Software upgrade growing pains & wins

DAVe3283

DAVe3283

Heavy & Slow
Sep 3, 2009
3,727
296
83
Boise, ID, USA
Overall, looks to be a good start on the migration, and I do think this will be a nice long-term improvement.
I'm sure Jimmy & The Fish are aware of most of these, but I thought I'd put up a list of what I've noticed so far.
  • Unicode / UTF-8 decode issues on old posts. Specifically, apostrophes often display as ’. (he's --> he’s)
  • Old forum links from Google don't work. Not sure how hard it would be to have the old links auto-forward to the new links, but that would really help people find old content and maintain SEO.
  • Signature pictures have gone MIA. I see a lot of people with empty [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] in their signatures, including me.
  • The old "smileys" are gone :( Hopefully they return, they were great.
  • Round profile pics. I get that it is Web 2.0 and all that, but the square pics are just better, IMO.
  • YouTube embedding isn't currently working, so old posts that had [YOUTUBE]video_id[/YOUTUBE] don't show the video or a clickable link.
  • The "Home" button (https://duramaxdiesels.com/wp/) is currently a very broken WordPress site.
To balance things out, here are some positives I've noticed already.
  • Inserting images into posts is SO MUCH BETTER! Like, so much better.
  • The site is usable on a phone, so I won't have to pay for Tapatalk anymore!
I write software for a living, so I know what a huge undertaking it has been to get this far. Thanks for doing all this for us freeloaders!
 
  • Like
Reactions: stroke250
Chevy1925

Chevy1925

don't know sh!t about IFS
Staff member
Oct 21, 2009
21,661
5,806
113
Phoenix Az
Ill always take constructive criticism!

Fish has been busting his butt with a couple other guys that helped in the migration. I will let him answer on that stuff Dave, as he knows more there than i currently do. i know enough to destroy things and not be able to quite put them back together again... much like my 1.5 year old boy :ROFLMAO:
 
  • Like
Reactions: DAVe3283 and stroke250
fish

fish

Polish Mafia
Staff member
Jul 26, 2012
110
7
18
Peoria, AZ
DAVe3283 said:
Overall, looks to be a good start on the migration, and I do think this will be a nice long-term improvement.
I'm sure Jimmy & The Fish are aware of most of these, but I thought I'd put up a list of what I've noticed so far.
  • Unicode / UTF-8 decode issues on old posts. Specifically, apostrophes often display as ’. (he's --> he’s)
  • Old forum links from Google don't work. Not sure how hard it would be to have the old links auto-forward to the new links, but that would really help people find old content and maintain SEO.
  • Signature pictures have gone MIA. I see a lot of people with empty [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC] in their signatures, including me.
  • The old "smileys" are gone :( Hopefully they return, they were great.
  • Round profile pics. I get that it is Web 2.0 and all that, but the square pics are just better, IMO.
  • YouTube embedding isn't currently working, so old posts that had [YOUTUBE]video_id[/YOUTUBE] don't show the video or a clickable link.
  • The "Home" button (https://duramaxdiesels.com/wp/) is currently a very broken WordPress site.
To balance things out, here are some positives I've noticed already.
  • Inserting images into posts is SO MUCH BETTER! Like, so much better.
  • The site is usable on a phone, so I won't have to pay for Tapatalk anymore!
I write software for a living, so I know what a huge undertaking it has been to get this far. Thanks for doing all this for us freeloaders!
Click to expand...

We got caught with our pants down. The forum wasn't supposed to be live when you posted it, so hopefully most of the issues you mentioned above are addressed.

Old tags like ICODE or SIGPIC or YOUTUBE may be gone. But youtube posts should embed automatically, as well as any modern web sites should have a pretty link appear. Unfortunately old smileys are gone.

Let me know if you're running into any more of these issues.
 
2004LB7

2004LB7

Well-known member
Dec 15, 2010
6,955
2,136
113
Norcal
Fish, can we get a dark theme? And how about an option to resize postings text/font separate from site wide?
 
  • Like
Reactions: Chavez91
DAVe3283

DAVe3283

Heavy & Slow
Sep 3, 2009
3,727
296
83
Boise, ID, USA
Chevy1925 said:
I’ll get a dark theme up for you guys. Resize we will look into more. That strictly on the mobile theme?
Click to expand...
I think the mobile theme was where it was wanted. Having the option is nice, but the font size is fine on my phone. But some people might have small phones or just like big text.

Stoked for a dark theme! (y)
 
  • Like
Reactions: ryjack135
ryjack135

ryjack135

New member
Sep 9, 2018
10
0
1
I am really enjoying the new website! Way more mobile friendly and much better than Tapatalk 👍🏼 I am a fan of the like button as well
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom