CF Upgrade Completed after 5 days of downtime!

GraceInHim · Jan 27, 2006

I think Erwin is still fixing it.. he has not slept at all. trying to get it all together still.. Once he does, the site should be back to normal.. he said there were still a lot of bugs still.let me try a smilie thanks Erwin for staying up for us..

Dmckay · Jan 27, 2006

I want to apologize if my post sounded like I was complaining. I was actually just trying to see if the problem is my choice of computer or not. I can tell the amazing amount of time that has gone into debugging the upgrade. I have had to do similar work with upgrades to a relational database I use.

GraceInHim · Jan 27, 2006

Think he went to sleep, must be tired this seems to be a big job, it is a total new system.. it will eventually be seen as before, no black background.. I know cuz I seen this job done before at work.. a lot of work..

Million Pieces · Jan 27, 2006

Another Firefox user here with serious scrolling issues. Plus, no images whatsoever, and very choppy loading. Erwin, you're my hero! Seriously, you have our heartfelt gratitude for taking on a job this enormous. Take your time dude, we'll try to be patient!! A ha... it seems to be the Reuptation lines that have an effect on the left/right scrolling. With no images, all that is left is the text part as place holders, and it takes up too much room on the individual lines.

RedTulipMom · Jan 27, 2006

how come on firefox the page goes to the left for eternity..its like something is wrong ..theres no word wrap..

knownbeforetime · Jan 28, 2006

Um... Your layout is not working on my computer. I have a whole bunch of red X's. Which, BTW, is stretching the page out really, really far. Like, the little reputation boxes are now two inch long boxes with a red X and 'so-and-so has so much reputation'. Pics in signatures work okay.

Flynmonkie · Jan 28, 2006

A note of some of the things I am experiencing; I have IE and it does this to me also - no word wrap however jn207 post is normal it seems. All of the icons and pictures are x's and it takes forever to enter into threads IE give me Line Errors -- several lines listed. Loading drags. I have not changed my settings since the last format of the board, so I am not sure if it is something new I need to adjust for? Or is it just error within? (Those are just for starters!)

bugg1 · Jan 28, 2006

i also use firefox,yes its long but i asl don't see pict's. but alas, my hat is off to you!

GraceInHim · Jan 28, 2006

Jn207's post looks normal but no images and not streched.. firefox users are different then the others, that is why you think you have problems worse then say me,, mine is like knowbeforetime's problems

knownbeforetime · Jan 28, 2006

I have IE 6.0 BTW.

brendansmommy · Jan 28, 2006

attack of the little red X's!!!!seriously though, thanks ERWIN!!! now we just need another 5 days to fix all these bugs!

GraceInHim · Jan 28, 2006

Patience worked for us.. we are still online.. and see the difference.. wow.. someone fixed it.. who was praying here.. LOL

knownbeforetime · Jan 28, 2006

When I cleared all my cookies and files from IE, it cleared all the red X's. I think IE was just confused...

fragmentsofdreams · Jan 28, 2006

The problem with loading images appears to be fixed.

GraceInHim · Jan 28, 2006

Erwim.. great work.. and thanks for staying up.. the site is really fast now..

I just edited a post right on the screen, does not take us to another page and was like a rocket..

God Bless again and again and again lol

MatthewPoole · Jan 28, 2006

Hi'ya Erwin,

One thing that's not quite right. When I go to the area that I normally use, (Baptist/Anabaptist) and I'm looking at the message list, it seems the text is a ALOT smaller that it used to be, and upping the text size in my browser doesn't change it a bit. I'm on 800x600 display. Can you make it a little bigger?

Also, it seems on my 800x600 display that the entire board is shifted to the right. I'm assume that's not normal either. Anyhow... if these were listed, I didn't notice..

Of course, my chararater (SP?) ain't working, my age, other stuff ain't working either. I have all my blessings.. thank goodness..

It's working good, earlier no images... i figured you were snoozing.

I'll be praying for ya...
(I'm baptist, But I'll try 'em all, I don't wanna get shut out on a technicality! )

justafayes · Jan 28, 2006

Erwin said:
CF is finally running the latest version of the forum software!

It has been a long road... 12 hours of downtime dragged out into 5 full days... mainly because I grossly underestimated the time needed to recode all our special features.

To be perfectly honest, although the forums are working more or less, if you add the special features we have been using then CF is only really running at possibly 60%. There is still a lot of work to do.

Most of our special CF features are not working properly. These will take time to be brought back online. The past 5 days was basically just getting the BASIC forum software right.

The next week or so I will be concentrating on recoding our special features and ironing out the bugs.

So far, things that do not currently work properly are most of our special CF features:

PDA version

Radio

Weather

Guestbook

Blogs

Usenet

News

Email

CFIM

IRC

Custom

Bank

Armor

Pets

Jobs

Auction

Arcade

Staff Teams

Staff Moderating Features

Site Supporter Features

ChrisBot

Some of the above work but not properly. It will take me a while to recode all of the above.

The good news is that the following work:

Chatbox (now with instant refresh!)

Blessing others

Searching thread titles (slave server)

Bible search

Refer friends

CF Map

CF Attachments (took a while to make it work with attachment server!)

Posting

There are some new nifty features including the quick reply, quick
edit, and the ability to donate for another member!

Don't forget that I also upgraded all the server software, and updated the graphics and style of the forums too.

Thank you for your patience through the downtime.

It's now 2:32 am, and I have to get to bed to go to an elders meeting in the morning. It has been a stressful Monday to Friday!!! But I am sure you would agree that it has been worth it.

Just wanted to say thanks for all your hard work. I have missed CF!! You are such a blessing! Love you in the Lord, Faye

knownbeforetime · Jan 28, 2006

You'll know Erwin in heaven. He'll have the biggest mansion!

Lost · Jan 28, 2006

*bumps thread*

Gives Erwin a huge round of applause!

lost
(who hopes everyone will consider becoming a site supporter!)

OceanAngel · Jan 28, 2006

Great stuff but i have black borders either side of the forum and the text looks squished, can I change it somehow?

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