Modifications to eOmahaForums

[BRoss]

Is there an option to 'mark all forums read' on the landing page? I'm missing it if there is.

It's under the "Quick Links" menu.

[schumatt]

New look looks great! Nice work!

[Brad]

Am I missing a setting search setting somewhere? When I use the search function, its only showing me the 30 most recent threads. Search for "tower" which should have pages and pages of threads and there is no where to go past the first 30 (page 1).

[skinzfan23]

I tried searching for something the other day and got a similar result

[BRoss]

Am I missing a setting search setting somewhere? When I use the search function, its only showing me the 30 most recent threads. Search for "tower" which should have pages and pages of threads and there is no where to go past the first 30 (page 1).

I am reindexing the search to see if that fixes it. It will probably take a couple hours.

[BRoss]

Finally have tracked down the search issue...it's a bug that appears to have started with phpBB 3.3.6 when they improved some search stuff.

tldr; I'll be filing a bug report with the maintainers and we'll upgrade to that patch once the fix is out.

If you care about the details, read on; otherwise stop here

Basically the code that is used to calculate the total number of results is broke and will always return one (if there is at least something found). You'll notice results always return saying one match found even though it shows more. And because it thinks there is only one result, it doesn't show the paging (hence cuts off at 40 max).

To add to this - searches are cached and it stores the number of results found in that cache. If you search for that same term again before the cache is cleared, you'll only get one result.

This was driving me crazy for a while because I brought back up the instance I ran the mock upgrade on and it was working fine there. But I was running 3.3.5 there. They released the minor update 3.3.7 just before I did the actual upgrade and I went with that. I saw in the code how it used to be done in that previous version and I can see how what changed in the newest version broke it.

[BRoss]

Actually, looks like someone has already reported it.

That has been open for a month now so I ended up just going into the source code and making the fix myself.

Search is working properly again.

[Brad]

Awesome, thanks for all your help keeping this forum running smoothly!

[U R my Helix]

Good job, I know a lot of maintenance goes into maintaining this site.

[Busguy2010]

One small gripe I found, at least when I'm using the site on my phone, the black bar at the top is thicker for about a second when a page first loads, so if I'm moving quickly, I'll go to click on a topic and while I'm in motion to click that topic, the black bar will go back to normal, causing the whole page to move up and me to click on something unintended. Not a big big deal, but it is a bit annoying.

[BRoss]

One small gripe I found, at least when I'm using the site on my phone, the black bar at the top is thicker for about a second when a page first loads, so if I'm moving quickly, I'll go to click on a topic and while I'm in motion to click that topic, the black bar will go back to normal, causing the whole page to move up and me to click on something unintended. Not a big big deal, but it is a bit annoying.

I see what you are talking about. It's part of the reactive switch between desktop and mobile. The items on the bar have text to start out with but eliminate it to just show an icon on smaller screens. Both the new style and default prosilver have the same behavior. Unfortunately there's not a lot I can do about it.

[Garrett]

For some reason I keep having issues on chrome on my iPhone. After spending a bit of time on the website logged in it just stops loading pages and freezes up. Don’t seem to be having this issue anywhere else.

[BRoss]

For some reason I keep having issues on chrome on my iPhone. After spending a bit of time on the website logged in it just stops loading pages and freezes up. Don’t seem to be having this issue anywhere else.

Will it timeout or show any kind of error? Does it help to close the tab and open a new one? Or can you refresh the current tab to resolve it? Trying to understand where the problem is.

I have noticed times where it fails to reach the site but I think it's a host issue. We share a server with other websites so another site could affect us.

[Garrett]

For some reason I keep having issues on chrome on my iPhone. After spending a bit of time on the website logged in it just stops loading pages and freezes up. Don’t seem to be having this issue anywhere else.

Will it timeout or show any kind of error? Does it help to close the tab and open a new one? Or can you refresh the current tab to resolve it? Trying to understand where the problem is.

I have noticed times where it fails to reach the site but I think it's a host issue. We share a server with other websites so another site could affect us.

It eventually just times out after like a minute of the loading bar going to 1/10.

[BRoss]

For some reason I keep having issues on chrome on my iPhone. After spending a bit of time on the website logged in it just stops loading pages and freezes up. Don’t seem to be having this issue anywhere else.

Will it timeout or show any kind of error? Does it help to close the tab and open a new one? Or can you refresh the current tab to resolve it? Trying to understand where the problem is.

I have noticed times where it fails to reach the site but I think it's a host issue. We share a server with other websites so another site could affect us.

It eventually just times out after like a minute of the loading bar going to 1/10.

I've been seeing this more lately too. It started off by sometimes hanging for a while but eventually loading to now sometimes just getting my connection refused. And I just tried to ssh into the host to check things and it timed out on me a few times, which is odd and tells me it's not related to our site. I need to call the hosting provider and have them look into it. There's not a lot I have access to on a system level.

[Coyote]

You will find out this site we our being blocked on this (KMTV) website:

Video unavailable
Playback on other websites has been disabled by the video owner
Watch on YouTube

You can however see the videos by going to YouTube

[Garrett]

Had some mild issues connecting with the site today. Anything happen there?

[BRoss]

Had some mild issues connecting with the site today. Anything happen there?

I haven't seen anything today but the issues I've investigated in the past are typically host problems. We are on a shared server and other sites hosted on the same server can impact us. If it's something that keeps happening, we can escalate to the host.

[BRoss]

I fixed a display issue with polls where the default flat style would display the options weirdly. You may need to do Ctrl+F5 or Cmd+Shift+R to have the CSS change show up.

I did a quick glance over the site after that change and I don't see anything broken, but let me know if you notice anything weird.

[BRoss]

A few years ago when we were experiencing massive issues, we blocked large ranges of IP addresses belonging to certain foreign countries that have been problematic in spamming and DDoS attacks. From my research at the time, the /8 ranges that were blocked seemed to entirely belong to them and were safe to block.

It was discovered that Great Plains Communications has a chunk within one of these ranges and that may have periodically caused problems for some people. I have now found some better resources to get a better tuned list to block more specific ranges and this is now in place.

Please let me know if you run into any issues.

[Brad]

A few years ago when we were experiencing massive issues, we blocked large ranges of IP addresses belonging to certain foreign countries that have been problematic in spamming and DDoS attacks. From my research at the time, the /8 ranges that were blocked seemed to entirely belong to them and were safe to block.

It was discovered that Great Plains Communications has a chunk within one of these ranges and that may have periodically caused problems for some people. I have now found some better resources to get a better tuned list to block more specific ranges and this is now in place.

Please let me know if you run into any issues.

Thanks for all you do to keep this ship running smooth!

[Omaha Cowboy]

A few years ago when we were experiencing massive issues, we blocked large ranges of IP addresses belonging to certain foreign countries that have been problematic in spamming and DDoS attacks. From my research at the time, the /8 ranges that were blocked seemed to entirely belong to them and were safe to block.

It was discovered that Great Plains Communications has a chunk within one of these ranges and that may have periodically caused problems for some people. I have now found some better resources to get a better tuned list to block more specific ranges and this is now in place.

Please let me know if you run into any issues.

Thanks for all you do to keep this ship running smooth!

Seconding this …

Ciao..LiO…Peace

[almighty_tuna]

Thank you!

[Coyote]

Thanks!

[mrsticka]

I have an idea. How about creating a dark mode? You know, for nighttime when it's dark? There are people on here at night. If there was a dark mode, it might be a little easier on the eyes.

[BRoss]

How about a dark mode? You know, for nighttime when it's dark? There are people on here at night. If there was a dark mode, it might be a little easier on the eyes.

There is a dark style I added with the last upgrade. It's based off the default Prosilver and has not been customized like what I did with the "Flat Style" we use by default, so it looks a little different.

You can change your style here.

[mrsticka]

How about a dark mode? You know, for nighttime when it's dark? There are people on here at night. If there was a dark mode, it might be a little easier on the eyes.

There is a dark style I added with the last upgrade. It's based off the default Prosilver and has not been customized like what I did with the "Flat Style" we use by default, so it looks a little different.

You can change your style here.

Done. Thanks.

[Habits76]

How about a dark mode? You know, for nighttime when it's dark? There are people on here at night. If there was a dark mode, it might be a little easier on the eyes.

There is a dark style I added with the last upgrade. It's based off the default Prosilver and has not been customized like what I did with the "Flat Style" we use by default, so it looks a little different.

You can change your style here.

Done. Thanks.

I wish I would've seen this post sooner. The white background just kills my eyes so being able to switch to dark mode is such a relief. Thanks!

[BRoss]

IP ban list has been updated to hopefully eliminate the Reddit post copies from India. Please let me know if you notice any problems. The counties blocked are now China, Russia, and India.

[Brad]

IP ban list has been updated to hopefully eliminate the Reddit post copies from India. Please let me know if you notice any problems. The counties blocked are now China, Russia, and India.

Thanks for the update and thanks for your IT expertise!

[Brad]

From the husker baseball thread:

Not sure why only the link is posting. Here's the info:

https://x.com/JonRothstein/status/1810667697895596066

You need to change the x to "twitter" and it will work.

Is there a modification to the Twitter plug-in so it reads both twitter and x ?

[BRoss]

From the husker baseball thread:

Not sure why only the link is posting. Here's the info:

https://x.com/JonRothstein/status/1810667697895596066

You need to change the x to "twitter" and it will work.

Is there a modification to the Twitter plug-in so it reads both twitter and x ?

There may be an update that handles both. I need to check on it when I get a chance.

I still think it's dumb they ditched a name with huge brand recognition like that.

[Brad]

There may be an update that handles both. I need to check on it when I get a chance.

I still think it's dumb they ditched a name with huge brand recognition like that.

Thanks for checking in to it.

I completely agree. Everyone that's not on the payroll still calls it Twitter...

[nebugeater]

There may be an update that handles both. I need to check on it when I get a chance.

I still think it's dumb they ditched a name with huge brand recognition like that.

Thanks for checking in to it.

I completely agree. Everyone that's not on the payroll still calls it Twitter...

and even some that are I would assume

I was on board with the buyout but the name change is incomprehensible

[Garrett]

There may be an update that handles both. I need to check on it when I get a chance.

I still think it's dumb they ditched a name with huge brand recognition like that.

Thanks for checking in to it.

I completely agree. Everyone that's not on the payroll still calls it Twitter...

and even some that are I would assume

I was on board with the buyout but the name change is incomprehensible

Elon has been obsessed with X for decades. He originally wanted to call PayPal X.

[Brad]

He originally wanted to call PayPal X.

We interviewed one of the original PayPal employees on Grow Omaha a couple months ago and it was actually X for a while before they rebranded to PayPal.

[ChadJK]

He originally wanted to call PayPal X.

We interviewed one of the original PayPal employees on Grow Omaha a couple months ago and it was actually X for a while before they rebranded to PayPal.

I remember this. My girlfriend at the time was one of the first batch of hires when PayPal came to Omaha in 2000. At the time, there was also X.com which was Elon's foray into online banking (checking and savings accounts, but no branches). It only lasted a couple of years. IIRC, Elon's email for a time was: [email protected]

[BRoss]

The Media Embed extension has been updated to the latest and now supports links from the new name of Twitter. Existing posts will not automatically display the content but new posts will.

Here's a full list of what it supports:
https://s9etextformatter.readthedocs.io ... bed/Sites/

It doesn't list X, but the changelog shows it was added in 2.0.2 and I was able to see it work with a test post.

[Brad]

Awesome, thanks for the update!

FYI, I went back to Greg's post that wasn't working and all did was hit edit and submit making no changes and it displayed it.

[almighty_tuna]

Thanks, BRoss!