vBulletin 3.6.4 Up and Running

[SuperGLS]

Well, we now have vBulletin 3.6.4 installed and running.

For now there are a lot things that aren't working but I'll do my best to take care of things slowly but surely.

Now, I don't know if this is going to solve the problem that we had on Friday and earlier today but maybe it will help. I had Rdizziedog help out with another problem with database optimization and hopefully that will solve the problems.

We'll see.

[only1db]

i hope...becuase i dont want to add people to my a-town list for a third time...

is there anyway to recoop the lost data?

[Rdizziedog]

The reason you guys are missing PM's and posts is because James had to restore the site with a backup from a little while ago. The site has been upgraded to v3.6.4 and all of the tables in the database have been optimized. You shouldn't experience any slow loads or timeouts anymore, but if you do, let James know and we'll try to figure out why.

He is aware that there are some issues with the board for now, mainly:

Spacing inside threads is messed up
User drop-down menus aren't working
Avatars aren't working
Arcade, Flashchat, Archive, and a few other links aren't working

As far as I know those are the main things that are messed up. If you could kindly report any other bugs that you guys find it would help a lot.

[Rdizziedog]

i hope...becuase i dont want to add people to my a-town list for a third time...

is there anyway to recoop the lost data?

I'll ask James if he has a backup from before he restored and see what I can do.

[only1db]

thank you....i appreciate it

[robs02elantra]

yes, thank you very much guys!! well done

[04 elantra cvvt]

Thanks guys. It seems to be working great now.

[SuperGLS]

Sorry Derek, there is no way we can get any of the lost posts back. Basically we lost Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and we saved part of Saturday but lost most of today.

Like Ryan said, report anything else strange that you notice.

vB 3.6 has a lot of different/new features that I'm sure we'll stumble across as well.

EDIT - Actually, I think we lost Wednesday-Now. Sucks.

[robs02elantra]

meh, it happens James. Like you've said before, with such little downtime on this site and things going so well for so long now, we can accept a little something like that happening...it's not like the end of the world or anything.

[Cypher]

glad to see its back up and running. pm me derek since i never got to check ur message

[SuperGLS]

For some reason I felt that I should fix the Chat first... so there you have it, it's fixed.

Let me know if anyone has any problems.

[Rdizziedog]

Well everyone it seems as if the problem crept up on us again at around 1AM today. I was monitoring the site all night long and the first time I noticed it wouldn't load again was around 1AM, so once James got off work we set off on a journey to see if we could figure out what was wrong with it again.

After killing off some processes, doing some system reboots, and examining some other stuff, we updated PHP to the newer version and it has seemed to solve the problems for now (again)...

Not sure if this is going to fix it for sure (just as we weren't sure if the things we did before would fix it permenantly) but I have a good feeling about this time.

Once again we will be working on getting all of the site's stuff (avatars, forum spacing, etc) fixed ASAP.

Sorry again about the downtime.

[toymachine566]

thanks for you time and commitement guys

well, I have something to do again, (sigh of relief)

[robs02elantra]

yes, thank you both very much! It is definitely appreciated

[04 elantra cvvt]

Thanks guys. I know this has been tough on y'all, and I hope everything goes well. Thanks again.

[04 elantra cvvt]

BTW. are the garages still down, or have the permissions just changed?

[rckozma]

At least they saved the COTM poll this time :)

Way to stay on top of things.

[hyunelan2]

Stupid computers. Keep up the good work.

[SuperGLS]

Thanks again Ryan for the help. Smart 18 year olds = fixing the internet one site at a time. Let's hope we don't have the same problem over the next 12-18 hours. I'm glad we could fix it without going to a backup again, especially since we'd probably have to update the vB software again.

The Garage is down and will be down for a while. I have commitments tomorrow night, Wednesday, and probably Friday night too, so I won't have any time to work on fixing things until the weekend probably. Let's hope it's around for that long, ha.

Stupid computers.

You got that right.

[zx2uner]

At least they saved the COTM poll this time :)

Way to stay on top of things.

As I was driving home, I thought about that...lol

[04 elantra cvvt]

At least they saved the COTM poll this time :)

Way to stay on top of things.

Yeah... thanks for that.

[SuperGLS]

You'll notice the thread spacing is correct now along with the "Multi-quote" buttons in each post.

I'll work on more this weekend.

[04 elantra cvvt]

And Avatars are working again!!! I like the multi-quote feature a lot.

[hyunelan2]

yay for the avatars! I'll be honest, it was annoying the heck out of me there, haha.

[Rdizziedog]

Damn James, nice job on fixing all that stuff. Glad to see almost eveything is fixed now; hopefully it stays this way!

PS: That multi-quote option is really cool, didn't notice it until now.

[KeWLKaT]

yayyyyyyyyy


SuperGLS i love you DAMMIT why do you have to be married?

[SuperGLS]

SuperGLS i love you DAMMIT why do you have to be married?

I don't know if I should be scared or flattered. Hmm.

Your welcome kids.

[Cypher]

i'd lean towards scared.

[hyunelan2]

Ok, who wants to tell me about "add infraction" options? I don't want to click it and give someone an 'infraction'.

[KeWLKaT]

bah you can practice on me if you want man i dont mind ;)

heres an infraction for you: you suck!

[hyunelan2]

Haha, I clicked it... "insulted other members" is an option... is there a x11tybillion button - we might need that.

[KeWLKaT]

i cant see the infraction :(

and for some reason when i click on a member name it doesnt do anything (that popup menu)

[hyunelan2]

I didn't issue the infraction, I found that you have to go through a couple button pushes to do it. On another forum I'm on, as soon as you click the infraction button once, it's issued - hence why I didn't want to click it.

Yeah, clicking on member names isn't working for me either.

[Rdizziedog]

Damn, the drop-down menus were working for a while...not sure why they are broken again.

[joph09]

they were working earlier for me but now they don't

[SuperGLS]

Mike, the infractions thing is for moderators only. We'll figure out if we want to use it or not later.

As for the dropdown menus, yeah, that's strange. I'll work on it.

[SuperGLS]

EDIT - No drop down menus are working (search, quicklinks, etc).

EDIT 2 - Looking further into it, it seems that threads that have been started from yesterday (after the site back online) or today the menus work fine (both the search this thread/rate this thread/member name ones), but anything from before last night it doesn't work. And because the forums were created before then, the menus for Search this forum don't work either.

Strange.

[carbonman]

Good job guys!

[hyunelan2]

Maybe I'm really stupid, but how does the multi-quote thing work?

[joph09]

Maybe I'm really stupid, but how does the multi-quote thing work?

click the multi-quote buttons on the posts that you want to quote, when done click the quote button on the last post you're quoting

howcome everytime I click logout it says it's having trouble logging me out then I have to click another link?

[hyunelan2]

Dunno if anyone has mentioned this one yet, but I cannot get into the archives.

[SuperGLS]

I'll look into the logout issue.

Dunno if anyone has mentioned this one yet, but I cannot get into the archives.

That wasn't working before the problems. Working on it.

The Chat is working forreals now. Enjoy.

Whats?

Yes ok. The no doubleposting hack is back on line. It just works a little differently. The page has to be reloaded for you to see it happen.

[SuperGLS]

Today I've added a "Who's Chatting" and "Most Popular" info boxes at the bottom of the Forum Home Page. Nothing too extravagent but they are nice additions.

Also, I noticed that the EXD box shows the number of Active users, which as we all know is a small percentage of the total number of users. I don't know how that is determined though.

[KeWLKaT]

i think no thread will be more popular than FF`s SC thread lol

[zx2uner]

trader ratings isnt working either

[SuperGLS]

trader ratings isnt working either

Yeah, I've been working on that today as well. For vB 3.5+ it's now iTrader. It's up and running now. I still need to make some template edits so that there is a "Leave Feedback for this member" link in a members Profile. Will get to that shortly.

[zx2uner]

^^^
I have a lot of feedback to leave...;) So hurry up;)

[SuperGLS]

Ha.

Well, I now have the rating score underneath the membername in each post like before. So you can always find a thread where the person posted and access it that way.

The Profile idea isn't needed now since most people get to your profile by clicking on your member name in a post. However, I will be adding a link to under the member name in the Members List section as well.

[zx2uner]

I'm sorry....I didn't see the "submit feedback" button:redface: :redface:

[SuperGLS]

EDIT - Ok. That was easy. It's in the Member List now.

http://www.elantraxd.com/forums/memberlist.php?&order=DESC&sort=posts&pp=30

Damn, I should get paid for all the work I do to keep you kids happy. Ha.

[zx2uner]

When I click on the score...it comes to my profile not their's:confused:

edit: GOT it figured out

[SuperGLS]

I've added a Auto Picture Resize hack.

Anything over 800x600 will be resized to 800x600. This should help any scrolling issues that we have when people post pics that are 2340x1890 (exaggeration) and crap.

If you have any pictures that you need to keep the resolution then simply post them as links.

[toymachine566]

So with the whole "automerged double-post" thing in effect is it possible ti bumo threads anymore? I ask because of the F/S threads :D

Thanks

[SuperGLS]

The Double Post thing works similar to before. After a certain about of time they won't be "automerged."

The Garage is now back up and running. It does look kind of ugly though. I'll see if I can't fix that shortly.

[SuperGLS]

Garage fixed. Looks good now unlike it has been for the past two nights.

[zx2uner]

Garage fixed. Looks good now unlike it has been for the past two nights.

I cannot get past page 1:confused: I click to get to the 2nd page to get to my garage and it goes blank.

[SuperGLS]

Well, I just messed it all up and now there are no garages at all. At least there isn't a problem with getting past the first page now. HAHAHAHA.

Time to start over.

[zx2uner]

Well, I just messed it all up and now there are no garages at all. At least there isn't a problem with getting past the first page now. HAHAHAHA.

Time to start over.

Well when you get it working...you should make my Garage #2...;)

[SuperGLS]

What I meant by "time to start over" means everyone will have to make a Garage again if they want to. I just redid mine. Really it should only take 5 minutes.

Hopefully everyone actually puts pictures in this time... that is kind of the point.

[zx2uner]

lol....I put one old pic in for now....will add more when my car gets done being painted and I finally get the HID's in.

Thanks for getting working though James!!

[toymachine566]

Hopefully everyone actually puts pictures in this time... that is kind of the point.
I'm gonna be puttin in pictures By the summer time and when the car is actually running lol. But with the crappy weather I don't think many of us can really get out thereand clean 'em up real nice to get quality pictures (of course I speak for myself on this :D )

[xdforme22]

I made a new garage, but when I add a file and press submit, nothing happens. The page reloads, but there is no picture.

[SuperGLS]

It just let me add a picture to your Garage. It only accepts jpgs, pngs, and gifs. No bmp files or anything else. This is to stop people from uploading pictures of larger sizes.

[SuperGLS]

I've updated the Garage to show more garages on the first page.

We only have 42... what's the deal? Post pics of your cool Elantras.