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

BLF Site-related Issues
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Thanks for reminding me about that, I put a big notice on the first post in this thread.

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Aaahhh. BLF and a cup of coffee. What a great way to start the day! THANK YOU.

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Everyone likes a Free Upgrade :slight_smile:

Thank Yo for all your hard work!!!

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BTW, if anyone is interested, I’ve mostly updated the BLF stylesheet for the Chrome “Stylish” extension.

This basically re-themes BLF to make it a little easier on dark-adjusted eyes — a dark theme instead of the default bright white theme. I put the files up here:
http://toykeeper.net/torches/css/

… and here is an example of how it looks (click for full size):

It’s not complete yet, but it’s getting there. There are a bunch of little details I haven’t chased down, like why there’s a big blank spot at the left side. Someone else wrote this originally, I updated it a bit, then after today’s site upgrade I had to update it quite a bit more. So, I’m not totally familiar with every line of CSS… but it mostly works.

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Thanks a lot

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That big blank spot is where the ad should be. Are you running an ad-blocker?

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I’m apparently having DNS issues. In my work computer and phone on wifi (home and work wifi) the “slow dns” link just redirects back to the same “we’re back” splash page. I can’t get to blf at all.

On my phone on LTE everything is working perfectly

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I imagine it’s because Google hasn’t adapted to our new IP address yet.

Normally the Adsense banner will go farther down, I just haven’t had time to set up our sponsor’s normal banners in their normal positions yet.

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Some routers keep a local DNS cache that may be slow to update. There’s probably a feature to flush and renew that cache in the admin panel but its probably easier to just pull the plug and reboot them.

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Awesome Job! Thank you for your dedication and perseverance!

Ahhh! It’s so good to be HOME! :smiley:

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Nice, you could upload it to https://userstyles.org/ so others could find it more easily.

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Now working on my work computer… for the moment

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I’m not able to find the thread tools options where we can change the number of posts per page. It used to be at the bottom of every thread. Is anyone else having the same issue?

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Thanks SB! Looking good. I do a lot of IT work myself so I feel your pain. I have a lot of poking around to do. I actually never thought the text was too small but now that I see the difference I like it!

I hope the rest all goes well. Man it’s nice to be back.

Not that the little shoutbox wasn’t fun but this is a lot homier. :smiley:

Cheers! :beer: :beer: :beer:

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Great to have you all back too. Thanks!

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Yes, that option doesn’t seem to be available anymore, my apologies.

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Ah thanks, only thing I have not checked :slight_smile:

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So finally my lack of knowledge contributed something to the knowledge base of BLF community :smiley:
Thanks a bunch again! :slight_smile:

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Aaaaaaand not working again on the pc. Any thoughts? Should it right itself with time?

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It seems petty of me to thank TK and Finges in a thread about SB doing huge amounts of work to update the forum that I have come to enjoy and spend ridiculous amounts of time on. But I will start with a HUGE thanks to SB for the obviously large amount of work that has been done to upgrade the site. And follow up with a thank you to ToyKepper and Finges for enabling me to make it so much easier to read with Stylish and the stylesheet.