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LibCom down again?

We are still in beta on the new forums, so stuff is changing every day as the coders add new features. Catch took the forums offline this morning for about ten minutes while he did a major change, but now it is back up and much faster.

When the new system is completely finished it will be amazing, loads of functionality that we didn't have before, and really snappy. In the meantime you'll just have to bear with us, and make any suggestions for improvments in the feedback forum. Thanks everyone!
 
kropotkin said:
no :(
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What is the recurring problem with this site?

Be happy to do what I can (if anything) to help.




Oh, and <picky mode> could you remove the URL from yer tag line please and otherwise we'll get types posting up all sorts of dodgy links....cheers!
 
We switched DNS over last night - in English that's pointing libcom.org to the new site and libcom.org.uk back to the old one. It usually takes a couple of hours so would've been nice and easy on a quiet Thursday night, but instead did nothing until this morning then took ages leaving us in internet limbo for a couple of hours :roll:

You should be able to see the new site at libcom.org - lots still to do, but that's where everything new will be now and we're shifting stuff over and adding features every day.

libcom.org.uk is still stuck somewhere, but that'll point to the old site hopefully later on today.

editor, thanks again for the offer of help. I think we're pretty much ok (unless you happen know a quick and easy way to import a geeklog latin1 database into a drupal utf-8 one retaining the user/article/headline and url mapping ;)). We'd been planning to move to a new server and new software later on this year anyway, but decided to bring this forward after all the hacking last month. So it's not as, er, smooth, as we'd like, but when it's finished things will be much, much better.

Anyone with questions please ask them on: http://www.libcom.org/forums/feedback

edit: none of that nasty showthread.php?t=14293454&page=7 stuff eh editor?
 
catch said:
edit: none of that nasty showthread.php?t=14293454&page=7 stuff eh editor?
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To be honest, that doesn't really bother me so long as it all works, it's robust, it can handle a ton of traffic and it offers a rich feature set for users and admins!

The system you've now got looks pretty basic to me, but so long as it does what you want and is secure and reliable - nice one!
Are they searchable, btw? Or do you need to register for that?

:D

Oh - and you've got a wee typo here:http://www.libcom.org/front_page
"if you preivously had an account "
 
the forums are pretty basic, but they're being developed. Everything else is very, very feature rich but since we started the new site with just the library and the forums no one can tell yet :(

search is there, but it needs to reindex over 8000 articles and 110,000 comments so it'll be a while before it actually picks stuff up.
 
catch said:
the forums are pretty basic, but they're being developed. Everything else is very, very feature rich but since we started the new site with just the library and the forums no one can tell yet
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What software runs the forums?

And have you seen it in action on busier forums?

I used to use UBB software, but as the site grew it became progressively more useless, so I hope your new system is reasonably future-proofed!
 
The whole site including the forums is running on drupal. Drupal's forums are as busy or busier than ours, so they'll have to keep the forums scalable otherwise they'll get messed up themselves (we hope). It means the entire site can be run with single sign-on, unified permissions sets, tagging across all sections etc. etc. instead of the 5 CMSes and loads of static html we were (well still are really until we shift the rest of the content) running.

The Onion and a few other big websites run on Drupal (although I don't know of any other big discussion forums offhand), so we're pretty sure it'll take a lot of pressure - we just have to learn how our new server works a bit more...
 
danny la rouge said:
The continuing problems are inconvenient, but I feel for the techie dudes. :(
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Yeah a problem is our main techies aren't about this week, so thanks for bearing with us. Our backup forums are up and operational here: www.punkt.org.uk/forum and most of the site is up and running on www.libcom.org.uk

We do apologise for any inconvenience while we're undertaking a massive upgrade of the site, moving onto a whole new system which will be a vast improvement on the old when it gets going.
 
as i said, youse should keep the beta site private until it's all ironed out, no point having a load of false starts.

Just keep to the back up forums for the moment, cos it's really annoying having threads spread over the two.
 
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