Hero-of-Time Posted June 6, 2017 Posted June 6, 2017 A quick question, will the new software have the ignore feature as part of it?
bob Posted June 6, 2017 Posted June 6, 2017 I wonder if we'll be able to 'ignore' people with the new forum software?
Shorty Posted June 6, 2017 Author Posted June 6, 2017 Just tested that one, yes you can. Feel free to sign up here and play around: http://c93172.try.invisionpower.com
DriftKaiser Posted June 6, 2017 Posted June 6, 2017 I actually like the IPB alot after playing around with it on the test forum abit. Especially you can get notifications from it and I like how the user page are reminding me of a certain social network website haha.
Ashley Posted June 6, 2017 Posted June 6, 2017 Speaking of the profile pages, we would be bringing across the user profile stuff on here but be able to group it a bit better.
Dcubed Posted June 7, 2017 Posted June 7, 2017 (edited) Sorry I'm a bit late in chiming in, but I think it would be a good move. I really like the auto HTML tagging and embedding buttons that we have here though (like Youtube tags, IMG tags, Miiverse etc), would it be possible to keep those in place? (BTW, we really need a Twitter button - I always get confused about how you do it and forget if it's TWITTER or TWEET) Oh and the smilies, our smilies are awesome and much better than the defaults Please preserve them! : peace: Edited June 7, 2017 by Dcubed
Ashley Posted June 7, 2017 Posted June 7, 2017 (edited) Sorry I'm a bit late in chiming in, but I think it would be a good move. I really like the auto HTML tagging and embedding buttons that we have here though (like Youtube tags, IMG tags, Miiverse etc), would it be possible to keep those in place? (BTW, we really need a Twitter button - I always get confused about how you do it and forget if it's TWITTER or TWEET) Oh and the smilies, our smilies are awesome and much better than the defaults Please preserve them! : peace: YouTube is automatic (it's like you've not read the thread ) and images work. Miiverse won't work out the box but I'll try (although Nintendo is killing it...) We don't need a Twitter button on here if we're moving Point taken though. Edit: tweet seems to work: http://c93172.try.invisionpower.com/topic/2-test/#comment-9'>http://c93172.try.invisionpower.com/topic/2-test/#comment-9 (is that you that posted it anyway?) There's some default smilies and we'd work on adding the rest. There's going to be an adjustment period but I've asked Shorty to do this during a period whereby I can do those things and provide general user support. You can try out the features that are out of the box btw: http://c93172.try.invisionpower.com/ Edited June 7, 2017 by Ashley
dazzybee Posted June 17, 2017 Posted June 17, 2017 For the past few weeks the board has been mega slow, very frequently not loading pages (bad gateway). Is this anything to do with the change?
Ashley Posted June 17, 2017 Posted June 17, 2017 There has been no change yet. The new forum software is completely different (not vbulletin) so hopefully it should be recognisable when it's changed Tagging @Shorty though as I'm away for all intents and purposes and he may be able to explain yesterday's issues.
punio75 Posted June 17, 2017 Posted June 17, 2017 For the past few weeks the board has been mega slow, very frequently not loading pages (bad gateway). Is this anything to do with the change? Yes, I'm finding this as well. Often doesn't load.
Ashley Posted June 17, 2017 Posted June 17, 2017 FWIW Shorty has been trying to balance things such as a heavy load (heh) and a hosting solution within our budget and one of those has been Cloud Flare (or whatever its called). I know he's been looking at other hosting solutions today. We're aware it's a pain and we hope to mitigate it soon alongside the new forum software. We've not yet made any changes so its not that the new thing is causing a problem (because its not in place yet), it's an existing issue.
bob Posted June 18, 2017 Posted June 18, 2017 Why exactly is the load heavier than normal? It's not like the forums are particularly busy? Is it E3?
Shorty Posted June 18, 2017 Author Posted June 18, 2017 If I'm honest I've never been sure what brings it down. I think sometimes it gets hammered by bots, sometimes malicious ones, sometimes they are search spiders which are maybe struggling to navigate the lengthy network of pages etc., either way the site gets huge "non-legit" traffic spikes that cause connection errors across the board. Cloudflare's caching alleviates some of that pressure, but means you don't always see up-to-date content, and on it's best setting, blocks access from Tapatalk. Anyway, I've bought new hosting and I've been playing with Invision all day today and it's looking great, very excited to make the jump. Secretly a bit happy that I just got a 520 error while editing this post the first time because that makes the effort/money worthwhile
Glen-i Posted June 18, 2017 Posted June 18, 2017 I think sometimes it gets hammered by bots, sometimes malicious ones, sometimes they are search spiders which are maybe struggling to navigate the lengthy network of pages etc., either way the site gets huge "non-legit" traffic spikes that cause connection errors across the board. Cloudflare's caching alleviates some of that pressure, but means you don't always see up-to-date content, and on it's best setting, blocks access from Tapatalk. Anyway, I've bought new hosting and I've been playing with Invision all day today and it's looking great, very excited to make the jump. Secretly a bit happy that I just got a 520 error while editing this post the first time because that makes the effort/money worthwhile You ever consider the possibility that it's the company Invision is made by who's sending bots. Precisely to make you purchase that hosting. It's all a conspiracy, maaaan...
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