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Forum Upgrade

Post by PhilT » Mon Jul 27, 2015 9:54 am

The time has come to do an upgrade to the forum. This upgrade will deliver a better mobile browser experience.

It is a fairly significant task, so I'm giving you early warning. If you think thou can help in any way, then please subscribe to this topic (viewtopic.php?t=116218&watch=topic) and I will update as items arise.

The key challenges will be:
- Deprecating the gallery
- phpBB Custom mods
- phpBB theme conversion/rewrite (Needs to match the main site)
- User testing to see if anything was missed

We will be testing the upgrade at http://testforum.rs246.com/, however any posts/etc there will be lost.
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by PhilT » Mon Jul 27, 2015 10:08 am

The gallery will be removed

# of images per year
2015 - 109 images
2014 - 176 images
2013 - 166 images
2012 - 253 images
2011 - 920 images
Grand Total - 1624 images

The use is pretty minimal. We could find a replacement but that means integrating the software and migrating the images. I'm open to suggestions but right now, the plan is to get rid of it.
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by boff » Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:23 pm

Never did use it :-) even when we built the site back in 2002!! HOWEVER buddy, there are some eclectic classical images in there; how do you reckon we choose and save those? categorise? meta tag? ouch nightmare. Would be a shame to lose them. Happy to help you go through them; can we get them to a fileshare?

But I agree the stats show steady decline; get rid.

EDIT: Phil could it be as easy as going through them and then setting up a linked Facebook group; and upload them into that? or any of the other usual suspects.
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by bam_bam » Mon Jul 27, 2015 12:55 pm

Is there any porn in there, we should definitely save the porn...
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by Surrey Sam » Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:13 pm

Get rid...as long as it doesn't effect uploaded attachments to forum posts.
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by boff » Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:38 pm

bam_bam wrote:Is there any porn in there, we should definitely save the porn...
Depends what type you mean... chuckle some really car porn pictures of early RS cars
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by Shoppinit » Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:48 pm

This:
Surrey Sam wrote:Get rid...as long as it doesn't effect uploaded attachments to forum posts.
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by Shoppinit » Mon Jul 27, 2015 1:49 pm

PhilT wrote:I'm open to suggestions but right now, the plan is to get rid of it.
What about dumping them all somewhere accessible so that they can at least be retreived and uploaded to an image sharing platform by interested parties?
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by Shinobi675 » Mon Jul 27, 2015 2:40 pm

So long as it still works with tapatalk!

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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by PhilT » Mon Jul 27, 2015 3:54 pm

Shinobi675 wrote:So long as it still works with tapatalk!

:)
There might be a small interruption during the upgrade but the aim is to keep it.
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by Shinobi675 » Mon Jul 27, 2015 3:55 pm

I'll cope with that ;-)
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by PhilT » Tue Jul 28, 2015 8:37 pm

First very early test http://testforum.rs246.com/upgraded/ Lots more to do.
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by boff » Fri Jul 31, 2015 3:21 pm

Phil is the new site using the same data as the old site; live?
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by PhilT » Fri Jul 31, 2015 4:18 pm

boff wrote:Phil is the new site using the same data as the old site; live?
http://testforum.rs246.com/upgraded/ is a snapshot of the live site (Can't share the same database). Posts in the test site will not be merged back, they will be overwritten.
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Re: Forum Upgrade

Post by PhilT » Fri Jul 31, 2015 7:19 pm

Fixed how it renders on a mobile. Happy days :). Still need to get rid of the border at the top but can't seem to hunt where that is set.

Please test and submit feedback http://testforum.rs246.com/upgraded/
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