Vbulletin upgrade

[drone]

Does the board still have the previous content (somewhere) for our profile Albums? The albums exist, but are empty. Just curious as to whether these will be recovered eventually, or if I should re-add the pictures.

[TosaInu]

Hello drone,

Sad story. Jelsoft is changing a lot of things and leaves us in the dark a bit about what is changed. It's also adopting a 'do it our way or not at all' policy. The album directory was not in the new install during the upgrade, I do that for a reason and it's always fine. But now, there is a new asset manager and pictures were stored in some different way. For some reason that subscript only works during the initial upgrade. In other words: when you miss it, you'll not get them in. All pictures are there and I guess a little tweak of the script would still manage to fix it. But there is no such script and I do not have time to even figure out the normal details.

[drone]

No big deal, I just don't want to potentially mess things up by adding to or deleting the album and then having it restored at a later date. Maybe I'll just create a new one.

[TosaInu]

That's something to consider indeed drone.

One may upload the same picture again. Depending on how it's set to work, the system may refuse overwriting. The file is still on the server, but it's not tied into the database.

[Husar]

I noticed threads with new messages aren't bolded anymore, I almost thought there were no new ones until I saw the "jump to new post"-buttons.
Find that a bit disturbing as I automatically look for all the bolded topics.
There's more space between the letters but the bolding is a lot better IMO.

[pevergreen]

I've not noticed bolding going away.

Browser/version?

[TosaInu]

Hello,

They look bolded to me.

[Husar]

Hmm, I'm using Opera 10.10 on Ubuntu 9.10, the weird thing is it was bolded until today using exactly the same browser, so I figured it was a change in the forum itself.

Bold <- this shows up just fine

[Tellos Athenaios]

Threads with new posts in them show up bolded just fine for me. Opera 10.10 on [k]Ubuntu 10.04.

[Husar]

Get the same in FireFox, so I guess it's something with the Linux.

[Tellos Athenaios]

Probably a font configuration thing. I assume that subpixel hinting, and AA aren't turned on by default in your configuration. You can change that by going to whatever Appearance configuration panel you have and selecting appropriate options for the fonts. (Haven't used Gnome in a while; but IIRC you can access the Apearance thing through right clicking on the desktop/ or via some applications menu.)

[Husar]

There is some subpixel AA thing for fonts activated but changing it doesn't seem to make the letters bold again and since I never changed it I guess it was already selected when the letters were still bold.

[Tellos Athenaios]

No if it is to make a change at all; it will be that the letters get thinner. Alternatively you can edit your $HOME/.fonts.conf file directly; here's mine (with additional comments):

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM 'fonts.dtd'>
<fontconfig>
 <!-- location where personal fonts are installed -->
 <dir>~/.fonts</dir>
 <match target="font">
   <!-- subpixel hinting for flatscreen: my LCD uses r-g-b order of subpixels; 
        subpixel hinting increases the perceived resolution of glyphs so they appear more crisp -->
  <edit mode="assign" name="rgba">
   <const>rgb</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
   <!-- enable font hinting; has nothing to do with subpixel hinting - 
        rather this is about improving the shape of individual glyphs -->
  <edit mode="assign" name="hinting">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
   <!-- how much hinting you want -->
  <edit mode="assign" name="hintstyle">
   <const>hintfull</const>
  </edit>
 </match>
 <match target="font">
  <!-- whether or not to turn on AA -->
  <edit mode="assign" name="antialias">
   <bool>true</bool>
  </edit>
 </match>
</fontconfig>

Note that in order to see changes you must restart the applications that use fonts; that is because fonts (and their configuration) are loaded only once. So the best way to test changes is to log out, and log back in.

[Husar]

Heh, there is no such file, even showing the hidden files, there is only the folder for my user in the home-directory, and it's not in that either it seems.

My user folder has a weird file called "€v�ÿÿÿ6é�f°E‰@ȃ�fÿÿþ‰é8¤EÇÿÿþ•…Mtv�S<¶Àéºÿÿþé…&´�úƒj„Ò…o��f�„&´�úƒ��f„ &´" though, that seems to be empty otherwise.

[Tellos Athenaios]

That only means you haven't configured anything yet: those hidden files are only generated once after you change defaults.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

There is a small problem. When choosing that "What's new" option I don't see the Forums where those new posts have been posted. They just don't appear there!

[TosaInu]

It works for me Ibn-Khaldun. Try again? There might be a cache glitch on the server side, meaning we need to try again.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I used Ctrl+A to highlight the page and there is still nothing there.

[TosaInu]

Ah, I see what you mean. Doesn't work for me either. Will look at this.

[TosaInu]

It does in the default skin, so my guess is that it didn't copy to the Guild style.

[TosaInu]

Funny software: 'nothing to do', but it did update. It works for me now, does it for you too?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

I can see them in the TheGuild2 skin but not in the TheGuild skin.

[TosaInu]

TheGuild2 skin should no longer be there, I expected to have to start from scratch to fix the scroll-bar.

I see the forums in TheGuild skin.

[Ibn-Khaldun]

No, still nothing.

I would like someone else to confirm my problem. It's weird that only I have it.

[Beskar]

Works fine for me.

Tried clearing your cache? I see no reason for that to be the problem, but hey, who knows?

[Ibn-Khaldun]

Thank you Beskar!

I can see the forums again! Should have done it before(clearing my cache) when Tosa mentioned that this could be the case.

[TosaInu]

Glad to hear it works now Ibn-Khaldun.

[Husar]

Upgraded to the newest Ubuntu 10.04 and threads with new messages are bold again, just saying.

[TosaInu]

That's great Husar.

Is the Ubuntu upgrade proces easy and convenient or does one need to tweak everything again?

[TosaInu]

It seems as if the quote gap for IE is solved too. Can anyone confirm?