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

Hey, so you are calling my dedomed XP-E2 @2.1A 40kcd red hotrodded sk68-clone simple? :wink:

hahahaha and now all of them are explained for the special ones they are.

Sorry, djozz, I missed that detail! :-x

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Well, BLF does start with “Budget”… and the Kronos set is arguably not “budget”. I’d also argue that BLF is more about making than about consuming. So I think the cheaper lights in the current logo are still more representative. Make something awesome. Plus, they won the vote (except for disagreement about whether to use a P60 or C8, and then the X6 got used instead).

Lights like the Kronos set are nice… but they’re not what BLF is really about.

I wouldn’t mind a minor logo upgrade though, to add translucency and clean up Moire patterns on some edges: (current logo on top, suggested upgrade on bottom)


I just went through tons of new posts, and BLF didn't hang once!

I'd say you fixed the problem, sb. ;)

! Really? Even setting aside the fact that the image is actually of TK’s fancy SRK…. The SRK is not widely despised AFAIK. In fact, as far as I can see it’s still fairly widely sought after, despite the common knowledge of the quality issues with clones. If anything that seems to indicate that it is still widely loved! Just my two cents. :-/

EDIT: Hopefully I don’t sound too troll-ish! “widely despised” just seemed like quite a bit of an over-statement.

Sweet, thanks for letting me know.

Looks great ToyKeeper, thanks a ton! It’s updated on the frontpage now.

Thanks! I’m also happy to see the spam button again. BLF has always been delightfully spam-free. :slight_smile:

He’s new here and he already despises some lights. What has the world come to :smiley:

I’m getting some weird behaviors on poll threads. Non-poll threads work fine, but on polls I’ve noticed the following:

  • Comment titles are recorded and shown.
  • No signatures are displayed.
  • If I click an option in the poll widget on the left, then hit vote, it takes me to the wrong thread and gives me an error (but this happened pre-upgrade too). For example, I select ‘14500’ then ‘vote’. Instead of going to thread 44579, I get thread 45027 and “The form has become outdated. Copy any unsaved work in the form below and then reload this page”.
  • If I scroll to the bottom of a poll thread, write a comment, and hit ‘preview’, I get “The form has become outdated. Copy any unsaved work in the form below and then reload this page”.
  • If I vote in a poll then scroll to the bottom to write a comment, hit ‘preview’, then hit ‘save’, it results in cancelling my vote and dropping my comment.

I can investigate these more to get more details if you like… just wanted to note these before I forgot.

Fixed, thanks!

Unfortunately this appears to be a limitation of the signatures module, which has definitely regressed in functionality in the 7.x version.

I haven’t seen this yet, but of course I don’t deny that it happened to you. I imagine they didn’t test the code with non-standard browsers. If you can get it to do so again I’ll file a bug report.

Also appears to be poor browser compatibility testing. If this is consistently happening to you I’ll also file a bug report.

Confirmed with the latest Firefox for Linux. I’ll file a bug report.

Thanks very much for testing and reporting!

Oh, all these were with Chrome.

Ooh, that’s strange. So are all of those bugs reproducible for you?

Yes, the first time was a surprise but I tried them again before posting.

SB, I know you’re a busy man so no explanation is necessary. But if you were to venture to guess when the email notification system might be recreated, what would be your best guess?

Not sure if this had been mentioned yet, but under “my subscriptions”, there used to be a check box to filter unread messages, but it disappeared after the upgrade.

I hope to get started working on it this Tuesday. From there it will depend on how smoothly things go, and whether or not they changed everything on me with this version.

Yep, unfortunately it stopped working with the upgrade. My apologies!

Thanks SB,

Im sorry you have to recreate and reconfigure so many things within such a short time frame. But it looks like you’ve made tremendous progress, and my favorite button has returned! GOOD JOB!!!

hi, excuse me for the o.t. but still i can’t receive the correct email notification of the new reply to the threads, in what way i can restore the problem?