Will the new board still be accessible by laptop/desktop? Or only mobile?
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Beverly - Apr 28, 2018 8:47:28 am PDT #4074 of 4671
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Gudanov - Apr 28, 2018 10:54:50 am PDT #4075 of 4671
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The design is responsive so it will adjust to the size of the browser. It will look very much like the current site on a desktop or laptop, but will adjust itself as the screen shrinks to tablet and then phone size.
Gudanov - Apr 28, 2018 11:11:22 am PDT #4076 of 4671
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Tom Scola - Apr 28, 2018 11:41:11 am PDT #4077 of 4671
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Unless there is some egregious difference between the database schema, I can handle the migration.
(A bunch of the really old threads should just be archived anyway, though).
Beverly - Apr 28, 2018 10:20:38 pm PDT #4078 of 4671
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Cool, Gud. Thanks!
Calli - May 03, 2018 1:45:53 am PDT #4079 of 4671
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Nice!
Gudanov - May 16, 2018 7:56:06 am PDT #4080 of 4671
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Beta board is now at version 0.2.
On migration: To sum up what I think is the major issue, there are a whole bunch of inactive users in the user table and all those passwords are stored in unsalted, insecure hashes. If we migrate users, then we have to keep around all those insecure password hashes. Active users could be forced to create a new password that will be securely stored, but the inactive users will just have those insecure hashes sitting around.
The new site makes it a lot harder to hack into the database, but it's best to assume that database security could be breached.
Gudanov - May 16, 2018 7:58:31 am PDT #4081 of 4671
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As always, the beta board is at https://beta.buffistas.me.
Not a lot of work slated for beta 0.3, but not much free time to work on it either :(
Gudanov - May 16, 2018 8:01:44 am PDT #4082 of 4671
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Also, the data schema of the beta board is pretty similar to the current board. However, tables are not created for new threads there is just a posts table and a threads table (called subjects because of a keyword conflict with threads)
Tom Scola - May 16, 2018 8:23:45 am PDT #4083 of 4671
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That's how the board here used to work, but ita had to split it out into individual thread tables because the posts table just got too big and unwieldly.