stevegrant

I think that ultimately became quite a low bar to clear, tbh

Not 100% sure but I would imagine the first page load of these areas prompts the site to build your activity stream and then store it in the cache. Once that's done, I think it should be quicker on each subsequent load.

If you go to your notification settings, there should be an option to enable browser notifications

Yeah, I figured we're (mostly) adults. If it starts getting silly, though, I might have to turn it on.

It should be perfect for me, especially as that one has loads of users pretty much 24/7. Bit annoyed it's not running smoothly immediately, tbh

Database needed a bit more memory there...

Working on that - really odd as the setup is basically identical to another forum I help manage using the same software, and that's usually got 1000 users online simultaneously and that one holds up fine. We've got relatively little traffic at the moment, so not quite sure why it's struggling a bit.

So the ref's goal-line tech watch buzzed when he got back into the changing room at half-time No great surprise that the signal in a football ground is shit, mind you...

VAR has no remit to check goal-line decisions because it was always assumed the tech was correct. Got to be a manual error there somewhere, but previously they've always tested the system for about half an hour before the players come out for their warm-ups and I'm pretty sure they don't turn it off between then and kick-off.

Without wishing to appear to be mansplaining this, searching for the site through Google is a very different thing to using their DNS service.

For anyone still getting the old site, I would recommend changing your DNS server to Google's, which has the easy-to-remember IP address of 8.8.8.8. I had the same issue this morning, the default DNS settings used by mobile networks and quite a lot of broadband/fibre routers have really long DNS cache times, so it takes ages for the data to be flushed through.

That'll be a DNS issue - suspect your phone has cached the old server IP address. How to clear that will vary by phone and network, I think.

It's available, I just chose to initially get everything set up with a similar feature set to the old place first. It's probably something we'll trial shortly, mainly to get an idea of some of the negative knock-on effects that might come from such a system.

Yeah I had the same. More tweaks... Slightly frustrating that it's a bit of a trial-and-error process, especially as I've managed to get a much busier forum running and stable with basically the same settings.

Yeah, the infrastructure is being tweaked fairly frequently at the moment to try to get the right balance.

We're not going to use Tapatalk. The mobile experience for the site is, in my opinion, good enough that we don't need to use a third-party app. There will apparently be an app specific for this forum software released soon, but I've no idea how good it'll be.

Yeah, it's not too bad in that sense, but still bloody annoying. Basically I ran the import process on a development setup on my Macbook, it took nearly 3 days to process it all, but it looked as though it had imported everything right up until the point where I took the copy of the old database. Then it ran some sort of reindexing process and that lost around 5000 posts

Also, a word for paid subscribers - you will have received an automated email from PayPal this morning stating that your subscription has been cancelled. This is not quite true. All I have cancelled is the recurring payment that was set up to auto-renew each year, because the URL PayPal would contact to update the forum has changed, and it's impossible to update them. We are also now going to use a different payment provider - Stripe is a little bit cheaper and much easier to manage. The way it will now work on here is that, currently, those with paid subscriptions from the old site have been placed in the Subscribed Users group, which has the unlimited permissions you would expect. I will be manually porting across the subscription data so that you will receive a notification from the forum when your subscription is about to expire, and you will then be able to set up a new one that will be fully automated by the forum from that point onwards.

I don't know at the moment, to be honest. I knocked up a holding logo for the time being, but I'm sure we'll get that sorted at some point. The issue is size - because this software works well on mobile devices as well as desktop, the space available for a site logo/banner is much smaller.