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    Default 2011-07-31: forum upgrade incoming

    I'm going to upgrade the forum at 20:30 my time tonight, so you might want to back up any long post you're making because about ten minutes after I post this, the forum is going down.

    Sorry for the inconvenience*.




    *Not really.

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    Heh!

    Funny story... was watching California Man in the background whilst doing this... and, well, long story short... I've broken the main site by copying forum files to the wrong place.



    Anyhow, that's that broken.

    Forum still hasn't been upgraded, for those of you on the very edge of your seats. Looks like I have a bit of fixing ahead of me to try and resurrect the main site.

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    So, at the risk of talking to myself yet again, I appear to have rescued the situation.

    The main site seems to be working now - let me know (if anyone actually still visits) if you have any issues. Same goes for the forum.

    The upgrade managed to overwrite the custom user time field value I was outputting with each post. Right now it's too late and I'm too tired to figure out how I did it and where it went in the template, so if you relied on that information for all your timezone needs, you'll have to hang on until I can work it out.

    Word to the wise - if you're ever upgrading a vBulletin forum, don't do it with a beer in one hand and one eye on a cheesy 80's comedy movie.

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    Sounds like a lot of hassle. Everything seems to be working fine at my end now though.

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    Only those trying to sort out a Bling Brigade GG or other contest will be thrown by the timezone info not being available.

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    Well...I loved the "forum is being upgraded" message you had on. Wish I'd taken a screenshot for posterity. (all I needed for a laugh)

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    That one's been there for ages, except it said doughnut instead of cake. I changed it to cake because I had some nice cake yesterday and thought I should spread the word.

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    I need to pay more attention in programming at school....

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    I just need to pay more attention in general.

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    Lance! You missed the mankinis! Heehee.

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    Quote Originally Posted by infoxicated View Post
    Word to the wise - if you're ever upgrading a vBulletin forum, don't do it with a beer in one hand and one eye on a cheesy 80's comedy movie.
    Have you been spying on me?!

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    I just figured there were more folk than me out there doing it!

    I've replaced the timezone offset into the post headers now, so those that relied on it can relax, enjoy, and stop sending me dickish messages.

    Although, to be fair, it was only blackwiggle that sent a dickish message. Fortunately his demands have now been met and we can all get on with our lives. Woo!

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    Fishing?

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    Slow to respond?

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    I see the Reputation system is back. Yay! (even though I wasn't here when it was around the first time. )

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    Actually, something isn't right... it should be completely reset, but I see that some folk have quite positive numbers.

    Hmmm...

    //edit

    Right, got it now - there were two other queries I needed to run to reset everything.

    We all start afresh. Renewed. Ready to be judged by our peers. Set to reap the benefits of a positive reputation.

    Probably until some other bunch of twats goes and ruins it for everyone again, but such is the risk with online anonymity.
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    Promise it won't be me.

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    Hooray for the ability to display mutual admiration by means of little green squares which magically turn to character defining phrases!

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    Yeah, slow to respond to something that didn't happen.
    Only mention of the timezone thing was in open forum, in this thread, never in a PM.
    Can't for the life of me see what's "Dickish" about say it only effected those that use it to organise Bling Brigade GG's.

    The rep thing was always prone to abuse by those who chose to do so.
    [Kigo/Ace got groups/ gangs between themselves to have that happening, never saw the point to it, so opted to ignore it]
    I doubt I ever rep'd anybody, only if I truely thought it warranted it, never took much attention to it to be honest, never missed it when it was gone, doubt if anybody else did either.

    Still, your paying for the software so you might as well use the options available.

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    I think he's kidding about the dickish part, but I might be wrong.

    Green squares no longer an extinct species! ~yay

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