Chisoxfn Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 All - As I had previously mentioned, the site was down for the last 24-48 hours as we completed our final upgrade onto the new forum software. In the past two months, we have moved the site to a significantly faster server, upgraded the skeleton behind the databases, and moved our forum software to the latest version of our platform. While there are kinks we will have to work out, mainly around fine-tuning the look and feel of the site, I'm excited to say that Soxtalk is now back on a state of the art platform and well prepared for the rest of the season. Additionally, we were able to go down and get back online without missing a game (which was the plan and despite some points where I thought the plan was in jeapoardy, we were able to execute through things). Appreciate everyone's patience. If anyone notices any issues/glitches, let me know. Please note that there are still things that are "updating" in the background so you might see some funky quote features or some images that haven't came back yet, but those should come back as the database continues to restore over the next 24-72 hours. Appreciate everyone's patience. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 It's got that new board smell! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MEANS Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Nice!!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
daa84 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Trying it out on my iPhone. Not too bad so far 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
southsider2k5 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Wow, 20th century Soxtalk. Very cool. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 The functionality on the phone / tablet is probably the biggest single enhancement I think each user will experience. That and I know for a long time people wanted the ability to embed twitter posts and you can now do that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
justBLAZE Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Thank you! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chitownsportsfan Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Great job guys! Pleasantly surprised to see the main site on back so quickly. Kudos to you. I'm excited to use the new software. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Swingandalongonetoleft Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Apart from the missing Cody Asche header, which I am confident will be rectified in due time, the board looks great (viewing it via phone). 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoxAce Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Got my old name on and the dougly picture as my avi instead of the Peavy one. What is this, 2004? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 Haha - Hillarious. I think that is because with the new software, certain fields were removed so people may revert back to their legacy usernames. Odd that the avatar was different. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flavum Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Looks great. And no Asche. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaylorStSox Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Drag and drop gifs. I'm in! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerksticks Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Oh man this is great! Kinda sad I no longer have to accidentally click on people’s profiles and look like a creep. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenericUserName Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Logged in and saw the layout and I thought I was high. Then I remembered the whole point was updating it haha. It looks great so far. Thanks for all the work you do for this board!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Congrats Jason! Let me m kw when you’re ready for me to help out, I’d be happy to be involved with helping out in terms of the look and feel... frontend code and UI/UX stuff is one of my strengths. Fantastic first step thou and I know it came as a result of many hard hours of work. Thanks again for all you do! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 11 minutes ago, hi8is said: Congrats Jason! Let me m kw when you’re ready for me to help out, I’d be happy to be involved with helping out in terms of the look and feel... frontend code and UI/UX stuff is one of my strengths. Fantastic first step thou and I know it came as a result of many hard hours of work. Thanks again for all you do! One of the huge advantages in this one is we can set a base theme pretty easy, which is awesome. The old theme, which was far from perfect, took hours. Already begun work on a new one that took about ten minutes before any fine tweaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 12 minutes ago, Heads22 said: One of the huge advantages in this one is we can set a base theme pretty easy, which is awesome. The old theme, which was far from perfect, took hours. Already begun work on a new one that took about ten minutes before any fine tweaking. Yea, the core technologies that IP uses have evolved so much in the last 10+ years... hell, back then jQuery wasn't a thing... CSS was just in it's infancy... there's so much more potential here it's absurd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 Trav - Now that this is here, we can start having the real conversations. Everyone should see at least some "Sox" colors on this theme. So it feels like a "White Sox" site again. Kudos to heads on that! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 They've gotta have an option to enable signatures... right? Hope you guys decide to enable that someday. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Heads22 Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 1 minute ago, hi8is said: They've gotta have an option to enable signatures... right? Hope you guys decide to enable that someday. Yup, first step was to make this look like a Sox website. Now what we're going to do is create another skin that we can mess around in and do smaller tweaks before we do it on the main one. Also will do some small changes to things like sigs and what not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 1 minute ago, Chisoxfn said: Trav - Now that this is here, we can start having the real conversations. Everyone should see at least some "Sox" colors on this theme. So it feels like a "White Sox" site again. Kudos to heads on that! Groovy - and yea, it looks 1000x better than Soxtalk v1. ( btw: It's Trevor, not Travis ) No worries thou, my own mother contemplated between those two choices for a year prior to my birth and it's a common mistake... oddly enough. Drop me a text man, I'll PM you my cell - we can figure out a time to meet up halfway for some grub and get to runnin. Cheers again and congrats on the update guys! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 Just now, Heads22 said: Yup, first step was to make this look like a Sox website. Now what we're going to do is create another skin that we can mess around in and do smaller tweaks before we do it on the main one. Also will do some small changes to things like sigs and what not. Groovy, do you guys have a staging / production server environment going? Or rather is it that you've just got another instance of the same board software somewhere with no associated soxtalk database that you're using to do frontend / theme development and testing on before then copying the files manually over to this instance? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hi8is Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 ( I also love that you can see user "warning points" ) It's been hysterical to read through some of those which chronicle the adventures in stupidity of "hi8is". My favorite mod comment being, Quote I'm sorry, but you can't be repeatedly posting pictures of feces here. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chisoxfn Posted April 20, 2018 Author Share Posted April 20, 2018 10 minutes ago, hi8is said: Groovy - and yea, it looks 1000x better than Soxtalk v1. ( btw: It's Trevor, not Travis ) No worries thou, my own mother contemplated between those two choices for a year prior to my birth and it's a common mistake... oddly enough. Drop me a text man, I'll PM you my cell - we can figure out a time to meet up halfway for some grub and get to runnin. Cheers again and congrats on the update guys! Perfect - Once I botch a name...I botch it forever. I'm like Harray Carey in that regard. Its a horrible habit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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