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Title: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on June 03, 2008, 01:28:14 AM
To anybody that tried to access the forum for a couple hours, my apologies as it was down. No thanks to an unexpected error, (whee syntax!) it was stuck in upgrade mode for a long time, and it was one step that needed to finish before it could complete itself. Things should be back up to normal now. :happy:
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 03, 2008, 03:19:07 PM
I fixed up a few things that got broken during the installation. If anyone comes across anything that doesn't appear to the functioning correctly please let one of us know.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 03, 2008, 03:25:16 PM
This is one of those few times where I think it's a hassle. :tongue: :finger:
Unless it's like a major security update, I have problems justifying downtime unless it's scheduled/planned outage.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 03, 2008, 03:28:36 PM
Meh, there's never been an issue with an update before, this one was just a pain in the ass for some reason.
This is the only reason I took the forum down this afternoon:
That's 4362 errors caused by things this update broke, all of which were relatively painless to fix. Did you notice the arcade and theme switcher missing? How about the overhauled PM menu? I didn't, until I went looking for them, that is.
Edit: Oh, and the YouTube and spoiler tags. Basically anything that modified the default theme's template got busted.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Lenophis on June 03, 2008, 05:27:30 PM
:noooo: :picard:
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 03, 2008, 05:31:21 PM
Oh man, that was perfect, I really needed that laugh. :laugh:
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 03, 2008, 05:34:24 PM
"The forum did not go down."
The forum did not go down.
</jedi mind trick>
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 06, 2008, 08:50:21 PM
Reusing this topic, I'm installing some new mods, so if something is broken ignore it for the time being, I'll have everything back to normal in a few minutes.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 06, 2008, 10:28:46 PM
Alright guys, if you go into your profile you now have a little notepad and comment box. No one else can see your notepad, it's just a place where you can leave little reminders for yourself. The comments are public though, see Leno's profile for an example.
There is also a new notification for PM's, a new option to post a poll, and Leno's getting something else fun set up right now.
Although you probably won't notice any difference all of our other mods have been upgraded to the newest versions, something I didn't bother doing before.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 07, 2008, 12:09:16 AM
You are getting way too insane on the news "ticker"... :wink:
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 07, 2008, 12:12:47 AM
Heh, that's a built-in feature I never enabled before. It's not staying though, I'd use it if it replaced the default news box but having two of them is pretty stupid.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Lenophis on June 07, 2008, 01:47:06 AM
After doing a lot of tinkering, we've added a mood feature as well. The mood will display after your avatar and text (if you have any), and you can set it in your profile, at "Forum Profile Information." Enjoy! :happy:
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 07, 2008, 01:55:55 AM
I'm feeling like a kid again... either that or I'm angry. :tongue:
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Lenophis on June 07, 2008, 02:41:40 AM
Modifying continues. Now we've added an option that allows each user to set how many posts per topic they want displayed, and how many topics per page they want displayed. :happy: Option is in "Look and Layout Preferences."
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 07, 2008, 01:01:06 PM
Just uploaded some SotN avatars.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 07, 2008, 10:34:04 PM
...and some AoS avatars to go along with them. Didn't scale these up at all, they'd be too wide, so as a result they're kind of small compared to our others. Oh well.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 12, 2008, 04:01:36 AM
Is there supposed to be a picture that goes with a poll thread? It seems to be missing or something...
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 12, 2008, 12:25:07 PM
Yeah, what theme are you using? I may have forgotten to upload it to one of them, they all have their own images directory.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 12, 2008, 01:43:24 PM
I'm talking of the default theme.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 12, 2008, 01:48:16 PM
Are you talking about the icon that appears next to the thread in the index? (http://slickproductions.org/forum/Themes/purple/images/topic/normal_poll.gif)
If not, I'm not sure what you're referring to.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 12, 2008, 01:57:37 PM
When you try to create a new thread, there's a section where you try to create a poll. There seems to be something missing icon/picture in that area.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 12, 2008, 02:09:42 PM
:hmm:
I installed a mod that allows you to create a new poll from the index (Notice the "Post new poll" tab in the toolbar?), maybe that changed something, but I don't see any missing icons. Perhaps a screenshot would better show what you're talking about.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 12, 2008, 03:58:42 PM
This is what I see: (http://img45.imageshack.us/img45/2269/missingpolltm2.th.png) (http://img45.imageshack.us/my.php?image=missingpolltm2.png)
See the portion that says "Post New Poll"? It seems to be missing a picture.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 12, 2008, 06:58:43 PM
Indeed it does, I'll have to look into that.
Edit: Fixed.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Leviathan Mist on June 12, 2008, 08:07:46 PM
It appears the calendar is having issues displaying the birthdays of ordinary members.
Title: Re: That was annoying (SMF 1.1.4 to 1.1.5)
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 12, 2008, 09:52:38 PM
:wtf:
That's strange, I thought it might have been a birthday mod I installed but removing that didn't fix it. This one might take a while.
Also, what's a good present for someone's 930th birthday...? :shadow:
Edit: Well, I found the cause but I have no idea how to fix it. For the time being I'm going to leave it alone.
Edit 2: Birthdays have been fixed by switching to a different mod to get colored names. I'm not sure if remnants of an old version of our old mod were causing a problem with the calendar or what but this mod seems to work just as well and it also fixes a problem we had with the old mod where searching was causing tons of errors.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on June 24, 2008, 01:16:43 PM
Anyone here use 800x600 resolution? The new links we added to the menu bar pretty much broke it at that resolution, I can shorten the link names, or remove them entirely if it's a big deal.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on July 09, 2008, 03:52:39 PM
As of today, a PM limit of 50 has been enabled. Anybody currently over that limit has 1 week to get under the limit. Failure to do so will result in us sicking Banon on to your inboxes, where he will smash it all to nothing (inboxes will be emptied). :banonsmash:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: bond697 on July 23, 2008, 10:16:17 PM
i just tried to play a game in the arcade, and i got this when i clicked on the arcade link:
An Error Has Occurred! You are not allowed to access arcade.
board problem, or something to do with me?
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on July 23, 2008, 10:40:01 PM
Ah, damn. I forgot to set the permission on your new group. Should be good now.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: bond697 on July 23, 2008, 10:50:20 PM
thanks! :happy:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: bond697 on July 24, 2008, 12:08:30 AM
:bump:
still nothing. i get the same message. weird. it's almost as if the arcade hit me with :xzone:. :cycle: :cycle:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on July 24, 2008, 12:21:08 AM
Alright, now it should be good, there were a few other permissions that never got copied from the normal member group when I made your account. :banonsmash:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: bond697 on July 24, 2008, 01:25:09 AM
perfect, thanks!
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on September 11, 2008, 11:53:04 PM
Forum's been updated to version 1.1.6. I wasn't going to bother with this update, when I tried it two nights ago it wouldn't let me apply the update and told me to uninstall all our modifications and update manually--updating manually is what screwed everything up with the 1.1.5 update so I decided not to bother with it. Tonight I decided to click the update link again to see if I could get a list of files that were having problems and it was able to update just fine. I guess there was just something wrong with the first patch, everything seems to be working flawlessly but like always let us know if something is broken.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Leviathan Mist on September 13, 2008, 01:42:46 AM
The "Send a PM when your highscore is beaten?" box doesn't function correctly. I have the box unchecked and I still get PMs every time someone beats my score.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on September 13, 2008, 01:50:34 AM
I'll look into it.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on November 07, 2008, 08:45:22 PM
Bah, I forgot to give you a status update about that. I can't find the mod I used to make that a togglable option, I can either enable the notification or disable it for everyone, I'd rather not disable it. I could've sworn I had made a post about that, but I guess not.
Anyway, what I originally came here to say, I just updated to 1.1.7, if anyone has any issues let me know.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on November 20, 2008, 02:38:58 AM
New avatars are up. The new selection comes from MM1-MM6, and MM9. Most of the MM7 and MM8 avatars are too big, though if the NES recreation hack/homebrew pans out we can add those instead.
:edit:
I'm still working on the Wily bosses, and I'll get those up as soon as possible.
:edit:
Got them up. There are some missing, most notably from MM3, because they were too big. :sad:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on February 05, 2009, 10:22:26 AM
Updated to 1.1.8.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on February 05, 2009, 10:32:04 AM
:noooo:
Oh wait, nothing's broken yet. :tongue:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on February 16, 2009, 05:05:31 PM
For the Wiimote battery count, please have a mini-representation of a Wiimote, and instead of putting in a number, represent with the number of icons used.
For every 5 or 10 batteries, use a battery or something creative to represent that number (think of it like Roman Numerals or something).
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on February 18, 2009, 04:29:17 AM
Actually, I think SMF broke something. Over the past few days, posts being edited aren't showing up as new to other users over at RHDN and the Compendium.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on March 10, 2009, 04:02:40 AM
Another set of avatars, this one of Chrono Cross. :happy:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on May 28, 2009, 12:23:24 AM
In preparation for the 1.1.9 upgrade (and to help Leno's sanity with the backup process) some pruning has taken place. And by "some" I mean one thread, Gaming Progress. There might be more pruning on the way, that'll depend. If anything breaks, I probably did it. :whoa:
:edit:
Ok, we're up to 1.1.9 now. If anything happens, blame me for it. :happy:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on June 14, 2009, 10:24:07 PM
In keeping with the streamlining, all attachments from the 2007 calendar year were removed. This freed up about 2.1 megs of attachable space.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 14, 2009, 11:03:16 PM
Your timing sucks Leno... in the middle of posting too. :bah: :lame:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on June 14, 2009, 11:18:26 PM
Oh, the backup? Sorry about that. :blush:
:edit:
That'll happen every once in a while (getting the backup is an 8-10 meg process, which on dialup takes an hour).
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 15, 2009, 01:02:13 AM
Compression, compression, compression. Ideally, if you get MPPC compression for any of your dialup numbers, you'll be a slightly happier dialup user (you will need software compression enabled though for your dialup connection).
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on June 15, 2009, 04:13:14 AM
I see no option for software compression, but modem compression is already enabled by default. Believe me, I've tried to squeeze everything out of this connection as I could (even had it connected at 56 a few times) but the stability went out the window. :sad:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 15, 2009, 07:11:42 AM
It's there. Use this link as reference: http://www.techspot.com/tweaks/winxp_modem/
I suggest unchecking "enable modem compression" as you will connect with modem compression by default if no software compression is enabled. That option forces hardware modem compression. Also, don't enable the "multilink" connection option... if you get lots of errors in your connection with the ISP, this is more often than not the culprit.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on June 15, 2009, 01:07:41 PM
Software compression was already enabled, as was hardware compression. This modem is an external, good ol US Robotics v.97. Software compression would not apply here.
Whether or not it actually helps anything (probably won't) remains to be seen.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on June 15, 2009, 07:29:36 PM
Well, if MPPC is available for a specific number for your ISP, you can see it in the Connection Properties... 2nd tab.
The pic is wrong :bah: :lame:, but that's where you'd find out. It's specific to the number you are connecting to, and not an ISP provider specific thing. Usually, the ISP's numbers are provided by various other providers that are outsourcing the stuff. I'm not sure how much you pay for service and what you get.. but if you're paying > $10 for dialup (well, other than the insane phone bill), you're probably being ripped off.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on June 21, 2009, 04:54:04 AM
In accordance with recent non-activity, I've added a new smiley to the mix:
:bored:
:bored:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on July 23, 2009, 03:24:27 AM
Board has been updated to 1.1.10 :bah:
And now... :bored:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on July 23, 2009, 12:14:13 PM
Bored enough to update that smiley to use the correct font? :tongue:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on July 23, 2009, 03:04:05 PM
I would, except I fail. I had to open up a bunch of the smileys just to make the :bored: smiley. (copy/pasting letters and whatnot). When I saw the letters available for "bored" improvised and did them myself. :happy:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Killa B on July 24, 2009, 07:39:32 PM
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Phoenix on April 20, 2010, 05:01:07 PM
The red template is broken in the new version. There isn't enough space between items, making things shift to the right. Also, the "New Posts" and "No New Posts" icons aren't working on the front page.
Cheers! :happy:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: bond697 on April 20, 2010, 06:44:44 PM
curvy caramel is very sexy, but the forum looks all squished like this:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: JCE3000GT on April 20, 2010, 07:33:01 PM
Looks better now for some reason. Never liked the previous one...
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on April 21, 2010, 02:13:36 AM
Ok, the broken themes have been decimated, deleted, and shredded. Afterwards, they were replaced with new themes. To make sure no issues would come up, I reset everyone's theme back to the crappy default, and I encourage everyone to switch. There's more themes to choose from, as well. Enjoy.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on April 21, 2010, 03:19:26 AM
whew, Curvy Caramel is working good again.. but the user Ranking images are still absent with the default theme.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on April 21, 2010, 03:39:27 AM
Oopsie. My fault. :cycle:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: I.S.T. on April 21, 2010, 05:46:03 PM
I'm likin' the colors of Royal Curve... Apply these colors to the old theme before the switch over and you'd have the perfect forum.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on December 12, 2010, 10:19:48 PM
:bump:
So, wtf happened here? :tongue:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on December 12, 2010, 10:24:24 PM
The board was down all day today. That's what happened.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on December 12, 2010, 10:31:46 PM
I was hoping for more than just the obvious. :tongue:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Deathlike2 on December 19, 2010, 04:34:58 PM
Fix the clock please! The NFL thread went through some time warp. :P
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on February 13, 2011, 09:17:05 PM
We've somehow missed the RC4 upgrade, but that's ok, cause we're on RC5 now. This upgrade should fix the bug of people getting logged out at random. It turns out that spambots/assholes are trying to log in as you, causing you to be logged out.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Odbarc on February 14, 2011, 11:09:29 AM
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on February 17, 2011, 08:09:53 PM
didn't our usernames above our avatars to the left of our posts used to be color-coded based on "level" (e.g. administrator, moderator, etc.; so Deathlike2 was blue and Lenophis was red)? now everybody's is orange. i think i'm remembering right, anyway.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Odbarc on February 18, 2011, 07:55:00 AM
didn't our usernames above our avatars to the left of our posts used to be color-coded based on "level" (e.g. administrator, moderator, etc.; so Deathlike2 was blue and Lenophis was red)? now everybody's is orange. i think i'm remembering right, anyway.
Weren't you the only orange? I never REALLY payed attention to this sort of thing.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on February 18, 2011, 08:26:53 AM
almost. i remember bond697 was a lighter shade of orange than me.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on February 18, 2011, 02:46:21 PM
didn't our usernames above our avatars to the left of our posts used to be color-coded based on "level" (e.g. administrator, moderator, etc.; so Deathlike2 was blue and Lenophis was red)? now everybody's is orange. i think i'm remembering right, anyway.
Upgrading to SMF 2.0 broke some color-coordinated things, so we've been kinda bland since that upgrade. :bah:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on February 18, 2011, 05:14:01 PM
but your posts indicate you upgraded to SMF 2.0 on April 20, 2010. i could swear we had color-coded usernames to the left of our posts until very recently. far more recent than 10 months ago.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on July 30, 2011, 11:14:03 PM
Since the server move:
Avatars and attachments did not work (now fixed). Funky line going on with all themes (now fixed).
Report anything out of the ordinary.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: I.S.T. on July 31, 2011, 03:18:12 AM
The Rank avatars are broken.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on July 31, 2011, 10:35:24 AM
Don't know how, but the ranks weren't copied over, despite everything being buried in sub-directories. No reason why they shouldn't have been. Oh well, fixored. I'm thinking there was an easier way to set it, but oh well.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Jorgur on September 10, 2011, 09:20:40 AM
On this forum, there used to be tons of avatars to choose from. Now there are only a few that do not even work. Fix this please!
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: I.S.T. on September 10, 2011, 05:37:51 PM
I think you mean "Now there are only a few that even work." The words "do not" in that sentence make it seem like only a few are malfunctioning, while the rest of the sentence makes it seem otherwise.
I'm only correcting your grammar here as I know you're not a native speaker. I hope this is helpful for you.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Jorgur on October 13, 2011, 12:08:38 PM
No, I actually meant there are a few to choose from, but they appear to be broken.
:edit: Nvm, this seems to be fixed.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on June 03, 2012, 11:10:51 AM
were there recent server changes? mnrogar's is broken with the "Not able to open ./cache/data_global.php" message again. one thing this does is prevent the Captcha from displaying, which we don't care about for new users since we're not currently accepting them anyway, but it IS an issue for existing users who forget their passwords for a handful of login attempts, because they will need a Captcha to get in after that. and they're screwed if it doesn't display.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on June 03, 2012, 11:25:28 AM
Well, something did happen, because I had no way of making any file changes to the site for the past month. DKK and Mnrogar had the same issues. I've been working so much that I wasn't able to bring it up with Hypher until this last week. :bah: Server permissions have been restored, at least.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on December 06, 2014, 08:59:32 PM
So, we're back! And I may have broken everything in the process! I'm working on it! :p :picard:
I guess the one good thing that came out of this was the server database never had to be restored, since it was never destroyed at all. :cycle:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: JCE3000GT on December 06, 2014, 11:19:34 PM
At least we are back! woot
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Grimoire LD on December 07, 2014, 12:10:47 AM
Indeed! I was starting to get a little bit worried. In the interim though Chillyfeez and I may have encouraged a few others to look into FFIV Hacking so it wasn't without its upside.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on December 07, 2014, 12:13:28 PM
the Dragonsbrethren link just redirects to this forum, so i'd refine it to: http://dragonsbrethren.slickproductions.org/dbi_archive/
some good reading there.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on December 07, 2014, 12:16:27 PM
I don't know why his site redirects like that. I know he has content, but for some reason it's not working. :bah:
I also think it's hilarious that trying to toss in wiki support allows me to find what I need to add buttons to the top bar like that. It eluded us for so long. :bah:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on December 07, 2014, 12:51:37 PM
ok, code blocks are illegible in the blueandyellow theme (though highlighting solves that). see http://slickproductions.org/forum/index.php?topic=1964.0
any way for admins to force a dark block background in this theme?
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on December 07, 2014, 12:52:35 PM
Maybe I should just get rid of the blueandyellow theme? It looked good at first, but there's been a lot of complaints about it already since last night.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on December 07, 2014, 12:56:42 PM
i think it's worth keeping and ironing out the kinks. it's mostly nice, with the main problem being that bold text (e.g. forum titles) is kinda hard on the eyes.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on December 07, 2014, 12:59:49 PM
Ok, editing the stylesheet was really easy, how does it look now?
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on December 07, 2014, 01:01:48 PM
nice! :cookie:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on December 07, 2014, 01:06:03 PM
another tweak needed is the stickied topic title backgrounds are yellowish, as seen on the Submissions board.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Madsiur on December 07, 2014, 05:53:51 PM
So, we're back! And I may have broken everything in the process! I'm working on it! :p
I'm glad slick forum is back up again! I have notice the home button link to the forum index page and the index button to slick home page... Shouldn't it be the the way around? :hmm:
Also, it's pretty cool to see a wiki link. Do you guys plan to cover FF4 to FF6 in the wiki and how will/would it differ from datacrystal?
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: JCE3000GT on December 07, 2014, 10:48:10 PM
I'd love to see all of this put in to a wiki that's regularly maintained. I would do it but I suck at the internets. :)
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on December 08, 2014, 04:19:57 PM
another offender is 2nd level quotes. ex:
Quote
Quote
i like trucks
i too like trucks.
3rd level and beyond seem okay.
and very minor: the "Post" and "Preview" buttons lighting up when the cursor's over them, you can't read what they say. could hurt those with amnesia.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on December 09, 2014, 12:42:19 AM
didn't the older SMF resize avatars if they're too big, or at the very least tell us what the pixel or filesize limitations were? this one's quite mum on the matter.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on December 09, 2014, 01:11:14 AM
didn't the older SMF resize avatars if they're too big, or at the very least tell us what the pixel or filesize limitations were? this one's quite mum on the matter.
This one should be, and I'm fairly certain the limit is 128x128. I'll check it out.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: SunGodPortal on December 10, 2014, 02:02:57 PM
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In the interim though Chillyfeez and I may have encouraged a few others to look into FFIV Hacking so it wasn't without its upside.
Oh how right you are. Until this site went down and some of you guys started vacationing at the romhacking.net forums I had no idea of the magnitude of what this place contained. I can't tell you how many times I was looking for something and someone would say "Well, when the slick forums are up and running again..."
As someone working on their first major hacking project I can't tell you how valuable it is to suddenly have access to such a community and such detailed info on the very game that I intend to butcher *cough* I mean the game I intend to hack (FFIV). :happy:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Grimoire LD on December 10, 2014, 09:43:24 PM
Glad to have you here SunGodPortal! Yes, this is the repository of FFIV hacking information on the web, without doubt. I would love to see what the Japanese side of the river has found though, Tomato might be willing to share that with us eventually.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on November 29, 2015, 03:32:28 AM
will the ranks ever come back?
in particular, to reward 666 posts: http://web.archive.org/web/20100707084329/http://slickproductions.org/forum/ranks/evilpuppy.gif
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on November 29, 2015, 05:32:16 AM
If archive has all the images, yes, they can come back. I thought they were gone forever. :(
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on November 30, 2015, 01:36:47 AM
not all, but a solid dozen: http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://slickproductions.org/forum/ranks/*
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Dragonsbrethren on December 16, 2015, 02:05:57 PM
While I'm fairly sure I have a backup of those, I wouldn't begin to know where to look for it :bah: :lame:
Honestly though, most of them were just grabbed from the web. It shouldn't be too hard to get those again. It looks like everything is still in place for them, including names and post counts, the sprites just need to be added to each theme's directory. (I seem to remember I had an extension installed that would read them all from one place rather than duplicating them, hence that ranks directory.)
Looks like archive.org is missing 777.gif, pretty sure that's the only custom one that's gone.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on December 16, 2015, 11:42:29 PM
Yeah, I thought I had backed everything up... One more pile of fail for me. :isuck:
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on February 09, 2016, 06:36:46 PM
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: assassin on February 09, 2016, 07:32:39 PM
nice! can you change my vargas.png image link to vargas.gif? i need him there to be the full-fledged Bane of Retards.
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Lenophis on February 09, 2016, 08:44:25 PM
Should be done
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Bahamut ZERO on February 13, 2016, 02:50:44 PM
Thanks for restoring the restoring the rank sprites! Adds a very nice touch. :)
Title: Re: The generic "we did something to the forum that broke it" thread
Post by: Madsiur on February 14, 2016, 01:36:20 PM
I noticed the user statistic page text is messed up in some places. Not a top priority, maybe it has to do with my theme too. It's like that on my laptop and desktop PC.
I myself have a lot of these small UI tweaks to do on ff6hacking.com. There is so much one person with a job and personal projects can do though...