Forum breakage

Looks fine in Firefox 12 and Chrome 19 on Mac.

What Firefox version?

Yeah, we just upgraded the forum stack from phpBB2 to phpBB3. Which version of Firefox are you running?

-Tim

Same with Chrome Version 19.0.1084.56 and FF 13 on Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop.

@jebblue:

Same with Chrome Version 19.0.1084.56 and FF 13 on Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop.

It's working, or not working?

-Tim

The forum posts box here is not working for me on any browser: http://www.linode.com/community/

@Ghan_04:

The forum posts box here is not working for me on any browser: http://www.linode.com/community/

That's not related to the browser, and is something we'll be addressing shortly.

-Tim

Works fine for me, except the footer nav links (below phpbb copyright notice) are a bit off center to the left.

FF 12 Fedora 15.

I just had a quick poke around with FF13, Chrome19, Opera 11 and Safari 5 all work fine :) someone else can try IE..not going near that thing ewww

@theckman:

@jebblue:

Same with Chrome Version 19.0.1084.56 and FF 13 on Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop.

It's working, or not working?

-Tim

Sorry, not working.

@theckman:

Which version of Firefox are you running?

It's 1.5.0.8.

Another item: clickable images now have a rectangular border, as shown here.

~~http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/695/ … mtopic.png">http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/695/linodeforumtopic.png" />

To be clear, I don't expect Linode to put forth massive effort fixing phpBB3's display. Mainly curious to see if others are seeing the same thing.~~

@jebblue:

@theckman:

@jebblue:

Same with Chrome Version 19.0.1084.56 and FF 13 on Ubuntu 12.04 Desktop.

It's working, or not working?

-Tim

Sorry, not working.

Could you post a screenshot illustrating the breakage?

@Azathoth:

Works fine for me, except the footer nav links (below phpbb copyright notice) are a bit off center to the left.

FF 12 Fedora 15.

That offset left exists on our footers elsewhere and is entirely normal.

@Vance:

@theckman:

Which version of Firefox are you running?

It's 1.5.0.8.

Another item: clickable images now have a rectangular border, as shown here.

~~http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/695/ … mtopic.png">http://img265.imageshack.us/img265/695/linodeforumtopic.png" />

To be clear, I don't expect Linode to put forth massive effort fixing phpBB3's display. Mainly curious to see if others are seeing the same thing. :shock: That's a seven year old browser… I imagine you experience odd behavior on multiple sites running something that antiquated.

If you are experiencing issues rendering something, a screenshot would be most helpful.

-Tim~~

Fun fact: Firefox 1.5 was the last version to support Windows 95, and the first version to not support Mac OS v10.1.

Considering what a notable attack vector browsers are, using Firefox 1.5.x, which hasn't had a security update in many years, is very irresponsible. The oldest version of Firefox that is still supported is v10.

@Vance

The Smithsonian called, they'd like to know if they can have their 1990's computer exhibit back.

Could you post a screenshot illustrating the breakage?

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@jebblue:

Sure:

Doesn't seem to be. ಠ_ಠ

@jebblue:

@theckman:

@jebblue:

Sure:

Doesn't seem to be. ಠ_ಠ

ya ya :) it's posted above now.

Glad to see everything is working. :D

I didn't make that last post ^^^ Are the Linode forums hacked now? What else is hacked?

@jebblue:

ya ya :) it's posted above now.

@theckman:

@Ghan_04:

The forum posts box here is not working for me on any browser: http://www.linode.com/community/
That's not related to the browser, and is something we'll be addressing shortly.

-Tim

@theckman:

I imagine you experience odd behavior on multiple sites running something that antiquated.

Actually, not very many. But then again, I dislike the user experience of AJAX-heavy sites and avoid nearly all of them, so perhaps I am selecting out a lot of those which would display poorly.

@theckman:

If you are experiencing issues rendering something, a screenshot would be most helpful.

In addition to the ones I posted? Or was this directed toward someone else?

@Guspaz:

Considering what a notable attack vector browsers are, using Firefox 1.5.x, which hasn't had a security update in many years, is very irresponsible.

Thank you for your remote analysis and judgment of my security posture based on a single scrap of information. I will be sure to file it in the appropriate place.

@jebblue:

I didn't make that last post ^^^ Are the Linode forums hacked now? What else is hacked?

:shock:

The internet's been hacked! Run for your lives!

@Vance:

@theckman:

If you are experiencing issues rendering something, a screenshot would be most helpful.

In addition to the ones I posted? Or was this directed toward someone else?

Sorry for the confusion. Was for those who mentioned they were experiencing issues without posting screenshots.

-Tim

@Vance:

Thank you for your remote analysis and judgment of my security posture based on a single scrap of information. I will be sure to file it in the appropriate place.

"I'm running a terribly out of date browser that hasn't seen security updates in years and makes me far more likely to get infected and be a danger to others" is a pretty significant scrap of information.

For whatever it's worth, I lost my avatar for some reason. Was empty when I logged in today. Uploaded a new one.

-r

@warmowski:

For whatever it's worth, I lost my avatar for some reason. Was empty when I logged in today. Uploaded a new one.

-r
Part of the conversion from phpBB2 to phpBB3 - it can't be kept because of how things are different with the filesystem and database storage for avatars then and now.

@Obsidian:

Part of the conversion from phpBB2 to phpBB3 - it can't be kept because of how things are different with the filesystem and database storage for avatars then and now.

Huh? My avatar stayed put with no user intervention thru the forum upgrade.

During the upgrade process, I realized phpBB3 wouldn't automatically move the correct avatars over. I was able to move over most of the avatars. However, it looks like some got lost in the move.

-Tim

Edit: As a side note, I'm not really sure why the upgrade tool was unable to actually move the avatars over. I was able to programmatically move them over.

The only issue I noticed with the new forum was that I needed to login again, and logins popup the no/spam box; I don't recall the old forum doing that.

Otherwise it's been mostly painless :-)

@theckman:

Edit: As a side note, I'm not really sure why the upgrade tool was unable to actually move the avatars over. I was able to programmatically move them over.
Coz you got da skillz, innit.