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I'm not overly worried about the new users creating threads Tegal, it's the spammers that really need to be stopped.

How hard is it to add the email authorisation step to sign up? As far as I know this deters the spambots reasonably well.

home page of forums aint working for me. not sure how long its been doing that as I usually don't go to that page

I've just made a couple updates to the forum software. One of those is enabling what's called "turbolinks" (basically we don't reload some stuff every page load, instead we do it over AJAX - more on github if you're keen).

Only works if you have a pushState capable browser - Chrome, Safari, IE10+, Firefox 4+ (most likely a few others too).

I'm pretty confident this won't break anything, but if you notice any JS errors or anything weird happening, let me know.

More to come!

Chrome is doing some weird stuff man. Basically if you push the back button on your page, the page flickers the dates flicker (between 'yesterday' and 15 april) and the amount of new posts listed goes scrolling down the screen. i.e. instead of seeing "1 new post' you see it scrolled down the screen a few times under each other.

Also the page when it loads, goes to the very top of the last page when clicking on the new replies link

Yeah don't hit back in Chrome (mac). It was still going - the page hung

Did we upgrade to Rails 4?

That's really odd, I'm using Chrome too and I don't get that. What version are you guys using?

25.0.1

Also was the site down for a while? Just came back up for me.

Ah, I know what this is... I'll get it fixed.

I'm finding the links to the 'new posts' are not taking me to the post.

In the Film Recommendation thread, I have 1 new post. The link on '1 new post' is - http://forums.yellowfever.co.nz/posts/854502

But it takes me to http://forums.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/off-topic/topics/film-recommendation?page=31

The correct link for be http://forums.yellowfever.co.nz/categories/off-topic/topics/film-recommendation?page=31#post_854502

Ryan's Rovers - on it.

Everyone else - the duplicate bug is fixed now. How we feeling about the new snappy shininess?

Apologies for the intermittent downtime today guys. I'm getting a few things set up (Percona tools for MySQL) so we shouldn't have those issues ongoing. Can't promise we won't have more downtime but I'm doing my best to avoid it!

I have to say Nick, it is a lot snappier. Definitely noticed.

Agreed it seems much improved :) Excellent work

Yep, working on the "New Posts" thing. It's actually been a bug for a while, just a nasty one to fix :)

Happens to me too occasionally. What keyboard are you using? It happens to me with SwiftKey.

Buy an iPhone :)

i know its been said plenty before, but wellnik = legend

Did it come with 3-d glasses?

The bloody 'blank last page' fault...

Correct. Nik and I are working on a better way to handle the paging which should fix this problem. 

Ability to Paste gone.  Loui with W Cup 

Can Paston fix it? He's an IT specialist is he not?

Can we get PMing on this ver of the MB?

Fix the forum so we can have a better experience while we slag him off?

I found that far too funny...

patrick478 wrote:

Lonegunmen wrote:

Can we get PMing on this ver of the MB?

It's on the list.

Cheers.

So much spamming recently. 

Forum could almost qualify as a Monty Python skit.

I DON'T LIKE SPAM!