I will be gone this coming weekend, so idiot testing will not be happening, sorry! Hopefully I can carve out some time to put my dismal computer skills to work by finding issues BD didnt think of.LOL
WOO HOO Bob! Look forward to the new site. If it blows up, someone email me at [email protected] and let me know. Thanks Bob Hope it is seamless and no big issues.
Cliff Jennings said:
Jim Rowson said:
How exciting!
I agree! Lots more exciting than, say, New Years Eve, where I go to bed like always around 9, and just roll over when a neighbor or two lights off a roman candle around midnight.
This is far more significant and life-changing!
Just wait until you get OLD! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Bruce Chandler said:
Cliff Jennings said:
Jim Rowson said:
How exciting!
I agree! Lots more exciting than, say, New Years Eve, where I go to bed like always around 9, and just roll over when a neighbor or two lights off a roman candle around midnight.
This is far more significant and life-changing!
Just wait until you get OLD! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
You mean oldER.
Yeah, I’ll be going to bed at 8, vs. 9… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
Pete Lassen said:
… idiot testing will not be happening, sorry!
No prob, got you covered Pete. (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-cool.gif)(http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-tongue-out.gif)
Cliff Jennings said:
Bruce Chandler said:
Cliff Jennings said:
Jim Rowson said:
How exciting!
I agree! Lots more exciting than, say, New Years Eve, where I go to bed like always around 9, and just roll over when a neighbor or two lights off a roman candle around midnight.
This is far more significant and life-changing!
Just wait until you get OLD! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
You mean oldER.
Yeah, I’ll be going to bed at 8, vs. 9… (http://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif)
I just love your youthful optimism! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-laughing.gif)
Bob McCown said:
It looks like the current plan is, sometime around 10pm Friday night, I will put this site into maintenance mode, re-copy over the users/forums/etc, and then start moving the DNS entries to the new server, setting up mail, etc. Those changes should propagate correctlt overnight.
The new site will be available for read-only once that happens. Outbound email will be disabled, so you wont be able to set your password.
Saturday morning, I will verify that we can reach LSC as expected, and open the site, and start monitoring logs, my private email, etc. If any of you will be available Saturday morning to work through issues, PM me. I have a Slack channel for LSC that we can use, faster than email.
Note that this is a “no turning back” changeover. The current LSC software is from 2014, and is far past its end of life. It is insecure, slow, and does not play well with modern browsers. Come what may, we will be on Discourse as of this Saturday.
Don’t forget to take the TELEphone off the hook before starting!
Good luck and thank you for LSC !
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well, let’s hope, that Mr. Murphy is busy elsewhere, this weekend.
Bob, thanks for all the time and hard work you’ve put into the new site so far and I look forward to putting it through its paces this weekend. I’m sure there will be hiccups, but we are all patient, lol.
Can you do all that the Rumbletalk site shows capabilities of with the chat you are going to use ?
Moderated Chat
Polls
Video Call
One-on-One
Bob,
Thanks for all the effort to make this 'site even better! Pomaika’i maika’i (Good luck!)!
Eric
Bob,
Thanks for all the effort to make this 'site even better! Pomaika’i maika’i (Good luck!)!
Eric
David Marconi,CHHN said:
Can you do all that the Rumbletalk site shows capabilities of with the chat you are going to use ?
- Moderated Chat
- Polls
- Video Call
- One-on-One
Dave, what the chat software CAN DO, and which features Bob ENABLES the chat software to do are entirely different subjects. I would be good with just keeping a chat room open like we currently have. Any of the other features are purely a bonus.
Somewhere I read that folks would like the chat to be only maintained for 24 hours. I think that is a bit short as we have folks that on occasion cannot get to immediately review a chat session they missed. I agree for server space, deleting chat history is not all bad, but I think a week is a better time frame.
FWIW
Bob Cope said:
David Marconi,CHHN said:
Can you do all that the Rumbletalk site shows capabilities of with the chat you are going to use ?
- Moderated Chat
- Polls
- Video Call
- One-on-One
Dave, what the chat software CAN DO, and which features Bob ENABLES the chat software to do are entirely different subjects. I would be good with just keeping a chat room open like we currently have. Any of the other features are purely a bonus.
Somewhere I read that folks would like the chat to be only maintained for 24 hours. I think that is a bit short as we have folks that on occasion cannot get to immediately review a chat session they missed. I agree for server space, deleting chat history is not all bad, but I think a week is a better time frame.
FWIW
That is exactly what I asked BD. What features he was thinking of including.
re: Rumbletalk. I will keep the feature set as limited as possible. I will allow the uploading of pictures. I may, on special occasions, turn on the video chat. Everything else seems like so much extra cruft that really doesnt apply to LSC.
Progress continues. I think have everyone with a bronze/silver/gold plan tagged correctly. I have a bunch of the Saturday-morning tasks queued up already so all I need to do is make some changes in configuration files. Advertisers and forum sponsors are giving me a bit of a puzzle, but I have workarounds for them if necessary.
Close!
BD, I have noticed a small irritation that gets me every now and again. The updates icon at the top of the page, will the new site have this feature?, if so can we make it consistant, when you click on it the drop down menu has “view all” on the left and “mark as read” on the right. if you click on the “view all” , the “mark as read” is now on the left and the “view more” is on the right, I am sure its my problem only but I have clicked on the wrong button and “marked as read” many times instead of view more. My little complaint/ issue. Look forward to an all shiny new site.
The new posts/unread posts tracking is different than what is on this package. There is essentially two tabs, one with completely new threads, the other with unread posts in, I think, threads you have been reading. They both have a distinct “Dismiss” button, which is their language for “yep, I’m good”
Status update: Advertisers are showing as expected. I have resized the server to its hopefully final configuration. Looks like forum sponsors are going to have to be a text-only link, but jury is still out on that.
Continued testing. Everything still looking good.
Terms of Service, FAQ, and Privacy Policy will be MIA until I can get around to them. I’ve pre-loaded the mail server setup, so that should work fairly quickly once the DNS changes happen.
Getting close.
Bob McCown said:
… Looks like forum sponsors are going to have to be a text-only link, but jury is still out on that.
so what?
good enough for me.
OK, getting closer. I have a lot of the prerequisite setup done, or ready for me to hit the “GO” button. So let’s talk about a couple features.
Discourse doesn’t have separate “Forums,” but instead, you put a post into a category. Or more than one category. Which means you can put a post in both Modeling and Rolling Stock, and looking at each category, it will show up. I like that, because there is sometimes a grey area when you are posting something. “Its a tank car, but modeling, too.” kind of thing.
Individual topics dont have pages, but instead the post does the ‘infinite scroll’ thing where you can go up and down through the topic. On the right side is a slider that shows where you are in relation to the start and stop of the thread, and you can use that as you would any slider.
As mentioned in a post above, pictures are insanely easy to put into a post.
Bob McCown said:
OK, getting closer. I have a lot of the prerequisite setup done, or ready for me to hit the “GO” button. So let’s talk about a couple features.
Discourse doesn’t have separate “Forums,” but instead, you put a post into a category. Or more than one category. Which means you can put a post in both Modeling and Rolling Stock, and looking at each category, it will show up. I like that, because there is sometimes a grey area when you are posting something. “Its a tank car, but modeling, too.” kind of thing.
Individual topics dont have pages, but instead the post does the ‘infinite scroll’ thing where you can go up and down through the topic. On the right side is a slider that shows where you are in relation to the start and stop of the thread, and you can use that as you would any slider.
As mentioned in a post above, pictures are insanely easy to put into a post.
Sounds good Bob. Thanks for all the work! (I really like the INSANE part! (https://www.largescalecentral.com/externals/tinymce/plugins/emoticons/img/smiley-foot-in-mouth.gif))
