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David · Unread post by **David** » Mon 06/01/2020 09:59

And now this morning it's super fast haha

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 06/01/2020 11:26

Having a look into it with the hosts at the moment. I can never reproduce it!

Very fast this morning it seems but can see the long load times experienced yesterday.

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Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Thu 16/01/2020 20:32

The slowness that day was related to a monthly check of the raid arrays on the host. It's been tweaked to not happen at that time of day again.

The PHP version has now been upgraded to 7.1 from 5.6 so this should improve performance as well.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sat 13/06/2020 13:34

There may be a little downtime today as I update the forum to phpBB 3.3 Proteus...

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 08/08/2020 23:14

How do you unload messages you have put on draft?

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Sun 09/08/2020 19:00

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Sat 08/08/2020 23:14 How do you unload messages you have put on draft?

In your 'Private messages' file, go to 'Manage PM drafts' to access your list of saved PM drafts.

To delete a PM draft from that list, click on its tick-box in the 'MARK' column, then hit the 'Delete mark' button below.

To edit and/or send a PM draft from that list, click on its 'Load draft' option in the 'SAVED AT' column, then enter your intended recipient to the PM before sending.

Hope that makes sense.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 18/09/2020 12:55

The Weather Blogs forum has been archived due to inactivity.

If there is demand for it again I can open it back up.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 12/09/2021 16:17

Big apologies about the forum being down since Friday evening - something yet to be determined started corrupting the filesystem and as a result docker containers could not be created.

I have now reverted to the latest weekly VPS backup, which was from Monday 6 September.

All posts have unfortunately been lost since then and cannot be recovered.

I will try to find the root cause of the problem, and patch whatever it is.

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Mon 13/09/2021 19:45

How come the pictures you post on the forum come up with different looking icon to click on?

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Tue 14/09/2021 18:49

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Mon 13/09/2021 19:45 How come the pictures you post on the forum come up with different looking icon to click on?

Looks ok to me.

Do you mean that you're seeing some sort of icon instead of the normal 'thumbnail' pic?
Perhaps you could post a screen shot of the 'icon'?

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Tue 14/09/2021 19:49

Sorry, I should make myself clearer. The thumbnail picture is completely different to the actual picture that you click onto.
eg. the thumbnail picture posted in Lawrence's posting showed the Castlepoint lighthouse instead of the air quality unit of his new weather station.

Nev · Unread post by **Nev** » Tue 14/09/2021 20:44

That's weird, as the thumbnails look fine to me... Maybe Willoughby might be able to help?

David · Unread post by **David** » Tue 14/09/2021 21:32

Yeah, looks fine here too

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Thu 16/09/2021 13:17

Working OK now

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 19/09/2021 12:28

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Tue 14/09/2021 19:49 Sorry, I should make myself clearer. The thumbnail picture is completely different to the actual picture that you click onto.
eg. the thumbnail picture posted in Lawrence's posting showed the Castlepoint lighthouse instead of the air quality unit of his new weather station.

Hi John,

I was testing a new feature and seems to be working okay.. but users are now free to upload videos (in the form of WebM format) to the forum server directly. An 8mb file size limit still applies. So can be good for animations and videos that are relatively small in size. I will see if this can be expanded to include .mp4 format soon.

Here is a webm I just made, and is only 2.2mb large:

webm example.webm

I made this using WebMCam and is a small, free Windows application that records the screen at a customisable size:
https://github.com/michaelmob/WebMCam

Awhituobs · Unread post by **Awhituobs** » Sun 19/09/2021 15:29

my android phone has images as .heic extension
are you able to allow that for uploads?

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 19/09/2021 17:31

Awhituobs wrote: ↑Sun 19/09/2021 15:29 my android phone has images as .heic extension
are you able to allow that for uploads?

I'll see what can be done shortly.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 19/09/2021 21:17

Awhituobs wrote: ↑Sun 19/09/2021 15:29 my android phone has images as .heic extension
are you able to allow that for uploads?

Ok so it appears not even php 7.1 has compatibility with heif/heic image files just yet, so nothing I can do until php updates, and then phpBB can add it.
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=77757
https://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=80828

The good news I have enabled WebP images now (a Google labs technology) as phpBB recently added support.

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Awhituobs · Unread post by **Awhituobs** » Sun 19/09/2021 21:26

I discovered if I take a screen shot of the image displayed in my phone , that is image is saved as a jpg

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Mon 20/09/2021 00:53

Awhituobs wrote: ↑Sun 19/09/2021 21:26 I discovered if I take a screen shot of the image displayed in my phone , that is image is saved as a jpg

Surely there's a better way! If it doesn't lessen quality that could be a good compromise.

Snapseed is a great mobile photo editor also:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... l=en&gl=us

BeaconHill · Unread post by **BeaconHill** » Fri 29/10/2021 12:38

Question: What does the "Add Foe" (against a forum member) option do?
Does it mute ALL their posts, or just stop them from being able to contact me.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 29/10/2021 12:54

BeaconHill wrote: ↑Fri 29/10/2021 12:38 Question: What does the "Add Foe" (against a forum member) option do?
Does it mute ALL their posts, or just stop them from being able to contact me.

Adding one as a 'Foe' hides their posts and stops them from contacting you.

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Fri 11/02/2022 14:30

There are connectivity currently issues with the server:

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Please report any lengthy outages, thank you

NZ Thunderstorm Soc · Sat 14/05/2022 17:50

Why is it after about 7 to 11 times you log into this forum, you have to re-register in to gain access even though you tick the 'remember me' box? I find that annoying especially when there are no postings?

Willoughby · Unread post by **Willoughby** » Sun 15/05/2022 12:52

NZ Thunderstorm Soc wrote: ↑Sat 14/05/2022 17:50 Why is it after about 7 to 11 times you log into this forum, you have to re-register in to gain access even though you tick the 'remember me' box? I find that annoying especially when there are no postings?

Re-register or re-login?

How strict are your cookie settings? I can't seem to replicate the issue. Does anyone else have this issue?

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