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Geoffg Guru  Joined: 06/06/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 3165 |
Congrats on a great new forum. Already things are becoming so much easier over the old forum. This must have been a great effort but from our perspective it is almost magic. Thanks a lot Glenn, much, much appreciated. Geoff Edited 2019-08-10 23:44 by Geoffg Geoff Graham - http://geoffg.net |
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Gizmo Admin Group  Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5012 |
Thanks Geoff. Lot of work yet to do, lots of bugs to sort, but I've got the basics done and its a working forum, mostly. Just playing around with some Google ad placements. They only earn about $100 a month but every little bit helps and they've been gone for over a month now. The plan is members will see less ads than guests. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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mackoffgrid Guru Joined: 13/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 460 |
I'm surprised you get that much for the Ads, not that $100 goes a long way. BTW I appreciate this. Regards Andrew |
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Chopperp Guru Joined: 03/01/2018 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1032 |
Hi Glenn I just altered a heading to a reply to a PM & hit <Enter> (accidentally) & the system sent the reply before I actually wrote the response. Is that normal? Re Ads. OK with me as long as I can make them go away if they annoy me. I have had to use an Ad-blocker on occasions on some of the pages to remove ones that have no exit button. Keep up the good work... Brian ChopperP |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5012 |
There's actually a fair bit of traffic on the site, typically 100 to 300 visitors at one time. 7 years ago the site was earning over $1000 a month, with less traffic, and then Google changed something and it all went down hill from there. Yes, $100 pays for the server hosting fees ( about $70 a month ) plus a little hobby money. Fixed a bug where white space wasn't displayed correctly. Should now be ok  The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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poida Guru Joined: 02/02/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 1388 |
Gizmo, should you ever place a "donate" button on the site, I will hit it for sure. It would be nice if I donate xx and it's good for a year of no ads or donate button when I log in. I'm thinking $50 a year donation or so. Another thing, how many personal messages can I have. There is a limit for sure so I want ask what it is? This info was not obvious to me when I was last in the PM area. Great work on the site, clearly things are robust now. I'll bet you can backup the db in a flash. wronger than a phone book full of wrong phone numbers |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3013 |
Amen to that. And to that. The only (very minor) glitch that I see at this point is that when you click to view the last post in a thread, when you click [back] you go to the first post of the thread (on that page), not to the all-threads page from which you came. Thanks for all your fine work. [Now I notice that this happens with firefox, but not with opera, so perhaps it is something specific to my setup.] Edited 2019-08-16 23:23 by lizby PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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Poppy Guru Joined: 25/07/2019 Location: GermanyPosts: 486 |
Really nice work and progress!  May I make a wish?  A simple "Back to Top" anchor-link at each pages bottom would be great for a fluent process! Andre ... such a GURU? | ||||
| BrianP Senior Member  Joined: 30/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 292 |
Same Firefox issue for me... B Edited 2019-08-17 10:54 by BrianP |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5012 |
Seams the forum cant send emails to anyone with a bigpond email address. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| BrianP Senior Member Joined: 30/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 292 |
Our friendly Telstra keeps moving goal posts around - you might need to visit the Telstra/bigpond home page & catch up with the latest...  B |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5012 |
Yeah Brian I suspect Bigpond thinks the forum is sending spam. Its a problem if you want to have email notifications, you risk the site blacklisted as a spammer. Made a change to the way the forum handles email notifications. Instead of sending all the emails in one big chunk when the member saves a post, the email messages now get inserted into a database, then sent off one or two at a time until they are all processed. Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5012 |
Project for today - Active Topics and a few stray members who cant log in. The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| Boppa Guru Joined: 08/11/2016 Location: AustraliaPosts: 814 |
Telstra had quite the reputation for the number of spammers it hosted a while back (hence their current paranoid stance about anything looking like spam heading in or out of their system) Which was weird as you needed a Telstra account to have a Telstra email....  |
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| lizby Guru Joined: 17/05/2016 Location: United StatesPosts: 3013 |
One more I would like. I miss (unless I've been blind) "user profile". I find it particularly helpful for locating matherp's many contributions. PicoMite, Armmite F4, SensorKits, MMBasic Hardware, Games, etc. on fruitoftheshed |
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disco4now Guru Joined: 18/12/2014 Location: AustraliaPosts: 844 |
I am get this error when saving a reply. Fatal error: Uncaught PDOException: SQLSTATE[HY000]: General error: 1366 Incorrect string value: '\xE2\x94\xAC\xE2\x96\x91...' for column 'Message' at row 1 in \TheBackShed\forum\PostMessage.php:60 Stack trace: #0 \TheBackShed\forum\PostMessage.php(60): PDO->exec('Insert into thr...') #1 {main} thrown in \TheBackShed\forum\PostMessage.php on line 60 This text causing it is here I think {"results":1,"data":[{"state":{"code":"FL","name":"Florida"},"country":{"code":"US","name":"United States"},"location":{"coordinates":[-82.686493,27.908688],"type":"Point"},"timezone":{"gmt":-5,"dst":-4,"tzid":"America/New_York"},"elevation":{"feet":10.5,"meters":3.2,"method":"Surveyed"},"magnetic_variation":{"position":"05W","year":2010},"icao":"KPIE","iata":"PIE","name":"St Pete-Clearwater International","type":"Airport","city":"Clearwater","status":"Operational","useage":"Public","sectional":"MIAMI","activated":"10/1942","latitude":{"decimal":27.908688,"degrees":"27-¦ 54' 31.28\" N"},"longitude":{"decimal":-82.686493,"degrees":"82-¦ 41' 11.37\" W"}}]} This actually saves Ok now after I have pasted into and editor and saved as a text file. It was copied to clipboard from windows command line when it failed. I will PM you the curl command that produced to data. The post reply count goes up but post is not saved. Regards Gerry Edited 2019-08-21 10:28 by Gizmo Latest F4 Latest H7 |
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| BrianP Senior Member Joined: 30/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 292 |
F.Y.I. Just tried to preview a reply to a post & received this... Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 134217728 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 70517480 bytes) in \TheBackShed\forum\includes\common.php on line 341 No drama - the reply was saved & posted OK. This post previewed Ok also. B Edited 2019-08-21 10:27 by Gizmo |
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| Gizmo Admin Group Joined: 05/06/2004 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5012 |
I'll look into these. Gerry the forum uses a few commands to convert special characters ( not letters or numbers ) to html and sql friendly code. I think that chunk of data you posted pushed it a bit to far. Brian I'm guessing it was a BIG post? Can you point me to the post you tried to quote? Glenn The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago, the second best time is right now. JAQ |
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| BrianP Senior Member Joined: 30/03/2017 Location: AustraliaPosts: 292 |
Glenn Not all that big...  In the thread "Current measurement of solar panels" the post I was replying to was Davo99 posted @ 10:06pm 20/8. My reply in which the preview crashed was as you see following Davo99's post. I had selected Quote & edited out the bulk of it. B |
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TassyJim Guru Joined: 07/08/2011 Location: AustraliaPosts: 5898 |
Deleted - I should have read a few more previous posts! Jim Edited 2019-08-21 12:11 by TassyJim VK7JH MMedit  MMBasic Help |
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