Comments On The Move. Issues To Resolve?

[Ben E Lou]

1. Thanks to everyone for your patience. It took longer than we'd hoped, because of the massive size of our database. Restoring it was a long and somewhat-painful process. (The db restoration actually caused a slowdown and partial shutdown of OS (http://www.operationsports.com/newspost.php?id=251442) for part of yesterday.) I hope the semi-regular updates were useful.

2. It looks like nearly everything is back to normal. I'll work on the smilies at lunchtime.

3. The problem with changing of skins is a javascript issue, at least partially. If you use Adblock and/or NoScript, make sure you don't have these two blocked:

http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/clientscript/vbulletin_global.js?v=360
http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/clientscript/vbulletin_menu.js?v=360

Unblocking those took care of that issue for me.

4. I felt like it was important to use the forum's e-mail functionality to notify non-regulars of the impending move and the completion thereof. I hope the two e-mails weren't too intrusive for the regulars.

5. No matter what we may have thought of IGN/Gamespy's service during the month-long outage of '04, I have nothing but positive things to say about their help with the move. After they got over the initial surprise, they were great. They broke with normal policy to give us an exact time to shut down the forums, and the full backup was in our hands less than 90 minutes after the time that we shut down yesterday. And, they worked with me to come up with a way agreeable to both parties so that we could keep the old forums on their servers for an extended period of time.

6. Major props also to OS. Their tech guys were very helpful, and of course their working to come up with a work-surfing IP solution will be huge for some people.

7. I'm unsticking it to avoid sticky-clutter, but everyone please vote in the skin thread. (http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/showthread.php?t=65663) We're probably going to eliminate some skins and restructure how they're set up, so I need to know which ones are used. (They won't look any different, but they'll be much easier to mod.)

CURRENT KNOWN ISSUES

Internal links need to be redirected.

[Ben E Lou]

There appears to be a problem with the links that are sent in emails. They don't correspond with the correct information. They go to the right topics but they aren't going to the correct "New Post".

Will you re-check this now?

[FrogMan]

Links were working for me when I checked from home this morning.

FM

[Mizzou B-ball fan]

FYI......You might want to correct the alternate link in the sticky. I went to 75.126.153.96/forums and couldn't find any way to reach this board. I finally just guessed that it might be 75.126.153.96/fofc and was able to find the board.

[Ben E Lou]

FYI......You might want to correct the alternate link in the sticky. I went to 75.126.153.96/forums and couldn't find any way to reach this board. I finally just guessed that it might be 75.126.153.96/fofc and was able to find the board.
FIXED! :)

[sterlingice]

In another thread, someone had mentioned that links from email don't work. What I think they meant is that the links that end in "goto=newpost" don't work. I noticed it this morning. Basically, the little arrows that let you go to the newest post in the thread that you have read are resetting themselves. Those arrows point to the same place where people get email links if they are subscribed to threads. Maybe this is a one time thing that happened last night. But this morning when I opened my browser, all my newpost markers reset back to where they were a couple of days ago.

SI

[Ben E Lou]

In another thread, someone had mentioned that links from email don't work. What I think they meant is that the links that end in "goto=newpost" don't work. I noticed it this morning. Basically, the little arrows that let you go to the newest post in the thread that you have read are resetting themselves. Those arrows point to the same place where people get email links if they are subscribed to threads. Maybe this is a one time thing that happened last night. But this morning when I opened my browser, all my newpost markers reset back to where they were a couple of days ago.

SI

I changed a setting this morning that I *think* will fix this.

[cartman]

This is going to be a pain, but I think we need to figure out a way to do a search and replace in all threads to change 'http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/' to 'http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/' in threads to preserve links. I noticed that in the reference threads those links send you back to GameSpy.

[Ben E Lou]

This is going to be a pain, but I think we need to figure out a way to do a search and replace in all threads to change 'http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/' to 'http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/' in threads to preserve links. I noticed that in the reference threads those links send you back to GameSpy.
Known issue. We're going to tackle that one in the db late at night.

[cartman]

Known issue. We're going to tackle that one in the db late at night.

Cool

[DanGarion]

In another thread, someone had mentioned that links from email don't work. What I think they meant is that the links that end in "goto=newpost" don't work. I noticed it this morning. Basically, the little arrows that let you go to the newest post in the thread that you have read are resetting themselves. Those arrows point to the same place where people get email links if they are subscribed to threads. Maybe this is a one time thing that happened last night. But this morning when I opened my browser, all my newpost markers reset back to where they were a couple of days ago.

SI
Never said they didn't work, said they were sending users to the wrong post.... :)

[st.cronin]

Room for 200 pms, I can't describe how much that helps werewolf players.

[DaddyTorgo]

Room for 200 pms, I can't describe how much that helps werewolf players.


are you serious? sweet jeebus!!

[st.cronin]

seriously

[DanGarion]

are you serious? sweet jeebus!!
Yeah unfortunately it's true...

[Lathum]

Room for 200 pms, I can't describe how much that helps werewolf players.

thats awesome

[Kodos]

Wait... We're not supposed to be helping the WW players! ;)

[DanGarion]

Skydog it still seems sort of funky, but I can't put my finger on exactly what it's doing wrong. I'll let you know if I can figure it out in my logic.

[cartman]

I'll let you know if I can figure it out in my logic.

To my gat to my money and I'm hooked on chronic?

[DanGarion]

To my gat to my money and I'm hooked on chronic?

Eh?

[Maple Leafs]

I thought this whole move was handled really well and all things considered went incredibly smoothly.

[MikeVic]

I thought this whole move was handled really well and all things considered went incredibly smoothly.

I agree.

[Lorena]

I agree.

+2

Thanks for the hard work

[Eaglesfan27]

+2

Thanks for the hard work

Completely agreed. Thanks to everyone who had a role in the move. :)

[flere-imsaho]

Move looked great to me. The two emails definitely weren't an intrusion. And I'm very happy I can now access from work again! :D

[MikeVic]

I haven't read through everything so forgive me if this has been brought up... I'm finding that the site doesn't remember me being logged in, even if I ask it to. This worked on the old site. I'm thinking it might have something to do with accidentally going to the old site first almost every time I come here (damn old habits), but was wondering if anyone else gets this?

[Ryan S]

I'm thinking it might have something to do with accidentally going to the old site first almost every time I come here (damn old habits), but was wondering if anyone else gets this?

Each site will have separate cookies, so it should not matter if you visit the gamespy site before this one.

It would be interesting to know if there are any other people suffering with this problem.

[sterlingice]

Completely agreed. Thanks to everyone who had a role in the move. :)

+4 (I think)

SI

[stevew]

I can't sign in with IE. I'll probably just delete cookies and see what happnes.

[MikeVic]

Yeah, I'm not ruling out me doing something dumb... so I was curious if someone else has the same problems. And duh on the cookies, I don't know why I even said that.

[JeeberD]

Not an "issue" per se, but I'm curious about this...

Dola-

Will the front page be moving eventually, or will the OS link always head straight to the board?

[Ben E Lou]

We had very low usage of the front page, even when we were doing things to try to keep it updated on a fairly regular basis, so my thinking is that we should just send people straight to the forums.

[stevew]

Someone hijacked Skydogs account.

[JeeberD]

Makes sense, I suppose...

[Cringer]

How do you use attachments in a post? I have nothing to attach to anything right now, but might be good to know later on down the road.

[Ben E Lou]

How do you use attachments in a post? I have nothing to attach to anything right now, but might be good to know later on down the road.
It's under "additional options" when you are in the posting interface.

[hoosierdude]

Still has the problem of not remembering which skin I used last, be it thru the personal Control Panel or the drop down menu at the bottom of every page.

Thought it might be a good idea to repost that!

[Sweed]

I haven't read through everything so forgive me if this has been brought up... I'm finding that the site doesn't remember me being logged in, even if I ask it to. This worked on the old site. ... but was wondering if anyone else gets this?



It would be interesting to know if there are any other people suffering with this problem.

I'm also having this problem even though I checked the remember me option. Logged in on my dinner hour after being on in the early morning and had to sign in. After work I had to sign in again. Then got called to supper and did not disconnect. Came back and woke up the computer to continue here and had to sign in again.

It worked fine on the old site and I don't have the problem on any of my other bookmarked forums ie OOTP, SI, Wolverine, etc or my regular Operation Sports account.

FWIW I'm using Firefox 2.0.0.14.

[Ben E Lou]

Sweed, are you coming in the same way every time? I find that when I switched between operationsports.com, osatwork.com, and the IP address, it doesn't remember me. But when I stick with the same option, it does remember me.

[Sweed]

Sweed, are you coming in the same way every time? I find that when I switched between operationsports.com, osatwork.com, and the IP address, it doesn't remember me. But when I stick with the same option, it does remember me.

Yeah, I only log in from home. I bookmarked the page the first time I was here using the link posted on the old board.

Perhaps I should try deleting any cookies and try from scratch?

[Ben E Lou]

Yeah. Give that a shot.

[Sweed]

Yeah. Give that a shot.

Ok, I went in and deleted the cookies from the old fofc, the new fofc, and the operation sports forums.

Exited firefox and then opened it back up and logged into the new fofc and OS boards using the rember me and exited firefox.

Then shutdown and restarted the computer.

Came here, problem fixed log in remembered.

Thanks.

[Ben E Lou]

Smilies fixed. Added a few new ones, too.

[Cringer]

New smilies? :+1: :thumbsup: :jester: :deadhorse:

[Noop]

:+1:

[MizzouRah]

How do I explain this?

When I visit the site, lets say there are 40 threads I haven't read, I read the ones I want to.. lets say 20 of them. When I leave the forum and then come back an hour or so later, it used to show me only the new threads that had new posts in them as ones I haven't looked at and would mark the rest of the ones.. even if I didn't look at them, as looked at (unless there were new posts since my last visit).

Is there some setting that was changed?

[Ryan S]

I haven't read through everything so forgive me if this has been brought up... I'm finding that the site doesn't remember me being logged in, even if I ask it to. This worked on the old site. I'm thinking it might have something to do with accidentally going to the old site first almost every time I come here (damn old habits), but was wondering if anyone else gets this?


I just tested this, and noticed that if I entered this forum through the link at the gamespy site I was asked for my user details. It may have something to do with the URL on the link. Can you test if it works properly when you directly access this site rather than going through gamespy?

[ISiddiqui]

I love the new smilies!!

:devil:

:banghead:

:withstupid:

:lol:

:thumbsup:

[DanGarion]

How do I explain this?

When I visit the site, lets say there are 40 threads I haven't read, I read the ones I want to.. lets say 20 of them. When I leave the forum and then come back an hour or so later, it used to show me only the new threads that had new posts in them as ones I haven't looked at and would mark the rest of the ones.. even if I didn't look at them, as looked at (unless there were new posts since my last visit).

Is there some setting that was changed?

I think this is part of the same problem I was mentioning. It's a cookies / db saving thing in VB. Hope they fix it.

[Ryan S]

6. Major props also to OS. Their tech guys were very helpful, and of course their working to come up with a work-surfing IP solution will be huge for some people.

I need to thank OS for sparing me the nightmare job of moving this forum over to a new server.

[Logan]

I'm having an issue too, where I click "see unread posts" and it takes me a page and a week back. Only on some threads though. Not sure if that's exactly what others are describing.

[Ben E Lou]

I think this is part of the same problem I was mentioning. It's a cookies / db saving thing in VB. Hope they fix it.

I switched it over, though, and am no longer having it. I'm guessing that coming in through different links is causing some issues. I'm using the same ones every time (bookmarks) and don't have that issue.

[MikeVic]

:lol: I like that smiley at another site, so I'm glad it's here.

[MikeVic]

I just tested this, and noticed that if I entered this forum through the link at the gamespy site I was asked for my user details. It may have something to do with the URL on the link. Can you test if it works properly when you directly access this site rather than going through gamespy?

I had the problem at work. I've tried at home going through gamespy and directly here, and I am not getting a problem at home yet.

[Buccaneer]

I'm having an issue too, where I click "see unread posts" and it takes me a page and a week back. Only on some threads though. Not sure if that's exactly what others are describing.

+1

[MizzouRah]

I think this is part of the same problem I was mentioning. It's a cookies / db saving thing in VB. Hope they fix it.

I'm using the same link to get.. I don't have to logon anymore, but it still treats every thread like it's new to me.:banghead:

[finkenst]

I'm using the same link to get.. I don't have to logon anymore, but it still treats every thread like it's new to me.:banghead:

dude,

simple fix:

forum tools: mark forum as read

i had the same problem.. not too much trouble to adapt.

though, i, too, was :banghead: all the time.

[Ryan S]

I had the problem at work. I've tried at home going through gamespy and directly here, and I am not getting a problem at home yet.

Try http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/index.php when you are back at work.

[Ryan S]

When I visit the site, lets say there are 40 threads I haven't read, I read the ones I want to.. lets say 20 of them. When I leave the forum and then come back an hour or so later, it used to show me only the new threads that had new posts in them as ones I haven't looked at and would mark the rest of the ones.. even if I didn't look at them, as looked at (unless there were new posts since my last visit).


I think I have fixed this now.

[Ryan S]

Or maybe not. I will need to take another look at this later.

[Ben E Lou]

Were you adjusting the database vs. cookie-based forum view thingy? I tried that earlier, to no apparent avail.

[sterlingice]

In another thread, someone had mentioned that links from email don't work. What I think they meant is that the links that end in "goto=newpost" don't work. I noticed it this morning. Basically, the little arrows that let you go to the newest post in the thread that you have read are resetting themselves. Those arrows point to the same place where people get email links if they are subscribed to threads. Maybe this is a one time thing that happened last night. But this morning when I opened my browser, all my newpost markers reset back to where they were a couple of days ago.

SI

I think this is working for me now and has been the last couple of times I've visited the board. :thumbsup:

SI

[BigDPW]

I justed noticed this thread. Sorry for the new post above.

I am having trouble getting the site/cookies to work so that it remembers my login/password from my computer when I log on... Any advice?

[MizzouRah]

I think I have fixed this now.

Yes you did!!!

:banana:

[Sweed]

I justed noticed this thread. Sorry for the new post above.

I am having trouble getting the site/cookies to work so that it remembers my login/password from my computer when I log on... Any advice?

I was having the same problem. What I did to fix it from my post on page one of this thread.

Ok, I went in and deleted the cookies from the old fofc, the new fofc, and the operation sports forums.

Exited firefox and then opened it back up and logged into the new fofc and OS boards using the rember me and exited firefox.

Then shutdown and restarted the computer.

Came here, problem fixed log in remembered.

Thanks.

[sterlingice]

Yes you did!!!

:banana:


I definitely endorse the additional new smileys

:banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana:

SI

[MizzouRah]

I'm SI, and I endorse this smiley.

:thumbsup:

[FrogMan]

huh, just got an email titled "Inbox full at Front Office Football Central" that said this:
Dear FrogMan,

Wonder Bear has just tried to send you a private message. However, your private messages box on Front Office Football Central has reached the specified quota. In order to receive further private messages, you must delete some messages. Please visit this page to do so:
http://www.operationsports.com/fofc/private.php

All the best,

Front Office Football Central

is it possible that people are still allowed to send PMs on the old forum?

FM

[FrogMan]

yeah, just tested it by trying to send myself a message. While it wouldn't let me send it, saying my box was full, it also sent me a message saying FrogMan was trying to send me a message but my box was full... :)

FM

[Anthony]

i appreciate the IP html link. i wouldn't be able to come to this site during work without it. you guys almost lost Hell Atlantic. sleep easy tonite, boys, daddy is still home.

[hoosierdude]

I figure you guys are still working hard on things, but, I still get the Sideline Green skin, no matter what I try to fix it via the CP. Hope no one else is getting the issue.

Think I should delete the cookie and try again? LMK.

[path12]

Move looked great to me. The two emails definitely weren't an intrusion. And I'm very happy I can now access from work again! :D

+a lot.

[Passacaglia]

I don't know if this is related to the new forum, but if so, I'll put it here. I just got my first PM since the switch, and my e-mail notification didn't show up for over three hours. Could have been a fluke, but I dunno.

[Alan T]

I don't know if this is related to the new forum, but if so, I'll put it here. I just got my first PM since the switch, and my e-mail notification didn't show up for over three hours. Could have been a fluke, but I dunno.


I've been getting the majority of mine within 5-15 minutes the last few days. At least in a decent timeframe where part of the delay probably is attributed to my email client going out to check for new mail every so often.

I haven't received any PMs today though, so not sure if something is up with their mail servers today, I just know the other day I was getting them fine.

[ShaneTheMaster]

Looks good, Ben. Are there plans to reimplement a listing of links to the various MP leagues, since there isn't a front page anymore?