix the header and the weird link alignment. Please advise if it's better now?

[TerryRitchie]

Thanks

I have tried to fix the header and the weird link alignment. Please advise if it's better now?

The login button is not working in the header. I had to click on someone's name, be told I wasn't logged in, and then use that login link to logon to the site.

Now that I'm logged in I see that logout is not working either. There were a few others not working in the header as well before I logged in.

Help and search are also overlapping each other.

[bplus]

Where is the {code} button in the editor?

Do I now have to type it on to do code tags?

OK I see the QB64 icon now at the start of the tool bar on "Your Message:" line

Code: (Select All)

Print "Hello new code tag place and icon."

[bplus]

I see what Terry is talking about:
   


The solution is simple, dump default theme and pick a color, here is Calm I think it was:
   

[bplus]

OK guess what? next time I went to log in the old forum banner was showing (which never happened before, it use to be on a color theme until I logged in) and before I could log in again I had to switch to Calm Color Theme at the very bottom of the page.

[grymmjack]

Thanks for the reports.

I'm going to setup a staging server for future changes so we can not disrupt the community until we have it ironed out.

The login issues shouldn't be happening any more.

[SMcNeill]

In grymm's defense here, in this case, I don't even know if a staging server would've helped.  The main issue I see was caused by an automatic forum update for our underlying software.  Old files that had been custom changed with little tweaks like <center> or <color> tags (along with the new banner name/image), just got overwrote by default values in the update.  It wasn't until we were well into adding the newest features that a740g mentioned, "Does this look different than it used to?  Did a font change or something?".  Until he'd pointed out what he'd noticed, we'd completely been so focused on the new stuff that we never even noticed anything off with the odd stuff.

It happens.  Let me say, "Sorry," to anyone affected by the goofiness.  99% of the time, we're up and running and glitch free.  If you guys want that extra 1% of perfection, you're just going to have to start paying us like that 1% crowd.  Once I earn enough to perma-vacation at a tropical beach, with two sexy young beauties on my arms, I'll guarantee no more worries over forum issues.  (For me, at least!) 

Until then, you'll always have our 99% to fall back on.  (Except on days when performance is lower than that...)

[bplus]

Looks like the banner is fixed now too:
   

[bplus]

I noted an interesting thing that happens right after I edit a post, when testing Tessellations code here:
https://staging.qb64phoenix.com/showthre...8#pid16338

It's not bad, in fact might very handy to test a link right after a post.