• buze
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Topic: New forum software

I've upgraded the forum software. It should be roughly equivalent, but with a more modern codebase.

It all /seem/ to work, please report any problems...

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Re: New forum software

Seems to be working but I have lost my colour theme (I prefer light text on dark background) and I can't find where to set this in the new version.

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Re: New forum software

Everything looks to be OK and possibly seems to run faster.
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Re: New forum software

On the index page:


Focus Manuel:Fran   instead of   Français

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Re: New forum software

Looks good.

There were colour themes?  I might prefer a darker background if one's available.

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Re: New forum software

Not entirely sure how the themes work actualy,. Having a look...

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Re: New forum software

There, I installed a few. All horrible but hey, you asked ;-)

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Re: New forum software

Thanks Buze!  (seems to operate faster on dial-up connection)

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Hey, isn't this supposed to be the manual focus forum? What's that about advancing technology? big_smile
Everything seems to be working for me buze, thanks for the effort.

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Re: New forum software

Buze, when using Carbon the logo is not "Manual Focus Forum" logo, instead something kind of weird, the software company logo perhaps?

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Re: New forum software

It's great Buze it defintely seems faster.

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Re: New forum software

siriusdogstar wrote:

Buze, when using Carbon the logo is not "Manual Focus Forum" logo, instead something kind of weird, the software company logo perhaps?

Same with Web 2.0 style.

But thanks, buze, for your work.

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Re: New forum software

When trying to search for terms, the new software requires me to wait 30 seconds between searches, even though I'm a long-time member.  I understand imposing a delay to thwart spammers, but 30 seconds for AUTHENTICATED MEMBERS seems excessive.  Can you reduce that to, say, 10 seconds, or even eliminate it altogether for authenticated members?

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Very nice indeed... Is it possible to install this theme? http://themes.php-fusion.co.uk/infusion … eme_id=281

Reminds me a lot of the previous dark theme... Either way - great job! smile

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Re: New forum software

Wow, I came back from vacation and ... new software (I thought I came to the wrong forum).

Thanks, Buze! I like the new modern, yet still simple and classy look... and best of all, same good folks.

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shadowfox wrote:

Wow, I came back from vacation and ... new software (I thought I came to the wrong forum)...


I also thought I was at the wrong place. Looking good though!

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Re: New forum software

I like it so far, but I can't say I've ever used this software before.  So there'll be a learning curve involved.

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Re: New forum software

Does the search feature seem to be working for anybody else?  When I search for "Canon 7D" or "Canon AND 7D" (without quotes), I get a bunch of threads returned which do not contain the string "7D" in them anywhere.  In fact, I can't find ANY of the returned threads which contain "7D".

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Re: New forum software

Obi-Wan wrote:

Does the search feature seem to be working for anybody else?  When I search for "Canon 7D" or "Canon AND 7D" (without quotes), I get a bunch of threads returned which do not contain the string "7D" in them anywhere.  In fact, I can't find ANY of the returned threads which contain "7D".

Search terms need to have at least 3 characters for each term.  I believe the software uses an AIM search (Associated Index Method) which requires 3 contiguous non-blank characters minimum.

PS Try "Canon 7D*" or "Canon AND 7D*" (each without quotes)

Last edited by siriusdogstar (2010-07-21 21:40:43)

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Re: New forum software

Another vote for new themes here. Apart from that, all seems to be running smoothly.

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Re: New forum software

Thanks again Buze!  Definitely, the forum operates much faster over dial-up (typically only 26.4kbs here).

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Re: New forum software

Width seems to be fixed now - ouch. With the old software, I could use full 1600 / 1680 pixels width.

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Re: New forum software

I'm getting the following between gallery and offtopic forums:

Notice: Undefined index: subject in /mnt/img/manualfocus/forum/index.php on line 225

Warning: implode() [function.implode]: Invalid arguments passed in /mnt/img/manualfocus/forum/index.php on line 225

I don't think error_reporting should do that in live unless you are just testing in live version.

Last edited by RobC (2010-07-31 22:26:52)

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I tried this in Firefox and Opera and the problem doesn't show itself. So it only seems to be happening in IE6. So I guess that changing PHP error_reporting settings will stop it from showing to end users even though its still happening.

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Re: New forum software

I clearly prefer this new forum. It even seems to run faster on my Nokia 5230.

Thanks, Buze.

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