Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 4, 2011 Site Owner Report Share Posted October 4, 2011 I have switched the domain back to dtrades.org...welcome home. you may want to change all of your bookmarks now while you are thinking about it. as you can see, we have upgraded. === as of December 12 the site upgrade as I see it is complete. for now, I am basically tinkering with things, with the intention of being fully complete by May 16th, which is the official 8th anniversary of the day this site was registered and made live... I am currently working on moving the site to a new server and wringing out the bugs in the new mactastica skin. === here is what I have left: 1. chat room takes 30 seconds to enter, and freezes the entire site in the meantime (installed CURL to fix) 2. for whatever reason a lot of avatars are missing (I fixed as much as I could) 3. any post before the site upgrade that had quoted stuff in it has broken quote code (rebuilt post content to fix) 4. need a new logo (quickie logo will do until new skin is up) 5. fix all issues in relation to the upgrade (deleting, moving, cleaning, bugs, etc) 6. fix domain name to dtrades.org (there is a hidden redirect somewhere breaking this, wild goose chase hooray) 7. site store is missing (installing that at some point) 8. forum gold and forum gold buying is missing (will be back once store is re-opened) 9. post bumping button (maybe) 10. arcade missing (though missing games atm) 11. add facebook, twitter, and smartphone integration 12. add customizable side bar blocks (on front page) 13. 20 user chat license 14. buy a new server & increase bandwidth or move to a hosted server instead (current server is way old, we need to do something here) 15. TT is missing (migrating to new trader feedback system) 16. finalize what I am doing with banned member group (no need to now) 17. forum gold earning from posts missing 18. add shop items and raffle/lottery and turn shop back on 19. add a donation system 20. add new skins (thinking of adding Engraved first and will add others if something cool comes up) 21. re-add previously purchased store goodies 22. add a group promotion system or something to replace the old guild system 23. reopen the arcade (after I write a batch import script to re-add 5000+ games...nfc how yet it will be a while) 24. add a support ticket system ===== if you see a problem or something missing message me or post here. I do not remember everything we did on PostAbout it's been too long. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator IAmNumbaOne Posted October 4, 2011 Administrator Report Share Posted October 4, 2011 2. for whatever reason a lot of avatars are missing (invision will have to fix) I see profile pictures have been used for avatars as well (if a member had no avatar). I was not a fan of this option when upgrading as there are some scaling issues when doing so. Unfortunately I'm not sure if there is an easy way to undo this so I'm glad it isn't a major issue. 3. any post before the site upgrade that had quoted stuff in it has broken quote code (invision will have to fix) Fortunately all the time information is captured in the post so this shouldn't be terribly hard to fix. 10. fix domain name to dtrades.org (tried this, it broke every damn thing...I asked Invision to do this, but obviously they did not) I believe there you need to modify this in the server config file (should be at the root of the installation) and also in the Admin CP. I'm not sure what broke when you tried to change it so I cannot help you any further then that. 11. buy a new windows server OS (we have reached EOL with what I have now, and no I am not using Linux or Apache or any variant thereof - have had too many bad experiences with both to bother re-learning now) I feel like this is a mistake but you're head honcho so the decision is yours. If you want to mess around with the possibility of using a LAMP server for the forum let me know and I can give you a hand. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted October 4, 2011 Report Share Posted October 4, 2011 I logged on an was like wtf and saw dtrades at the top and was like i see most of the avatar pictures too as I don't remember who had an avatar an who doesn't. Invision has a lot of work it seems. oh and i see my avatar and you all do too but it doesn't move as it use to something invision will prob fix too a long with the avatar problem I assume. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SABERSAW Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 wow this surprised me.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
specifics Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 are there no more bump buttons? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 5, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 are there no more bump buttons? going to have to give me some time on the small stuff...as I am sure you can imagine this was not a small upgrade. I may revisit the OS thing when it becomes more of an issue. right now I am just looking for easy, there is enough to do right now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 5, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 site is going to be slow for a while, invision is rebuilding post content now to fix the quote code problem, and it's a huge thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator IAmNumbaOne Posted October 5, 2011 Administrator Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 site is going to be slow for a while, invision is rebuilding post content now to fix the quote code problem, and it's a huge thing to do. Haven't they run into this problem before? We cannot be the only people upgrading from 2 to 3, can we? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mity Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 ahhh back to the roots Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator IAmNumbaOne Posted October 5, 2011 Administrator Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 ahhh back to the roots Gettin' there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 5, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 it turns out Invision forgot to give me a list of things I needed to do after they finished the upgrade. I ended up doing the post rebuild myself, and that stuff looks way better now. the chat thing is related to me not having installed CURL for php, which I probably should have known to do since everything uses CURL nowadays. avatars missing is just something that will have to be dealt with on a case by case. if yours is messed up, fix it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator madd-hatter Posted October 5, 2011 Administrator Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 I see the potential. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted October 5, 2011 Report Share Posted October 5, 2011 I honesty still can't wait for this; whether it brings many more people or just the loyal regular dtrades original members it doesn't matter to me. The good old days are coming back. I know I posted before but whatever hah Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seto Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 I think post counts are messed up too =) ..nvm o.o it was messed up earlier when i logged in with firefox LOL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 6, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 A few things are messed up...it's being worked on. Nobody said this would be problem free. In fact expect problems for a while. I am working on it obviously, hang in there can only go so fast. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seto Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 was just a heads up, no rush =) Sites looking great Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruksak Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 All dressed up and nowhere to go. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 6, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 I screwed up post counts by doing a topic rebuild. crap. I wish they were a little more descriptive on what they are telling me. I have database backups, I just have to figure out how to get stuff xferred over, never done it before. anyone know mysql? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 6, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 holy moly, I figured out the query already: UPDATE `caintest`.`ibf_members` as current, `postabout`.`ibf_members` as backup SET current.name=backup.name, current.points=backup.points WHERE current.member_id=backup.member_id; now if I can just figure out how to restore the backup database lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thirteen Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 are there no more bump buttons? going to have to give me some time on the small stuff...as I am sure you can imagine this was not a small upgrade. I may revisit the OS thing when it becomes more of an issue. right now I am just looking for easy, there is enough to do right now. so is it okay for us to bump our threads by posting "bump" or "up" in the meantime? thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 6, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 I am going to go with yes on the bump posts, but I am talking like once a day. there is no need to bump every hour, there is not enough traffic on the site right now for more than that. ===== There are currently 3 broken issues with the site (Guest posts, post counts, IM message rebuild), 1 wtf issue (Facebook login giving weird error), and 1 aesthetic issue (missing avatars). Invision is working with me to get these done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 6, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 all known issues in relation to the uprgade are fixed. Facebook login, share, and like integration is done. You will find the login button up top, and the like/share button at the very very bottom of the topic. Anything you share or like WILL show up on your Facebook profile, and your current Facebook post will show up in your dTrades profile.The "Like This" button you see to the right is in relation to the site's Member Reputation system, which I will likely remove. Facebook integration is slow as hell, nothing I can do about it, bitch at Facebook. Next I will be seeing about a bump button, but that won't be for a while...for now I am done I need an effing break. after that I will work on shop items and migrating TT to Member Reputation. after all that then I will look into a new skin, and whether I want to blow cash on it and upgrades. now leave me alone! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruksak Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 all known issues in relation to the uprgade are fixed. Facebook login, share, and like integration is done. You will find the login button up top, and the like/share button at the very very bottom of the topic. Anything you share or like WILL show up on your Facebook profile, and your current Facebook post will show up in your dTrades profile.The "Like This" button you see to the right is in relation to the site's Member Reputation system, which I will likely remove. Facebook integration is slow as hell, nothing I can do about it, bitch at Facebook. Next I will be seeing about a bump button, but that won't be for a while...for now I am done I need an effing break. after that I will work on forum gold, the shop, shop items, and migrating TT to Member Reputation. after all that then I will look into a new skin, and whether I want to blow cash on it and upgrades. now leave me alone! Good work, boss. I was starting to wonder if you might bail on this whole project. You're a man of your word. Now if fuckin Blizz would just follow suite, we can get this shit going. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nathan Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 I never liked the guest account situation personally I think people should make there own account and wait to be validated but that's just me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 6, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 @ruksak - I DID bail on this for 2 years...I just couldn't bring myself to shut it down. frankly I didn't expect the upgrade to be this easy, which was the main reason why I drug my feet for so long. I simply didn't have the time or energy for it. but hey, it turned out great for everyone, so I am glad I didn't walk away. @Nathan - the guest posting thing was for Awaiting Validation members. I had no idea posting was turned on for that group, or I would have killed that ages ago. the only reason I found out was because when I asked Invision about the weird names, they asked why someone was able to make 2 posts when they had just registered. I went and looked and I was like Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator IAmNumbaOne Posted October 6, 2011 Administrator Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 @Nathan - the guest posting thing was for Awaiting Validation members. I had no idea posting was turned on for that group, or I would have killed that ages ago. the only reason I found out was because when I asked Invision about the weird names, they asked why someone was able to make 2 posts when they had just registered. I went and looked and I was like *Whistles* Actually that was my doing. I was utilizing the "Awaiting Validation" group of IPB 2.X to weed out scammers/PBMs/etc. I'm not entirely sure why validating accounts would show up as Guest_, as that makes absolutely no sense... But anyways, my bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruksak Posted October 6, 2011 Report Share Posted October 6, 2011 When I close out my browser and come back, I have to log back in. Yes, I checked the "Keep me logged in" tab when signing in. Any ideas bout that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 7, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 I noticed it earlier but didn't think much of it. Now that you bring it up it does in fact look broken. I am going to guess a cookie issue, I will add it to the list. For now I have 3 quizzes and 4 exams in the next 10 days so you will excuse me if I am scarce for a bit 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 Whatttttt! I am so pumped to be back. After years of thinking I would never I have decided I am going to play D3. Let's get this party started! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 7, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 automated login cookie fixed. shouldn't have to log in every time you visit now. yum, cookies. by the way, no Enzos allowed. this is a man's club Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 7, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 you will all be happy to know that we have a shop in progress, and I did get everyone's forum gold enabled, so no worries there. I am figuring out how to get items and inventory transferred which is going to be difficult at best. my fear is we will have to start over. I am working on it. the shop author will not help me...the bastard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enzo Posted October 7, 2011 Report Share Posted October 7, 2011 automated login cookie fixed. shouldn't have to log in every time you visit now. yum, cookies. by the way, no Enzos allowed. this is a man's club I'm a man now, I swear! <3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joz Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 You forgot: 16: make Joz moderator/super moderator/admin 17. have party, pool full of beer (at least.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bape. Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 holy shit this thing is so sexy. great job cain Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 8, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 I have removed all PMs that were more than 30 months old. That was about 500,000 messages and 400 megs of database size folks. if you are not sure what that means, it's a crap ton. Anyone who needed messages from that long ago really wasn't thinking about backing up obviously, but you can message me and I can retrieve from backup. But you will have to give me the exact subject or some text of it...no way in hell I am searching around a half million records eff that. Message me about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruksak Posted October 8, 2011 Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 Still can't stay logged in. Also, the 'sign in' tab at the top of the page doesn't respond when clicked unless I enter a specific thread/forum, then it allows me to sign in. Just something to dig into when you have time. Great frickin job so far and I think I speak for everybody when I say how much we all appreciate your efforts here. This place is going to be fuckin tits when D3 drops, whenever that is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 8, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 8, 2011 Still can't stay logged in. Also, the 'sign in' tab at the top of the page doesn't respond when clicked unless I enter a specific thread/forum, then it allows me to sign in. Just something to dig into when you have time. Great frickin job so far and I think I speak for everybody when I say how much we all appreciate your efforts here. This place is going to be fuckin tits when D3 drops, whenever that is. it's just you, it is working fine for me just tried on 3 computers. try clearing out your browser cache, or upgrade it, or try a different browser. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joz Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Works fine for me on Chrome, do as tenjy says and also make sure your bookmark to dtrades is up to date. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NeoDaReaper Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Holy shit. This is amazing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 holy shit... I feel at home again! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joz Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Holy shit. This is amazing. Holy shit, Its Neo. holy shit... I feel at home again! Holy shit...its paul! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Posted October 9, 2011 Report Share Posted October 9, 2011 Holy shit. This is amazing. Holy shit, Its Neo. holy shit... I feel at home again! Holy shit...its paul! holy shit, it's joz! yea, I got word by carrier pigeon that dtrades was back to normal form so I had to come see what was up around here. how have all of you been? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 10, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 yes, a minor speed bump with my stupid idea that was PostAbout...but hey nobody said I couldn't fix it. welcome back guys Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruksak Posted October 10, 2011 Report Share Posted October 10, 2011 Works fine for me on Chrome, do as tenjy says and also make sure your bookmark to dtrades is up to date. Tried a few things, I'll mess with it more later. Never have this problem with any other board, even ones that use this same version of software. I think you guys just don't like me...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 11, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 bump button installed, and it is fricking awesome. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator madd-hatter Posted October 11, 2011 Administrator Report Share Posted October 11, 2011 For now I have 3 quizzes and 4 exams in the next 10 days so you will excuse me if I am scarce for a bit For what subject are you taking classes? I wanna take some classes, I miss class Chris, get an avatar, wtf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 12, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 12, 2011 I am in nursing school. currently taking Anatomy & Physiology, Microbiology, Nutrition, and Intro to Sociology. eventually I will either be a nurse practitioner (doctor basically), or a nurse anaesthetist ($300,000+ a year w00t). friendly tip: NEVER take 3 bio classes at the same time, it WILL kick your ass! ===== in other news, I found a host that might be a perfect fit. it turns out the line down at the warehouse is being downgraded to a less reliable connection (ADSL). things are already end of the line with the current server, so it seems like a better investment to go hosted rather than spending $1000+ on a new server and software that may be strangled by poor bandwidth. the place I found is $50 a month, and I am betting it will be a huge improvement. I am going to throw up the old dtrades and postabout on there for a month and see what happens. I will likely have everyone jump on it too and see if it is just as bad. here is what I am looking at doing...yes it is windows 2008, which I am MCITP certified on...not going to try and re-learn apache/linux, no thanks: http://myhosting.com/developer-vps/windows-developer.aspx Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RKDMAN Posted October 13, 2011 Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 yes, a minor speed bump with my stupid idea that was PostAbout...but hey nobody said I couldn't fix it. welcome back guys it's okay...everyone has those moments. site is looking awesome man, good job. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator madd-hatter Posted October 13, 2011 Administrator Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 here is what I am looking at doing...yes it is windows 2008, which I am MCITP certified on...not going to try and re-learn apache/linux, no thanks: http://myhosting.com/developer-vps/windows-developer.aspx This is the kind of thing that I've considered taking classes for. I want to work from home and I want to evolve with the web. I'm assuming that you would advise against it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted October 13, 2011 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted October 13, 2011 having done it for 20+ years, I would highly recommend finding something with growth potential. the IT field is saturated. when I first started it was awesome since nobody knew anything, but now all of that stuff is pretty much commodity anymore. think about what you are really passionate about, then find something along those lines. it took me years to figure out that I wanted to be a nurse. I always knew I was good at helping people and making people laugh, but didn't know how to equate that into a job until all the health problems I went through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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