[Closed] New bbPress (WordPress based) Forum

Go here to try to reset your password:

https://gopherpucklive.com/password-reset/

We'll see who gets it figured out first.

I closed the "Moving to new message board" thread. I thought it was best to use this new thread for issues people are having.

FYI... If you think you no longer have access to certain areas of the site. Just know that those areas ARE THERE. I just need to manually add each person's access to those areas. (Like Private Eyes) And I just do not have that as a priority right now.

Seeing a lot of test that is like this???

It appears that the main import had issues with quoted text/posts from the old board. It didn't know what to do with that code, so it assumed it was strike our comments. One of the issues of having a 19 year old message board. It will sort of make it's way out as many new posts happen.

On the good news front:

After letting the system process the fact that I've marked all the topics as read and giving it time to accept that, when new posts are made, and I click on the envelope for the thread in question, it IS bringing me to the first unread post.  :dup:

Yes, the system is very laggy right now (as Jup explained, the system is still coming to grips with all this imported data) but that's good to see happening.

Current post count is how many total post you have that is active. It no longer counts all those thousands of posts that were pruned over the years.

:unsure: :unsure: :unsure:

But I will get a page up that has a record of the top posters when I get the chance.

I just turned off caching for logged in users. This should help clean up the read/unread icons that were not refreshing after you read a topic. Though I think it is a good idea to go to the forum home page and "mark all topics read" button at the top to clean things out.

https://gopherpucklive.com/forum/

Turning off cache has definitely helped.  After reading a thread and going back to the topic page, already marked as read with no refresh.  :dup:

Weird that my most recent avatar didn't carry over (as Jupe said so that is not the surprise) but clearly a previous one did because I did not upload the current one.

Weird that my most recent avatar didn’t carry over (as Jupe said so that is not the surprise) but clearly a previous one did because I did not upload the current one.

Interesting... There is a base setting in WordPress that used Gravitar. So if you have a Gravitar account and it is the same email address as you use on GPL, that will be used automatically. So you must have a Gravitar account!

SLOW...

This place will be slow for a few days. Just so many bots hitting it. People resetting their passwords. Uploading avatars. So many things needing to be cached. So please be patient. It will get better as time goes on.

If you're compiling a "nice to have" list for future enhancements, the ability to mark the individual topics as read, rather than everything would be a nice addition.

Hey Jup - You may have mentioned this before but will there be thread pages within a topic. For instance I understand the new software doesn’t have a most recent post viewed functionality but for longer ones (Gopher Off-season with 440 replies) is there a way to have them condensed so have pages for less scrolling?

if not no biggie just curious.

If you’re compiling a “nice to have” list for future enhancements, the ability to mark the individual topics as read, rather than everything would be a nice addition.

I think this feature exists. I just need to turn it on somewhere. I will put it on my list.

Hey Jup – You may have mentioned this before but will there be thread pages within a topic. For instance I understand the new software doesn’t have a most recent post viewed functionality but for longer ones (Gopher Off-season with 440 replies) is there a way to have them condensed so have pages for less scrolling? if not no biggie just curious.

Right now I have TOPICS set to 12 per page. This allows the portal page recent posts to not go on and on.

The REPLIES with the topic are set to 75 posts per page. I believe that is what it was set at on the old board.

Getting a lot of database Errors. :ddown:

Probably due to the fact that the server CPU is normally at 0.5 to 2.5.... Right now it is at 24!

Welcome back GPL! B-)

what are the arrows and numbers on the sides of the posts?

Also are others who are logged in still seeing ads?

thanks for all the work Jup!

Welcome back GPL! what are the arrows and numbers on the sides of the posts? Also are others who are logged in still seeing ads? thanks for all the work Jup!

It will take me a while to figure out the "Golden" no ad thing... I have not even given anyone that status yet. It is over 250 people and I would need to add each person individually. So a very long process... But then I have to figure out how to NOT show ads to those people. I hope I can eventually figure that out. I am seeing the ads too.

My ask was definitely along the lines of something to think about after the rest of everything has stabilized.  Things do seem to be progressing nicely currently, getting a little more responsive, less weird page-loads, etc as the day goes on.

I just updated the php backend software from version 7.3 to 7.4... Yes geek stuff here, but I am hoping that this will speed things up a bit. I could not do it before since the old board didn't support it. But this version should make WordPress run better. I do think that I will restart the server at some point this weekend. It has been a very long time since it had been restarted. (Sometime last year I think) So I hope that php and restarting will help speed this place up.

It will take a bit to navigate and figure out everything, but so far so good overall!

I like the new format.  Thanks for all the hard work as no technical transition is ever easy

I'd also like it noted for the record that my post count is nearly half of Rube's.   I should take a picture of it because it will never be that close ever again

I saw the same thing Steve sees.  If you click on the link to the thread it doesn't take you to the last unread, but if you click on the envelope it looks like it does.

I wonder if that's why you haven't seen a fix for this...because it's already baked in

I saw the same thing Steve sees. If you click on the link to the thread it doesn’t take you to the last unread, but if you click on the envelope it looks like it does. I wonder if that’s why you haven’t seen a fix for this…because it’s already baked in

Good to know.

Actually, what I've been seeing now is that if you click on the envelope, it brings you to the very last post, not the first unread.

Welcome back GPL! what are the arrows and numbers on the sides of the posts? Also are others who are logged in still seeing ads? thanks for all the work Jup!

I assume the arrows and numbers are for up/down voting of posts?

yep!

I had forgotten to bump the desktop width from 1200px to 1440px... So desktop is a bit wider right now.

Seems way faster since this afternoon.  Wicked fast, in fact.  Awesome!

Seems way faster since this afternoon. Wicked fast, in fact. Awesome!

It was loading every post in each thread. No pagination. I had no idea! No wonder the place was so slow. Loading over 2000 posts in the Wild thread? Other huge threads? OOPS!!!

What’s the secret to getting an image for an avatar to work?  Every picture I try gets  a message that says it’s too small.

…..that’s what she said.

Slap Shot wrote:

Weird that my most recent avatar didn’t carry over (as Jupe said so that is not the surprise) but clearly a previous one did because I did not upload the current one.

Interesting… There is a base setting in WordPress that used Gravitar. So if you have a Gravitar account and it is the same email address as you use on GPL, that will be used automatically. So you must have a Gravitar account!

I do not have a Gravitar account but an old picture popped up for me as well. (I replaced it)  I think it was my avatar a long time ago but can't remember...

So far I like the new site!  Way less quirks than you usually get with a massive switch such as this.

Try a bigger one. That's not sarcastic. The picture needs to be bigger

Try a bigger one. That’s not sarcastic. The picture needs to be bigger

It took some trial and error but yeah you gotta find the *sigh* right size!

BTW I kinda dig that I only have 274 posts...I think I had 27k on the old board so now I feel way less pathetic :yahoo:

Yeah… it only counts the active posts. Not all time.

What’s the secret to getting an image for an avatar to work? Every picture I try gets a message that says it’s too small. …..that’s what she said.

I got that, too.

I think it needs to be 190x190… I’ll look at the settings tomorrow

the message I got said it needed to be 1200px wide.   Is there a way to change an image size to be usable? 

the message I got said it needed to be 1200px wide. Is there a way to change an image size to be usable?

You are likely accidentally adding a cover photo. Click on my name here that brings you to my profile. You can see I have a wide cover photo, which is different from my profile photo. Gotta click the right one.

Cowgirl wrote:

What’s the secret to getting an image for an avatar to work? Every picture I try gets a message that says it’s too small. …..that’s what she said.

I got that, too.

Gotta be a world record on most times being told too small eh?

Aha.  Didn’t catch that.

just fyi for both the cover photo and profile pic, the boxes to select/cancel are half off the screen (I’m in my iPhone).

id post a pic but “it’s too big”.

apparently I can’t delete that failed attachment either?

?

apparently there’s no way to preview a post yet?  I’m still trying to figure this all out…

Slap Shot wrote:

Weird that my most recent avatar didn’t carry over (as Jupe said so that is not the surprise) but clearly a previous one did because I did not upload the current one.

Interesting… There is a base setting in WordPress that used Gravitar. So if you have a Gravitar account and it is the same email address as you use on GPL, that will be used automatically. So you must have a Gravitar account!

I figured that was what happened when my silly graduation picture showed up.  Decided to switch back to my old GPL avatar though.

I'm guessing you already have this on your todo list, but if not, any chance we could get paginated recent threads on the portal page like the old site?  I haven't been able to check GPL has frequently as I used to and had been using that feature often if there were a lot of active threads while I was off GPL.

Nice to see pages have been added - it definitely seems faster now compared to when I was on this am.
Thanks again for the work you're doing, Jupiter!

the message I got said it needed to be 1200px wide. Is there a way to change an image size to be usable?

I did that, too!

Is it possible to add the arrow that lets you scroll to the top of the page?  Not that manually scrolling to the top of the page is tough but it was something I was used to using when I was through reading posts on a page.  Just curious.  The board is looking and working great though @Jup!

Nice to see pages have been added – it definitely seems faster now compared to when I was on this am. Thanks again for the work you’re doing, Jupiter!

Yeah... Just not something I knew that was gonna happen since I didn't have enough test posts to know that. It was just a little setting. Glad you guys found that!

Adding in the pages with 75 posts (or whatever the count is currently, that's just a detail) has definitely made a huge difference in performance, it seems, even on pages that only have a handful of posts.

A few little quirks still getting used to, but no real problems.  Great job with the rapid turnaround on a huge project, Jup.

Are there different links depending on the device being used, or does the software figure it out?

Also, I have the old GPL app link on my phone and iPad.  I tried editing it in the ‘favorites’ window to match the new portal page, but it doesn’t update the actual app.  Do we need a new one, or is there a step I’m missing?

Are there different links depending on the device being used, or does the software figure it out? Also, I have the old GPL app link on my phone and iPad. I tried editing it in the ‘favorites’ window to match the new portal page, but it doesn’t update the actual app. Do we need a new one, or is there a step I’m missing?

Not quite sure what you mean with different links on different devices.

As for the App thing. It looks like you created a shortcut on your phone that took you straight to the Forum or Portal. So it looks like an app on your phone, but it is really a shortcut. You would want to setup a new shortcut since the location of those pages have changed. I do have some redirects in place, but it will work faster if all of you update your links for GPL to skip the redirection.

I also need to update the icon for the favorite shortcut too. Something I will do eventually.

First world problem question.
is there a way to scroll to 2nd, 3rd, etc. pages in the portal?

First world problem question. is there a way to scroll to 2nd, 3rd, etc. pages in the portal?

Not currently...

Are there more than the 12 threads in the portal main page?  That’s all I see. ?‍♀️