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« on: June 26, 2020, 04:39:48 am »
Hello everyone! I'm going to be taking the forum offline for a few hours on the evening (~6-9pm UTC-7) of 29 June, 2020. This is in order to do the following:

1. Migrate to a new server/upgrade the OS. Our current host is getting pretty long in the tooth, and we're nearing the end of available security patches. This will also be better hardware, which you may or may not notice.
2. Perform a forum upgrade. Should have minimal impact (fingers crossed :-)).

During this time, the forum will probably be on- and offline intermittently until the maintenance is complete. Let me know if there are any issues with that time window.

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« Reply #1 on: June 26, 2020, 10:33:37 am »
During this time, the forum will probably be on- and offline intermittently until the maintenance is complete. Let me know if there are any issues with that time window.

Sovin

I don't foresee any issues with the time, thanks for letting us know, we appreciate your work!
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« Reply #2 on: June 26, 2020, 05:08:57 pm »
Thank you, SovinNai ;).
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« Reply #3 on: June 27, 2020, 02:12:11 am »
Awesome! Thank you so much!
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« Reply #4 on: June 30, 2020, 12:59:50 am »
Starting in a couple of minutes! See you all on the other side!

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« Reply #5 on: June 30, 2020, 01:41:51 am »
Okay, things should be back to normal. Let me know if you encounter weirdness. I'm also going to apply some version upgrades to the forum software itself.

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« Reply #6 on: June 30, 2020, 01:52:54 am »
Version upgrades applied successfully (as far as I can tell).

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« Reply #7 on: June 30, 2020, 12:38:28 pm »
Excellent, site seems vastly more responsive and quicker!  Thanks again!
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« Reply #8 on: June 30, 2020, 12:54:00 pm »
EDIT: Hmm, seems there is a sort of odd "bug" with quotation marks (" and ") and some characters like (the u with an umlat, alt+251), for instance, I had to change my signature to remove both.  Also, in the title of this thread: https://www.second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=3018.msg49031#new

They show up fine in a preview, but won't let the message be posted.

Let me try a different character.  (Seems none of those would work...)

Also, if you try to edit a post, the "double post protection" stops you, which isn't a big deal, but is a little odd.
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« Reply #9 on: June 30, 2020, 04:28:05 pm »
Also, the Chat/Egora thing seems to have some sort of arbitrary entry limit, that I can't quite discern exactly.
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« Reply #10 on: July 02, 2020, 04:28:52 pm »
There seems to also be a content limit on posts, much to my dismay...
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« Reply #11 on: July 02, 2020, 08:09:02 pm »
Can anybody go through the available admin panels and look for the settings that control all that? It's likely that they are there, it sounds like something that should be customizable.

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« Reply #12 on: July 02, 2020, 08:48:41 pm »
I'm talking with Sovin, and I've handled the minutia for the most part before, but he's driving the bus right now ;).
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« Reply #13 on: July 03, 2020, 06:24:36 am »
Hi there!
Any reason why the forum would stop working on Tapatalk after the upgrade?
Getting a persistent 'network error' on trying to enter the group via TT.

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« Reply #14 on: July 03, 2020, 03:42:13 pm »
We're working on it, fair person. Be patient with us.

Also, since the Egora won't currently accept links, I found three of 7-9 generations of hats for everyone's enjoyment: https://ibb.co/5nMvgVn

Edit: And yes, unapologetically, that is Scraggles, who I've had since three, and Stripe, who I've had since six, in the background. They've literally travelled Canada and a bit of Asia with me.
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