New PBSBAC website switch over

[Steve S]

All being well the PBSBAC website will be switched to a new server on the evening of the 3rd December. The appearance of the website and forum will be substantially the same so no big learning curve.

 

There has been a great deal of work behind the scenes modifying the code by Mark and Tanya so that it will run on a modern specification commercial server. Since Oli took over maintenance of the website many years ago, it has been run on a private server kindly hosted by Oli's company and maintained by Oli, that's been a lot of work over many years. The server however is now old and cost money every month to run so a switch was required, meantime software system have moved on so a major update to the code was required, that's now completed.

 

We have been testing the new website, however, as is the way with software there may be some problems lurking which we have missed. Please report on this thread any possible issues you find once you see the notification that the website has switched, all being well that will be from the 4th Dec

 

There are some new features which will be detailed in a later post once it's live.

[Rob]

Awesome, looking forward to it!

 

Thanks to Oli for all the work up to now!

 

Thanks for Mark and Tayna for the refresh!

 

R

[great white]

As Rob says 

 

Thanks to Oli for keeping the old one going for so long on his own server.

 

Lets hope for a smooth change over, with minimal hiccups. well done all concerned with this large project.

[Graham Nash]

Im in awe of people who can do this sort of stuff.

 

Well done (and thanks) to Oli for his commitment up till now and good luck to those who have the task of changing it over. It might as well be in Swahili to me! 

[Jim]

Well it certainly looks nice & crisp.

Well done to all involved in the "voodoo magic" required to get it sorted.  👍

[Steve S]

The site is live now, there may well be some lurking problems in spite of the best efforts that have been made.

 

Please report any problems you find (even if you are not sure) on this thread that way others can know about them. When they are are fixes they will be reported on this thread also.

 

Some content members have input may have been lost during the switchover on Friday, if that happened to your content then please enter it again, eg a catch report gone missing.

 

For the techys only: browsers do cache content including code, when a site changes problems can occur due to the browser caching code/content that is the old version, this can look like bugs but actually self resolve over time, or can be fixed by flushing the cache or using a different browser. If you find a problem you can try this

[2006holmwood]

Not a problem ,but notice on home page that new content and unread content are both there , arn`t they the same thing.

site works great for me.Well done to all involved.

Mick.

[Steve S]

The club records list is missing

https://pbsbac.co.uk/club-records/

 

 

This now fixed

[Steve S]

The website is randomly reporting 403 errors. Mark is onto this, it's not a bug in the new code, it's some sort of faulty interaction between Invision and Freeola, he is working the issue with freeola support (mainly they work during the working week).  A get round that sometimes works is using the back button and keeping on refreshing, we know it is annoying.

 

[MarkPapiani]

Club records fixed. I also added them under the PBSBAC menu replacing an old menu item that linked to 2023 species hunt. New menu:

 

[sparky]

On my phone I am getting the 403 error message.

The screen  alternates between normal size 

and then everything goes very small writing but rest stays large?  Have to really zoom in to be able to read the comments.

Happening on computer as well!

 

[sparky]

Why are the posts shown in such minute writing??

I have to enlarge them just to be able to read them !!

Sorry, may just be me ,but this cannot be right ??

Nowhere as easy to find topics, posts etc. as old 

website!!

 

 

 

 

[great white]

17 minutes ago, sparky said:

Why are the posts shown in such minute writing??

I have to enlarge them just to be able to read them !!

Sorry, may just be me ,but this cannot be right ??

Nowhere as easy to find topics, posts etc. as old 

website!!

 

 

 

 

Hi Mick

are you signed in ?

I initially had a couple of issue, which mainly stemmed from my auto log in needing refreshing.

 

The other on e from me doing a few things while the system was still in "Change Over"

 

I cannot replicate your small font, on any of my usual ways to use the site.

[Brian]

Freeola think they have fixed the 403 issue

[Maverick Martin]

Had issues yesterday with the error message 403 being continual after lunch. All seems ok to me now although I did have to increase my screen/font size to 120% to make reading easier

 

 

 

[sparky]

1 hour ago, great white said:

Hi Mick

are you signed in ?

I initially had a couple of issue, which mainly stemmed from my auto log in needing refreshing.

 

The other on e from me doing a few things while the system was still in "Change Over"

 

I cannot replicate your small font, on any of my usual ways to use the site.

All signed in Charlie !!

Happens on my computer too.

Took a screenshot but don't know how to send it to this site

😒🤫😁

[Maverick Martin]

Same as adding a picture Mick, 

A screen shot will have been added to your photos just drag and drop into a new post. 

[MarkPapiani]

Im happy to look into issues if I can get a few details please:

 

1) "Nowhere as easy to find topics, posts etc. as old 

website!!" - Any examples please. I have not done any development on forums or navigation. However, I did upgrade the site to the latest version of Invision. Has something changed please? This may be the new version of Invision.

 

2) Small font - I do not see this anywhere. Do you have an example please? At the bottom of the page, I switched the 'Theme' dropdown to 'Default for Mobile' as the Default theme doesn't seem to work on mobile -there are no menus! This is an Invision thing.  If you have an example of small font I may be able to change  a setting somewhere to increase it.

 

[sparky]

16 minutes ago, Maverick Martin said:

Same as adding a picture Mick, 

A screen shot will have been added to your photos just drag and drop into a new post. 

Can't do that either Martin 😕 

I'm a dinosaur when it comes to phone / computer

technology !!!🤣

[Maverick Martin]

Email to me on maverickofpoole@gmail.com

[sparky]

10 minutes ago, MarkPapiani said:

Im happy to look into issues if I can get a few details please:

 

1) 

"Nowhere as easy to find topics, posts etc. as old 

website!!" - Any examples please. I have not done any development on forums or navigation. However, I did upgrade the site to the latest version of Invision. Has something changed please? This may be the new version of Invision.

 

2) Small font - I do not see this anywhere. Do you have an example please? At the bottom of the page, I switched the 'Theme' dropdown to 'Default for Mobile' as the Default theme doesn't seem to work on mobile -there are no menus! This is an Invision thing.  If you have an example of small font I may be able to change  a setting somewhere to increase it.

 

Hi Mark, thanks for that tip about " Theme",  that has sorted out the font size problem on my phone😊

Will check computer later and see whats happening there.

Will also see if other stuff is now easier to find instead of having to greatly enlarge the post.

[sparky]

7 minutes ago, Maverick Martin said:

Email to me on maverickofpoole@gmail.com

Cheers Martin, have sorted out sizing via the Theme change at bottom of screen......easy when you know how 😀

Thanks

[sparky]

11 minutes ago, sparky said:

Hi Mark, thanks for that tip about " Theme",  that has sorted out the font size problem on my phone😊

Will check computer later and see whats happening there.

Will also see if other stuff is now easier to find instead of having to greatly enlarge the post.

Can now find all other forums that were not working with that theme button as well 👍👍

 

Thanks Mark

[MarkPapiani]

Thanks Sparky. The Default theme doesn't work for me, but it seems like it is better on your devices. It seems to remove the menus on my Samsung mobile. Let's see what feedback we get and I'll see what default theme I should set. 

 

Thanks

Mark

[sparky]

Hi again Mark , all seems ok now on computer , seems to have sorted itself out now.... no error messages, all font and forums etc. full size.

👍