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

Also for those of you who enjoy causing pain and suffering, the DELETE button is back for all but the first post in a thread. Please use it sparingly!

Thanks! Iā€™ll remind you in a few days. Or whenever you report most other forum functions have been restored / recreated.

Iā€™m not sure how I feel about the ā€œTrackā€ feature. can that be disabled?

Track?
This? http://budgetlightforum.com/user/8113/track
Not quite clear on what itā€™s suppose to do or if itā€™s working right. But we did have the ability to check a users posts and threads before.

To me it appears to track what threads a user has viewed not just what was posted

Great job on the upgrade :smiley:

Still feels like the old BLF, but a bit more modern and with the addition of some better functions.

Well, I canā€™t see much need for that. And Iā€™d agree with you, I donā€™t like the idea either.

Still not mobile friendly

Iā€™m liking the new look.

Nice new look!!!

It seems it can be made mobile friendly Mobile-first Indexing Best Practices | Google Search Central  |  Documentation  |  Google for Developers
Google also says itā€™s not mobile friendly ꦂ要  |  Lighthouse  |  Chrome for Developers
Tapatalk support seems dead in the water.

Also agreed. Thanks a lot for catching this. I had enabled it so that users can get lists of their previous posts, but I didnā€™t realize that it enabled everyone to see where everyone else was going on the site. Itā€™s disabled now.

Thanks SB!

How much sleep have you had lately sb apart from not enough?

Itā€™s been quite a run, I must admit. The thing is, when I have a major project like this on top of me I prefer to just concentrate and get it done before I lose track of the million-and-one odds and ends that come into play. Plus I didnā€™t want to get it set up and then go to bed for 8 hours, because I still wasnā€™t sure if I got the configuration right, and I didnā€™t want the site to go belly-up while Iā€™m sleeping and leave everyone stranded again.

Iā€™m using it from my phone right now. It works great. The style is pretty much the same on my phone, desktop, and even Dillo. If this is what ā€œnot mobile friendlyā€ means, I hope BLF will inspire other sites to follow. :slight_smile:

Oh and by the way, does it still work with your minimal Dillo browser?

BTW, there is a nice new feature nobody mentioned yet. It is now possible to link directly to individual comments. I havenā€™t checked whether it works regardless of posts-per-page settings, but the URL style used suggests that it should.

The down side is that the new 50-posts-per-page default means all my bookmarks will need to be rewritten before theyā€™ll work again. Thatā€™s not so hard though, and the new URL scheme should prevent any future issues.

At the risk of sounding like a suck up, thanks for all the hard work SB. Appreciate all the behind-the-scene work as well as the up-front-and-personal action. Grats on the improvements and getting the forum back up and running.

Yes, it looks better than ever. :slight_smile:

(I gave it a more thorough test just now, and it both looks better and works better than beforeā€¦ almost as nicely as in a full browser)