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#1

Dave

Dave

Okay, updated to XenForo 1.1 Beta 5 today. This fixed a lot of issues that we've been having and I wanted to touch base & let you know what is happening.

  1. Edit issues for those using FireFox should be fixed. This is for when you are editing more than twice in a thread where people are active.
  2. Post counts have been recalculated and fixed.
  3. Member List is now sorted by Post Count and not just name. I could do this or make it dynamically sort by last activity, where it would always put at the top the last person who posted. But you still can't just sort, which I think is kinda weird.
  4. Some of the older styles are straight up broke. Dragor and Minecraft are the two biggest losers, with multiple breaks and no fixes in sight. As much as I like these, they may need to be cut loose. But as this affects a grand total of 3 people, I have to look at the greater good. (Sorry to Jay, Ravenpoe and Wahad!) XenBlue and Social are far and away the most used, but that leaves us without a real dark style. I'm looking, though. I won't get rid of the others until I find something. Basically the more styles we have the longer it takes to do anything, so I want to get it down to 4: XenBlue, Social, XenMinimal and a dark theme we can all live with.
  5. You can now filter Conversations by user. So if you are looking for a conversation you had with someone you can just filter by them and find it. Also, look at the expanded Search options in the main search. They rock.
  6. Most everything else is behind the scenes or Admin/mod stuff. Or if you use an RSS reader you can now specify prefixes for the RSS. So if you want to get alerts for nothing but PC Games you set up the RSS to flag on the PC Games prefix. Handy, huh?
So there ya go. Everything is coming along fine...unless you like Dragor, which is a real shame because I like that Style a lot, but unless the dev updates it it's just gonna sit there broken unless I put in a LOT of time to get it moving.


#2

Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

My post count isn't in the 12,000s anymore. That means I'm a failure as a person D:


#3

MindDetective

MindDetective

the "Top" link on each post is gone on the Social theme. :( All we have now is a tiny little link at the very bottom of the page.


#4

Dave

Dave

Post counts were necessary because I'm redoing the Trophies and without post counts being counted correctly they'd all be wrong.
Plus if we ever get HalBucks back...:whistling:
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MindDetective said:
the "Top" link on each post is gone on the Social theme. :( All we have now is a tiny little link at the very bottom of the page.
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Should be fixed. I was working on that before my last post.


#5

GasBandit

GasBandit

Functioning Arcade High scores?


#6

Dave

Dave

GasBandit said:
Functioning Arcade High scores?
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Coming. They've hired a new dev as the one who was working on it has been putting it on the back burner way too often. They have acknowledged that saving scores needs to be fixed to have any sort of viable product. Hell, they raised over $1000 in donations to work on it. Those of us who donated are starting to get a bit out of sorts at the delays with no updates.


#7

Dave

Dave

You probably got a lot of alerts. That's because I zeroed out the trophy points and recalculated them based on the new ones I made.

It will only happen the one time.


#8



makare

i want my cartman back


#9

figmentPez

figmentPez

Dave said:
Post counts have been recalculated and fixed.
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Does this mean that view counts for threads are now accurate as well?


#10

Dave

Dave

Yes.


#11

figmentPez

figmentPez

Dave said:
Yes.
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Good gravy, over 1 million views for the the two cosplay threads combined.


#12



Biannoshufu

Dave said:
You probably got a lot of alerts. That's because I zeroed out the trophy points and recalculated them based on the new ones I made.

It will only happen the one time.
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god damn, I wondering what the hell I had done wrong.


#13

HCGLNS

HCGLNS

Dave said:
Post counts were necessary because I'm redoing the Trophies and without post counts being counted correctly they'd all be wrong.
Plus if we ever get HalBucks back...:whistling:
Added at: 14:14

Should be fixed. I was working on that before my last post.
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The sooner I gain access to my $72M halbucks the better!


#14

figmentPez

figmentPez

Dave said:
You probably got a lot of alerts. That's because I zeroed out the trophy points and recalculated them based on the new ones I made.

It will only happen the one time.
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Did you reset "likes" or something? I've been getting spammed with tons of "liked your post" messages.


#15

Dave

Dave

They should have all hit at once.


#16

figmentPez

figmentPez

Dave said:
They should have all hit at once.
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They're still rolling in. I think Shego is catching up on the cosplay thread.


#17

Allen who is Quiet

Allen who is Quiet

It's just you, Fig.


#18

Tress

Tress

We like you, we really like you Fez.


#19

strawman

strawman

figmentPez said:
Did you reset "likes" or something? I've been getting spammed with tons of "liked your post" messages.
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A few people are probably battling on your behalf: http://halforums.com/xenforo/threads/jay-vs-figmentpez-fight.26659/

/me looks at your profile

Oh, wow. That is a lot of likes you've received over the last 24 hours! Previously you were beating him on posts and he was beating you on likes, but now you're soundly beating him on both...


#20

Krisken

Krisken

Too much beating for my liking.


#21

strawman

strawman

Krisken said:
Too much beating for my liking.
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Shego offers a home study course, I hear. Might help you come to terms with beating.


#22

Covar

Covar

I'm going to make sure my candidate wins this time damnit.


#23



makare

vote early vote often


#24

CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

Bah I'm ready for 1.1 stable to come out so I can update my bf3/swtor clan site


#25

Dave

Dave

I had no idea you had your own board.


#26

CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

claninexile.com really there's only about 5 or 6 active members but with BF3 we're getting some new guys coming in from the BF3 server


#27

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Yeah I lost over 10,000 posts. Wth?


#28

Dave

Dave

Shegokigo said:
Yeah I lost over 10,000 posts. Wth?
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You didn't lose them per se. When I tested to port over to XF I tested three times, not knowing that this would increment the post counts each time. What this did was to do an accurate count of threads and posts and give a good count. So the number of posts you had were artificially inflated. Hell, I think I was over 30k.


#29

Dave

Dave

Arcade has been updated. They have a new programmer working on it and the first thing he did was change the version number to something lower than what it had been. Because of that instead of upgrading it, I had to uninstall the old and reinstall the new. This means the scores were wiped out. *sigh*
On the bright side, once I put in the other games they are supposed to save scores. Not gonna do those dumbass frogger ones again, though...
Added at: 17:30
Shoot the Gems Hard? Nope. No score saved.


#30

GasBandit

GasBandit

Dave said:
Shoot the Gems Hard? Nope. No score saved.
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Please communicate to this alleged programmer that THIS IS THE METER BY WHICH HIS SOUL SHALL BE JUDGED.


#31

Dave

Dave

Magnet Towers? Nope.


#32

drifter

drifter

Just pretend I have the high score for those two. It's what will happen anyway.


#33

Dave

Dave

Magnet Towers and 100 men work. Shoot the Gems Harder still doesn't but I'm working on it. And now I have a better idea of how to load them.


#34

GasBandit

GasBandit

Ok, so now when you click "what's new" and nothing's new, you get this selection of stuff to check out. When you click "popular content, way down in the lower right hand corner, it says "top users" and I was surprised to see myself on the list at what I assume to be number 5... because I know there's way more than 4 people who post more than me, or have more likes than me, or have more trophy points than me. I'm curious as to what the criteria is for being a "top popular user," because if anything I've pretty much gone out of my way for the last decade to be one of the least popular.


#35



makare

now you are the anti-hero


#36

GasBandit

GasBandit

makare said:
now you are the anti-hero
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How byronic.


#37

drifter

drifter

I'm going to guess it has to do in part with the number of replies/views in threads you've started.


#38

GasBandit

GasBandit

Oh, another thing - we need some Mahjong and casino type games. And tower defense.


#39

Dave

Dave

I know. I'm trying to find ones that will work. Right now I don't have the patience.


#40

Dave

Dave

Added & Tested Bejeweled Blitz and Xeno Tactic - a Tower Defense game.
Added at: 10:26
Added Battle Logan. A weird little game. I tested it out a bit but don't know how popular it'll be.


#41

Dave

Dave

Added a few tower defense type games. Haven't been able to test all of them yet, but they seem to be working. Note that the Art of War records the score but has the WORST ENDGAME ANIMATION EVER!!!!


#42

Frank

Frankie Williamson

Hey what the fuck? The scores got reset?

I DON'T WANNA PLAY SPACE INVADERS FOR 45 MINUTES AGAIN.


#43

Dave

Dave

They got reset days ago. Maybe even weeks. November 15, to be exact. Didn't have a choice. There's a new dev on the Arcade team and he screwed up the version number. So I had to uninstall and reinstall the new update.


#44

Frank

Frankie Williamson

I know, it just makes me sad.


#45

Dave

Dave

Ladies and Gentlemen...Shoot the Gems Hard.

More coming soon now that they are getting teh scoring fixed little by little.


#46

GasBandit

GasBandit

Dave said:
Ladies and Gentlemen...Shoot the Gems Hard.

More coming soon now that they are getting the scoring fixed little by little.
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#47

Dave

Dave

I know, right? I'm adding a bunch of games today...but I have a whole shitload that I don't know how good they are or whether or not they are worth it. I got a HUGE pack of them but I don't know exactly what they are. So if they suck let me know.

Oh, and I know the Arcade doesn't have that nice look/feel yet, but please remember it's Beta0.0.7 version. Right now they are working scoring and the importing process...which right now sucks.

  1. Admin Panel - Install New Game
  2. Enter Game name, slug value (which has to be exact or it'll err out) and attack image file.
  3. Hit Continue.
  4. Click game list, find the game you just entered.
  5. Add swf file and any other files.
  6. Save and test.
It's kind of a pain in the ass.
Coming soon, though, will be Mochi Games interaction, which will ratchet up the games by a factor of 11.


#48

Gared

Gared

Test?


#49

Dave

Dave

Test!


#50



makare

alphaaaa test?


#51

CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

Combo breaker?


#52

Gared

Gared

Heh. Was checking to see if the reason I haven't been able to post from work for the past two days was because of a filter setting on my end or my browser. It was the browser.


#53

Dave

Dave

Xenforo.com wants to know if you have any addons installed for your IE9 setup.
Added at: 17:30
Ooh! And they want to know if you can create an account and post to xenforo.com. They need to know if it's a Xenforo bug or something breaking with this site.


#54

Gared

Gared

Well, the good news is I now know why IE asks me every morning if I want to disable some browser addons to speed up my browsing experience. The bad news is, I can't turn any of them off because they're all required by MSIT. List of addons and their states is as follows:
Adobe Flash Object - Adobe Systems Inc - Enabled
Adobe PDF Link Helper - Adobe Systems Inc - Enabled
Microsoft Silverlight - Microsoft - Enabled
Bing Bar (ugh) - Microsoft - Disabled
Lync Browser Helper - Microsoft - Enabled
Search Helper - Microsoft - Disabled
Windows Live ID Sign in Helper - Microsoft - Enabled
Messenger Companion Helper - Microsoft - Enabled
Office Document Cache Handler - Microsoft - Enabled
Bing Bar BHO - Microsoft - Disabled
Lync Add-on - Microsoft - Enabled
Research - Microsoft - Enabled
Messenger Companion - Not Available - Enabled
Blog This in Windows Live Writer - N/A - Enabled
Send to OneNote - N/A - Enabled
OneNote Linked Notes - N/A - Enabled
Research - N/A - Enabled
Discuss - N/A - Enabled
Search Providers - Bing
Accelerators - Email with Windows Live, Map with Bing, Translate with Bing.
I just created a Xenforo account and was able to successfully post there. I'm also posting this from IE - so it looks like it was a temporary issue; the worst kind.
Edit: Better upgrade that from temporary to intermittent. <sigh>
Edit 2: Testing to see if I can edit an existing post in IE.
Added at: 08:37


#55

Dave

Dave

*sigh* XenForo just announced a massive upgrade to their search functionality...for a price. Not sure how I feel about this.


XenForo Enhanced Search

In our previous development update, we talked about our "big board search" system. We are now ready to release XenForo Enhanced Search, designed to give significantly better search performance and additional search options to your users.

First and foremost, it is built on top of elasticsearch, which is in turn built on top of Lucene. This gives excellent performance, even with millions of pieces of content. Elasticsearch allows nearly infinite scalability and redundancy by silently allowing searches to be run across multiple servers.

Additionally, you benefit from a very small stopword list and no minimum word length, allowing nearly any search to return meaningful results.

Elasticsearch also provides support for returning results based on how relevant they are to your search. You can select relevancy ordering on the advanced search page.

XenForo Enhanced Search has been running on XenForo.com for an extended period of time, so you've probably used it already.

XenForo Enhanced Search will be made available for purchase next week (the week of January 16th). It will cost $50, with an update-and-support renewal cost of $10. Add-on renewal costs are linked to your XenForo license renewal, meaning that all purchased add-ons will be renewed with your license. (For clarity, this means that with XenForo Enhanced Search, your license renewal would currently be $40 + $10.)
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Thoughts?


#56

Covar

Covar

I don't actually use the search, but I did once and it was crap (results wise) so that's something.


#57

Shegokigo

Shegokigo

Can't even use the search from my proxy, so it's been forever since I touched the thing... not to say it's not useful, just not for me.


#58

MindDetective

MindDetective

Not really interested.


#59

strawman

strawman

Dave said:
...significantly better search performance... very small stopword list and no minimum word length...
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These are the only two I've run into the past that would make a difference in the future. But I use search maybe a few times a month, and it has everything I really need (search by user, for instance, during the secret santa).

I honestly don't like the business model they're pursuing, though, and I'd recommend ignoring it and sticking with the basic search. I'm not a fan of businesses that nickel and dime you for things that should be standard features. Moving from vbulliten with a lot of promises that things will be better, and now they've got people locked in they start pretending that they are adding significant value by making search actually useful? It's not increasing the functionality of the forums by 25%, so why are they charging that much?

But I'm just whiny. First world problems and all.

From a technical standpoint, it's worth taking a look at the logs to figure out how often search is used, and if it's sucking more CPU than you'd like - better performance generally means less CPU for a given search, so if that's an issue it could be cheaper than upgrading to the next server level. I'd be surprised if it was, though...


#60

Dave

Dave

Apparently this is more for big, huge, GIGANTIC boards and we're not the target demographic anyway. So I no longer care that much. :D


#61



makare

Dave is a board update compulsive buyer.


#62

Dave

Dave

makare said:
Dave is a board update compulsive buyer.
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I can't disagree with this. I tend to be enamored by bright shiny objects.


#63

strawman

strawman

Good thing it's not an amazon one click purchase...

At $50/10, though, there's room for someone else to make a profit by releasing a better search for less.


#64

Dave

Dave

Considering the underlying tech is open sourced, I would agree with you.


#65

figmentPez

figmentPez

Dave said:
I can't disagree with this. I tend to be enamored by bright shiny objects.
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Is Dave part Doomweasel?


#66

CrimsonSoul

CrimsonSoul

I think it's retarded that they have you buy the license then have you buy another license for an upgrade


#67

Dave

Dave

Looking at some of the other big board searches, this is actually a deal. I was a bit put out at first but now I know it really doesn't affect us.


#68

Emrys

Emrys

figmentPez said:
Is Dave part Doomweasel?
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Yes.


#69



makare

Emrys is Dave's mistress.

i knew it.


#70

PatrThom

PatrThom

Yeah. Only games should have DLC, not fora.

--Patrick


#71

Dave

Dave

Yo! Check out the Help Section. Specifically the BB Code page. I just added a lot of them. One that should be good will be background. So when you have to cut/paste you put it on a white background and everyone can read it!


#72

PatrThom

PatrThom

This will be most helpful for people posting on iOS devices.

--Patrick


#73

Bumble the Boy Wonder

Bumble the Boy Wonder

Has anyone else been getting the sad panda screen lately?


#74

PatrThom

PatrThom

There's a sad panda screen?

--Patrick


#75

Bumble the Boy Wonder

Bumble the Boy Wonder

panda.png


#76

Dave

Dave

Skimlinks is throwing up error messages? What platform are you using, Bumble?


#77

PatrThom

PatrThom

I wonder if his url is malformed (I see he has a space on the end of the URL)

--Patrick


#78

strawman

strawman

I just went to that url and it opened general just fine (it redirected to a url without the space) - I'm curious what link bumble clicked on that took him to that url though.


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