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[sir roger]

Edit function seems to have gone

[Bobby Hundreds]

How do you change the theme. This is worse than when they randomly changed Joey Boswell.

[Guest]

49 minutes ago, dave u said:

I'm experimenting with bringing tags back. Will see how that goes.

Prepare for another 48 hours...

[Pidge]

Whey, we're back!

 

*turns brightness down. 

 

[TheSire]

58 minutes ago, dave u said:

Firstly, apologies for the site downtime. This was necessary because the site crashed on Sunday following a *checks notes* “ddos attack”. No, I don't really know what that is either, but it's not good.

 

There then followed all manner of other issues related to a corrupt database and I decided the best way to proceed was to upgrade the site to the latest forum software which would be more secure and should run quicker. It needed to be done anyway but I was hoping to get to the World Cup break and do it then, but this forced my hand.

 

Unfortunately that takes time. The upgrade was quick but because there were so many customisations and plug ins from the previous version of the software and most of them were not compatible with the new version, I basically had to rebuild it from the ground up.

 

The forum side of things seems fine but the other areas of the site (articles, match reports etc) still needs some cosmetic work because all of the things that made it look nice with pictures and things no longer work and I’ll need to find a solution to that. The main thing was getting the forum working so we could get back online.

 

There’s bound to be all sorts of little things going wrong so feel free to post anything you notice in this thread so I can work my way through them.

 

There are still some updates that might need to be made and there are a load of tasks running in the background which might slow things down. I don't know how the server will cope and I may need to switch it off again from time to time if it gets too slow, but when all the background tasks are finished things should be fine.

 

So as I say, anything untoward you spot, just let me know and I'll add it to the to do list.

Ask the hosting provider to block icmp traffic to its public ip address?

[Captain Turdseye]

7 minutes ago, sir roger said:

Edit function seems to have gone

 

 

[Captain Turdseye]

5 minutes ago, Bobby Hundreds said:

How do you change the theme. This is worse than when they randomly changed Joey Boswell.

 

He’s already removed the option. 
 

It’s like Nazi Germany in here. 

[Oh Buoy]

Whenever this fucking site goes down I get withdrawal problems like some alcoholic. Glad to have my fix, just in time before we get bummed by Napoli. 

 

[s(k)aturation]

 

Hope we get beat.

Then everything on the site should be fine again.

 

 

 

[Bob]

47 minutes ago, suzy said:

I couldn’t find the ‘like’ button but I just clicked in the usual space and it worked!

Did the same. Good job we’re creatures of habit and don’t like change.

[Guest]

The old site used to go back to the first post unread. This one goes back to the beginning of the thread. 

[Jimmy Hills Chin]

Definitely faster, this has been posted before I’ve finished writing it.

[Captain Turdseye]

First unread post is on the other side. 
 

 

 

[suzy]

7 minutes ago, Bob Spunkmouse said:

Did the same. Good job we’re creatures of habit and don’t like change.

Haha definitely!

[Red_or_Dead]

59 minutes ago, Tony Moanero said:

Fucking hell. I only pay my subs so I can neg people. Reps and negs are my life!

I thought it was biscuits?!

 

 

[Stouffer]

51 minutes ago, Jimmy Hills Chin said:

Definitely faster, this has been posted before I’ve finished writing it.

It's like greased weasel-shit.

[littletedwest]

Loving the tags in the gf already 

[Rushies tash]

Anyone else getting loads of ads at the bottom of the page?

[ZonkoVille77]

3 hours ago, dave u said:

Firstly, apologies for the site downtime. This was necessary because the site crashed on Sunday following a *checks notes* “ddos attack”. No, I don't really know what that is either, but it's not good.

 

There then followed all manner of other issues related to a corrupt database and I decided the best way to proceed was to upgrade the site to the latest forum software which would be more secure and should run quicker. It needed to be done anyway but I was hoping to get to the World Cup break and do it then, but this forced my hand.

 

Unfortunately that takes time. The upgrade was quick but because there were so many customisations and plug ins from the previous version of the software and most of them were not compatible with the new version, I basically had to rebuild it from the ground up.

 

The forum side of things seems fine but the other areas of the site (articles, match reports etc) still needs some cosmetic work because all of the things that made it look nice with pictures and things no longer work and I’ll need to find a solution to that. The main thing was getting the forum working so we could get back online.

 

There’s bound to be all sorts of little things going wrong so feel free to post anything you notice in this thread so I can work my way through them.

 

There are still some updates that might need to be made and there are a load of tasks running in the background which might slow things down. I don't know how the server will cope and I may need to switch it off again from time to time if it gets too slow, but when all the background tasks are finished things should be fine.

 

So as I say, anything untoward you spot, just let me know and I'll add it to the to do list.

 

Maybe look at putting the site behind Cloudflare. It would protect against most types of DDoS, plus a whole lot more. 

[Rushies tash]

2 hours ago, dave u said:

 

Neg button working fine for me. It's invisible though for some reason. It's there, where it always was, you just can't see it until you hover over it.

Not working on phone.

[Captain Turdseye]

4 minutes ago, Rushies tash said:

Not working on phone.

 

Mate, just click where the icon used to be. 
 

 

[Rushies tash]

Just now, Captain Turdseye said:

 

Mate, just click where the button used to be. 
 

 

Cheers. Just checked and I'm down as a mingebag member rather than a ST holder. Not due to renew until March, so I'll PM Usher.

[Carvalho Diablo]

My Gold status has gone! I demand it back @dave u

[Captain Turdseye]

Also, the return of being able to see who’s viewing each thread will be music to the ears of shit-stirring cunts like Carvalho Diablo. 

[Carvalho Diablo]

1 minute ago, Captain Turdseye said:

Also, the return of being able to see who’s viewing each thread will be music to the ears of shit-stirring cunts like Carvalho Diablo. 

Damn right.