Announcement Maintenance - Sunday, Jan 12, 2025

[Kevin]

The site will be down for likely about two hours on Sunday, Jan 12, 2025. Please note that an exact time is not planned yet but it'll either be in the afternoon or about 8PM (Eastern Time Zone).

We're overdue for some maintenance and software updates so it's time.

 

[doobs]

Good luck!

 

[Kevin]

Sorry for the short notice but maintenance will start at about 4:15PM Eastern today (about 10 minutes from now); it's lining up to the only time window I have today where I can get about 2 hours at the same time.

 

[Kevin]

The 'big' changes for today are done, took a few hours longer than anticipated. Murphy's Law struck, of course, and of the five different sites that needed to go through these updates, plus another sandbox install, it was Cameraderie that ended up throwing up several roadblocks that were not encountered elsewhere. About a dozen cups of coffee later and we're back online.

There are a few things that need to be cleaned up yet, in particular fixing some of the icons being displayed in various places and some slight style tweaks. More importantly, if anybody notices anything a bit funky please let us know in this thread so it can be taken a look at.

 

[phigmov]

Nice job! Appreciate all the hard-work 👏

 

[ektar]

Appreciate the work that goes into the site. Hope it's not too unimportant, but in the Classifieds, MountainMan's Nikon 85 ad pic shows up huge (thumbnail):


Also the placeholder pic I put in my WTB ad for the MIR 38B comes up as a bad link.

--Well, now my pic is back. Gremlins...

 

[John King]

The 'big' changes for today are done, took a few hours longer than anticipated. Murphy's Law struck, of course, and of the five different sites that needed to go through these updates, plus another sandbox install, it was Cameraderie that ended up throwing up several roadblocks that were not encountered elsewhere. About a dozen cups of coffee later and we're back online.

There are a few things that need to be cleaned up yet, in particular fixing some of the icons being displayed in various places and some slight style tweaks. More importantly, if anybody notices anything a bit funky please let us know in this thread so it can be taken a look at.

Good work, Kevin.

Congratulations.

 

[Kevin]

Appreciate the work that goes into the site. Hope it's not too unimportant, but in the Classifieds, MountainMan's Nikon 85 ad pic shows up huge (thumbnail):

Well, that is weird. Looking at the CSS I'm not spotting anything obvious and it seems to be only affecting the first listing. Thanks for pointing it out, I may not get a fix tonight (it's already past midnight here and I need to be up at 5AM) but I'll have it on my To Do list for Monday.

Also the placeholder pic I put in my WTB ad for the MIR 38B comes up as a bad link.

--Well, now my pic is back. Gremlins...

The various caches were cleared so it may have been a case where the first page load the image didn't show right away as it was being downloaded.

 

[MountainMan79]

Appreciate the work that goes into the site. Hope it's not too unimportant, but in the Classifieds, MountainMan's Nikon 85 ad pic shows up huge (thumbnail):
View attachment 523541

Also the placeholder pic I put in my WTB ad for the MIR 38B comes up as a bad link.

--Well, now my pic is back. Gremlins...

My ad is supposed to be HUGE 😎

 

[CatsAreGods]

It may have taken longer than expected, but as someone who started with computers back in 1966 or so, I was very impressed.

I happened to sign on maybe 15 minutes after the scheduled maintenance time, and having done a bit of forum maintenance myself, I guessed that perhaps this was one of those times that everything went super smoothly, because everything seemed normal. So I uploaded a recent shot and got ready to post it, when BANG! The whole shebang went into maintenance mode.

I just signed back in a few minutes ago and everything was still there waiting for me to hit the "Post reply" button!

 

[Levina de Ruijter]

The 'big' changes for today are done, took a few hours longer than anticipated. Murphy's Law struck, of course, and of the five different sites that needed to go through these updates, plus another sandbox install, it was Cameraderie that ended up throwing up several roadblocks that were not encountered elsewhere. About a dozen cups of coffee later and we're back online.

There are a few things that need to be cleaned up yet, in particular fixing some of the icons being displayed in various places and some slight style tweaks. More importantly, if anybody notices anything a bit funky please let us know in this thread so it can be taken a look at.

It's a big update but at least you know what you are doing and how to fix whatever the new version screwed with a bit. Good job, Kevin!

 

[Irene McC]

Thank you @Kevin for all the hard work and maintenance you do on the site.
One thing I've noticed just now is that the search function - never wonderful - is now even more broken

 

[wee-pics]

Help !
the Latest Post and Latest Thread List at the right margin does not show any more since maintenance.
It shows on the Front Page, though. How can I get it re-installed?

 

[MoonMind]

Help !
the Latest Post and Latest Thread List at the right margin does not show any more since maintenance.
It shows on the Front Page, though. How can I get it re-installed?

FWIW, I see both lists on all pages/landing points. So it may be a Theme issue.

M.

 

[doobs]

Firstly,

Thanks for all your hard work. Your efforts are greatly appreciated.

Looking around, the ignore thread setting is inop.

Cheers

 

[Charzes44]

I have just posted this pic in the 'Black & White with water in the frame' thread. It has appeared much bigger than I expected for 802x1000 pixels. Also, I tap on it (iPad), and nothing happens! It should go smaller, and have a black background!

Join to see EXIF info for this image (if available)

 

[wee-pics]

FWIW, I see both lists on all pages/landing points. So it may be a Theme issue.

M.

What is a Theme issue, Matt? And where do I have to go to get it back to normal?
Whatever thread I open, the right margin will not show ... except on the srart page (see attachments)

 

[Kevin]

@Irene McC Thanks for letting me know about the search; as part of the updates the add-ons related to searching have changed a little bit so I just rebuilt the cache and searching for a-z no rules now returns results as expected.

@wee-pics & @MoonMind Should be showing again now, thanks. The option Walter is referring to is that when viewing individual threads (like this one) that a sidebar can be optionally shown with some widgets like they are shown on the front page, the forum listing page, and some other spots. Having the sidebar shown there is not an 'out-of-the-box' thing with the software and members need to go into their settings to explicitly set the option on. Here's a screenshot of the setting when members go into their "Preferences" settings. Walter, if you still don't see the sidebar, let me know and I'll take another look.

@Charzes44 Nothing should have changed with how images are shown in the posts. 🤔 From what you're describing, my guess is that your iOS device has a screen resolution that is big enough for the image to be displayed fully.

 

[MountainMan79]

I almost exclusively browse via mobile (iOS), and I’ve noticed some things are a little too quick? For example when giving a reaction, it was relatively easy to lightly press and hold the like button to open up the tray if available reactions, and move to select the one you want. My same gestures now almost always result in an immediate thumbs up like. I have to go back and very gingerly select the reaction I want. I’ve also noticed that with the notification bell, I used to be able to click the bell to see the pop up of new notifications, navigate to a specific one if wanted, and then click the bell again to close the notifications tray. However, now when clicking the bell again second time it no longer closes the tray, but takes me to the full on notifications page. That one is a little annoying, but to be fair, I think that’s been happening for about a week now and wasn’t necessarily a part of the latest update.

 

[wee-pics]

@Irene McC Thanks for letting me know about the search; as part of the updates the add-ons related to searching have changed a little bit so I just rebuilt the cache and searching for a-z no rules now returns results as expected.

@wee-pics & @MoonMind Should be showing again now, thanks. The option Walter is referring to is that when viewing individual threads (like this one) that a sidebar can be optionally shown with some widgets like they are shown on the front page, the forum listing page, and some other spots. Having the sidebar shown there is not an 'out-of-the-box' thing with the software and members need to go into their settings to explicitly set the option on. Here's a screenshot of the setting when members go into their "Preferences" settings. Walter, if you still don't see the sidebar, let me know and I'll take another look.

View attachment 523606

@Charzes44 Nothing should have changed with how images are shown in the posts. 🤔 From what you're describing, my guess is that your iOS device has a screen resolution that is big enough for the image to be displayed fully.

Thanks, Kevin for the screen-shot, I had this ticked 'yes' all the time. But, oh wonder, it works again now.
So whatever it was, it's fixed. You're doing a great job, this website works so smoothly and is nice to look at.