(Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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Re: Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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Well I just discovered and read this thread on 11 April 2022 at 12:10 AM UK time, and good that I did as if I hadn't seen it then later to today I would have tried to come to forum and find it was all down — Panic!!!

Great news. Look forward to the new look and maybe some fixed and newly added functionality.

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Re: (Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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Due to the major problems with logins and moderation tools being more broken on the newer update, we have reverted the forums back to the prior state.

We have some leads we can follow, but we wanted to bring the site back to a known at-least-semi-working state in the meantime.

We do apologize for all the problems this has caused. These problems were not present in the local environment I used to test the upgrade process.
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Re: (Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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only way i can see a upgrade working , an thats to blow away this board an start fresh
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osuadmin wrote:Due to the major problems with logins and moderation tools being more broken on the newer update, we have reverted the forums back to the prior state..
Years back there was a shadow copy skulking around - http://forums-test.mozillazine.org with a database of real posts, etc. Perhaps that could be used to test out updates/ideas on?





Snake4 wrote:only way i can see a upgrade working , an thats to blow away this board an start fresh
Good job that no one ever listens to you then, isn't it?
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Frank Lion wrote:
osuadmin wrote:Due to the major problems with logins and moderation tools being more broken on the newer update, we have reverted the forums back to the prior state..
Years back there was a shadow copy skulking around - http://forums-test.mozillazine.org with a database of real posts, etc. Perhaps that could be used to test out updates/ideas on?





Snake4 wrote:only way i can see a upgrade working , an thats to blow away this board an start fresh
Good job that no one ever listens to you then, isn't it?
maybe, maybe not Frank
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Frank Lion wrote:
osuadmin wrote:Due to the major problems with logins and moderation tools being more broken on the newer update, we have reverted the forums back to the prior state..
Years back there was a shadow copy skulking around - http://forums-test.mozillazine.org with a database of real posts, etc. Perhaps that could be used to test out updates/ideas on?
Yes forums-test.mozillazine.org and boards.mozillazine.org were used for testing over the years at times.
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Snake4 wrote:only way i can see a upgrade working , an thats to blow away this board an start fresh
Perhaps as a extreme last last resort. Even with your old account names you are still new here as 2014 is not old. I would say it is the Admin, the mods and those that have been here since early on that have a say.
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Re: (Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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James wrote:
Snake4 wrote:only way i can see a upgrade working , an thats to blow away this board an start fresh
Perhaps as a extreme last last resort. Even with your old account names you are still new here as 2014 is not old. I would say it is the Admin, the mods and those that have been here since early on that have a say.
it might be time to Close this untill there's another attempt at an upgrade
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Appreciate the effort and the communication! Hopefully you will have better luck on the next try!
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Frank Lion wrote: Years back there was a shadow copy skulking around - http://forums-test.mozillazine.org with a database of real posts, etc. Perhaps that could be used to test out updates/ideas on?
Yep, thats what we plan on doing. We plan to have this deployed tomorrow. I will keep you all posted.
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The staging / testing forum has been deployed to https://forums-staging.mozillazine.org -- things seem marginally better. I will still be troubleshooting over the next couple days.
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osuadmin wrote:The staging / testing forum has been deployed to https://forums-staging.mozillazine.org -- things seem marginally better. I will still be troubleshooting over the next couple days.
Thank you once again for your work and diligence on all of this.
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Re: (Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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the auto logout problem is still there :( , i again tried with Google Chrome, still logs out automatically https://www.phpbb.com/support/docs/en/3 ... -settings/



smilies all Load - fixed

wonder if this is why Kerz never upgraded it?
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Re: (Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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osuadmin wrote: I will still be troubleshooting over the next couple days.
Test bed has the 'deleting PMs' bug. Fix is here - https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2535986
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Re: (Reverted) Forum update downtime on Monday 4/11

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Frank Lion wrote:
osuadmin wrote: I will still be troubleshooting over the next couple days.
Test bed has the 'deleting PMs' bug. Fix is here - https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2535986
im hitting that Bug, i cannot delete a single PM
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