Forum Upgrade
Posted: 15 Jul 2009 11:46 pm
Hi guys, have just upgraded the forum from phpbb 3.0.4 to 3.0.5. As far as I can tell, it appears to be working okay, but If there are any problems, please let me know - either by posting to this thread, via PM, or through email (octobermoth[at]hotmail[dot]com).
Next plan is to sort out new features like HAs, but I think I will wait a bit, because it has taken no less than three hours tonight to upload the upgraded files, all 2.8mb of them. I'm too busy getting annoyed at my connection to do this properly now (for the curious, I eventually emailed the files to Miguel and he uploaded them; the upgrade itself took approximately five minutes to set live).
So, list of things which I plan to do, in order:
- edit the display of PMs so the person's username and avatar appears at the right, like on posts, rather than below. This is a glitch I've been intending to fix for ages, so it's first. This will be very quick to do.
- add human avatars to people's profile as an optional extra, with a flag in the avatar box to let people know they're there. This will be slightly slower, but still reasonably fast.
- fix the avatar page to add a count for avatars which matches the one on your Neopets profile. Currently, it counts all avatars, but some should be excluded (eg, the Premium one).
- look into an IRC chat. This will be slow, and may well need to be left until I next have a weekend off or longer. (My placement has me working alternate Saturdays, mutter mutter grumble. I miss having two days off in a row where I don't have things to do; I used my last proper weekend to move house.) Even then, I don't guarantee it quickly, as I will need to make sure that the chat is suitable for integration, and then will need to code it in.
Next plan is to sort out new features like HAs, but I think I will wait a bit, because it has taken no less than three hours tonight to upload the upgraded files, all 2.8mb of them. I'm too busy getting annoyed at my connection to do this properly now (for the curious, I eventually emailed the files to Miguel and he uploaded them; the upgrade itself took approximately five minutes to set live).
So, list of things which I plan to do, in order:
- edit the display of PMs so the person's username and avatar appears at the right, like on posts, rather than below. This is a glitch I've been intending to fix for ages, so it's first. This will be very quick to do.
- add human avatars to people's profile as an optional extra, with a flag in the avatar box to let people know they're there. This will be slightly slower, but still reasonably fast.
- fix the avatar page to add a count for avatars which matches the one on your Neopets profile. Currently, it counts all avatars, but some should be excluded (eg, the Premium one).
- look into an IRC chat. This will be slow, and may well need to be left until I next have a weekend off or longer. (My placement has me working alternate Saturdays, mutter mutter grumble. I miss having two days off in a row where I don't have things to do; I used my last proper weekend to move house.) Even then, I don't guarantee it quickly, as I will need to make sure that the chat is suitable for integration, and then will need to code it in.