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Amiga computer related discussion => General chat about Amiga topics => Topic started by: motorollin on May 17, 2009, 08:17:00 AM
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Thanks to Wayne, Karlos and everyone else involved in making the transition so smooth. Amiga.org is better than ever now!
New avatar to celebrate, featuring my new and improved longer hair :D
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I second that.
The loss of Amiga.org's photo Album is a big loss to me. I do hope the photo data and comments were kept and can be preserved in some way.
Also the lack of an old->new URL redirector is unfortunate. A lot of great links to amazing Amiga.org threads are now dead :(
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Also the lack of an old->new URL redirector is unfortunate. A lot of great links to amazing Amiga.org threads are now dead :(
I think that could be fixed to some extent with mod_rewrite (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/1.3/mod/mod_rewrite.html) magic.
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Yes the loss of the photo gallery is a shame, but I believe the data are backed up so hopefully it can either be migrated to the new system in its entirety, or made available for viewing so people can re-post their own photos in the new system, assuming there's a gallery add-on for VBulletin.
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Fortunately we got, (on AmigaOS4 and Morphos) a CSS capable browser, otherwise with IB and such it would be a mess.
Anyway good looking new layout :-)
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Fortunately we got, (on AmigaOS4 and Morphos) a CSS capable browser, otherwise with IB and such it would be a mess.
Anyway good looking new layout :-)
Anyone tried the mobile version in IBrowse?
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Anyone tried the mobile version in IBrowse?
Just worked out how to get networking running in E-UAE. The standard version looks pretty nasty. I didn't test any functionality. I'm posting this now in iBrowse using the mobile skin. Searching, viewing and replying to threads seems to work perfectly. It's also really quick, though that's in UAE, but it's bound to be quicker even than the old a.org since the mobile version is so lo-fi.
Edit - quotes aren't formatted in the mobile version, so they appear as part of the main text of the reply. Perhaps quotes could be italicised in the mobile skin to make it more obvious that they are separate from the reply?
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The new avatar size constraints have allowed me to use an old one from way back :-)
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120x120 pixels FTW
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Thanks to Wayne, Karlos and everyone else involved in making the transition so smooth. Amiga.org is better than ever now!
I didn't do anything major, really. And what I did do was only possible thanks to Wayne sending me the pm database structures for both systems and some sample data (my own messages, nobody panic) from each one. He didn't have to expend the effort to do that really, considering how much else there was to do.
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The new avatar size constraints have allowed me to use an old one from way back :-)
I knew you'd find your Avatar Graveyard useful. You used to have link to it in your sig. :)
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I didn't do anything major, really
You did more than the rest of us ;)
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Hmmpf... I feel small...
props to Karlos, all my PMs seem to have been saved :-)
-Edit- So the old smilies don't work? :-?
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Hmmpf... I feel small...
Tried a vacuum pump? :p
-Edit- So the old smilies don't work? :-?
No. The "syntax" for smileys in this forum is different, and most of the old ones are gone :(
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Tried a vacuum pump? :p(
B*stard! That's my new LCD I've just sprayed tea all over :mad:
:D
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Besides which, do they even work? I always thought it was a marketing con to extract money from insecure men...
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B*stard! That's my new LCD I've just sprayed tea all over :mad:
:D
You're welcome :p
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Besides which, do they even work? I always thought it was a marketing con to extract money from insecure men...
Dunno mate, I have no need to try one ;)
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Besides which, do they even work? I always thought it was a marketing con to extract money from insecure men...
Do you think anyone is going to really answer that question? :D:D:D
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Do you think anyone is going to really answer that question? :D:D:D
I was hoping somebody might blunder into answering it, yes...
Oh well. The next gaffe trap will have to be a lot more subtle ;)
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(http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/uploads/monthly_08_2008/post-28627-1219610115_thumb.jpg)
"I don't even know what this is! This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby!"
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(http://www.pixel2life.com/forums/uploads/monthly_08_2008/post-28627-1219610115_thumb.jpg)
"I don't even know what this is! This sort of thing ain't my bag, baby!"
LOL! It hasn't taken us long to make the place our own again, has it?
I'd just like to be the first person to say "Socks!"
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SOCKS!..... (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOCKS)
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Smeck, how does this posting lark work then...
It works! Long may you live Amiga.org!
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LOL! It hasn't taken us long to make the place our own again, has it?
Nope! Right back to hijacking threads with inappropriate content. Hurrah!
I'd just like to be the first person to say "Socks!"
Damn, we should have archived that thread in its original form :(
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I'm sure the raw data still exists. After all, some content hasn't been transferred over yet.
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I'm sure the raw data still exists. After all, some content hasn't been transferred over yet.
True, I think the News module is still to be ported over.
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I fell lost with this new style..
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I fell lost with this new style..
It is a bit different, but I'm getting used to it.
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Hmm ... there's definitely something missing!
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/zebeedee/Sprout-717987.jpg)
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To err is human ... to BOING divine!
(http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y116/zebeedee/banned.jpg)
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I'm sure the raw data still exists. After all, some content hasn't been transferred over yet.
I assume the old site has been archived and stored in its original form?
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I assume the old site has been archived and stored in its original form?
Not sure what you mean by "original form". I'm sure the database and uploaded image resources all still exist. After all, there are no "web pages", per se, just the code that generates and serves them.
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Urgh, I need to get used to this.
Call me conservative, but I preferred the old style.
And where are the smileys?
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Not sure what you mean by "original form". I'm sure the database and uploaded image resources all still exist. After all, there are no "web pages", per se, just the code that generates and serves them.
Yeah, i mean the database and the original code... should anyone find an old PHP4 server in a basement, and fire it up... the old one would still run, and be frozen in time... :-)
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Yeah, i mean the database and the original code... should anyone find an old PHP4 server in a basement, and fire it up... the old one would still run, and be frozen in time... :-)
Personally, I'm more for writing scripts to convert as much of the old content as humanly possible :)
MySQL6 and PHP6 are in the offing and v5 has been standard now for years. Unless you host it yourself, serving the old content just isn't going to be feasible.
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Personally, I'm more for writing scripts to convert as much of the old content as humanly possible :)
Off you go then... :) <-right, got the new smilie
MySQL6 and PHP6 are in the offing and v5 has been standard now for years. Unless you host it yourself, serving the old content just isn't going to be feasible.
I just miss the old site.
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I just miss the old site.
Well you can always go here for your fix:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080211130320/http://www.amiga.org/
or even Googles temp cache (http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:AlO2h0WHkOcJ:www.amiga.org/+amiga&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a) while it lasts.
:D
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Thanks to Wayne, Karlos and everyone else involved in making the transition so smooth. Amiga.org is better than ever now!
New avatar to celebrate, featuring my new and improved longer hair :D
He looks like he's very stoned :-S
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Well you can always go here for your fix:
http://web.archive.org/web/20080211130320/http://www.amiga.org/
:D
Ahhhh, seeing that made me all sad inside :(
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He looks like he's very stoned :-S
Nope, he's tired and fed up with studying!
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Nope, he's tired and fed up with studying!
Okay?
I guess mainly because of the lengthy travel times?
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Nope, he's tired and fed up with studying!
Eats badly into stoner time, ey? :D
*ducks*
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Okay?
I guess mainly because of the lengthy travel times?
Partly, but mainly because of the relentless pressure and never-ending workload.
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Eats badly into stoner time, ey? :D
*ducks*
At this rate, it's more likely to drive me to take it up!
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Partly, but mainly because of the relentless pressure and never-ending workload.
Well travelling times increase that pressure tremendously. People don't take that into consideration. But be glad someone's home for you to help you with the rest. :-)
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You're right, the travelling doesn't help but at least the time on the train is time I can spend reading or working on an assignment. And currently, my other half is legitimising a weekend off. Not sure that's helping with the workload, but I do feel a bit better after a couple of days off. (Feel extremely guilty though...)
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Heh, yes I know I know.
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Wow. This seems like a brand new site. Works ok with OWB 3.12. Haven't tried any other browser yet. I hope some of the other goodies are brought online soon.
Thanks to all involved with the move.
redfox
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Not sure that's helping with the workload
It sure does. Taking your brain off of something enables the brain to process everything, and next time you work on things you'll be a gazillion times faster :-)
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Glad to see nothing has changed ;)
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Wow! Whats happening? Im a bit scared! I hope the nice feel of the old site is going to remain. Good luck with the move!
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It sure does. Taking your brain off of something enables the brain to process everything, and next time you work on things you'll be a gazillion times faster :-)
Thanks Speel, that makes me feel a bit better :)
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I hope the nice feel of the old site is going to remain.
The feel of the site is a product of its members, not what the site looks like. So I think it's fair to say that nothing much is going to change!
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I feel a bit lost in the new amiga.org
There is no portal with gallery and news?
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I feel a bit lost in the new amiga.org
There is no portal with gallery and news?
It's all on the way. You've just got to be a bit patient. ;)
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I am not one for change. I definately prefered the old system.
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I am not one for change. I definately prefered the old system.
I for one am SOOOO tired of repeatedly answering the same exact questions ad nauseum.
I'm sure if any one of the people complaining would actually bother to read the myriad of posts on the subject BEFORE going out of their way to make me feel that this is all pointless, you would find the answers to your questions.
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At the end of the day, if Wayne et al. hadn't gone to the trouble of making the changes, then amiga.org may well not have been here for much longer. So stop whingeing that you don't like the look of the site an be grateful it still exists :roll:
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having been use to the old site for so long now,
i think this new site is actualy better laid out :-D
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Thanks Speel, that makes me feel a bit better :)
Good.
But it's the truth though, I know it from a remedial teacher.
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Those of you upset over "the death of Amiga.org" and those of you who might have bookmarked "www.amiga.org/forums" should hit the Home tab, or click on the Amiga.org logo above.
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Great, its getting better and better.
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Yes, better than the early beta. Keep up the good work !
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Nice main page :)
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@Wayne
Great! Now we can see on the front page when OS5 launches! Yay! ;)
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The new site does not look right with the latest AWeb browser on my AmigaDOS 3.9 Amithlon machine. Unless, a CSS enabled browser comes out for my Amiga, I will be forced to view Amiga.org on my PC or Mac.
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@Wayne
Looking good. :D
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redfox
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@Wayne
Great! Now we can see on the front page when OS5 launches! Yay! ;)
Just to break the tension, I'll have to point out that if OS 5 *ever* launches, I may just have to eat my proverbial hat. Not that any of us will survive that long...
:-)
Wayne
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Just wanted to say congrats on moving so much content to a new system. There's some flaws with Mozilla Firefox on a Windoze machine: The login fields are displayed about one character wide, and it looks like I have to click on the "quick reply" button twice in order to get to a "your message is too short"-message that finally opens up an editor box.
Way to go, but it's the right way. Thumbs up!
Jens
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Just wanted to say congrats on moving so much content to a new system. There's some flaws with Mozilla Firefox on a Windoze machine: The login fields are displayed about one character wide, and it looks like I have to click on the "quick reply" button twice in order to get to a "your message is too short"-message that finally opens up an editor box.
Way to go, but it's the right way. Thumbs up!
Jens
Thanks Jens,
I'll certainly look into it, but wonder if you might e-mail me a screenshot, along with your version numbers for Firefox/etc. I'm mac'd here, so can't test with a PC.
Wayne
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Just wanted to say congrats on moving so much content to a new system. There's some flaws with Mozilla Firefox on a Windoze machine: The login fields are displayed about one character wide, and it looks like I have to click on the "quick reply" button twice in order to get to a "your message is too short"-message that finally opens up an editor box.
Way to go, but it's the right way. Thumbs up!
Jens
Weird. It isn't doing that for me running the 3.5 RC4 beta of Firefox on my XP machine...
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Wayne,
seems to be fixed with a page reload. I totally lost frames/tables/colours here and posted in a black&white enviroment with a funny "back" button on the top left and a "menu" button on the top right, which opened up an overlay menu. Weird, indeed, yes.
Jens
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@Wayne
I'm absolutely furious that the "Who's Online" box is now on the left, and that there's a calendar where it used to be. Please fix this immediately or I will be *forced* to view amiga.org in a mirror, or register an account on aw.net.
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@Wayne
I'm absolutely furious that the "Who's Online" box is now on the left, and that there's a calendar where it used to be. Please fix this immediately or I will be *forced* to register an account on aw.net.
It's rather hard to take you seriously with the stoned look on your southpark face.. :)
Wayne
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Oh I'm serious alright. At least as serious as your Cheesus avatar :p
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OK, this might not be a bug:
When I enter the site, I can see the left and right sections with all the navigation stuff, but as soon as I open a topic in the forums, the table-structure disappears and the forum display takes up the whole screen width. Is this intentional?
Jens
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Is this intentional?
Yes actually, but it is subject to change as is everything else.
The issue being that vBulletin (the forum package) is two columns while the newly installed front end is 3. Since when you log in, you're actually authenticating to vBulletin, it automatically pulls up the forums page.
Looking for a workaround, but that might just be "the way it is".
Wayne
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Posting with IBrowse OEM-Version 2.4 as supplied with OS4. As expected the website looks different, but links are usable and login and posting fine. :D
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redfox
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Awesome work lads!
:D
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Posting with AWebPPC ( aka AWeb APL Lite 3.5.09 (May 28 2007) OS4.0 PPC ).
QuickReply feature gave me trouble with IBrowse and AWeb, but using the general Reply to Thread button works fine.
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redfox
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Posting with AWebPPC ( aka AWeb APL Lite 3.5.09 (May 28 2007) OS4.0 PPC ).
QuickReply feature gave me trouble with IBrowse and AWeb, but using the general Reply to Thread button works fine.
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redfox
I think the quick reply function uses a lot of javascript. Not really suitable for older browsers. But as you mentioned, the proper reply button works fine though so no real loss. Personally I never use Quick reply.
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@Wayne
Posting with NetSurf 2.0 (23 Apr 2009) graphics.library version, the last of my "amiga" web browers.
So far amiga.org looks great on OWB 3.13 and this version of NetSurf. Posting also fine with these browsers.
As expected, IBrowse and AWeb have a few problems, but still functional, at least on my system.
Great work Wayne. Looking fine so far.
Thanks,
redfox
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I think the quick reply function uses a lot of javascript. Not really suitable for older browsers. But as you mentioned, the proper reply button works fine though so no real loss. Personally I never use Quick reply.
Thanks GadgetMaster
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redfox
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I just wanted to say thanks for the hard work people have put in porting amiga.org to the new content system and moderating the site over the years.
I may not post as often as some other amiga.org users but I would have missed amiga.org if it went as I find amiga.org the best place to talk about running 68k software on my A1200s and my minimig.
The new look also works quite well even if it dose look a little different from the old look we have all become accustomed too.