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Pictures are back video links are not.But i think you are doing a great job Gerry 
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BUG REPORTS DISCUSSION -- for new forum
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Pictures are back video links are not.But i think you are doing a great job Gerry 
Anyways..congratulations on the new look to the page.I can imagine alot of work went into this..and i respect that 100 percent!Viking toast
Just a little bit of work .... and it’s only started.
I think I can pretty easily fix the embedded video link issue, but I have one thing to resolve before I do that. Hopefully I can get the video links fixed by the end of the weekend, if not before. It shouldn't be difficult, I did the same thing on the old forum.hacking did wonders
It's already been implemented.Oooooo. That would be cool!
Another item: Can image insertion be defaulted to thumbnails? The page load time was several MINUTES on this new thread due to a few dozen high-res images being inserted in-line:
SOLD - 1994 E500, Anthracite Grey/Grey, 135kmi, $25k (Long Beach, CA) | Cars for Sale - 500E / E500 ONLY
Gents, I am sad to say it is time for my beloved 500 to find a new home. I am the 3rd owner of this Anthracite Grey (172) car with Grey interior. The original owner was a lawyer in Beverly Hills, CA and the 2nd owner is currently a Judge at the Pebble Beach Concours D'Elegance. I purchased this...www.500eboard.co
Worse yet, I don't see an easy way to fix it. When I edit the thread and try to change all to thumbnails, the thumbnails appear to insert below the full-size images.
Problem is, even if limited to 3MB, the same issue remains... deathly slow load times. That's why on VB, I would always change people's inline images to attachments - page loads 10x faster when there are a lot of pics. Long page load times is very high on my list of pet peeves with any forum, or any web page for that matter.
This has now been fixed.
You can fix this by going into (editing) a post and removing all of the displayed images inline (but NOT the attachments) if they are full-size. Then you can specify all of the attached images to display either as thumbnails, or full-size images. If clicked, a thumbnail image will expand into the "lightbox" display.
See the post you linked to for the tweak that I describe above.
I have it set so that any linked images in future posts, which are then automatically downloaded and captured on the server (much like the tweak I'd done to the old server, which has caused some issues after the migration here), are automatically displayed as thumbnail images once stored on the XenForo server. We'll see if this tweak works.
In any case, I think the issue has generally been solved.
In the meantime, if you could get into the 21st Century and get off the circa 1997 56K US Robotics dial-up modem, since you don't have a cell phone to display images that way, it would be very helpful. I know that your Windows NT doesn't necessarily need high data speeds, but a lot of stuff these days actually DOES.
Gerry,
Are the image locations (URL) in a MYSQL database table? If so, I might be able to put together a script that will allow you to do a mass modify to the URL if you can drop all the images in one directory on the new server.
I.e change http::/500eboard.com/images/* to http://500eboard.com/oldimages/*
Let me know if this makes sense.
The images are not stored in the database, but are stored in the file system...... in a folder on the server (also on the old server, same file structure).
I'm going to have to write a redirect script and put it in the .htaccess file at the root of the old server's forum root folder. That way any incoming requests will get redirected back to the same file, on this server. We have already proxied more than 3,200 files from the old server, so they are steadily accumulating. All proxied images are being stored permanently on this server.
I was traveling all of this week, so did not have a lot of time to work on this.
if you want to take a stab at it, that's great.
The draft php script I'd created, but not implemented, to do this is:
Redirect “/images/imported/” "https://www.500eboard.co/forums/data/imported/”
I'm going to have to write a redirect script and put it in the .htaccess file at the root of the old server's forum root folder. That way any incoming requests will get redirected back to the same file, on this server. We have already proxied more than 3,200 files from the old server, so they are steadily accumulating. All proxied images are being stored permanently on this server.
I was traveling all of this week, so did not have a lot of time to work on this.
if you want to take a stab at it, that's great.
The draft php script I'd created, but not implemented, to do this is:
Redirect “/images/imported/” "https://www.500eboard.co/forums/data/imported/”
I killed a MAJOR problem just now, that was preventing the system from fully indexing all of the posts and threads for the built-in search engine. It's been fixed, and I was able to successfully index everything.
The built-in search engine should work a bit better now.
I will start tackling troubleshooting for the Gonzo "elasticsearch" search engine soon. One of the issues with it at the moment, is that the logstash process (part of the elasticsearch bundle) is using 150-200% of processing power, when it should perhaps be using 3-10% at most.
wish I hade the edit button, I only have "report" for other people's posts.
We have seemed to have dozens of people freaking out, wigging, and going postal about the "old" 500Eboard site not working.
Of course, they have not bothered to pay any attention to the ample warning that has been provided on the other forum, about the migration, the new URL for the site, and associated changes.
My e-mail, PMs, instant messages, text messages, phone have literally been BLOWING UP for the past week with people accusing me of "breaking" the site, wondering what has been happening, and so forth.
I've finally had to create a quick and dirty web page to inform the laggards about what is happening. Hopefully this will stanch the flow of communications where people are completely freaked out.
https://www.500eboard.com
https://www.500eboard.com/forums
In addition to plenty of warning and transparency about what was happening on the other site, many days ahead of the migration, I have also sent out AFTER the migration both an e-mail and a "private message" to all registered users of this site. And I still get "freak-outs".
Not sure what else I can do, but creating this HTML page is my last resort. All further "what did you do to 500Eboard?!?!?!?!?!" freak-out communications will be ignored and deleted.
Of course, they have not bothered to pay any attention to the ample warning that has been provided on the other forum, about the migration, the new URL for the site, and associated changes.
My e-mail, PMs, instant messages, text messages, phone have literally been BLOWING UP for the past week with people accusing me of "breaking" the site, wondering what has been happening, and so forth.
I've finally had to create a quick and dirty web page to inform the laggards about what is happening. Hopefully this will stanch the flow of communications where people are completely freaked out.
https://www.500eboard.com
https://www.500eboard.com/forums
In addition to plenty of warning and transparency about what was happening on the other site, many days ahead of the migration, I have also sent out AFTER the migration both an e-mail and a "private message" to all registered users of this site. And I still get "freak-outs".
Not sure what else I can do, but creating this HTML page is my last resort. All further "what did you do to 500Eboard?!?!?!?!?!" freak-out communications will be ignored and deleted.
Yep, it's the right thread. Looks like something that JC did when attaching/pasting images on the old forum didn't translate well in the migration. Don't know why, and from what I've seen only his posts have this problem. Don't really know what to do about it, but at some point I could probably switch out the images. I need to "fix" the old forum to bring it back up, so that I can access stuff.
Gerry, have you tried to merge duplicate threads yet? We use this all the time when someone doesn't search by VIN and re-posts a car for sale. OMG... what a freaking nightmare. Major miss by the XF team, IMO. I had to Google how to do it, and the answer posted by a XF developer was nearly useless except for letting me know it was somehow still possible.
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/merging-threads.152829/
tourmeister's recommendation in post #4 above is 100% correct and apparently fell on deaf ears.
https://xenforo.com/community/threads/merging-threads.152829/
tourmeister's recommendation in post #4 above is 100% correct and apparently fell on deaf ears.
Glen, can you expand directly on the behavior that you are experiencing, as opposed to what you want to see (or experienced on the old forum)? It's highly likely that I can configure things on this forum to re-create the behavior that you want, or what was found on the vBulletin site. I am honestly just not understanding what you are referencing. A step by step description of what you would click -- and see -- would be helpful.
Thanks
Gerry
Dave, it's not a major miss that I know of -- it's a configuration issue on my part that I have not gone through and completed. There is A LOT of small config issues for the forums that I'm seeing, and I'm going to have to go through with a fine toothed comb and fix them.
BTW, if you were using Tapatalk, you would be an Admin there and the merging is exceedingly easy to do on a phone. But unfortunately, you are still pre-cell-phone.
So, take this thread that we are in (BUG REPORTS DISCUSSION -- for new forum)...I would like to see the newest posts at the top of the page instead of at the bottom. Basically, the reverse of how posts are displayed now, newest posts at the bottom. So, if this post was the the most recent, it would show up at the top. Does that make sense?
Hi Glen,
I get it now. Unfortunately, unlike vBulletin 3.x and 4.x, which give you that option in the User Preferences so you can customize your forum thread display, you can't do this in the XenForo User Preferences.
It is technically possible to do this, but I have to go in and modify some code, and I am trying to minimize that when possible. This is because all code modifications have to be re-created every time the forum software gets updated, if they are incompatible (and this happens).
I will work on getting an "Add-On" that does this, which doesn't require as much messing around when the forum software is updated by XenForo, and will report back when this is done. I'll add it to the "bug list" for now.
BTW, was this the same thing that Bogeyman said he wanted to see (which is already on the Bug List)?
Thanks Gerry. It's not that important just a preference I like. Don't put too much effort into making it happen, there are plenty of other things that are more important. And yes, I believe it's the same thing Bogeyman wanted.
Next Whiny Complaint:
The VB image attachment box popped out conveniently to a separate window, and allowed up to 10 images/URL's to be uploaded at a time. When uploading 100+ images (or even a couple dozen), this was extremely helpful.
XF seems to only allow 1 image/URL to be uploaded at a time, and since it doesn't pop out to a separate window, you can't Alt-Tab back & forth quickly between the source and destination. Is this a configuration, or another XF hard-coded "feature"?
Example - this car for sale has 216 images:
https://www.500eboard.co/forums/ind...l-black-black-leather-92kmi-neptune-nj.13001/
Normally I would upload all of them (or, almost all, I don't upload images which are nearly identical to each other where the foo-tographer moved 10 inches and re-shot the same pic). How can I batch-upload large numbers of pics like we could in VB?
DITOG no grok.
The VB image attachment box popped out conveniently to a separate window, and allowed up to 10 images/URL's to be uploaded at a time. When uploading 100+ images (or even a couple dozen), this was extremely helpful.
XF seems to only allow 1 image/URL to be uploaded at a time, and since it doesn't pop out to a separate window, you can't Alt-Tab back & forth quickly between the source and destination. Is this a configuration, or another XF hard-coded "feature"?
Example - this car for sale has 216 images:
https://www.500eboard.co/forums/ind...l-black-black-leather-92kmi-neptune-nj.13001/
Normally I would upload all of them (or, almost all, I don't upload images which are nearly identical to each other where the foo-tographer moved 10 inches and re-shot the same pic). How can I batch-upload large numbers of pics like we could in VB?
DITOG no grok.
This statement is 100% NOT CORRECT.
There are actually THREE WAYS to attach images to a post. Two of these ways allow multiple (as many as desired) images to be uploaded at a time. The third method (drag and drop) only allows one image at a time, but is pretty convenient.
For the first method:
In a post, you click on the "Insert Image" (CTRL-P shortcut) icon in the toolbar.
You will see this box pop up.
Click in the box, and your computer will go to a Finder (Mac) or File Manager (Winblows) menu.
From there you can select however many files/images that you want, and the system will automatically upload them from there.
For the second method:
You can also drag and drop one file at a time into the box shown above.
For the third method:
You can use the "Attach files" button below, and specify as many images/files as you want to be inserted. They will automatically load themselves once you specify them.
How in the heck do you think I have been uploading images en masse into the Gallery Photo Albums over the past few days? I do one album at a time, no matter whether it has one, or 100, images inside the photo album.
Cheers,
Gerry
P.S. This capability is again, superior to vBulletin. I had vBulletin configured for its maximum of 10 images to be uploaded, and each image required a separate operation to add it to the list and then to upload the group. In contrast, XenForo allows many dozens of images to be uploaded in a single operation, saving significant time and clicks in the process.
Click the button, and then click the URL link icon in the window that pops up:
Then you fill in the URL, as with the example below from your site:
When you click "Insert" -- it will put the specified image right in line in the post where the cursor is.
You can only insert one image at a time from a URL, unlike vBulletin, which allowed up to 10 (a drawback for XF). The flip-side is that you get granular control of where each URL-loaded image is placed in the post.
Personally, I never used the "upload from URL" feature in vBulletin, I don't think even one time.
That's what I was afraid of.
I use the "Upload by URL" almost exclusively. It's how probably more than half of the photos on the forum were uploaded, especially in the E500E Cars For Sale subforum. The vast majority of cars for sale are listed on some other site, and we archive those photos to the forum.
It's here -- all forums came across. I guess I have more work to do with regard to permissions configuration.....Someone just pointed out that the "press / magazine articles subforum" is MIA... did the link get misplaced in the migration?
I don't have an answer for that yet, but from what I know, you can only upload one image from URL at a time, vs. as many as desired when they physically are on the computer.
What I would do (and what I used to do on the old forum) was right-click each image to my hard drive, and then attach each one. It's not too much effort to right-click an image to save it locally. When you do this, then it's MUCH easier and quicker to highlight the images locally that you want to upload, and it's done straightaway.
Again, it's a different way of doing things -- not any worse or better IMHO.
I will continue to do more research on this, and see what can be done.
Following up on this ... permissions look fine and appropriate, and equivalent for this sub-forum to the previous forum. Not everyone gets access to this sub-forum.Someone just pointed out that the "press / magazine articles subforum" is MIA... did the link get misplaced in the migration?
I just tested this out and everything is 100% fine. I have test accounts with "Registered User" and also "Trusted User" status, and both are showing as appropriate as they should.
So, I don't know where you got that info, but if you want to have the member who flagged it to you, please contact me, then I will troubleshoot their permissions.
You're going to have to right-click them to a folder on your hard drive, and then highlight all of them in one batch, and then click "Upload"
In all honestly, this is probably less work -- or at most the same amount of work -- as doing it with your URL way (with the vBulletin max setting of only 10 at a time) and manually pasting URLs, and switching between windows each time.
Each image to right click to a hard drive would be one click to highlight, and one click (or ENTER PRESS) to save it, then move on to the next one.
When all 10 (or 200) images are saved, then you just use SHIFT or CTRL to highlight the ones to be uploaded, and Upload them en masse, one shot.
Gerry, can you post a screenshot of where this forum is located in the main page? I see press article forums for AMG, 400E, and 126... but not 500E. It's possible I'm blind and just can't find what's in front of my face, but a screenshot would confirm... thanks!
Is that better?Yep, I don't have that "FULL MEMBERS ONLY" section appearing at all... apparently some other Señor Members don't either. Could you look into the permissions? Thank you sir!
Uploaded any images lately?
yes - thanks! I can access the verboten content now.
Just the screenshot above.
Haven't tried to upload large quantities yet.
Another possible issue, related to this thread:
https://www.500eboard.co/forums/index.php?threads/mb-celebrates-an-e500-double-anniversary.12986/
It seems the search function is not finding the above thread, for example search "Jalopnik Porsche" and it's MIA in the results:
https://www.500eboard.co/forums/index.php?search/619/&q=jalopnik+porsche&o=date
Even in Advanced Search, there are no results. I think this is why multiple people posted the same link(s), because if they did search, nothing was found.
https://www.500eboard.co/forums/index.php?threads/mb-celebrates-an-e500-double-anniversary.12986/
It seems the search function is not finding the above thread, for example search "Jalopnik Porsche" and it's MIA in the results:
https://www.500eboard.co/forums/index.php?search/619/&q=jalopnik+porsche&o=date
Even in Advanced Search, there are no results. I think this is why multiple people posted the same link(s), because if they did search, nothing was found.
Apologies if this has been reported already (or alternatively if its as intended and NOT a bug). I noticed that the way owner thread titles appear in tapatalk has changed. Previously, the title was something like ‘OWNER: Xxx’. Now it appears to simply be ‘Xxx’ which can be a little uninformative depending on the user name. See below for an example of Brownan’s new owner thread:
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