Well, today sucked. (Destiny)

by Claude Errera , Thursday, December 29, 2022, 22:05 (698 days ago)

Nobody really cares about the details, but a necessary server upgrade (php 7.4, which reached the end of its life last month, went up to 8.2) broke this forum really badly.

I ended up upgrading the forum from the version we'd been using (installed in 2014) to a version released a few months ago. There are probably 5000 things still broken in there now, because I tried to keep the various functions we've added over the years, and adding those into the new version while being stressed that the whole forum is offline is probably not the best way to do things right. If you find broken stuff, you've got a couple of choices: you can let me know, or you can just wait and hope it gets fixed without letting me know. I don't have a preferred option here; I don't want to do either one. That said, eventually I will.

Turns out that a feature this forum software relies on heavily doesn't work under php 8.2... so after all that I had to downgrade to 8.1. Bleh.

Anyway, it seems to be holding together, mostly.

I blame Telesto. Or maybe Revision 0.