Oberst Hajj Posted November 6 Posted November 6 I would like to use this thread to track all of the issues and differences between the old vBulletin site and the new one. Please do not post about theme/appearance differences unless something looks broken to you. It will take me some time get the appearance of the new site setup. Please post your finding is an easy to read list format, giving as much detail as you can. When possible, include a link to the page where the issue occurs. Things to fix Articles contents missing Downloads files missing (new system might be necessary) Not able to create new User Albums in Galleries (background processes still running on images and gallery stuff) Images not all showing up. (maybe a background process) Links in posts from old site not working. (Maybe a solved when the domain name gets moved over) Old Rank system will not work on the new site, need a new solution to this. Medals can not work in the same way as before. A new system might be needed Deputy Admins can not edit all threads. The new site does not have custom default Avatars, users have to upload their own. Max size is 150x150 pixels. Paid memberships (Gold and Silver) have to be revamped and implemented. New features If you highlight text (left click and drag) in a post, a popup appears allowing you to quickly quote just the selected text. You can now easily send attachments in Private Messages (I may limit this to paid subscriptions). Current queue of background migration processes (some of these can take days to complete ) Rebuilding new topic flag in posts Rebuilding posts 5.35% at 1445 11Nov24 | 5.65% at 0431MST 12Nov24 | 6.69% 0542 13NOV24 Rebuilding Gallery Images 30.51% at 0652 MST 10Nov24 | 34.69% at 1010MST 10Nov24 | 40.41% at 0431MST 12Nov24 | 46.25% 0542 13NOV24 Rebuilding Personal Conversation first post ids Rebuilding messages Sending notifications for Longer shooting ranges Rebuilding Articles tags Rebuilding blog entries tags Rebuilding event counts Rebuilding article counts Rebuilding topics tags Rebuilding gallery image counts Rebuilding entry categories counts Rebuilding forums counts Rebuilding albums counts Rebuilding reputation leaderboard Recalculating members' content count Rebuilding categories counts Rebuilding categories counts Deleting empty topics Rebuilding Profile Photo Thumbnails Deleting A Test Forum Reindexing status updates Reindexing topics Reindexing albums Reindexing image comments Reindexing images Reindexing articles Reindexing articles Reindexing pages Reindexing events Reindexing blog comments Reindexing blog entries Reindexing posts 1 Quote
predhead Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Under Articles there is no content. Not certain if articles were not able to "port" over. Same with Downloads...none of the old files are there. And, trying to add a new album under my profile, I do not see a "new" or "add" function: Quote
Teaticket Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Looking at the painting showcase, no photos show when first looking at the thread. If I edit, do nothing and save, the photos appear. Looking at an AAR, no photos appear when looking at it. If I go to edit, do nothing and save, the photos appear after the AAR, not in their original locations in the post. Quote
Teaticket Posted November 6 Posted November 6 Same thing happened when looking at a book review as with an AAR. If I wasn't a supermoderator, would the images still appear? Quote
Flying Officer Kyte Posted November 7 Posted November 7 This is an example of what I am getting with some of my posts with pictures. Here is my take on Clippers conversion of the Nexus Rumpler. [attachment=12609:name] [attachment=12606:name] [attachment=12607:name] [attachment=12608:name] Rob. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 7 Author Posted November 7 The photos not showing should be resolved later today I hope. All of the attachments from the old site are still rebuilding in the background. It is currently at 99.55% (It was at 94.x% last night). If you click on your name in the upper right corner and then select AdminCP, it should take you to the backend of the site. The first option on the left menu list is Dashboard (I think this loads by default), at the bottom is a Background Processes section that lists all the things that site has in queue to do. You might have to click on the little triangle to get the list to appear. Take some time to poke around in the AdminCP to get a feel of what is available on this new platform. Just don't save any changes you might make yet. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 7 Author Posted November 7 17 hours ago, predhead said: Under Articles there is no content. Not certain if articles were not able to "port" over. Same with Downloads...none of the old files are there. And, trying to add a new album under my profile, I do not see a "new" or "add" function: I think I just fixed that. It was a permissions setting for the Admin group. Quote
predhead Posted November 7 Posted November 7 18 minutes ago, Oberst Hajj said: I think I just fixed that. It was a permissions setting for the Admin group. I just checked...looks to be the same issue...nothing is there at this time. Quote
flash Posted November 8 Posted November 8 Had a quick squiz at the site, looks like everything has come out in one lump, no bold text, paragraphs etc so things like the WGF Rules sticky will take some sorting out before it's fit for purpose again, but think it's all there. Obviously none of the links work so it will have lost a little of it's functionality, I expect the same will be true of the painting showcase. Cheers Dave PS, tidied the Rules title & first paragraph of info. Quote
flash Posted November 8 Posted November 8 (edited) This post was recognized by Oberst Hajj! "Testing the "Reward Member" option with a badge." flash was awarded the badge 'Helpful' I have a similar problem that I found in the earlier tests, so should be fixable. I edited a bit in the WGF Rules sticky then jumped in and sorted out the Ace Skills post (a couple of hours work) - When I went back to the rules post I no longer have the edit option so can't sort that out just yet. The Boss previously found a setting somewhere. I'll need this to continue the tidy up and to make OTT work in the future. Please take a look at the Ace Skills, think it came out OK. Cheers Dave Welcome back flash! Edited November 8 by Oberst Hajj Edit by Keith 5 hours after being posted. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 8 Author Posted November 8 5 hours ago, flash said: I have a similar problem that I found in the earlier tests, so should be fixable. I edited a bit in the WGF Rules sticky then jumped in and sorted out the Ace Skills post (a couple of hours work) - When I went back to the rules post I no longer have the edit option so can't sort that out just yet. The Boss previously found a setting somewhere. I'll need this to continue the tidy up and to make OTT work in the future. Please take a look at the Ace Skills, think it came out OK. Cheers Dave Welcome back flash! Give it another shot now Dave. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 8 Author Posted November 8 7 hours ago, flash said: Obviously none of the links work so it will have lost a little of it's functionality, I expect the same will be true of the painting showcase The links might be resolved once this new site gets moved over to the www.wingsofwar.org domain names. Since the old site is down right now and all the old links point to it, they should not work. Hopefully when the domain names get moved over, the existing link will start working. We might have to manually update them to whatever format this new site uses however. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 8 Author Posted November 8 Our old Rank system might be an issue on the new site. I can't currently see a way to have different ranks for the different user groups. This might mean no more US, Brit and German ranks based on user group and post counts. Also, the ranks on the new site show up as the little icon overlapping your avatar image. That is not a lot of space to display any of our current rank graphics. Should be come up with a new set of graphics for everyone to use are perhaps do away with the use of the Ranks completely? I'm going to look into if there is a way to use Badges (I think that is what is displaying the XO and CO wings under our names) as a replacement for our old Ranks system. Quote
flash Posted November 8 Posted November 8 1 hour ago, Oberst Hajj said: Give it another shot now Dave. Yep, all good now, might have been user error but I've done the WGF Rules sticky throughout now so that's done (for now anyway !) Quote
flash Posted November 8 Posted November 8 50 minutes ago, Oberst Hajj said: The links might be resolved once this new site gets moved over to the www.wingsofwar.org domain names. Since the old site is down right now and all the old links point to it, they should not work. Hopefully when the domain names get moved over, the existing link will start working. We might have to manually update them to whatever format this new site uses however. That's good, I've left them all in place so hopefully won't be too much work to sort them out when the time comes. If I get time tomorrow I may have a look over the Painting Showcase, or I might just play OTT Mission 8... Looks like I don't have edit in the Showcase so flying it is ! Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 8 Author Posted November 8 It looks like the Painting Showcase main thread is locked (it shows your name next to that action?), which means it cannot be edited any longer. I'm trying to see if there is a way to unlock it. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 8 Author Posted November 8 The more I did into the new software, the more I think we are going to have to abandon or reinvent how we used to break things up by country locations. Before we had user groups that reflected things like Ranks and paid memberships. Those things are not really feasible on the new site. I'm thinking part of the "reinvention" is going to be combining all of the various country based Silver and Gold memberships into just a single set of Silver and Gold memberships. Any thoughts on this move? Quote
flash Posted November 9 Posted November 9 12 hours ago, Oberst Hajj said: It looks like the Painting Showcase main thread is locked (it shows your name next to that action?), which means it cannot be edited any longer. I'm trying to see if there is a way to unlock it. I can't see how I could've done that, I opened the Index thread looking to Edit and the option wasn't there, just Hide, Delete, Share. I can't find Edit in any of the other showcase threads, other than my own entries by the looks of it. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 9 Author Posted November 9 4 hours ago, flash said: I can't see how I could've done that, I opened the Index thread looking to Edit and the option wasn't there, just Hide, Delete, Share. I can't find Edit in any of the other showcase threads, other than my own entries by the looks of it. I'm not sure either. Yesterday I was not able to unlock it or do anything at all with it either. This morning I had the option to reply to it (it warned that it was a closed thread) and edit the posts. It also let me unlock it. Maybe some of the background processes from the migration were still running that effected it. Anyway, have a look at it now and see if it works for you. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 9 Author Posted November 9 I've updated the first post with a list of the To Fix and one for New Features. Quote
flash Posted November 9 Posted November 9 48 minutes ago, Oberst Hajj said: I'm not sure either. Yesterday I was not able to unlock it or do anything at all with it either. This morning I had the option to reply to it (it warned that it was a closed thread) and edit the posts. It also let me unlock it. Maybe some of the background processes from the migration were still running that effected it. Anyway, have a look at it now and see if it works for you. OK, Boss, I can access the Index list as I'm the author, so I can start tidying that up, but can't Edit your initial thread post like I used to be able to do. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 9 Author Posted November 9 24 minutes ago, flash said: OK, Boss, I can access the Index list as I'm the author, so I can start tidying that up, but can't Edit your initial thread post like I used to be able to do. See if you can edit my post in that thread now please. Quote
Dan-Sam Posted November 9 Posted November 9 Ready for test flights, sir 👨🏻✈️ Just ask and I'll do it 🫡 Quote
Lt. S.Kafloc Posted November 10 Posted November 10 None of the links from the main forum screen work. All say I dont not have permission to view. Quote
Oberst Hajj Posted November 10 Author Posted November 10 4 hours ago, Lt. S.Kafloc said: None of the links from the main forum screen work. All say I dont not have permission to view. Check it now, I had to adjust some permissions setting for the user group you are in. Quote
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