Just to let you all know so you don't think the forums have broke again. I have some maintenance todo on the website, This will involve shutting the website down TEMP! so I can rebuild the search tables and fully change the collation of the database we run on.
There are more website updates that will follow "slowly" after the above has been done
I also plan "later down the line" to add the donation rank "mod back" allowing donators to once again receive a forum rank+ for there donation/support. Maybe get the shoutbox back depending on resource usage. Also bring back the THG regular rank for the forums so THG regulars have a nice coloured name again.
However 1st I need to rebuild the search tables and edit the database.
I have tested this on my test site and it worked and went well. So hopefully this live fix later does the same.
It will most likely be this evening! you will receive a notice that the site is down for maintenance. It Shouldn't take much longer than 1 hr.
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uft8_swedish_ci FTW? Good work
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I've run out of time for tonight :roll: I will have to do this early hrs of tomorrow :
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I have just updated our database collation and also rebuilt our search tables, which means searching should be more accurate now and hopefully you should get less errors when posting or searching.
However this could give me a bunch of errors which would mean I would have to revert to the backup I made before all of the changes.
Hopefully its good and stable, only time will tell so if the site does happen to go down again you know something messed up and I am fixing it :roll:
However this could give me a bunch of errors which would mean I would have to revert to the backup I made before all of the changes.
Hopefully its good and stable, only time will tell so if the site does happen to go down again you know something messed up and I am fixing it :roll:
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The time has come again to do some more website updates and upgrades. The forums will be down temp, until I am finished it shouldn't take to long. It involves a couple of database tables and 1000s of file updates .
Hopefully it will not take to long, This will have to be later on this afternoon or tomorrow now due to time wasted and now having to go out
Hopefully it will not take to long, This will have to be later on this afternoon or tomorrow now due to time wasted and now having to go out
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Just so you all know I have just updated the forums CMS to the latest version, this was a fairly big update and there maybe be slight changes here and there! a few things might also require editing/updating here and there to. One might be the css as the text seems a little smaller.
If you spot anything let me know
I have also added the shout box back which is not active at the moment as it needs setting up to our other themes we have on our forums. I will do that asap .
If you spot anything let me know
I have also added the shout box back which is not active at the moment as it needs setting up to our other themes we have on our forums. I will do that asap .