I'll upgrading the message board next Tuesday so there will be times when the board is down during this process. It's not just an upgrade, but a conversion to a new board system. The new board will be much faster and will have more features to offer in the future. Plus it won't delete messages without warning!
But, since this is a conversion, I'm not sure what exactly is going to happen. The current board has a lot of hacked in upgraded features that can cause problems. At a bare minimum, I want all logins, messages and attachments working. I don't know what will happen with the instant messages either. Hopefully this won't happen, but don't be surprised if they are wiped clean. We'll have to see what happens.
Thanks for your support!
-mrbones
SOUNDS AWESOME TO ME. thanks mr. bones. was great as it was i'm sure its gonna be a whole lot better. well i guess i'll have to actually work tuesday since i cant fool around on the board.
Mr. Bones, Question: how does this site pay for itself? or does it. I always wondered because I know this thing does not operate for free. Whats up? Thanks in advance ???
In an attempt to ease any anxiety about the conversion I thought I might wax philosophical for a moment: ;D
Socrates was the original rebel. He was persucuted and killed for teaching others to question authority.
About to be put to death for his beliefs and teachings, Socrates was told he would be spared being put to death if he were willing to recant all that he was known for teaching.
Being a man of conviction and integrity he refused even though he knew his death was imminent. When asked if he were scared about his upcoming death, his reply was to (holding true to his teachings) to ask why should I be scared? None of can say for sure what it will be like, so why be afraid? It is foolish to be afraid of the unknown. He said that he saw it as an adventure.
Put shortly:
The only constant is change. We shouldn't worry about new things since we don't exactly know what will happen.
I'm just glad I finally got a chance to use some of the useless information I was forced to pay for in college ;D
:o I hope this don't effect my new postings on forums on here.
I think you should backup your web site in case something goes wrong.
Mr. Bones, whatever you do will be accepted, we all appreciate this website, and if you would like any help from another techie with a T-3 connection and a webserver,,,let me know.
Id@
QuoteMr. Bones, whatever you do will be accepted, we all appreciate this website, and if you would like any help from another techie with a T-3 connection and a webserver,,,let me know.
Id@
Ditto brother, carry on. dont know about the T-3 connection stuff but hey I leave that to the well educated folks and I'll continue to send in support from time to time.
not much formal education in this business that's any good for very long,,,,experience counts.
Id@
Thanks for all the encoraging words and offers of help. I've got the new board setup and ready to go. Just have to put both in maintenance mode and start the conversion. I'll do that tomorrow and we'll see what happens. The old board is supposed to be unaffected so if all else fails, I can go back to it.
schweet.
Id@
Well, it was a complete disaster. After 8 hours, I've scrapped everything and went back to the old board. The new one is completely corrupted and has to be redone. The conversion process managed to destroy all the attachments and tried to encrypt them. It created a 17gb directory that had to be deleted. So, I think they are all gone. Sorry. I'll try again later this week.
we all appreciate your efforts. its easy to complain when your not the one puting in 8 hours for not. keep up the good work and thanks for the site.
Thanks for the post gery.
I tried it again and got the same result. My guess is the converter is bunk. I'll enquire about it with the creator, but after today, I won't want to mess with this again at least for another week or more.
well, better luck next time, im sure alot of poeple on the site cant wait to see the new board
What happened to the members only section for the contributing members?
It's still there, but I have to go through and grant access to the contributing members. There's 72 members so I'll start on the list today.
You da man MrBoNeS ;)
Thank you, AWESOME IMPROVEMENT!!! ;D WILL SEND MORE FROM TIME TO TIME!!
WAY TO GO BRADY! This looks sweet! Thanks! :-*
Looks Good ;D
What happen to my Stars? :(
Quote from: kawGIRL on June 02, 2005, 04:43:53 PM
What happen to my Stars? :(
Your a mod now?
Wheres our location?
Looks good either way, thanks for the site!!
I fixed the stars issue. I want to come up with something different for CMs. I'll have to do that later.
It looks like the location field got garbled during the conversion. You have to edit in your profile. I haven't figured out how to make it display next to people names'. But, I'll get it sorted out.
Some posts have duplicate attachments. Don't know why. No biggie.
The calendar has been reset. People will have to add new events again. It now shows birthdays and holidays.
The chat room is gone. I have to find another one to install.
The member map is history. I really liked that feature of the old board. I'll see if I can find another one for this board.
I also need to install more smilies. I liked the ones on the old board.
Mr. Bones great work. I've spent time working w/ computer glitches and know how frustrating it can be. The site has some great features. Only one I'm missing is chat. No biggie, thanks for all you've done.
I got a question...
How come some members are green? I know the bold/dark blue are mods.
Green are contributing members. ;D
maybee they are contributing members.
Great work Bones! The site looks awesome. ;D
Thanks for all your many hours of hard work Mr. Bones, the site looks great. All those new stats are really amazing.
I dont like the way it works now. After a post it jumps back to the forums. Every time I log on now I have to sign in. It takes more time now and that sux. All the fun is gone. Change it back or make it work like it did. Please !!
it will take a bit of getting used to, but I'm addicted and can't help it.
as far as jumping back to the forum after a post,,,I like that.
Id@
Check out your profile and change...."Return to topics after posting by default".
Thanks kawGIRL !! Im happy again !!! ;D ;D ;D
OoO so thats why my pics were deleted. O well. i love this site thanxs for putting it up!!!!! ;D
Like the new format except i have to log in EVERY time now...........
Quote from: susieblazer on June 03, 2005, 09:30:06 PM
Like the new format except i have to log in EVERY time now...........
Was just about to say the same thing I check the box to stay logged in but still have to. Mr Bones?
When I log on I go through Mozilla Firefox and it ask if I want to remember my password and I say yes. I have not had to relog in since then. ;D
I made a change on the logins and how the board handles cookies. Let me know if it fixed the problem.
ok, think you solved it because it keeps me logged in now :)
Quote from: susieblazer on June 03, 2005, 09:30:06 PM
Like the new format except i have to log in EVERY time now...........
Alrighty!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! back in business now!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Whoooooooo Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
I got the Chat backup. It works different than the old one. You can't see who's logged on like the old one either. But it does work.
Still have to get the member map backup and add more smilies.
The chat does show who's logged in. At the bottom under Chat Stats. Nice.
I went to get on chat, whats up with the message about Java and how do I know its safe...................
Very nice improvements to the board. Thanksfor your hard work! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
Looks good mr.bones. On 56k it works good it might take few seconds to load on here for icons.
And you did nice job on faces ;D :D ;) :) >:( :o 8) ??? ::) :P :-[ :-X :-\ :-* :'(
It looks Nice upgrades on win98 se on here and this looks good on xp ver on pc looks great.
I think mr.bones did nice super good job on this site even stuff looks extreme very good. 8) ;D
thanks,
amhighlander 8)
I have to sign in everytime I turn the computer on, it's not remembering me, and I leave the thing on the forever option. ???
Quote from: Mr.BoNeS on June 05, 2005, 11:31:34 AM
The chat does show who's logged in. At the bottom under Chat Stats. Nice.
I can't get the chat room to open. It worked for me once. Also, in the last 15 minutes I've tried to send out a couple PM's and leave this message. When I tried to reply to PM's it told me my session had timed out and I needed to log out and log back in. I tried for 5 minutes to log and out it wouldn't let me.
I finally was allowed to log out and log back in. Since then I've logged in no less than 10 times in the last 5 minutes. Every time I go to send a PM I have to log in. I came to this spot to leave this message and again I had to log in. On each case when I had to log in I had written this message and it wasn't till I was done that it erased my message and told me to log in.
The new system looks great but it's not user friendly and has quite a few bugs that still need some work.
;D ;D :) :) Love it :) :) ;D ;D
;D Mr. Bones i have'nt been on for a while and came on to see this it looks great sir. Atvflorida is looking great.Thanks for such an awesome site . I made great friends. Thanks Again, Manny
New format is great...love it.
Thanks!
As it turns out, a lot of people couldn't post a message. The permissions got all messed up during the upgrade. So newbies could only reply to a topic, etc.
So hear this, unless you are a guest (not registered), you should be able to start new topics, start polls, see attachments, reply to topics, report posts, receive notifications, add an event to the calendar, search, etc. All the basic stuff.
Let me know if anyone has any problems.
im having to log on each time i come to the site. run time error is coming up and it ask me if i want to debug every time i log on or move around on the site.
please help.
jeff
Mr. bones, I am a junior member but had to re- register myself because it said I didn't exist. Now I'm back to being a newbie. Is there anyway I can get my seniority back or am I just stuck? Thanks Mike
I'll have him look into it.
Quote from: tribal shee on June 14, 2005, 08:26:36 PM
Mr. bones, I am a junior member but had to re- register myself because it said I didn't exist. Now I'm back to being a newbie. Is there anyway I can get my seniority back or am I just stuck? Thanks Mike
Lets just fix your old one. I need details; user name, screen name, email address used on the account.
mr bones-question. when my son or i am on we cant log off to switch identities. the logout faeture doesnt work. any ideas. :-\
well the debug question has stopped coming up but i still have to log on each time i sign on. ??
jeff
Unfortunately, the chat room was causing some errors. It had to go. I'll have to look for an updated chat room when it's available.
Those with login problems; what browser are you using?
I had the same logout error using Firefox. I just went into Tools, Options, Cookies, View Cookies, and deleted the ATVFlorida.com cookies. The problem went away.
Mr Bones-
I am having problems viewing (some) attachments. I scanned through this thread looking if someone has a similar problem, i saw nothing, my mistake if i missed..
For example Dreth's thread titled "Dreth AND T2Raptor are BACK!!!!!!!!!" (link (http://www.atvflorida.com/forum/index.php/topic,1697.0.html))
In that thread i see 4 attachments.
I see the first post's attachment, 5th's, 6th's, and 25th's. From reading the other posts in that thread by him, i assume that there are attachments.... So its only showing a select few. For the ones that don't show up it looks like a normal post without an attachment, it doesnt even say there is an attachment.
I am using FireFox:Mac on OS X, i also tried Internet Explorer:Mac, and Safari. I also double checked to see if i was logged in while on the page. Also, i checked my account preferences to see if there was some attachment viewing option, i saw nothing. Also, i am waiting untill it says "Done" at the bottum left, so i know its done loading the page.
Edit: Just tested this on my other computer (Windows XP Pro, Firefox browser), Same results. This is not the only thread, i just used it as an example. There has been a few others.
Is it just me?
If it's not an attachment, it's an image linked to the thread through the (//) tags. If those don't show up, the link is dead.
Quote from: Mr.BoNeS on June 20, 2005, 11:12:58 AM
If it's not an attachment, it's an image linked to the thread through the (//) tags. If those don't show up, the link is dead.
I dont think he was using [img] tags, i clicked quote on some of the posts and it didnt have them in the quoted text.
From my post above, can anyone see the images i said i couldnt see?
Thanks for the changes on logging in. It's nice to have that back and not have to log in all the time. I'll look forward to when the chat room is up and running again. Thanks Mr. Bones.
bones,
everything is good now. thanks
jeff