BosKonay Posted October 21, 2017 Posted October 21, 2017 Welcome again to the new site, having to sync up all the content (105,000 posts) and get the images (all 25,000 of them) moved over again took a little time. Background tasks will complete the imports and clean up over the next hour or so, so past that point if you notice anything odd, let me know. I know the Resources section is currently broken, that's next on the todo Thanks for your patience, enjoy the new format! Stephen 3 Quote
murrayec Posted October 21, 2017 Posted October 21, 2017 Nice one BosKonay, it's looking great Eoin 1 Quote
murrayec Posted October 21, 2017 Posted October 21, 2017 I really like the new system for inserting photos, makes it far easier to add in text descriptions now that one sees the photo in the editor Great Eoin 1 Quote
RedRich Posted October 21, 2017 Posted October 21, 2017 Once again a huge thank you to Stephen, Pat, and Fran for taking the group to another amazing level. The lads deserve huge thanks from us all for the amount of their spare time that they put into running IRM. I love the new look men. Rich, 1 Quote
BosKonay Posted October 21, 2017 Author Posted October 21, 2017 Thanks for the lovely comments Rich & Eoin. If anyone has any feedback, or wants more emoticons, reactions, or anything tweaked or added, now's the time Quote
Broithe Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 Vast improvement on the image uploading - though my earlier Imgur links all seem to be dead. Quote
Broithe Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 2 hours ago, Broithe said: I don't see Letting Off Steam. It seems to be still there, if you Search for posts, but i don't see it on the front page. 1 Quote
Broithe Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 36 minutes ago, BosKonay said: Added now to the main forum I see it now - I was looking at the bottom, in the old location (when I reported it still missing on Old Look a few minutes ago) 1 Quote
BosKonay Posted October 22, 2017 Author Posted October 22, 2017 Moved Letting off Steam into a new category at the bottom, so it's in a more familiar location, also reconsolidated the domain URIs to irishrailwaymodeller.com Quote
Noel Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) Really like the new BB software. Folks may not realise what a big undertaking it was to migrate from vBulletin BB software to Invision (an IP.Board derived BB). Lots of unseen work going on to migrate data including user accounts, posts and treads, PMs, attachments, internal links, etc, and lots more. Possible upgrades to the LAMP/WAMP stack as well. Hats off to Stephen for the successful effort. Functionally the new software is a big improvement over vBulletin bringing lots of new features many of which were on folks wish lists. It is a brave undertaking to take on such a large and complex migration project, and all the unseen work associated with test migrations and setups that have gone unseen in the background over recent weeks. Visually it is also an improvement, but the new software functionality is the big gain here. Thanks Stephen Edited October 22, 2017 by Noel typo 2 Quote
BosKonay Posted October 22, 2017 Author Posted October 22, 2017 You're most welcome Noel, I'm still working on rewrites so the old URL's will resolve to their new homes, then I can look at the Resources section! Never ends Quote
Noel Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 2 minutes ago, BosKonay said: You're most welcome Noel, I'm still working on rewrites so the old URL's will resolve to their new homes, then I can look at the Resources section! Never ends Never ends? But don't you just love this sort of IT challenge. (even if in secret) 1 Quote
BosKonay Posted October 22, 2017 Author Posted October 22, 2017 Apologies, I've had to revert to irishrailwaymodelling.com for now, to fix some other issues Quote
popeye Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 This will take a while to get used to. hope the photo uploader works better. Photo's & video's of prototype won't let me in, and i have logged in. 1 Quote
BosKonay Posted October 22, 2017 Author Posted October 22, 2017 25 minutes ago, popeye said: This will take a while to get used to. hope the photo uploader works better. Photo's & video's of prototype won't let me in, and i have logged in. Thanks for the feedback Popeye - that's fixed now Quote
chris Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 don't mean to be negative but the contrast between posts is pretty poor. Grey and White don't sit well together being so similar, maybe make one of the shades slightly darker? Other than that pretty nice and tidy layout. Actually the posting box itself looks pretty good with the darker shade, something similar to that perhaps? 1 Quote
BosKonay Posted October 22, 2017 Author Posted October 22, 2017 Hi Chris can you share more details? Contrast where specifically Quote
burnthebox Posted October 22, 2017 Posted October 22, 2017 (edited) On 21 October 2017 at 11:06 PM, BosKonay said: Thanks for the lovely comments Rich & Eoin. If anyone has any feedback, or wants more emoticons, reactions, or anything tweaked or added, now's the time Steven I appreciate all your hard work but I don't like it, maybe it'll grow on me, don't think so, the option to change to " Old style " would be nice...... BTB Edited October 22, 2017 by burnthebox Quote
BosKonay Posted October 23, 2017 Author Posted October 23, 2017 7 hours ago, burnthebox said: Steven I appreciate all your hard work but I don't like it, maybe it'll grow on me, don't think so, the option to change to " Old style " would be nice...... BTB Hi BTB, Sorry to hear that - as I said above this is a whole new piece of software with lots of great new functionality, better mobile integration, easier content uploading and more - there is no 'old style' as that's the old software. If there are things specifically you think we can tweak in this style, by all means let me know? Quote
chris Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 8 hours ago, BosKonay said: Hi Chris can you share more details? Contrast where specifically background is white, post is white, quote area underneath is white, user member panel on the left of post is white. all very samish and hard to delineate. Bit like the new boards.ie site compared to the older one... Quote
BosKonay Posted October 23, 2017 Author Posted October 23, 2017 39 minutes ago, chris said: background is white, post is white, quote area underneath is white, user member panel on the left of post is white. all very samish and hard to delineate. Bit like the new boards.ie site compared to the older one... Hi Chris, Sorry not sure I'm following? Each post is in a small grey box, and the black text on white is easier to read than the previous site. Any suggestions? Quote
PJR Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 On 10/21/2017 at 6:37 PM, BosKonay said: Welcome again to the new site, having to sync up all the content (105,000 posts) and get the images (all 25,000 of them) moved over again took a little time. Background tasks will complete the imports and clean up over the next hour or so, so past that point if you notice anything odd, let me know. I know the Resources section is currently broken, that's next on the todo Thanks for your patience, enjoy the new format! Stephen Lovely site ...a job well done thank you 1 Quote
StevieB Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 I'm getting a message about a problem uploading photos to a PM. I don't think it's me because you have made it so simple following the upgrade. Stephen Quote
BosKonay Posted October 23, 2017 Author Posted October 23, 2017 Hi Stephen, What is the message (or better still, grab a screenshot of it?) Quote
Noel Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 (edited) 26 minutes ago, StevieB said: I'm getting a message about a problem uploading photos to a PM. I don't think it's me because you have made it so simple following the upgrade. Stephen Hi Stevie, In case it is any help, I just successfully sent a PM with a photo. I 'dragged and dropped' the JPG into the message body and it appeared after a few seconds and sent ok. Noel PS: I always resize photos from original size down to about 250k instead of 5mb straight off the camera. This helps when sending electronically using email or forums (i.e. 1024 pixels wide instead of 24mp) Edited October 23, 2017 by Noel 1 Quote
BosKonay Posted October 23, 2017 Author Posted October 23, 2017 Resources section is back and slowly migrating. Quote
StevieB Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 The steps I followed in selecting a photo to attach to a PM were: Click to choose files. Went to photo library. Selected the required photo. Clicked done. Message came up - there was a problem uploading the file. Stephen Quote
BosKonay Posted October 23, 2017 Author Posted October 23, 2017 Hi Stephen, Did it give you any hint as to what? It's possible the image was just too large to upload, or in a format the site couldn't understand? Try exporting as a JPG and ensuring the size is not too big? Quote
StevieB Posted October 23, 2017 Posted October 23, 2017 No, just said there was a problem. Stephen 1 Quote
StevieB Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Having just used For Sale or Wanted for the first under the new look, it occurs to me that a preview facility would be helpful. This poses two questions. Is there one already that I haven't found, or would it be a step too far for the forum in terms of software ? Stephen Quote
BosKonay Posted October 24, 2017 Author Posted October 24, 2017 Hi Stephen, Top right button is the Preview Quote
WT CLASS 2-6-4T No. 4 Posted October 24, 2017 Posted October 24, 2017 Have to say that the new site is not as intuitive as the previous. Harder to navigate and not as user friendly. Walter. Quote
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