[FINISHED] Maintenance of Eurobricks on 20th January

[vascolp]

On 1/18/2025 at 6:34 PM, aFrInaTi0n said:

Even if 99.9% are looking fine I would like to encourage people to take close looks for things not working as expected & not hesitating to report here.

Here is one of those tiny details:

In the bottom of the page you have the "Next unread topic" button. I am pretty sure this used to have the name of the next topic... 

Best Regards and thanks for the nice work!

[Mikdun]

Same as above plus: the "Theme" switch on the bottom does nothing. I can choose one of the 4 available, but the look does not change.

 

EDIT: ok, the picture on the top changes and some items fall apart, not sure what IS supposed to change. :-D

Edited January 20 by Mikdun

[Berthil]

Finally a dark Mode, thank you!

[aFrInaTi0n]

4 hours ago, Toastie said:

Thank you all - and particularly Christoph!

Congratulations and all the best!

Thorsten

Thanks :) Hope I made it in time when you were expecting to read your eurobricks-news in the morning :D

4 hours ago, R0Sch said:

And here I was worried in the morning that the forum got hacked, because it kept asking for my username and password and spitting out 401 error if I didn't.
Will take some time to get used to this new design. A proper dark theme would be great, because with this mod I can barely distinguish the grey icons. I don't remember having to click twice to quote a post. Is this new with the checkmark and multiquotes?

No, all fine and no hackers around - our vessel is safe and sound! 

For new themes it was a little bit like the egg-chicken equation - without the new version being layed out there was no real need for anybody to create new themes & also no testers for giving feedback. See the upgrade as the egg, from that the chickens, eh themes may arise.. 

2 hours ago, Yoggington said:

Looks great! Good work.

Thanks

2 hours ago, XG BC said:

great work! runs A LOT faster now for me!

Thanks, happy to hear its also recognized to be faster.

1 hour ago, vascolp said:

Here is one of those tiny details:

In the bottom of the page you have the "Next unread topic" button. I am pretty sure this used to have the name of the next topic... 

Best Regards and thanks for the nice work!

Oh, eagle-eyes - that slipped mine! Thanks. May be a change from the vendor with their new themes we are based on.

1 hour ago, Mikdun said:

Same as above plus: the "Theme" switch on the bottom does nothing. I can choose one of the 4 available, but the look does not change.

 

EDIT: ok, the picture on the top changes and some items fall apart, not sure what IS supposed to change. :-D

I basically reverted all user-theme picks & created global overwrites, as the old themes may work poorly with the new forum version. 

1 hour ago, Berthil said:

Finally a dark Mode, thank you!

Welcome :)

[zinnn]

25 minutes ago, aFrInaTi0n said:

I basically reverted all user-theme picks & created global overwrites, as the old themes may work poorly with the new forum version. 

are they coming back? the default theme looks very dated

[aFrInaTi0n]

@zinnn The forum software provider is in the last steps of upgrading their product to the next major release. So we have the uncertainty of the provider not offering a clear roadmap or estimated arrival of their major release.

But as this major upgrade is inevitable all our until-then-done efforts will be rendered useless as I am expecting a complete rework to their theme.

 

What I can tell already: Not all of the old themes will be recreated, as there are over ~140 or so - nobody may be able to handle this..

What may happen: SubForum Admins investing efforts to re-create the latest theme for the Theme SubForums. Pirates, StarWars to call some names..

 

From the theme-perspective we stepped into not-so-nice situation, but lets phrase it like this: I easily can overlook that for a certain amount of time in regard of higher security levels and a faster site. But I am still sorry for the inconveniences I created for your s (and others) eyes.

best regards

@SNIPE meh, I think the input box is still bugged for me - so right now I am not sure if this may be unresolved yet.. 

[dr_spock]

Is this a new feature?  Post now and register later. 

 

[aFrInaTi0n]

Not sure if this was possible in the old version as I never tried that out before. So I reckon "yes"?! Thanks for pointing out!

We may fine tune the configuration over the next days & weeks

[Robert8]

Thanks for the update!

[amorti]

5 hours ago, XG BC said:

great work! runs A LOT faster now for me!

Thanks @aFrInaTi0n - I second this!

[2GodBDGlory]

Fun to have a tweaked UI, and all seems to be working well!

One thing I noticed is that the (can't remember the official wording) moderator-assigned nicknames that certain people had been given under their names are no longer there. Is that something that will be re-added eventually? Also, and I think you mentioned something about these, but my special tags are now showing up in a vertical column instead of a horizontal row, which is a somewhat awkward look, I think.

Thanks for your work!

Edited January 20 by 2GodBDGlory

[aFrInaTi0n]

1 hour ago, Robert8 said:

Thanks for the update!

Thanks

33 minutes ago, amorti said:

Thanks @aFrInaTi0n - I second this!

Thanks & also for the testing before by you!

11 minutes ago, 2GodBDGlory said:

One thing I noticed is that the (can't remember the official wording) moderator-assigned nicknames that certain people had been given under their names are no longer there. Is that something that will be re-added eventually? Also, and I think you mentioned something about these, but my special tags are now showing up in a vertical column instead of a horizontal row, which is a somewhat awkward look, I think.

Yeah, some icons are still missing there, and yes you are right, the design was switched to have one icon per row -> we may also adjust this back to the old.

[Murdoch17]

@aFrInaTi0n I thought we were going ad-less in January? I'm getting a metric ton of ads, even with ad blocker on. Google analytics and so on are being blocked by Privacy Badger (my ad blocker), but I'm still seeing ads, which shouldn't be possible. Thoughts?

Edited January 20 by Murdoch17

[Takanuinuva]

Two questions regarding this change.

1. Why does everything look like it's zoomed out slightly?

2. How do I hide top posters in a topic? I'd rather not have it cluttering up a forum I'm reading.

[Yoggington]

Minor issue, in the old version there was the functionality where you could click on the header to return to the main view of the forums.

i.e. clicking anywhere in this area (from any page) was the equivalent of clicking the 'forums' tab also in picture.

[img]https://i.imgur.com/wJCzEgH.jpeg[/img]

Not major as I said, but muscle memory is difficult to retrain.

Also it would seem bbcode for img tags aren't how they used to be.

[aFrInaTi0n]

1 hour ago, Murdoch17 said:

@aFrInaTi0n I thought we were going ad-less in January? I'm getting a metric ton of ads, even with ad blocker on. Google analytics and so on are being blocked by Privacy Badger (my ad blocker), but I'm still seeing ads, which shouldn't be possible. Thoughts?

They employed AI to trick your blocking rules?! Sorry for kidding - I have no clue. Possibly @Jim may answer better than me 

44 minutes ago, Takanuinuva said:

1. Why does everything look like it's zoomed out slightly?

Theme changes from the vendor we inherited from their new default them for the new version.

45 minutes ago, Takanuinuva said:

2. How do I hide top posters in a topic? I'd rather not have it cluttering up a forum I'm reading.

Need to find that out - is it that sidebar on the right? If so -> I possibly only dreamed about back in my endevours of testing this was configureable in the Backend - but my memories may be wrong here. We may check & decide in the staff to hack the box on the right out of the views.

28 minutes ago, Yoggington said:

Minor issue, in the old version there was the functionality where you could click on the header to return to the main view of the forums.

i.e. clicking anywhere in this area (from any page) was the equivalent of clicking the 'forums' tab also in picture.

Also have that identified for myself as a miss - will be fixed in the next days.

29 minutes ago, Yoggington said:

img]https://i.imgur.com/wJCzEgH.jpeg[/img]

Not major as I said, but muscle memory is difficult to retrain.

Also it would seem bbcode for img tags aren't how they used to be.

I should possibly mention that / forgot to do so: We disabled BBcode right away as this will be a future default of new versions from the vendor.

[Jim]

1 hour ago, Murdoch17 said:

@aFrInaTi0n I thought we were going ad-less in January? I'm getting a metric ton of ads, even with ad blocker on. Google analytics and so on are being blocked by Privacy Badger (my ad blocker), but I'm still seeing ads, which shouldn't be possible. Thoughts?

We are not going Ad-less. That is not possible. But we went back to the footer Ad and the two on the sides (the ones we have been showing for years).

We have removed the intrusive Banner and Footer Ads which Google Adsense placed automatically. Which Ads are you still seeing?

[JesseNight]

Nice job, and very happy with the dark mode!

One small thing, the quoted text blocks still seem to have a rather light gray background (with white text), can this be set darker gray? It applies to some other blocks as well like the bar underneath the quick reply with the attachments interface.

One other thing I noticed about dark mode is that every page loads in light mode first, then switches to dark mode. Side effect from going with cookies rather than a theme?

Edited January 20 by JesseNight

[Jim]

39 minutes ago, Yoggington said:

[img]https://i.imgur.com/wJCzEgH.jpeg[/img]

Not major as I said, but muscle memory is difficult to retrain.

Also it would seem bbcode for img tags aren't how they used to be.

Are you referring to when you are making a new post or editing an existing one?

You can simply paste the image url and it will show up as an image. Not sure if that helps.

3 hours ago, dr_spock said:

Is this a new feature?  Post now and register later.

That's interesting. Wasn't aware of the either lol

[Calanon]

Everything is... marginally bigger now? And there's a night mode switch, nice.

Alas, it has broken the images on a (old!) tutorial I had been learning from, luckily I think I'm not too in need of them now.

[Murdoch17]

28 minutes ago, Jim said:

We are not going Ad-less. That is not possible. But we went back to the footer Ad and the two on the sides (the ones we have been showing for years).

We have removed the intrusive Banner and Footer Ads which Google Adsense placed automatically. Which Ads are you still seeing?

One on bottom, two on right side. They also aren't on every page, oddly. It's just strange I wasn't seeing them, now I am and I can't turn them off. It seems more like the update broke my adblocker...

Edited January 20 by Murdoch17

[Jim]

8 minutes ago, Murdoch17 said:

One on bottom, two on right side.

Those are the Ads we have been running for years. And those are the ones we really need to generate some sort of revenue. But those Ads weren't enough to pay the bill for the old hosting, so we turned on the Auto Ads in AdSense (Well, Google did that for us automatically). Those Ads showed up at the top and bottom of the site blocking some of the content. They were really nasty and we got rid of them since the update yesterday. But we will still keep the on at the bottom and the two on the sides, because they are not intrusive and they generate a baseline of income for hosting.

Maybe the Ad blocker doesn't recognize them anymore. Not sure how your blocker works. But I'm sure you will find out.

12 minutes ago, Calanon said:

Alas, it has broken the images on a (old!) tutorial I had been learning from, luckily I think I'm not too in need of them now.

Which ones did it break? We had some anomalies when it comes to uploaded content or content hosted in different folder. Let us know which ones you are missing and we will check it out.

[dr_spock]

There is an option to "insert image from URL"  in the "Other Media" button if pasting the image URL didn't automatically work in the editor.

[Tariq j]

 

2 hours ago, amorti said:

Thanks @aFrInaTi0n - I second this!

Third this too! It’s running a lot faster now. Thank you for the hard work!

[Calanon]

16 minutes ago, Jim said:

Those are the Ads we have been running for years. And those are the ones we really need to generate some sort of revenue. But those Ads weren't enough to pay the bill for the old hosting, so we turned on the Auto Ads in AdSense (Well, Google did that for us automatically). Those Ads showed up at the top and bottom of the site blocking some of the content. They were really nasty and we got rid of them since the update yesterday. But we will still keep the on at the bottom and the two on the sides, because they are not intrusive and they generate a baseline of income for hosting.

Maybe the Ad blocker doesn't recognize them anymore. Not sure how your blocker works. But I'm sure you will find out.

Which ones did it break? We had some anomalies when it comes to uploaded content or content hosted in different folder. Let us know which ones you are missing and we will check it out.

The ones in this post.