Member Contributer St. Stephen Posted April 27, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted April 27, 2016 Thanks Miguel, can't imagine what your week has been like. If the biggest concern is inaccurate post count you've done great! Kinda like the new look, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Dutchy Posted April 27, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted April 27, 2016 Is there an easy way to NOT show MOTOGP.com posts in the "unread" string? I feel it overshadows the contributions from VFRD members on VFR's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 Just a comment: I don't see the ability to edit a plain text version of the posts. However, the quoted post, the main reason I use the text editor, seems to be stored as image can be very easily copied/pasted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum CEO HispanicSlammer Posted April 27, 2016 Forum CEO Share Posted April 27, 2016 6 hours ago, Dutchy said: Is there an easy way to NOT show MOTOGP.com posts in the "unread" string? I feel it overshadows the contributions from VFRD members on VFR's. It was a feed of set up years ago and disabled it. The forum conversion enabled it somehow. I just deleted the feed Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum CEO HispanicSlammer Posted April 27, 2016 Forum CEO Share Posted April 27, 2016 7 hours ago, Knight said: Just a comment: I don't see the ability to edit a plain text version of the posts. However, the quoted post, the main reason I use the text editor, seems to be stored as image can be very easily copied/pasted. Click source in the editor Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Knight Posted April 27, 2016 Share Posted April 27, 2016 1 hour ago, HispanicSlammer said: Click source in the editor Here is my view. Where is source? I figure it is either right in front of me and obvious, or it is a security restricted option. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer dgordon Posted April 29, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted April 29, 2016 Thank you Miguel for keeping the house door open. I was lost and frankly worrying. :-) Many thanks for all your hard work with this. Dave. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotardMenace Posted April 29, 2016 Share Posted April 29, 2016 Are the photos in old threads just gone? Curious is all...........was wondering what happened. Glad VFRD is back on line...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Cogswell Posted April 29, 2016 Author Member Contributer Share Posted April 29, 2016 I checked through a few of my old threads - still seem to have photos that use links from Photobucket. It may depend on their source. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Mikey Posted April 29, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted April 29, 2016 Thanks HS, good to see the site back up and running. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer BCmcrider Posted April 29, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted April 29, 2016 Another thanks for putting this together in the first place, then rebuilding it since the crash. I like the black on white, easier on the eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Baileyrock Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 HS, most of us don't realize the countless hours/days you work on this site especially after a major belly up that occurred this time, and now basically having to rebuild the entire site after updating to the latest software! CRAZY!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I about cancelled Tmac as there was no VFRD, but I kept getting sign-ups and wondered how. So I asked the person who signed up last and they said VFRD was up! I just couldn't hit it from my old favorites. THANKS!!!!!!!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BillyZ Posted April 30, 2016 Share Posted April 30, 2016 I concur a big thanks to HS! Kept checking and checking all week and nada. Then I was using my tablet and tried and it came right up! Guess i can delete the old bookmark on the cpu, lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Cogswell Posted April 30, 2016 Author Member Contributer Share Posted April 30, 2016 4 hours ago, Baileyrock said: HS, most of us don't realize the countless hours/days you work on this site especially after a major belly up that occurred this time, and now basically having to rebuild the entire site after updating to the latest software! CRAZY!!! Thank you, Thank you, Thank you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I about cancelled Tmac as there was no VFRD, but I kept getting sign-ups and wondered how. So I asked the person who signed up last and they said VFRD was up! I just couldn't hit it from my old favorites. THANKS!!!!!!!!!! I'll bet there are a lot of members with that issue still. The old favorites / bookmarks don't work, so they figure the site went under. Too bad there isn't some way to send a blast notification to user's emails to let them know it's running again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum CEO HispanicSlammer Posted April 30, 2016 Forum CEO Share Posted April 30, 2016 Look I know some of you cant stand change, but your all adults you know what happens if you dont keep up with the times. I am sorry some things are not the same, missing, or not working. I just want to assure you I am listening, fixing what I can, reporting the things I cant, and I am working on making this place better every day. Keep informing me if you run into problems its the best way to improve this site. I need constructive suggestions, and I need to know what is not working. I plan on adding the following This weekend or in the near future A homepage - featured picture, basic rundown of topics, featured stories and posts fix all the little broken stuff upgrade the database, the webadmin server, upgrade php, and fix the apache configuration add member map, donation portion, links, and all the third party stuff I added from the old site I had before if it has been updated To recap what happened there was a problem with a hard drive, luckily I had backups of all the files, unfortunately I had not upgraded the server software in over a year due to the fact that there were conflicts with the old software, it worked as it was but did not work when I tried to upgrade the server software. I had planned on upgrading to this version 6 months ago but the classifieds section author pretty much abandoned the project due to other commitments. I waited forever for a new release, then the hard drive crashed and well I couldn't reinstate the server as it was because the operating system, the database, php, apache and all the inner workings have all since upgraded to newer versions and I couldn't find the old combo of software that worked with the backups I had. I spent 2 days trying and thought well if I am going to work on the side I should forget about making the old stuff work and just upgrade everything and stop wasting time on old unsupported software! So here we are! I am still learning how to use this site myself because it is much different on my end too. It was a well oiled machine before and I wlll get it back to that state as soon as I can, I just need to make a new blueprint and then implement it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum CEO HispanicSlammer Posted April 30, 2016 Forum CEO Share Posted April 30, 2016 The old links have this format Http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/forum/index.php the new format is shorter http://www.vfrdiscussion.com/index.php I am going to put in a redirect in the /forum/ folder to redirect old website calls but I am not having much luck with some of the different ways It would go Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Dutchy Posted April 30, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted April 30, 2016 I'd say we need a donate 2.0 button to put some little dough into HS' beer kitty.... Just as HS said, nothing lasts forever, nothing. Just roll with it... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Forum CEO HispanicSlammer Posted April 30, 2016 Forum CEO Share Posted April 30, 2016 I think I just fixed the redirect from /forum/index to /index your old browser links should be working now? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer VFRMAN Posted April 30, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted April 30, 2016 Great to have the site back up, didn't know what was happening. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer MaxSwell Posted May 1, 2016 Member Contributer Share Posted May 1, 2016 Thank you v much HS. Any thing you put up is better that what my brain screamed at first failure: WHAT THE H-E-DOUBLE-HOCKEY-STICKS AM I GOING TO DO WITH 40 HOURS A WEEK OF NEW FREE TIME!!!!! WAIT! HOLY SOCKS!! THERE IS SIMPLY NO SUBSTITUTE FOR VFRD. The first time I logged in after the failure I was offered a down load of a bunch of code I knew nothing about. I thought "Hi-jack?" Soooooo glad we are back. I don't think life is worth living w/o my VFRD family. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Cogswell Posted May 1, 2016 Author Member Contributer Share Posted May 1, 2016 5 hours ago, HispanicSlammer said: I think I just fixed the redirect from /forum/index to /index your old browser links should be working now? Yes - my browser links are are working again. Thanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mellowgold Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 7 hours ago, Cogswell said: Yes - my browser links are are working again. Thanks! Can confirm! Thanks a lot for doing this and helping preserve all the link history! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
checksix Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 I can't say I'm a fan of the new format, but am so grateful the site is still running. Thanks HS for all your hard work. A small bug report: for some reason every page I open on vfrd displays an annoying notification popup (see image). It only happens on this site. I've never seen it happen anywhere else. Any idea how to get rid of it? Thx. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Member Contributer Cogswell Posted May 1, 2016 Author Member Contributer Share Posted May 1, 2016 ^^^ Where it says "Always Receive Notifications" select the drop down and select to block notifications. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
checksix Posted May 1, 2016 Share Posted May 1, 2016 3 hours ago, Cogswell said: ^^^ Where it says "Always Receive Notifications" select the drop down and select to block notifications. That's the first thing I tried, but it had no effect. I did some Googling and found there's a Firefox about:config setting that turns the thing off. Apparently VFRD is the only site I've ever visited that wants to do "push notifications". Whatever those are. I'm not sure if HS configured that intentionally on his server, or by accident. So I just thought I'd mention it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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