That's it for today - board update

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Bob Savage

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Alright guys, there's a LOT of work to do, yet again. Getting this board back after the hosts hardware failed and brought the board down hard has been a huge challenge to say the least.

I'm not going to go into all the gory details but let's just say getting this thing back to where it is now was a challenge. All the posts between Monday and Friday night are lost. Restoring to the Thursday backup seemed to cause issues and to make a long story short, the board crashed and burned. I think I could probably get it to work but at this point I've spent more time than I hoped, so we're going to start from here.

The bbcode is broken again so Chris will need to whack all the smileys again... there are some other things too, but I'll remember them once I get my sanity back.
 
Bob Savage":764ab said:
Alright guys, there's a LOT of work to do, yet again. Getting this board back after the hosts hardware failed and brought the board down hard has been a huge challenge to say the least.

I'm not going to go into all the gory details but let's just say getting this thing back to where it is now was a challenge. All the posts between Monday and Friday night are lost. Restoring to the Thursday backup seemed to cause issues and to make a long story short, the board crashed and burned. I think I could probably get it to work but at this point I've spent more time than I hoped, so we're going to start from here.

The bbcode is broken again so Chris will need to whack all the smileys again... there are some other things too, but I'll remember them once I get my sanity back.
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I think you did an excellent job !!!!! :m16:
 
Thanks Bob for this big effort. I will be a pain in the ass with
the loading speed ................... :D
 
It's good to see that this place is up and running again!
 
Thanks for working hard on this Bob, its appreciated big time!!
 
Great job Bob! I will wait and accept all your efforts with no bitching after having to surf at GP, HC and Huge racks...our site just fits!
 
Thanks very much!!!
I felt really sick without my Diezel-Forum last week!
And the forum looks better than ever! :yes:
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So is this running on phpBB 3 now then? A day or two ago I did see the stock theme and it looked far better than what is currently being used. I've always hated the phpBB v2 looks, just bad fonts and awfully tiny everything with lots of wasted space.

If I may say, i think you should really opt for a theme that doesn't extend to full screen width. You know how newspapers have those small columns? That's because they're easier to read, unlike most forums where on a 1600x1200 resolution screen a single line can be REALLY long. See for example this post on the phpBB main site: http://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopi ... adba56a60b
Much nicer to read when a post is long vertically but not horizontally.

Oh and definitely don't go with the old theme because it looked like crap.
 
Thanks Bob. Really appreciate your hard work on this place. Good job.
 
Like I said, if it aint broke, don't fix it.

Also known as "Murphy's law."
 
Thanks guys, I didn't know what the hell to do on the internet for these two days :lol: :LOL:
 
hey if you guys want embedded flash working add this code:

Just thought it might be cool :D
 

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redrol":3645c said:
hey if you guys want embedded flash working add this code:

Just thought it might be cool :D
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There are options in the ACP for allowing embedded flash, but I'm not sure it's enabled, nor am I certain it should be. ;)

Does a custom bbcode entry still need to be added since the board supports it natively?
 
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