Topic: Major Update on forum in progress!

[Lum-chan]

Yups, I agree but don't worry, I'm working on the two other green theme's. As soon as one of them comes available, the blue-ish theme will no longer be available (I use it mainly for testing purposes)

[UruseiNeo]

I noticed that the Who's Online page refreshes periodically, which I think is pretty cool cause it'll show you what's newly posted/ currently who's online if you left the computer for a while. :D

[Lum-chan]

Updates and/or fixes until now:

# SMF software updated to version 1.1.11
# TinyPortal software updated to version 1.0 beta 5-1
# Removed many old modifications. No performance increase, tho
# Fixed Shoutbox. Scrolling disabled and working for both Internet Explorer and Firefox
# Fixed Recent Topics auto-scrolling - IE shows a bit small block, working on this. Firefox is OK
# Nico Nico Douga embedded videos added @ request by janus (no need to register there first!). Use this icon while posting
# Almost every video-site such as You-tube, GoogleVideo, etc. can now be embedded. Maximum 5 video's/post, 30 video's/page. Just copy & paste from address-bar
# Removed all video-tags except [nico][/nico]
# Automatic Flash Updater. If your flash video-player is outdated, you'll be notified
# Enlarged embedded images up to 800x600 pixels (640x480 was a bit small imho)
# Spoiler-tag updated to latest version
# Updated the board-rules for posting video's due to changed way of posting/adding movies
# Just spent almost 4,5 hours to update almost any post which contained old you-tube tags. Phew!
# Changed settings on the core-software to speed up the board a bit
# Optimized/fixed the Smiley's with thanks to Cata
# Removed all obsolete code
# SMF Gallery software updated to version 1.0.3. Needs an update to pro version for more options for you
# Added TimeZones. In Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences, pick your country and off you go
# Re-configured SMF Gallery so it supports images up to 2050x1540 pixels.
# Changed the way SMF Gallery displays the actual image when clicking on any thumbnail with browsing options
# Fixed code from the Forum Statistics. It screwed the lay-out of the left menu bar
# After rebuilding all tables it shows that the Green theme's arent supported at this moment. Removed them from selection
# Applied the SMF Default Theme.
# Freshly updated core-files uploaded
# Applied official Green Theme once again. Some minor glitches are there. I'm working on this
# Fixed the left menu being stretched. Looks OK now
# Fixed Non Centered Website logo. Shows correctly centered again
# Website logo clickable - Now points to official start/main Page
# Edit and Off-topic tags activated again in the same colors as before the update
# Re-added file-extensions for .ass (AegiSub Subtitle Script),.srt (SubRip) and .txt (for Text Documents)
# Finally! I managed to get RSS+XLM feeds working
# Added latest feeds to Facebook.com and Twitter.com. They will get updated every 30 minutes
# Removed the annoying message at the end of the inline/treeview which tells who are moderator on that board
# Added a background image of our Lum
# Static and centered background, no tiling and official color background
# Aligned all embedded video's to the left
# Auto-refresh Who's Online? every 10 seconds (maybe I change that to 30 seconds to reduce load on the server)

Small to-do list:

Re-adding Light-green Theme and Green Theme
Download-Manager not correctly displaying content - Awaiting bug-fix from author
Per album download for The Complete Music Box (depends on available webspace or need to host elsewhere)
(Radio) Function to listen to one of the songs from The Complete Music Box
Update SMF-Gallery Lite to SMF-Gallery Pro

[FallinG_StaR]

This is not a major thing but... when I'm checking the "User Online" the letter size in the shout box is bigger (huge) than the rest of the site... and doesn't have the scroll bar...

[Lum-chan]

Thanks for pointing that out. I'll look into this. This shouldn't happen at all  :-

Edit:
Found it. It's a bad coding thing in a mod which let's the Wo's Online? page refresh every 10 seconds. I'll get into this asap

[Lum-chan]

Today I upgraded the forum-software to SMF 1.1.12 and The portal software to TinyPortal 1.0RC1. I left out some packages which weren't in use for quite some time. Still, I have to find a replacement to view YouTube Video's. The previous package was taking too much CPU cycles and slowed down the overall performance of the forum and it's contents. That problem is now fixed. This means no migration to a faster service until further notice.

As I'm busy to make the last modifications to the software you might see some changes from time to time. Overall, I'm glad to see the increase in performance for the website. Tho, form time to time it will react a bit slow but I'm working on that as well.

I hope you will enjoy this speedup a bit!

Updates and/or fixes until now:

# SMF software updated to version 1.1.11
# TinyPortal software updated to version 1.0 beta 5-1
# Removed many old modifications. No performance increase, tho
# Fixed Shoutbox. Scrolling disabled and working for both Internet Explorer and Firefox
# Fixed Recent Topics auto-scrolling - IE shows a bit small block, working on this. Firefox is OK
# Nico Nico Douga embedded videos added @ request by janus (no need to register there first!). Use this icon while posting
# Removed all video-tags except [nico][/nico]
# Enlarged embedded images up to 800x600 pixels (640x480 was a bit small imho)
# Spoiler-tag updated to latest version
# Updated the board-rules for posting video's due to changed way of posting/adding movies
# Just spent almost 4,5 hours to update almost any post which contained old you-tube tags. Phew!
# Changed settings on the core-software to speed up the board a bit
# Optimized/fixed the Smiley's with thanks to Cata
# Removed all obsolete code
# SMF Gallery software updated to version 1.0.3. Needs an update to pro version for more options for you
# Added TimeZones. In Profile -> Look and Layout Preferences, pick your country and off you go
# Re-configured SMF Gallery so it supports images up to 2050x1540 pixels.
# Changed the way SMF Gallery displays the actual image when clicking on any thumbnail with browsing options
# Fixed code from the Forum Statistics. It screwed the lay-out of the left menu bar
# After rebuilding all tables it shows that the Green theme's arent supported at this moment. Removed them from selection
# Applied the SMF Default Theme.
# Freshly updated core-files uploaded
# Applied official Green Theme once again. Some minor glitches are there. I'm working on this
# Fixed the left menu being stretched. Looks OK now
# Fixed Non Centered Website logo. Shows correctly centered again
# Website logo clickable - Now points to official start/main Page
# Edit and Off-topic tags activated again in the same colors as before the update
# Re-added file-extensions for .ass (AegiSub Subtitle Script),.srt (SubRip) and .txt (for Text Documents)
# Finally! I managed to get RSS+XLM feeds working
# Added latest feeds to Facebook.com and Twitter.com. They will get updated every 30 minutes
# Removed the annoying message at the end of the inline/treeview which tells who are moderator on that board
# Added a background image of our Lum
# Static and centered background, no tiling and official color background
# Aligned all embedded video's to the left
# Auto-refresh Who's Online? every 10 seconds (maybe I change that to 30 seconds to reduce load on the server)
# Updated forum software to SMF 1.1.12 and portal software to TinyPortal 1.0RC1
# Got rid of several unused packages.
# Finally! Speeding up of the whole website. No longer have to wait for approx. 17 seconds or more for new pages
# Updated all available pages to reflect the new software changes (phew!)
# New YouTube code added to view those video's again. Use this icon while you post
# Re-added Light-green Theme and Green Theme

Small to-do list:

Download-Manager not correctly displaying content - Awaiting bug-fix from author
Per album download for The Complete Music Box (depends on available webspace or need to host elsewhere)
(Radio) Function to listen to one of the songs from The Complete Music Box
Update SMF-Gallery Lite to SMF-Gallery Pro

[Kroptik]

Must've been quite a workout doing all that. xD
Thanks for your hard work.

[Lum-chan]

Thanks Kroptik!

How's the speed / performance of the forum at the moment? As far as I can see, it's a lot faster now. A page loads within a second here with peaks up to a max of 5 second loading time (ie some slow server-response on the DB).

[Kroptik]

It's just fine, as you said, loading under a sec.

No more crappy lag.

[Lum-chan]

And added the missing green themes too  
These are now available for everyone except for guests.

The changelog is still getting larger 

[Urusei0Yatsura]

The site loads a lot faster now.

[Cosmic King]

Are you God, Fearless Leader?

Thanks for all these neat updates as well as fixing the speed of the forum, Lum-chan

[foxhead556]

Thank you Lum chan for fixing the speed!!!

[Lum-chan]

Last weekend I tried to fix the odd characters in many posts. As far as I can see, almost 96% of those are fixed now. Currently I'm checking the Gallery. Unfortunate, here are those damn characters as well. I'll try to fix these Thursday (after some hours of sleep). This will take some time as I have to check each entry manually.

I'll keep you posted!

Fixed the UY Various Gallery
Fixed the UY Episodes Gallery
Fixed the UY Movies Gallery
Fixed the UY Movies Gallery
Fixed the Anime Related Gallery
Fixed the Urusei Yatsura Fan-Art Gallery
Fixed the Anime/Manga Fan-Art Gallery
Fixed the Various Pictures Gallery

[GiovaneDinamitardo]

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'cos' to say to you "thank you" is too little !!