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Thanks, Carl!
I hope it didn't cost you too much sleep.

trainspotter48 wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 1:56 pm Thanks, Carl!

You -- and the entire Skirt Cafe community -- are more than welcome!

I hope it didn't cost you too much sleep.

This didn't cost me any sleep -- it was my day job that kept interfering with solving this problem as my day job was consuming about sixteen to eighteen hours per day.

Once I realised what was going on, I spent about 45 minutes figuring out what to do, then about an hour or two last night to get a prototype of the deed done in my lab at home, and then about 45 minutes to actually do all the work here this morning. And, of course, there's still work left to do like the alternate style (I detest the new one -- it wastes too much screen real-estate) and alternate languages.

I'll update the thread as I progress on those fronts.

What I will say, is that this upgrade was a bit of a "heavy lift" as it required some reverse-engineering of the database because the canned patches weren't working properly "out of the box" -- and there were a lot of patches!

Thanks Carl, I already started to get the withdrawal phenomenon.

Thanks from me too.
From the other thread, I don't mind the new style either.
Steve.

Carl, May the makers you believe in shower upon you all of the blessings they can,

I can not begin to tell you of the pain of withdraw I was feeling, as I have been through this before. This is the thread that helps keep me sane. (If that is even possible)

Dealing with the changes that are now required to get back to the old look can take time I know but you are the one capable of doing just that.

SO ONCE AGAIN THANK YOU, THANK YOU!

Thanks Carl, your dedication is to be admired. I know well the sinking feeling when the system returns multiple errors when you haven't done anything. Did you get any advance notice of the upgrade including details of what has changed? Like others I quite like the new format although the one option that I used almost every time I logged on was the "show any unread posts". That this is not there is not a killer, it just means a bit more time picking through the threads.

Thanks, Carl. I would have been disappointed if this one did like another bulletin board I was on that still has the under construction sign up a year after the "upgrade".

Thankyou for all your time. The new site looks excellent.

Thank You Carl...I have found that to submit a P.M. one has to reload the Name of the Addresse and
the subject title....This is not automatic from the old system to the new one...Roderick.

Thank you gentlemen, thank you all. I appreciate your sentiments. However, do recall that when I "signed up" [0] to do this job I did so with the intent to put the full force of my competency to bear on keeping things running smoothly. I view it as a professional obligation.

The above having been said, I stand proud to serve this community -- as small as it may be -- and am entirely happy that the forum is viewed as being important to folks. That just steels the resolve that was already there.

This, I believe, is an important space; as far as I am aware, nothing else like it exists. Thus it serves a need. From a very personal perspective, I'd prefer to occupy a world where a space like this would be superfluous, but we're not there yet. We may never get there, but that should not stop us from striving towards the end-game.

Thanks lads -- and gals -- for being here, and for trying to widen the world's view of things one mind at a time.


[0] See Tracy Kidder's Pulitzer Prize winning book The Soul of a New Machine for precisely what it means to "sign up". It's a geek's book to be sure, but it's a damned good read.

Thanks Carl your time, skill and commitment.
Many things seem to rely heavily on one person to keep them going, although others are involved and contribute.
I can empathise with your situation, busy otherwise but committed to keeping this forum going. I volunteer one day a week putting the local paper together ready for printing. Others print and distribute but I know that without my time and skill that it would not happen. I decided to do it because it was a good and necessary facility for the community and I am committed without resentment, although I already have more to do than time permits.

Jim wrote: ↑Sat Nov 23, 2019 10:53 pm Thanks, Carl. I would have been disappointed if this one did like another bulletin board I was on that still has the under construction sign up a year after the "upgrade".

That's the difference between a run of the mill amateur (like me) trying to run a BB service online vs a man like Carl... a master in his craft.

Nicely done. If this were my site... it would have certainly perished into history the other day.

Thanks C arl

One big improvement is the appearance of the Subject of the latest posts as links in the main menu, instead of the names of the posters which previously appeared there.  It might sometime have been a bit helpful to see who had most recently posted, but there wasn't much point in following the link to their personal information each time ; now it is possible to jump straight to the actual post instead.