Upgrade Discussion/Feedback/Problems

***craig5320*** · Aug 20, 2007, 05:21 PM

Report any feedback issues etc here, please try and keep it sensible and provide as much information as possible, and we'll try and respond as soon as possible.

Thanks

Craig

OldBuzzard · Aug 20, 2007, 05:48 PM

Looks pretty good, and a lot faster to loadup here.

At one time you made a change so that the 'mini popup review' for each thread would only showup when you rolled over the actual link. Now it's back to showing up any time you are anywhere in the box. Could you go back to the 'rollover on link only' if it's not too much problem?

Also I just noticed that here in the reply window that some smileys are missing

= Mad!,

= Big Grin

= Rolleyes!,

= Wink,

= Frown,

= Confused

Also I'm using IE7 at 1024x768 and with the font SIZE at largest, the right side of the 'smily area' is cutoff. If I drop the SIZE down to smaller or smallest it comes back into view. That's ok for the 'Kids' I guess, but some of us 'Old Farts' need the larger size

Rayder · Aug 20, 2007, 05:52 PM

Maybe this is just a temporary problem, but only the default theme is working. I always use MidnightHeaven

OldBuzzard · Aug 20, 2007, 06:06 PM

When I came in it was on the default, but I just went to the bottom of the page and changed to BlueHeaven, and I'm using it now, and when I made the last post.

***craig5320*** · Aug 20, 2007, 06:09 PM

Midnight should be selectable from the style menu, if you're on the index and it's giving you 404 make sure you put index.php before the "?styleid=61" seems to be an issue with the rewriting software.

As for broken images i'm still waiting for the domain to fully propogate so I'm getting issues here and there, once it's fully working I'll troubleshoot any missing icons and such, altho the smileys are appearing for me.

Thanks

**temeteus82** · Aug 20, 2007, 07:15 PM

show new post link is missing in forum index and so does mark all read link...

Maddogg6 · Aug 20, 2007, 07:25 PM

Just FYI...
If you have a problem with skins ... try removing the DH cookie thats is 'bbstyleid' - it fixed my problem of skin selection not sticking...

BlueMak · Aug 21, 2007, 12:23 AM

I had to change to one of the older styles due to one little but annoying thing. The colour of threads that have new posts is too similar to those that don't. It requires extra effort for me and I just can't be arsed to.
Speed wise is fine.

Dyre Straits · Aug 21, 2007, 12:31 AM

Not all the smilies are showing up. I'm seeing maybe 80% of them and others are just place holders. Using Midnight Heaven theme if that helps any.

Dyre Straits · Aug 21, 2007, 02:57 AM

Craig, if you go to the options just below the second AD, and select SEARCH, the AD takes priority over the search input. We had a similar situation previously. Any corrections in sight?

EDIT: BTW, that's from within the Forums and the Forums listing.

CDsDontBurn · Aug 21, 2007, 03:20 AM

i can't select any theme i want aside from the default tech heaven theme.

that happened on both ie7 and FF

winXP sp2

and some of the smileys didn't show up for me either on old buzzard's post. but it could that the server is populating like you said though.

Tipstaff · Aug 21, 2007, 09:22 AM

Guys... love the multi-quote option. Brilliant idea. That one bloody button saves me a ton of copy/pasting, and a crap load of organizing quotes and responses in the right order. I mean, all I do is click on the multi-quote button for each post I want to quote, and in the order I want them to be in, then hit quote on the final one, and bam.. it's all taken care of.

Whomever came up with that one give yourself a pat on the back.

CDsDontBurn · Aug 21, 2007, 09:46 AM

so, i can select midnight heaven now as my theme, but as soon as i go to another page, it will go back to the default theme.

RoyBatty · Aug 21, 2007, 10:01 AM

CDs: Look in your profile options, I had the default theme selected after the upgrade and I had to change it back to Midnight.

mkk · Aug 21, 2007, 11:00 AM

Nice upgrade altogether.

I liked the colors of the old Cyborgheaven skin.

I was going to mention some remaining slowness likely related to page layout based on my experience yesterday, but right now everything loads fast.

Knock on wood.

geraldmango · Aug 21, 2007, 12:15 PM

speed is great. however my friend couldn't join up, he said it took him to a newmemberphp page but didnt send out the email.

also i have noticed if you aren't logged in and hit the gamingheaven button at the top of the site you go to www.gamingheaven.net but its still the driverheaven front page ?

phantommenace2 · Aug 21, 2007, 03:03 PM

the PureHeaven skin is no longer available...it is no longer listed as an option under the skin listings...any way of bringing it back as that was my favorite skin

Maddogg6 · Aug 21, 2007, 05:05 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

so, i can select midnight heaven now as my theme, but as soon as i go to another page, it will go back to the default theme.

I had this too (I posted my solution above) - delete the Driverheaver.net 'bbstyleid' cookie.

mike2h · Aug 21, 2007, 05:40 PM

thx for all your work guys, definetly faster.

CDsDontBurn · Aug 21, 2007, 05:45 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Maddogg6

I had this too (I posted my solution above) - delete the Driverheaver.net 'bbstyleid' cookie.

so, i went ahead and deleted all my cookies, and now whenever i go to select any other theme besides the default theme, i get a "page 404" error.

Judas · Aug 21, 2007, 06:08 PM

looking good (i've been trying since last night.. every once in a bleu moon, and actually this morning roughly every hour).....

everything JUST came up for me.

RoyBatty · Aug 21, 2007, 06:24 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

so, i went ahead and deleted all my cookies, and now whenever i go to select any other theme besides the default theme, i get a "page 404" error.

What theme do you have selected in the user CP? Like I said a few posts earlier I've had the same theme problems and I fixed it by setting back the Midnight theme in the User CP - options (it was reset to default after the upgrade). Maybe this will fix it for you too.
(I did not delete any cookies

)

Judas · Aug 21, 2007, 06:25 PM

<~patiently waiting for "view recent posts"

Maddogg6 · Aug 21, 2007, 06:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CDsDontBurn

so, i went ahead and deleted all my cookies, and now whenever i go to select any other theme besides the default theme, i get a "page 404" error.

I only deleted the one cookie - and it worked fine for me... ??? same exact symptom.

Quote:

I've had the same theme problems and I fixed it by setting back the Midnight theme in the User CP - options (it was reset to default after the upgrade). Maybe this will fix it for you too.

I had tried this and it didnt work... it always went back to the default skin.

edit:
Maybe an ad blocker is now interfering - or cookie saving *was* enabled when first visiting DH - then turned off, possibly.. ??

**temeteus82** · Aug 21, 2007, 06:33 PM

Judas: there is New Posts link in the top nav bar, the same bar where User CP and other links are. (At least in TechHeaven)
CD: when you get the 404 type index.php after .net/?(theme-id) (or manually delete all cookies

)

CDsDontBurn · Aug 21, 2007, 06:39 PM

w00t~! midnight is back

.

and to all that have suggested stuff for me to try: i attempted to make the changes on the front page, in the user CP, on this page, and several other pages as well. i had deleted all my cookies after not finding the "bbstyleid" cookie in the cookie folder.

PangingJr · Aug 21, 2007, 06:44 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Judas

looking good (i've been trying since last night.. every once in a bleu moon, and actually this morning roughly every hour).....

everything JUST came up for me.

some hours ago i had to substitute regular address of the www.hardwareheaven.com/ with 209.62.83.38/
if you did the same you could visit this site for some time already. however, your log on/cookie will not work (unless you hack the old cookie data).

if you still have a problem viewing this site, try adding this below line to your HOST file,
www.hardwareheaven.com 209.62.83.38
after that if you have set Dnscache service at Enabled, restart the service, and see if this helps.

MrSpock2002 · Aug 21, 2007, 06:46 PM

Speed is great, big improvment. But the names are in this huge 14pt or 16pt font... Which is fugly. That's all I see that is wrong.

Dyre Straits · Aug 21, 2007, 08:58 PM

I've encountered other problems today on my main rig and am now using the backup rig. I've done the "ipconfig /flushdns" successfully, deleted all cookies, signed in to DH and then tried twice now to select Midnight Heaven from the bottom of the screen option. When I do, I get a Not Available 404 page.

Seems I'm not alone in this. It resolved quite quicky on the main rig, but that rig won't even boot today for some reason. ???

Midnight Heaven, however, IS accessible via the USERCP.

Lelisevis · Aug 21, 2007, 09:23 PM

http://www.hardwareheaven.com/news/ann...er-heaven.html

Link in this page aint working. I wanted to check it out as I have 1 or 2 surprises arriving friday. Oh my bank manager loves me.

Aug 20, 2007, 05:21 PM	#1
*craig5320* HH Administrator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 8,565 Rep Power: 445 System Specs	Upgrade Discussion/Feedback/Problems Report any feedback issues etc here, please try and keep it sensible and provide as much information as possible, and we'll try and respond as soon as possible. Thanks Craig __________________ HardwareHeaven on Facebook

Aug 20, 2007, 05:48 PM	#2
OldBuzzard DH's oldest Geek Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oberlin, OH Posts: 2,781 Rep Power: 142 System Specs	Looks pretty good, and a lot faster to loadup here. At one time you made a change so that the 'mini popup review' for each thread would only showup when you rolled over the actual link. Now it's back to showing up any time you are anywhere in the box. Could you go back to the 'rollover on link only' if it's not too much problem? Also I just noticed that here in the reply window that some smileys are missing = Mad!, = Big Grin = Rolleyes!, = Wink, = Frown, = Confused Also I'm using IE7 at 1024x768 and with the font SIZE at largest, the right side of the 'smily area' is cutoff. If I drop the SIZE down to smaller or smallest it comes back into view. That's ok for the 'Kids' I guess, but some of us 'Old Farts' need the larger size __________________ When looking for a reason as to why things go wrong, never rule out sheer STUPIDITY

Aug 20, 2007, 06:06 PM	#4
OldBuzzard DH's oldest Geek Join Date: May 2003 Location: Oberlin, OH Posts: 2,781 Rep Power: 142 System Specs	When I came in it was on the default, but I just went to the bottom of the page and changed to BlueHeaven, and I'm using it now, and when I made the last post. __________________ When looking for a reason as to why things go wrong, never rule out sheer STUPIDITY

Aug 20, 2007, 06:09 PM	Thread Starter #5
*craig5320* HH Administrator Join Date: May 2002 Location: Manchester, UK Posts: 8,565 Rep Power: 445 System Specs	Midnight should be selectable from the style menu, if you're on the index and it's giving you 404 make sure you put index.php before the "?styleid=61" seems to be an issue with the rewriting software. As for broken images i'm still waiting for the domain to fully propogate so I'm getting issues here and there, once it's fully working I'll troubleshoot any missing icons and such, altho the smileys are appearing for me. Thanks __________________ HardwareHeaven on Facebook

Aug 21, 2007, 12:23 AM	#8
BlueMak HH's Asteroids' Dominator Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Hellas->Macedonia->Thessaloniki Posts: 13,464 Rep Power: 349 System Specs	I had to change to one of the older styles due to one little but annoying thing. The colour of threads that have new posts is too similar to those that don't. It requires extra effort for me and I just can't be arsed to. Speed wise is fine. __________________ The people who are regarded as moral luminaries are those who forego ordinary pleasures themselves and find compensation in interfering with the pleasures of others(Bertrand Russell)"You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil,You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them." - Lt. Gen. James N. Mattis This is slavery, not to speak one's thought. [Euripides-The Phoenician Women (c.411-409 B.C.)] http://www.macedonia.info/FALLACIESANDFACTS.htm *Sic semper tyrannis.*

Aug 20, 2007, 05:52 PM	#3
Rayder Mostly lurking lately.... Join Date: Jun 2002 Location: U.S.A. Posts: 2,161 Rep Power: 73	Maybe this is just a temporary problem, but only the default theme is working. I always use MidnightHeaven

Aug 20, 2007, 07:25 PM	#7
Maddogg6 Tail Razer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bernyurass, AZ - USA Posts: 4,027 Rep Power: 0	Just FYI... If you have a problem with skins ... try removing the DH cookie thats is 'bbstyleid' - it fixed my problem of skin selection not sticking...

Aug 21, 2007, 03:20 AM	#11
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	i can't select any theme i want aside from the default tech heaven theme. that happened on both ie7 and FF winXP sp2 and some of the smileys didn't show up for me either on old buzzard's post. but it could that the server is populating like you said though. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Aug 21, 2007, 09:22 AM	#12
Tipstaff HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Jul 2002 Location: Real capital of Canada: Torauna Posts: 6,773 Rep Power: 190 System Specs	Guys... love the multi-quote option. Brilliant idea. That one bloody button saves me a ton of copy/pasting, and a crap load of organizing quotes and responses in the right order. I mean, all I do is click on the multi-quote button for each post I want to quote, and in the order I want them to be in, then hit quote on the final one, and bam.. it's all taken care of. Whomever came up with that one give yourself a pat on the back. __________________ Portal: The Flash Version _________________________________ Brain: So, you sacked the cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker? Mr. Sackett: The second cocky khaki Kicky Sack sock plucker I've sacked since the sixth sitting sheet slitter got sick.

Aug 21, 2007, 09:46 AM	#13
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	so, i can select midnight heaven now as my theme, but as soon as i go to another page, it will go back to the default theme. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Aug 21, 2007, 10:01 AM	#14
RoyBatty HardwareHeaven Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Czech Republic Posts: 1,941 Rep Power: 122 System Specs	CDs: Look in your profile options, I had the default theme selected after the upgrade and I had to change it back to Midnight.

Aug 21, 2007, 11:00 AM	#15
mkk Cthulhu/Dagon 2012 Join Date: Oct 2003 Location: Gefle, Sweden Posts: 4,489 Rep Power: 132 System Specs	Nice upgrade altogether. I liked the colors of the old Cyborgheaven skin. I was going to mention some remaining slowness likely related to page layout based on my experience yesterday, but right now everything loads fast. Knock on wood.

Aug 21, 2007, 12:15 PM	#16
geraldmango DriverHeaven Junior Member Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 85 Rep Power: 0	speed is great. however my friend couldn't join up, he said it took him to a newmemberphp page but didnt send out the email. also i have noticed if you aren't logged in and hit the gamingheaven button at the top of the site you go to www.gamingheaven.net but its still the driverheaven front page ?

Aug 21, 2007, 03:03 PM	#17
phantommenace2 hexa-core gamer Join Date: Mar 2004 Location: New York City Posts: 266 Rep Power: 52 System Specs	the PureHeaven skin is no longer available...it is no longer listed as an option under the skin listings...any way of bringing it back as that was my favorite skin

Aug 21, 2007, 05:40 PM	#19
mike2h DriverHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: norcal Posts: 6,483 Rep Power: 91 System Specs	thx for all your work guys, definetly faster. __________________

Aug 21, 2007, 06:39 PM	#26
CDsDontBurn Lurking DriverHeaven Join Date: May 2003 Location: Southern California Posts: 22,779 Rep Power: 235 System Specs	w00t~! midnight is back . and to all that have suggested stuff for me to try: i attempted to make the changes on the front page, in the user CP, on this page, and several other pages as well. i had deleted all my cookies after not finding the "bbstyleid" cookie in the cookie folder. __________________ Her First Day \| A year later

Aug 21, 2007, 06:46 PM	#28
MrSpock2002 Because I said so! Join Date: Apr 2004 Location: Watkins Glen NY Posts: 542 Rep Power: 0	Speed is great, big improvment. But the names are in this huge 14pt or 16pt font... Which is fugly. That's all I see that is wrong.

Aug 21, 2007, 09:23 PM	#30
Lelisevis Howlin at the moon Join Date: Sep 2003 Posts: 1,663 Rep Power: 0	http://www.hardwareheaven.com/news/ann...er-heaven.html Link in this page aint working. I wanted to check it out as I have 1 or 2 surprises arriving friday. Oh my bank manager loves me.