IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

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IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby Site Owner » Sat Sep 26, 2015 10:26 am

Hey folks, Evan here.

I am taking our site through a LONG overdue overhaul. This morning (Saturday 9/26/15) I successfully upgraded the core software (phpBB) to the most current version. This was way overdue and the reasons are numerous: 1- It's scary! 2- I wanted to make sure all of the other server software was compatible and 3- It takes a lot of time and concentration to do it right and I just had to bite the bullet and get to it.

The latest version of software will offer many improvements for us, not the least of which is a mobile-friendly responsive design. I'll be exploring possible new features as well over the next few weeks. The other thing you will immediately notice is the default phpBB "skin" or style. I'll be working on customizing that too. Another big thing - I know most of you regular users have the forum bookmarked, bypassing the actual home page of FiatSpider.com. You will need to update your bookmarks for this new installation.

Hang in there with me while I work to make this forum the best it can be. I want to extend a huge thank you to all of you that have donated to keep this site going over the years. That donate button is still works and is on the home page! I will get it back into the main forum header as soon as I can complete the new styling.

Thanks again everyone!

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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby KevAndAndi » Mon Sep 28, 2015 1:27 pm

Thank YOU, Evan.

I imagine I was one of many who missed this message originally and completely FREAKED OUT :shock: when clicking on their usual bookmarks returned HTML gobbledegook and an apparently non-existent Fiatspider.com. I'm calm now.

The new site does indeed work well on my iPhone. So far, so good!
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby v6spider » Tue Sep 29, 2015 12:27 am

I too find it to be a vast improvement on mobile.. I'm still surprised that there is no provision to just upload photos without hosting them elsewhere. Or is this feature just disabled.. Being a web developer myself I certainly understand the overhead for photos. At any rate Evan I certainly appreciate you keeping this alive all these years.

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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby ScotcH » Tue Sep 29, 2015 3:45 pm

Looks good! Please upload a few different user selectable themes ... especially one that is FULL WIDTH of the browser window!
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby 76was124 » Thu Oct 01, 2015 6:57 am

Thanks again for all you do to keep the site going....I remember the dark days before you resurrected fiatspider.com!

Site looks good, but my experience has been iffy with it on Safari w/iOS 9.

It seems the pages load slow and frequently hang, I have to hit the X then hit refresh and the page will then reload quickly as expected.

I tried it on another IPad with iOS 8 and the site works without issues, so I am not sure if it's the IOS 9 or something else with that iPad of mine, but thought I would mention it.
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby baltobernie » Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:14 am

+1 Thanks for all you do to keep these great little cars on the road.

FWIW, no problems with Nightly (64-bit Firefox).

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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby vandor » Sat Oct 03, 2015 12:39 pm

Hi,
Thanks for your efforts, looks good!
I hope you will resurrect the 'Show active Topics' option, it makes browsing much easier.
Thanks,
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby baltobernie » Sun Oct 04, 2015 12:14 pm

It's under "Quick Links". located on the upper-left portion of the Index tab.

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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby vandor » Mon Oct 05, 2015 11:25 pm

Thanks!
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby baltobernie » Wed Oct 07, 2015 5:46 pm

What does not yet work are the links to old posts. If you want to reference one of these, you must manually change the address. Replace the
xxxxxx/f08/xxxxxx with xxxxxx/f15/xxxxxx

Maybe Evan can automate this.

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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby ScotcH » Thu Oct 08, 2015 4:35 pm

baltobernie wrote:What does not yet work are the links to old posts. If you want to reference one of these, you must manually change the address. Replace the
xxxxxx/f08/xxxxxx with xxxxxx/f15/xxxxxx

Maybe Evan can automate this.


Should be doable with a rewrite rule ... the f08/f15 is silly anyway ... the version should already have masked by a rule in the first place.
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby garion » Fri Oct 09, 2015 11:51 pm

I have no idea what type of server the site is run on (never investigated it, I could probably figure it out), but I sent directions to the admin on how to do symlinks on Linux. That would fix the problem with minimal work.
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby 76was124 » Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:02 am

76was124 wrote:
It seems the pages load slow and frequently hang, I have to hit the X then hit refresh and the page will then reload quickly as expected.

I tried it on another IPad with iOS 8 and the site works without issues, so I am not sure if it's the IOS 9 or something else with that iPad of mine, but thought I would mention it.


When I hit the cancel where my page loading hangs...it always looks like this
https://app.box.com/s/gev6zz1u3159uw5oh7u31fzvsfj2zinq

And causing posting problems as you will see by below!
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby 76was124 » Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:04 am

Removed duplicate post
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Re: IMPORTANT!!! September 26, 2015

Postby 76was124 » Sun Oct 25, 2015 8:06 am

Removed duplicate post
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