Site updates coming

[Phicinfan]

Just a heads up, I am going to have to update the software the site is running on, and Xenforo is no longer supporting the version we have.

Not sure how long it will take my Tech person to do this update, but you may see some issues with access for a bit.

Also, having him look into some upgrades which hopefully you all like.

 

[MattWServices]

Update has been completed to the latest version. Lots of new features

 

[mudloggerone]

There's a change alright. 🛎

 

[Phicinfan]

You da man Matt! Many thanks!!

 

[MattWServices]

As part of the update, I've now forced the site to use HTTPS protocol

 

[MongerKhan]

Oh boy This is...odd.

 

[cctekguy]

So far so good Matt and Jeff!

Take a few minutes to figure out but I like it better already.

 

[mudloggerone]

Some folks with concerns with the share my posts feature.

 

[JScott]

Some folks with concerns with the share my posts feature.

What's the concern?

 

[mudloggerone]

Don’t like the share to other sites as then I loose control of who can share my posts, view it and use it in any way they want, which results in generic posts from me.......like weather conditions only. I did’t find any way in settings to prevent that.

 

[JScott]

Anyone could have cut/paste a post to any other site before too. The Share option does make something like that easier, but at least it's a link back to SO so the author gets the credit.

 

[mudloggerone]

I thought about mentioning the copy & paste routine but didn't. I wanted to see what others said about the concern stated.

 

[Phicinfan]

Agreed, with JScott - it is always a possibility with cut and paste anyway, this way if someone does use our material on another site, we get credit, and maybe hopefully some added folks visiting.

 

[JScott]

I just did a test, and shared my post to Twitter. It showed a link in the tweet back to the SO post but not the post itself. I click on it and it brings me right to the test post. Not sure it would for non-members.

 

[mudloggerone]

Has anyone enabled "push notifications" and if so what did it do? I do not click very often unless I know what is about to happen. Especially on a work computer.

 

[Phicinfan]

I did not, reason being is I don't want notification on my computer every time someone pings me, or posts on one of my posts or such. It is like a quick instant messager note to you on either a comment made by you or thread and someone posted or "liked" it. It just gets annoying to me after a while, so I don't allow push notices

 

[mudloggerone]

I already get an e-mail box of notices everytime someone posts on a thread I have commented on. That's enough for me.

 

[romanempire]

Site looks a lot better. Would have been nice if you could have added an upvote/downvote function and the ability the post GIFs. Just my two cents.

 

[Phicinfan]

GIFs take a whole lot of space, and costs to run then. If we get larger I can look at it, but at this size thought it was a bit pricey.

If you look at the "like" feature - you can see you can give positive or negative feedback...so I thought it was good for the up down thing

 

[Mike]

Has anyone enabled "push notifications" and if so what did it do? I do not click very often unless I know what is about to happen. Especially on a work computer.

On anything non IOS, you will get notifications for various things on the forum, kind of like Facebook does (if you have Facebook and notifications on). From an Iphone, nothing will happen as Xenforo and Apple just don't play well together in this arena. You can turn it on, see if you like it, and then turn it off in your control panel if it is annoying.