Site Updates (still in progress)

[Combuster]

Oh well, noticed some things with the wiki integration I might as well post here:
1) [wiki] tag's missing
2) The interwiki links still point to ww.osdev.org/forum - i.e. when the page contains things like [Forum:x|Forum name] or [Topic:nnnnn|Thread Name] (there are some live examples at the bottom of this page)

[inflater]

I must say that I did like phpBB2 more... and the site takes to load more longer than on the original hosting

[chase]

I must say that I did like phpBB2 more... and the site takes to load more longer than on the original hosting

Strange, for me everything is more than twice as fast as the old site. I really spent a lot of time optimizing things (eAccelerator, memory usage for database and apache, no more virtual machines, etc). Can you try changing your style and see if it makes any difference?

[JamesM]

I must say that I did like phpBB2 more... and the site takes to load more longer than on the original hosting

Strange, for me everything is more than twice as fast as the old site. I really spent a lot of time optimizing things (eAccelerator, memory usage for database and apache, no more virtual machines, etc). Can you try changing your style and see if it makes any difference?

I've noticed a slight slowdown but I'm pretty sure it's not in site access latency or throughput - I think all the CSS and rollovers make my doddery old work machine bleed on the inside

Site looks good - I like the new layout of phpBB3, although it'll take a little while to get used to avatars being on the right and not the left...

[xyzzy]

Noticed a typo in the OS Development forum description:

Question about which tools to use, bugs, the best way to implement a fuction, etc should go here. Don't forget to see if your question is answered in the wiki first! When in doubt post here.

Should be "function", rather than "fuction".

Anyhow, I've settled on subsilver2 for my theme. Having avatars and stuff on the right was kind of confusing. Good job with the upgrades, Chase!

[chase]

Oh well, noticed some things with the wiki integration I might as well post here:
1) [wiki] tag's missing
2) The interwiki links still point to ww.osdev.org/forum - i.e. when the page contains things like [Forum:x|Forum name] or [Topic:nnnnn|Thread Name] (there are some live examples at the bottom of this page)

Fixed, thanks. It's been a lot of work but I love phpBB3 so far. To add the wiki bbcode I just had to go to the control panel instead of hacking on php files like in phpBB2.

[chase]

Noticed a typo in the OS Development forum description:

Question about which tools to use, bugs, the best way to implement a fuction, etc should go here. Don't forget to see if your question is answered in the wiki first! When in doubt post here.

Should be "function", rather than "fuction".

Doh! Another reason that I like web browsers that spell check text areas Fixed now.

[Colonel Kernel]

Still anxiously awaiting the return of the mtDark theme...

[chase]

I've noticed a slight slowdown but I'm pretty sure it's not in site access latency or throughput - I think all the CSS and rollovers make my doddery old work machine bleed on the inside

Exactly how bad are we talking about? I'm using a laptop with a "Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz" and I was thinking my system is old.

Last week there where some network outages and slow downs at the data center osdev.org is in. It seems that StubHub (ebay of ticket sales) runs some of their stuff out of the same data center and they have been getting hit with several DoS attacks. The data center is going to be adding capacity and hopefully the DoS attacks will die down. If it continues to be a problem I'll move the server somewhere else.

[01000101]

I've visited this site on both my c2d e6600 machine and my p4 3ghz machine under windows xp and ubuntu 7.10 and this site loads way faster than before, especially when going from a post back to the index page, it is almost instantaneous.

I've personally settled on the blackbox_blue theme. Is there a blackbox_red theme? not a big deal, but i would prefer that scheme. I find subsilver to be too light and bubbly.

[chase]

I've personally settled on the blackbox_blue theme. Is there a blackbox_red theme? not a big deal, but i would prefer that scheme. I find subsilver to be too light and bubbly.

Yeah, there is a red version. You can take a look at it to see if you'd like it by going to http://demo.phpbb3styles.net/blackbox_red?phpbb=3.0.1. You guys can pretty much test all the available themes at that url. Let me know if you guys see anymore that you think would work really well. I went through the entire list to pick the ones I've installed so far.

[bewing]

I'm not familiar with CSS -- but my machine is a little slow compared to modern standards -- only a 2GHz Celeron. It can easily take 10 to 15 seconds for a new page to load, display text, display buttons, erase every single button, and then redraw every single button again (one at a time). The really annoying thing is that the "Post a Reply" button is drawn LAST -- that should be the one that gets drawn FIRST! I don't care about all the other cutesy little icons, really. But that button is the one I'm going to aim for, if any. But honestly, I am not in any hurry, and I don't much care how long it takes. Less patient people might have a problem, though.

Actually, let me go a little farther. I really wish that the page could be redrawn from the bottom to the top, rather than top-down, the way it is. If I want to quote something, it will be something at the bottom. If I want to edit my post, it'll be the one at the bottom. This way, I'm having to wait until the page completely finishes before I get the buttons I really need.

[Combuster]

Talking about styles, ATM it's missing a light-on-dark theme with enough optical seperation to have the ghestem principles work... blackbox looks a lot like a bunch of randomly placed text and it takes a lot of effort to see the borders.

But mtDark would work for that too

[JamesM]

I've noticed a slight slowdown but I'm pretty sure it's not in site access latency or throughput - I think all the CSS and rollovers make my doddery old work machine bleed on the inside

Exactly how bad are we talking about? I'm using a laptop with a "Intel(R) Pentium(R) M processor 1.73GHz" and I was thinking my system is old.

It's not so bad now, actually. I suppose it was still getting half the images into cache when I wrote that. I'm running a "Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz" but it's running linux on a really crappy graphics card plus it usually has 2 or 3 distcc jobs running in the background from people around the office... :/

[suthers]

I have to say I don't like the 'friends and foes' idea....
Jules