I'm not sure why the forum had to be taken offline for days to discover the upgrade issues. It seems that a better approach would have been to duplicate the forum -- or a ponderable part of it -- and to test the migration/upgrade on the duplicate data before subjecting the real thing to the process. That way problems can be sorted out before the online forum itself is affected.
Hopefully previous upgrades didn't warrant such resources. A read only live version of the site would be the best alternative. If you can run two boxes duplicate and upgrade the second then point DNS at it.
With the new forum I've lost all posting capabilities except text mode. Changed my settings on my account (it's not set to text only posting), gone to another computer, used another browser, tried advance but all icons/menu are gone. So I can't post images, code windows, formatted text or even smiley faces. Any ideas? Or is someone trying to tell me something.
Dom..
Edit: Hmmm. Smileys do show up if I put in the ": )" characters.
With the new forum I've lost all posting capabilities except text mode. Changed my settings on my account (it's not set to text only posting), gone to another computer, used another browser, tried advance but all icons/menu are gone. So I can't post images, code windows, formatted text or even smiley faces. Any ideas? Or is someone trying to tell me something.
Dom..
That is a very nice link, thanks. I'm still broke but at least now I have crutches to putter around. I've been curious for sometime about SRLM. Does it stand for something?
Dom..
Hopefully previous upgrades didn't warrant such resources.
This is vBulletin we're talking about. There's a reason a lot of sites still use older versions of it. They have habitually made breaking changes, especially related to plugins and add-ons, that require a lot of rework.
Phil is right that the upgrade should have been vetted on a test box, but I can just hear the support email from vBulletin claiming there'd be no problems! From other messages, test-first seems to be their approach from here on -- once bitten, and all that. I know they had a beta going on for a while, but out-of-the-box betas are not upgrades. A while back I had noted that their beta of the forum was running an older version of jQuery that had some known XSS exploits to it. I hope they've addressed that.
The "Support for Using this Forum" doesn't show threads unless you fiddle with "Show Threads" history-- default is set to 1 month so if it hasn't been posted to in over a month it looks empty.
Dom..
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Or we could have an official IRC channel.
Dom..
Edit: Hmmm. Smileys do show up if I put in the ": )" characters.
You can still use the BB code tags: http://forums.parallax.com/misc.php?do=bbcode
That is a very nice link, thanks. I'm still broke but at least now I have crutches to putter around. I've been curious for sometime about SRLM. Does it stand for something?
Dom..
This is vBulletin we're talking about. There's a reason a lot of sites still use older versions of it. They have habitually made breaking changes, especially related to plugins and add-ons, that require a lot of rework.
Phil is right that the upgrade should have been vetted on a test box, but I can just hear the support email from vBulletin claiming there'd be no problems! From other messages, test-first seems to be their approach from here on -- once bitten, and all that. I know they had a beta going on for a while, but out-of-the-box betas are not upgrades. A while back I had noted that their beta of the forum was running an older version of jQuery that had some known XSS exploits to it. I hope they've addressed that.
Dom..