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[GPGeorge]

Jon - I appreciate how much work the upgrade is and understand the reasoning behind doing completely, but I would really like the ignore thread add-on back as a priority! Pretty please

I'm done with the inundation of posts from the non-technical forums that seem to dominate the New Posts these days. I can find that stuff on my own. Please get the ignore thread/forum function back as soon as practical.

 

[Gasman]

I'm done with the inundation of posts from the non-technical forums that seem to dominate the New Posts these days. I can find that stuff on my own. Please get the ignore thread/forum function back as soon as practical.

Yes, I have never used 'Mark Forums Read' button so much in my period here, since the upgrade.

 

[Jon]

Has anyone else had issues with the Search function?

I have found it next to useless since the upgrade (and very good before)

Doing a search with my username and single terms like 'listbox' or 'mysql' yields 'No results found.'

I did get a couple of hits using keyword 'form', but they seemed very recent - perhaps the full-text index needs to be re-built?

Most addons, including search, are not yet implemented.

 

[cheekybuddha]

Most addons, including search, are not yet implemented.

I hadn't realised that search was an addon!

Seems like it ought to be a pretty integral part of forum software!

Thanks for the info

 

[Jon]

Basic search is, but I paid for enhanced search.

 

[Gasman]

@Jon,
Might be wise to record the steps you are taking now?, for the next time?

 

[Jon]

The upgrades are infrequent. But apparently, the next upgrade involves significant changes to everything, so I am not even sure if I will do that upgrade or not. It all depends on the supposed benefits it brings.

 

[Gasman]

Sounds like a testbed would be required for that.

 

[Jon]

Sounds like a testbed would be required for that.

In an ideal world. But it is not quite so simple. For example, I pay several hundreds of dollars per year for something called litespeed, which helps speed up the site. If I have a testbed, I might need another license for that. I don't know.

 

[Jon]

Has anyone else had issues with the Search function?

I have found it next to useless since the upgrade (and very good before)

Doing a search with my username and single terms like 'listbox' or 'mysql' yields 'No results found.'

I did get a couple of hits using keyword 'form', but they seemed very recent - perhaps the full-text index needs to be re-built?

Enhanced search now enabled.

 

[cheekybuddha]

Enhanced search now enabled.

 

[cheekybuddha]

If I have a testbed, I might need another license for that. I don't know

Litespeed allows unlimited sub-domains on all its licence plans, so you can set up a test domain, e.g. staging.access-programmers.co.uk and test side by side

 

[Jon]

Litespeed allows unlimited sub-domains on all its licence plans, so you can set up a test domain, e.g. staging.access-programmers.co.uk and test side by side

There is an issue of licenses for 20 odd other plugins too. And I would need to upgrade hosting because of the space required for the database and files. But this is all a mute point. There is no v3.0 for the foreseeable future and we may not upgrade to it anyway. We haven't even finished upgrading 2.3 changes yet.

If I do it under localhost, then I get the litespeed license issue.

 

[Jon]

Ignore forums now working again.

 

[Jon]

Sticky threads separation also working now.

 

[Jon]

Members local time now showing.

 

[Jon]

Top Posters of the Month now working.

 

[Jon]

Collapsible categories now enabled.

 

[Jon]

User activity now showing in index page view, as it was before the site upgrade.

 

[NauticalGent]

It's a shame the prior settings can't be brought over so you don't have to go through this nut roll...but, I thank you for your diligence and preserverice.