Looks like I never did threadsuck, so I guess I'll add that before long.
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Do you have problems, concerns, or recommendations about the technical side of the Phoenix? Air them here. Compliments also welcome.
Gudanov - Sep 06, 2019 4:49:36 am PDT #4230 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Gudanov - Sep 06, 2019 6:54:54 am PDT #4231 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Oh yeah, the most important thing to add is the ability to use the 'forgot my password' feature when resetting the password on an existing account.
Beta board is at Beta Board.
The big features over the existing board are that registration and logout work, the layout is responsive (adapts to mobile), and vastly improved security. On the admin side, website pages can be created and edited directly on the website, password reset is automated, and votes are also automated.
Pix - Sep 06, 2019 2:34:16 pm PDT #4232 of 4671
We're all getting played with, babe. -Weird Barbie
Amazing, Gud! When can the site migrate over entirely?
Gudanov - Sep 06, 2019 3:03:03 pm PDT #4233 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Gotta have 'forgot your password' feature for resetting passwords on existing accounts. After that, it's pretty much ready. There will need to be some hosting work as well, like getting a cert for buffistas.org and such. Wish we didn't need to do the password resetting thing, but the current password hashes just aren't secure. They were okay for their time, but not now.
Jon B. - Sep 08, 2019 5:23:43 pm PDT #4234 of 4671
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Gud -- I forget if this is a known issue, but when I look at (for example) the last 10 posts of the music thread on the Beta Board, there are a whole bunch of broken links within the posts.
Gudanov - Sep 08, 2019 5:54:21 pm PDT #4235 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Looks like a URL parsing error. I'll have to take a look.
I'll be taking down the beta site and resetting the database a bit to test some stuff.
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2019 3:54:31 pm PDT #4236 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
Okay. The database was reset on the beta site. Also, if you use the 'forgot my password' thing to reset your password, then that will also take care of resetting a password for an existing user. In other words, you don't have to actually know your password to log in. However, your profile addy has to be good.
Now to look at that URL parsing.
Gudanov - Sep 09, 2019 5:42:20 pm PDT #4237 of 4671
Coding and Sleeping
I improved the URL handling. Should be working better now.
Jon B. - Sep 10, 2019 5:39:33 am PDT #4238 of 4671
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
Looks good!
Shir - Nov 13, 2019 6:16:00 am PST #4239 of 4671
"And that's why God Almighty gave us fire insurance and the public defender".
I have a weird bug and I'm not sure what's going on. I'm using Firefox as my default browser (on windows 10) and in the past 24 hours or so b.org won't load (I opened chrome to post this). Connection to other websites is fine - it looks like it's just this website.
Before I'm clearing cache on my bazillion opened tabs or so to see if this helps, any idea what's going on?
Edited to add: did a few things, looks like problem solved. No idea what it was from the bunch of things I did that solved it.