[07-MAR-2016] Current status of BLF upgrade process

BLF Site-related Issues
34

Thank you SB. Great job, gorgeous result.

35

I think I got it raised now. But unfortunately old signatures have been truncated, and I couldnā€™t figure out any way around it.

36

Thanks SB.

Time for a :beer:

AARRGhhhhhh!! where's my :beer: gone??!!!??!

37

I snagged it right out of your hand. Trust me, I need one. :slight_smile:

38

lol - the first one was for you, but I guess you need a couple! :wink:

39

Back at you sir! :beer: :beer:

40

Ahhh! thatā€™s better :beer:

41

Looks great, thanks SB!

42

Sorry, here is one more TO-DO:

Every time I open a thread with Toykeepers signature in it I get a Request:

AUTHENTICATION REQUIRED

A username and password are being requested by http://toykeeper.net. The site says: ā€œforbidden use of bandwidth ā€” view http://toykeeper.net/leech.txt for detailsā€

About to be very annoying.

43

Looking good, glad to be back in business! Thanks, SB

44

Same here

45

I noticed that too. Iā€™m sure sheā€™ll tweak her server rules soon to support the new IP address.

46

Thanks for the hard work. BTW itā€™s not only my dns that is slow:

$ dig @ns3.ramnode.com budgetlightforum.com
[ā€¦]
;; ANSWER SECTION:
budgetlightforum.com. 14400 IN A 23.226.225.231

whereas:
$ host -a budgetlightforum.ddns.net
[ā€¦]
;; ANSWER SECTION:
budgetlightforum.ddns.net. 60 IN A 170.75.162.59

So I guess something went wrong somewhere. :wink:
Oh and If a newbie like me can ask for a search boxā€¦

47

Same here- just close the pop-up and keep going. LOOKING GOOD SB!
Phil

48

Thanks a lot to everyone for their encouragement and appreciation!

49

New engine seems fine, thanks for the hard work. One question tho, is there any way to get old PMs back or they are gone for good?

50

Seems like the signature line needs to be aligned at the bottom.

51

I think itā€™s just that some users have empty lines in their signatures.

52

Sorry about that. I had budgetlightforum.com on the whitelist but not budgetlightforum.ddns.net. So, if you were using the temporary address it didnā€™t recognize the referrer.

Itā€™s fixed now. At least, I think itā€™s fixed. Please let me know if itā€™s not.

The site uses a HTTP Referer check because most of my bandwidth was being used for hotlinking on random peopleā€™s blogs. At first I tried serving up a different image, an animated gif of Kermit the Frog humping a stuffed bunny, but that didnā€™t really help. It was funny, but didnā€™t improve the bandwidth situation. So instead I redirected those requests to a password-protected directory. That worked. The downside is that I have to add every domain (like BLF) to a whitelist if I actually want to host images from other sites.

53

Scared me for a second. Click the ā€œall messagesā€ tab and you should see them.