Well, today sucked. (Destiny)

by Claude Errera @, Thursday, December 29, 2022, 22:05 (481 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.

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<3

by CyberKN ⌂ @, Oh no, Destiny 2 is bad, Thursday, December 29, 2022, 22:16 (481 days ago) @ Claude Errera

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Thanks Claude!

by squidnh3, Friday, December 30, 2022, 06:03 (481 days ago) @ Claude Errera

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Telesto 0?

by Anna Komnene, Friday, December 30, 2022, 06:32 (481 days ago) @ Claude Errera

Thanks for all the hard work!!!!

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Thanks for all that you do.

by Robot Chickens, Friday, December 30, 2022, 08:02 (481 days ago) @ Claude Errera

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I told you I told you... don't add the Bungie API!

by INSANEdrive, ಥ_ಥ | f(ಠ‿↼)z | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Friday, December 30, 2022, 09:17 (481 days ago) @ Claude Errera
edited by INSANEdrive, Friday, December 30, 2022, 09:22

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.

;P

Some of the changes are obvious. I see here as I'm making the post that the buttons for formatting are uh, "less clicky" lets say. Feels a good time to request adding "format text underline" [u][/u] and oh what was that other thing "format strikethrough" [strike][/strike] which have always been there in the code, but for WHATEVER reason, didn't have a quick button for them. Might as well since you're in the code anyway.

As of my posting, the... I think the term is shadowbox? Whatever it is that lets the thumbnail also embiggen, and not just link to it, is down. Than again, it might be nice to also have something that will shrink an image, but also act at a link to it. I'm thinking of cases where an image is so oversized anyway that it overlaps the bounds of the screen. It's still nice to see what you're clicking into, maybe a [img=thumbnaillink] tag?

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Last thing I have to say at the moment is something that may have been noticed, but the correlation missed. Y'all may have noticed that some of the headline titles are no longer bold, including the posts pinned at the top of the forum. Seems to me that this is because they are locked. If the title is not in it's usual "old default" bold, the whole thread is locked.

Oh, and the youtube video in the Forum Guidelines is requiring a youtube site view, where before it did not.

It seems odd it would switch to this after the update, as all other posts with youtube embeds seem to be working. Maybe the new update recognizes settings that the old one did not? As it just so happens, I was but two days ago looking at the Forum Guidelines, simply out of curiosity in not having clicked it in so long. The video worked embedded.

What can I say, I check all the corners I can in videogames, so why not the videogame fourm. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That's what I have to say on a nimble glance. Thanks Wu.

I told you I told you... don't add the Bungie API!

by Claude Errera @, Friday, December 30, 2022, 09:39 (481 days ago) @ INSANEdrive

As mentioned, the forum was completely replaced with a version that is 8 years newer... and the only features I ensured would come back were the ones we added ourselves. (Mostly that's Beorn's FireTeamBuilder code, and a few minor things that happen behind the scenes.)

The rest of the changes are... well, default. I'll have to dig into the old code to figure out where stuff like the clickable text formatting came in, and how to reintroduce it. Same with the image features.

None of this will happen this week. (Or next, probably.) I took a day I was supposed to be spending with my family to ensure that this forum wasn't down for more than a few hours. I'm really sad that it was down at all, and I'm heartbroken that I'm going to be spending god knows how long to bring it back to parity (or as close as I can get it) to what we had yesterday... but all of that is going to have to wait.

I'm going to use the new bookmark feature, however, to tag this post, so that when I DO get back to it, I'll have a starting point. :)

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You as ever spoil us all, Wu. ;)

by INSANEdrive, ಥ_ಥ | f(ಠ‿↼)z | ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ| ¯\_(ツ)_/¯, Friday, December 30, 2022, 17:28 (480 days ago) @ Claude Errera

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by uberfoop @, Seattle-ish, Friday, December 30, 2022, 10:18 (481 days ago) @ Claude Errera

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Well, today sucked.

by FyreWulff, Saturday, December 31, 2022, 01:55 (480 days ago) @ Claude Errera

That's what I figured. Take your time though, man, you already do enough for us.

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