Website on new host

Discussion in 'Website Updates and Problem Reporting' started by icebalm, Aug 26, 2015.

Website on new host

  1. icebalm

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    So as you guys and gals are probably aware, the website is running on a new host. As such I have had to make some modifications to how the forums operate in order to get it to (mostly) work properly. The two biggest changes are:
    1. /forums is no longer needed in the URL, it's just http://www.nononsensegamers.com
    2. The format of internal URLs has changed.
    The first one will probably require you all to fix your bookmark for the site. The second will cause a lot of links to forum posts, polls, forms, etc that people have made in posts prior to the move to be broken.

    For me to go through the archive of old posts and fix up all the broken links would just be too much of a monumental task, and therefore I'm just not going to do it. /crazy dude

    I have tried my best to fix up a lot of the broken internal site links that the forum itself uses, but there may be links that I have missed. If you find a site link that doesn't work, please post about it here and I'll try to fix it.

    Due to the way the forum software and the migration process, by design, works some parts of the software are non-functional, like the recent status updates section, and a lot of the administration control panel back end. Because of this I have very limited ability to modify the site. I am mostly fine with this. I didn't want, nor saw a need, to make large changes. My goal in this transition from Ghosts's host to the new one was to follow the status quo and have as little down time as possible. That said I did want to make minor changes, like adding an events calendar to the site somewhere, but I am prevented from doing so.

    We may in the future look at migrating away from the current XenForo software we use now, to another forum software, but this will be something a while out, we still haven't completed the current transition yet as the Teamspeak is not complete! That is the next priority! I will keep you all posted!

    If anyone has any questions about any of this, feel free to ask here.
     
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  2. John_Holliday

    John_Holliday Donating Member

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    I thought we were getting free kittens and popsicles through the transition...how are the kittens being shipped?
     
  3. IOLAR2011

    IOLAR2011 Shoutbox Operator Extraordinaire

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    They were shipped with the Schrödinger courier service. The boxes are difficult to open.
     
  4. icebalm

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    And they are, and aren't, enroute, at the same time.
     
  5. John_Holliday

    John_Holliday Donating Member

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    I don't LOL very often but IOLAR2011 and Icebalm...I admit it...I literally LOL'ed.
     
  6. IOLAR2011

    IOLAR2011 Shoutbox Operator Extraordinaire

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    Ah, a bit like USPS so
     
  7. Captain Murasa

    Captain Murasa brb buying a rubber duck

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    Uh, just wanna note that if you go to the original link:

    www.nononsensegamers.com

    It leads right back to the old forums. You might want to fix that.
     
  8. icebalm

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    What do you mean "the old forums"?
     
  9. Captain Murasa

    Captain Murasa brb buying a rubber duck

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  10. icebalm

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    Clear your cache and/or history, that was fixed on moving day.