The vBulletin migration - praise & suggestions

[SecretCode]

I have been sadly short of time to visit the forum over the past few weeks (due to work ) and today was a little concerned to see my bookmarks to threads no longer working ... but once I saw it was the vB migration (and now that I've got my new password!) I must say it looks great. The colours and overall theme are easy on the eye and easy to use. Well done!

One small and hopefully easy suggestion: a favicon in place of the default "v" icon which other vB sites use to.

Joe

[Open Source]

Haha, thanks for the compliment and yes the favicon is irritating me as well. We will get that squared away.

[SecretCode]

Cool! I see a few other oddities but I believe the migration is not complete yet?

[Open Source]

Please do post them as you see them in case we haven't noticed. If you see potential security risks, please PM me instead. I have updated the favicon file so you should start seeing that change.

Thanks

[SecretCode]

One oddity is that lots of posts over the past day or so seem to be duplicated. For example: System crash

... And another is that I got 500 Internal Server Errors on every page just now while looking for an example thread! imle that's a transient issue on the server though, and nothing to worry about unless it occurs a lot.

[Open Source]

You might see some flipping back and forth between the old and new sites since DNS is still replicating. As for the issues listed above, I will take a look. I am not sure why things were duplicated, but it had to be due to the import process. I am fixing them as I see them.

[GreyGeek]

The duplication appears to be an artifact of the data import. Fixing them as I see the duplicates is what I am doing as well, OS, but only in those threads that have activity.

Thinking about it for a minute ... if possible the best way to remove dups could be with a SQL select on the database.

[sithlord48]

noticed a slight issue when i click new posts i now see posts that i have just added to. in SMF it used to show new posts as long as you were not the last poster. it could just be how this forum works, just thought i would point it out.

[SecretCode]

Do you see threads you've just posted as having unread posts? For me they show as read (which is correct, obviously). But the "New posts" link http://kubuntuforums.net/search.php?...e=vBForum_Post lists every thread updated since ... I suppose since you logged in; you have to look at the ones which are bold and have the icon to see the actual new, unread posts. This seems fine to me (but I'm used to vB...)

[SecretCode]

Thinking about it for a minute ... if possible the best way to remove dups could be with a SQL select on the database.

If the duplicates are only over a few days, and have stopped (today's posts seem fine), the best thing to do might be to grin and bear it rather than risk messing up something!

[Open Source]

I kind of had that feeling too... I want to keep things stable and working until everything gets straightened out.

[ubuntuku]

One small request, please enable video code

[OneLine]

Oddities - the "How To's" and the "Experimentation/Customization/Optimization" are telling:

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[HalationEffect]

The new forum is looking good!

A few minor teething troubles (eg. a lot of the time, loading any new page within the forum results in an otherwise blank page stating "No input file specified", refreshing usually causes the page to load properly), but I'm sure our esteemed admins will have it all shaken out soon enough.

One quick question - is there any way that I can make the forum display dates in 'day-month-year' format rather than 'month-day-year'? I've had a look through the settings, and can't find any way to do that. I really have trouble wrapping my head around the US style middle-endian date format.

[Open Source]

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