Big Change

[Joe W]

There is a big change currently in progress for the PSR Tutorial.  Hopefully, it will be ready soon and I can make the announcement.  Any day now ...

[Jørgen]

Hi

Hope the news is about moving to a mobile friendly web design... 

Jørgen

[Gunnar Jonny]

Exciting news.

[hans1966]

Hello Joe, thank you very much for the excellent news

[Toril S]

Hello Joe! This may not be good news for me. I looked at other forum pages. They are not easy to navigate. Bad contrast, too crowded. I love the simple, logical layout of this page. Easy to read. Super easy to navigate. I hope the best, but is not at ease now. Sorry for this fearful post😀

[Jørgen]

Hi Toril

We do NOT know if the big change is about a mobile friendly design.

My site - check link in footer - is mobile friendly designed. All components keep their size, no zooming required and no "hard to hit" links to click...

IMO it can be done! And it would be really, really nice!

Jørgen

[jgriffin]

I gave it a "LIKE" because everything Joe has done so far has been spectacular!  Looking forward to seeing what he has in store for us.   

[Joe W]

No, the change is not moving to a format that supports mobile devices, although SimpleMachines may do that at some time.

The BIG change is a move to a bigger, newer, server with more RAM, more CPU, and more hard drive space.  That new server has been setup and testing is still underway.  When complete, the domain name (psrtutorial.com) will be changed to point to the new server.  You should see no difference from what is on the current server, assuming everything gets transferred over OK. I'm still waiting for that final step to be completed.

[Toril S]

Good news Joe😀

[SeaGtGruff]

So the big news is that we're getting a bigger house as it were? We should all buy a style collection or two to celebrate!

[alanclare]

So is that why I couldn't access the site 10 minutes ago?

Alan

[Joe W]

It is now 6:17 pm (EST) on Monday, Jan 29.  Hopefully, we are now done with the transition to the new server.  The new URL was changed this morning to point to the new server.  It took awhile for that new address to filter through to all the domain name servers on the internet.  Next problem was that the SSL (secure sockets layer) certificate that I had on the old server was not transferred to the new server.  That meant if you tried to access us using https, you got a warning that the sight was not secure. It certainly is secure and when the certificate was transferred over to the new server, that problem disappleared.  However, while the main site worked fine, access to the forum was no longer working.  Some problem with "permissions" was discovered and corrected.  Finally, secure access to the forum on the new server worked, but we were missing several days of messages that were added to the old system after the forum databases were copied.  There was a solution available here that re-synched the database.  While that was done, I put the forum in maintenance mode.  Finally, heard that forum databases were ready, but now could not access the forum at all.  Another call to Lunarpages.  I don't know what that problem was, but they were able to correct it in a couple of minutes.

So, I hope that we are once more up and running smoothly on the new server.  Only time will tell....

[robs68]

Joe, All seems ok here so far,  Thanks!  Rob

[tomtomsf]

Thanks for all your hard work, Joe!

One question... the times on the forum look off. Under my name at the top, it says "January 29, 2018, 11:58:24 PM" but my correct local time is actually 15:48. Do we need to do something in our profile to fix the times?

Tom G.

[Joe H]

My time is off also.  How do I set the correct day and time? Up in the top-left corner it shows January 30, 01:06 AM.  It is January 29, 5:06 PM where I'm at.

Joe H

[Joe H]

Joe W,

It looks like the LIKE button does not work on any thread (for me at least)

Joe H

[Joe W]

I do have a request into Lunarpages to check on the server time settings.  They are not yet set correctly.

I also see that LIKE is not working correctly. I'll have to put in a separate ticket on that.

[Bruce Breen]

Hi Joe,
thanks for all the hard work!

[pmedina]

Hi Joe, thanks to be the heart of the forum. Always improving it.
Regards. (I could'nt find the spell check)

[Daniel_ARG]

Thank you so much, Joe, for your endless effort keeping this site  to be the best!!!!!

Best regards,


Daniel

[AnupamEnosh]

My time is off also.  How do I set the correct day and time? Up in the top-left corner it shows January 30, 01:06 AM.  It is January 29, 5:06 PM where I'm at.

Joe H

There is an auto detect time zone feature in profile settings. Profile>Modify profile>Look and layout. BTW it is not 100% accurate.

[Joe H]

Thanks Anupam,

That did it!



Joe H

[pol1234]

Joe, thank you very much for improving this forum !!

[dillyboy]

Thank Goodness! thought the site was down - Great work Joe 

[MINKYCATS]

Thank you Joe for all your hard work to improve this wonderful website.

I'm sure you have had many late nights and anxieties, but all the members appreciate your dedication.

Trevor (MINKYCATS)

[wolfram]

Thanks Joe for the good work you do,
regards,
wolfram

[DerekA]

Thank you for continuing to keep this forum up and running, it's much appreciated.

[jm]

  Thank you Joe for this truly WONDERFUL site!
I (and everyone else) would be lost without you!!!!!!!!
From the bottom of my heart THANKYOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Kind regards
jm

[Paul B]

Thank you Joe for all you do for the Forum.

Paul B

[peter-s]

Thanks Joe for all that you do. It's very much appreciated.

Peter