Helene Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 We're going to have a software upgrade in the next week or two. The process is that I request an upgrade, and then I'm told when it's over. It could be a few hours or a twenty minutes from my request, depending on the work load of the production support teams. As always, any posts that are made from the time the upgrade starts until it is over could be lost. I'll post to this thread as soon as I make the request, so that you'll have fair warning. Link to comment
sandik Posted May 31, 2013 Share Posted May 31, 2013 Thanks for the heads-up, but even more thanks for the work you do to keep the playground open! Link to comment
ViolinConcerto Posted June 7, 2013 Share Posted June 7, 2013 from my perch in the sandbox.......extra thanks! Link to comment
Helene Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 I'm about to request the upgrade; our request will be added to the queue. It's possible that anything posted between the start and finish will be lost. The board may look different in places and function differently for a while until we identify all of the changes and make modifications. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 Please let me know if anything is broken or looks funnier than usual. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 Many thanks to innopac for noticing that the Poster Name column in the "View New Content" results is displaying as the string "Array" instead of the poster name. I just filed a support ticket (and I hope it's not something one of the old mods I did broke). Link to comment
Helene Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 This one is very important -- the quote function is not working properly. There's a new feature in which when you are in "BBCode Mode" -- i.e., you can see and use all of the controls, like the "Bold" button -- if you quote, in the new post, the quote box appears formatted. This allows you to edit without accidentally deleting the " ]" and "' formatting, which is great.The problem is, when you save, the only thing that's saved is this: or and the text in the quote box appears below outside the quote box, as if it's part of the new post. The only thing we can do until this is resolved is to put a divider between what is being quoted and the response: This is the post quote, this is the post quote, this is the post quote This is the post quote, this is the post quote, this is the post quote ------------- (or ********************* or //////////////////////////) This is the response, this is the response, this is the response This is the response, this is the response, this is the response Link to comment
Helene Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 Both of these issues are my fault: they are from changes I made in versions prior to the upgrade. The original templates are going to be restored, and things might look a little different for a while after they are. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 13, 2013 Author Share Posted June 13, 2013 We just got an update that the link on the emails to a thread is directing to the first post in the thread, not the first unread post. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 The only way to resolve the quote and View New Content Poster Name issues was to revert back to the original UI. As you can see, the site looks a lot different than usual. It will take me a while to change back, since I have to reinstate each change and then test to be sure it doesn't break anything else. Link to comment
sandik Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Let us know if there's anything we can do, otherwise we will follow the popular admonition to "keep calm, and carry on." Link to comment
Helene Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 It's going to take a while to get the site back to looking like itself before the upgrade. Please expect things to be a little messy for a while. Link to comment
innopac Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 You are a magician!! The new content choices on the left panel are working (past week, past 24 hours etc) Link to comment
Helene Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 That was IPS: they fixed it! Link to comment
Helene Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 I know it still looks off: I've been focusing on some of the less immediately visible stuff. It should look better by later on Friday. I need to call it a night now, so that I don't start making sloppy mistakes. Link to comment
diane Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 It looks just a teeny bit different, but things seem to be functioning fine, and that is what matters, or? Thank you so much for all your hard work, Helene!! -d- Link to comment
rg Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Hear! Hear! i'd have to take to my bed at just the thought of having to face such daunting tasks as website upgrades! or at least like MacMillan's Juliet, back off and dance around the phial of 'upgrade' for a good while before finally taking the potion... thanks for all the doubtlessly trying efforts in this largely thankless tasks! Link to comment
atm711 Posted June 14, 2013 Share Posted June 14, 2013 Re: "Bits & Pieces of Balanchine" cite -- I cannot access clips---I can only access the clips on YouTube.......same with the other cites---YouTube OK but not the others..... Link to comment
Helene Posted June 14, 2013 Author Share Posted June 14, 2013 I've looked at the thread. All of the links in the thread except in two posts are YouTube videos. People have wondered why some of the videos showed up imbedded in the posts and others appear as links. The pattern seems to be that if the video URL begins with "https://", which is used for security, or if the URL is mis-formulated, it will appear as a link. If it begins with "http" or "www.youtube etc.", our software will recognize it as a media file and it will be embedded. When I fixed a link that began http://http://etc., it showed up as an embedded video after I completed the edit. The issue with imbedded links is that it can take a while for them to appear onscreen. My connection is pretty sluggish today, and it was taking forever for half of them to load. Until they were close to completion, I could cursor over the blank space, and nothing appear. Just before the video resolve, my curse changed to show that it recognized there was something on which to click. I'm not sure whether ad-blockers or other security software have an impact on these embedded video files. The link in post 40 navigates to the ina.fr website. The links in post 11 navigate to the Kennedy center site. If you can give me a post number or two from the right-hand side of the post across from the post author name, I can confirm what the video source is. Link to comment
sandik Posted June 15, 2013 Share Posted June 15, 2013 or at least like MacMillan's Juliet, back off and dance around the phial of 'upgrade' for a good while before finally taking the potion... Would that be before or after a silent scream? Link to comment
Lidewij Posted June 17, 2013 Share Posted June 17, 2013 I miss the link to BT4D at the top of the page.. Will it return? And of course, thank you for all the hard work of managing this amazing website.. Link to comment
Helene Posted June 17, 2013 Author Share Posted June 17, 2013 I can see the link on my iPad and Mac screens. Do you see an option called "More" with a little down arrow? If so, the link to "BT4Dancers" should be there. Sometimes it seems to be a browser issue and others it's how wide your window is. I'm considering changing the text to "BT4D" to fit on more screens. Link to comment
carbro Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 My Mac with Firefox shows it as the single drop-down under "More." Odd, because it looks like there's more than enough space for "BT4Dancers." Link to comment
Helene Posted June 18, 2013 Author Share Posted June 18, 2013 That happened to me the first night after the upgrade. Since the day after, it's been displaying as "BT4Dancers.". Weird. Link to comment
Lidewij Posted June 18, 2013 Share Posted June 18, 2013 I use Chrome on a Windows computer, I don't see a "more" option either.. Link to comment
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