Software update
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ddrueding
Fixture
Thanks again for all you do to keep this place running! I know I forget that someone is working behind the scenes most of the time...
Thanks for the support. There isn't a ton of work to do for working behind the scenes. I'm not trying to make it out to be more than it is by posting about it. I did get an email from coug as he noticed almost immediately the forums were down so I figured a quick post to let people know why the site was down might help answer that question.
The behavior of the "what's new" button has changed from showing a list of changed threads to what is described as an activity stream list. Not saying it is bad but rather it is different (I reserve judgement). Obviously, the update did more than security updates and bug fixes...
I also found there was a corrupted database table related to the spamOmatic plugin used for managing our spam intake. This was causing a denial of registration for new members for quite some time and I didn't realize until now. That has been corrected and the plugin has been upgraded to a newer version. There was no other corruption found. I also made a few more tweaks to the spam management to see if it helps to keep junk from being posted by the few spammers who make it by the gates. I also reworked the .htaccess file to block more all of the Chinese spider engine that won't obey the robots.txt file. They account for lots of the guest users on this site. Last I also purged several hundred user accounts that have not accessed in years or have never validated their email. This helped reduce the number quite a bit.
Yes, you're absolutely correct. This did come as part of the patches, fixes, etc. The default behavior of that activity stream page was to be the default front page. I changed that around so the forum was the default because that's how it's always been. There are some customizations that can be made to the stream page to help it work for us if needed but they aren't that complex. I believe I can add/remove/rearrange how it indexes the data.
There are a few other management features that also came with it for managing mobile devices but I haven't enabled those. The same mobile web theme is still active like it was before.
timwhit
Hairy Aussie
The old What's New page still exists.
Thanks timwhit. I can add it as a tab at the top if anyone is interested?
Will Rickards
Storage Is My Life
I use that what's new as my bookmark so I didn't notice any changes at all.
CougTek
Hairy Aussie
Our beloved logo is gone from the page tile. We have lost our identity.
I see a check mark on the front page logo. What was it previously?
sdbardwick
Storage is cool
Hmm. Seems like favicon.ico got replaced.
