Forum outage and update

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MacV2 wrote:Woohooo were back !

I was getting bad humour withdrawal symptoms...The plepbs on farcebarf just don't appreciate my stunning sense of humor...


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firestorm_al wrote: I had to restore the site drop a backup I made on the morning of the 5th. I can only apologise for the loss of the posts made after that. On most other sites I would have got away with it but this site is so active the loss of a couple of days posts is a big loss. Sorry.

Al.
Many thanks Al for all your hard work, and time you put into get the site back-up and running again :D

:lol: You can't get away with much on here :lol:
firestorm_al wrote:The template used has a fixed maximum width which suits me but might not be to everyone's taste. If you want to use the full width of your browser window then go into your user control panel --> Board Preferences --> Edit Display Options then select "yes" on the "Use maximum width" option.
Maximum width for me works much better than before, as it fills my 24" monitor to the maximum :D whereas the old version didn't, you always had a border each side.

So far that video works for me, I'm on a desktop pc running W10 with Anniversary update installed,

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So far that video works for me, I'm on a desktop pc running W10 with Anniversary update installed,
are you viewing the forum in https or http?

https > viewtopic.php?f=18&t=40371#p436853 Video no worky

http > http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 71#p436853 Video worky!!

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... ed_content

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/doc ... ed_content
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Oops you're right Wicky, it doesn't work in https. I assumed, obviously wrongly now, with this new version we would automatically be using https and not http,

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sirch345 wrote:Oops you're right Wicky, it doesn't work in https. I assumed, obviously wrongly now, with this new version we would automatically be using https and not http,

Chris.
http://www.vtr1000.org/phpBB3/viewtopic ... 72#p436865

Its cos the forum plugin/ extension can't handle https you tube embedded video, we have to edit out the 's' of https when linking via phpbb code - and then when viewing the forum via https it throws up the error / non appearance due to mixed embedded insecure content.

Ideally the forum needs to be 'forced' to https and a more versitile video plug-in/ extension installed able to work with https embedded video to keep it consistent. And versatile enough to show different embedded video sources i.e vimeo etc.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4398 ... od-rewrite
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appreciate all your time, knowledge and dedication Al, thank you :thumbup:

It means I realise there is a more sane place than the real world, like
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BigVeeGrin wrote:appreciate all your time, knowledge and dedication Al, thank you :thumbup:
My thoughts exactly. I was worried it was going to disappear entirely, as ive expierenced on other sites in the past, great to have it back again.
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I missed you guys, :thumbup:
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Group hug, don't want to feel this way again it's horrible.
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Whoop, whoop. Good work Al, must have been a ball-ache. Site migrations are a pain in the butt.

https is a must, especially with the login - http means the password info isn't encrypted as far as I know. If you're one of the billions of folks who use the same password for multiple sites/apps then you're at greater risk.

Google are doing their level best to force the interweb to go https. If you use Chrome you'll notice the 'Secure' notice in the address bar. Non-https site show an exclamation mark in a circle. Expect this to become a massive 'unsecured' notice sometime this year.
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I juśt think we should give al a huge vote of thanks for his work, not only in sorting this out but all the other work these guys do for us. Its usually a thankless task and one that no one usually understands.

Thanks to al and all the team
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Good job , thank you
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Can I note that the (much used by me) zoom capability for the text is no longer there....

There used to be 2 letter ''A''s in the top right corner, under the user login - so I could enlarge the text. Now, I can't.

MacV2 kindly suggested going into my display settings in the User Control Panel....but there is no zoom capability there.

Us older farts don't have the keen eyesight of the younger ones....which all these websites seem to be catered for! Even with me shuttle re-entry shield glasses, it's still a bit of a struggle without that text enhancing AA option.

OK, fair enough, I am now sitting a LOT closer to the screen as I was before...

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...but if it gets any smaller, I'll be physically sitting on the desk with my nose hard against the monitor! :lol:



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Hi. I'm sure everyone appreciates your hard work restoring this great website. It seems more than 3 days being unable to browse. Thanks again.
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Thankyou. :Worship1: :Mexican Wave: :Worship1:
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