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

1. for the record, sb dropped into the shout box a few times to say he was working on it, but his posts got pushed down

Thank you for doing all of this for us, SB. I like the updated look. We all appreciate you.

I’m not sure if this has been mentioned, but I just noticed everyone’s location is gone. Will the locations come back? I doubt it matters much, but just wondering. Thanks again.

Yeah , I’m a man without a place …

or PM button ….

On the other hand , now I know the minute I joined .

And I don’t have to do this …. in the subject line

Thanks for getting us back up and running. Its strange that the temporary DNS link does not work for me. The only way I could get to the site was by using my VPN.

“Shout box”, what’s a shout box?

Sorry, I guess I’m just blog-challenged. I don’t have a Twitter account and I only use Facebook for access to various deals. :stuck_out_tongue:

I had never heard of it till yesterday. It’s the little chat box on the right side of the blog page

I’ve noticed when i reply to a thread it does not automatically subscribe me to it like it used to

Yes! This is a huge improvement from what I can tell. It tends to get lost on my relatively slow Internet connection when there are a lot of heavy images before the post being linked to, causing the page to “bounce” as they load. But after the images are cached the direct post link does work if clicked again. I even tried it in the middle of the crazy long 1000+ comment threads.

I always wanted this fixed, the what you got today and home depot deals threads are the worst.

Sorry I kept you in the dark. I did try to pop in to the shoutbox from time to time, but I got so engrossed in the problem solving I was working through that I just couldn’t manage to break away. I barely got out of my chair during the whole time period, if that’s any explanation of how concentrated I was. :slight_smile:

I actually disabled that because I never really saw much value in a subject for a forum post, especially since most just left it blank and it got filled with the first ~25 characters of the actual post. I think it looks cleaner and more streamlined without them, but I’d be more than happy to re-enable them if the majority prefers it that way.

Hmm, ok, good idea. I could probably move it to a different “block” region.

This is a bit more difficult. I agree that it’s not ideally placed. But even if it does get bumped, it doesn’t register as a spam click unless you also hit the confirmation button.

Thanks for the good feedback!

Yeah, I was trying to add it back, but it’s very poorly documented and requires an intricate knowledge of several underlying systems to know how to code it properly. Maybe if some expert (cough @ToyKeeper) could give me a few tips I could probably figure it out.

You mean you don’t have that moment burned into your long term memory and celebrate your BLF inscription anniversary? :smiley:

Strange. At any rate, everyone should have the new address via DNS by now.

Correct, that whole system is temporarily disabled for now, except for manually subscribing to threads and seeing updates at My Subscriptions.

Long term memory
I think I lost that back in the ’80s …

I still haven’t seen anyone else that’s missing a Private Message button . Just me . Not that I get many PMs .

I see one for you. I assume the system doesn’t show a button to you because you are, well, you. :slight_smile: I also don’t have one for myself.