Site Owner tenjuna Posted May 23, 2016 Site Owner Report Share Posted May 23, 2016 This will be my worklist for version 3.5 of the site. For the most part, this is really a continuation of the work I never got around to when I moved the PostAbout site back to dTrades in 2011/2012. I very likely will not upgrade the site to IPB to 4.1.x, as this will require another custom skin re-work plus having to redo all of the work I am doing right now. At ~$500, not really worth it. But if I get bored and/or drunk enough who knows what magic can happen. - Get the old sites up and running again - right now there are links to wherediablolives.com and caintest.com, need to update to happyfunbears.com and sta.kitchen (these are throwaway domain names, I don't care about them). Need to find the files for the old sites, hopefully I still have them somewhere. I especially need dTrades 1.2 so I can properly do the next item... - Fix site skin template - once the layout is fixed the way I want it, I will have to figure out how to commit the changes to the templates. Every time I upgrade something it breaks the site, and this is because I know nothing about IPB 3.4.x templating. Site width is 3% narrower than logo header...wtf why????????? Bump button needs white text Avatar section missing FG and the layout is all wrong Fix references in people's sigs and avatars to postabout.com...database needs a kick to the jimmy for this one Need to go through registration, posts, TrustyTrader, login/logout, messaging, in other words every template on the site - Fix items in The Shop (and the shop layout itself) - I never did get around to fixing the glows, name colors, and all the fun stuff people used FG on. I started work on that, but between that and the shop layout looking pretty nasty, this will take a while. - Fix the Arcade - yet another site feature that was broken even in PostAbout. I will be very happy to get this working again. - Clean up all stickies and permanent posts - Re-organize forums - not sure how much this is really needed now though - Clean up member groups and permissions - Send out an e-mail blast - this won't happen until the site is done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator IAmNumbaOne Posted May 27, 2016 Administrator Report Share Posted May 27, 2016 Host a teamspeak server for all of the old pros! Edit: I had one hosted, linux box had issues, haven't fixed it yet... Fwiw, I did some template changes at one point, they seemed to stick/work. That's been a couple years ago now, but I could have a look? Edit: Best way is to probably duplicate the website at some dummy public ip address as a 'sandbox' and play around. If you look at the webarchive of dtrades, you can see what forum 'improvements' don and I made. Edit: http://web.archive.org/web/20130618132308/http://www.dtrades.org Anything that required you to login, you obviously cannot see... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted May 31, 2016 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted May 31, 2016 Oh the wayback machine I totally forgot about that...that's perfect now I can get the site organized. Frankly, there is no traffic, so the site IS the sandbox lol. I will start working on changes though. I think I have decided to upgrade to the latest IPB and get the skin redone, all for the low low price of $280 lol. I will see about firing up a teamspeak server though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted June 8, 2016 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted June 8, 2016 I have changed my mind and will be upgrading to IPB 4.1.12 as soon as possible. It doesn't make sense to waste time working on this version when I can't even fix the skin template. So I am closing this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator IAmNumbaOne Posted June 11, 2016 Administrator Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Indeed, probably reasonable. If you're going to keep a public worklist, might be worth making a sticky post that is always 'current.' Might be worth even keeping track of old plans that you've now decided are a bad idea. e.g. Fix 3.5 Decided to upgrade to 4 instead. Upgrade to 4 Add TS Server Done ... Helps the community keep track of what is going on, understand where the direction is heading, and helps you feel accomplished -- all in one thread! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Site Owner tenjuna Posted June 11, 2016 Author Site Owner Report Share Posted June 11, 2016 Yes, I am going to have a v4 work list once I figure out what I am doing. Right now everything was explained in the Ten Juna Day post, but I have a heap of database work to do before I can even tackle v4. I got a very large chunk of it done today, and with any luck I will commence next weekend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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