Forum Upgrades - 10/3/11 - SMF 2.0.1, hardware up'ed and SEARCH IS BACK!

[helvetica]

Ok, I've upgraded the forums to SMF 2.0.1, after finally clearing our modifications for use with SMF 2.0 and satisfied with the theme.  I've also done some massive overhaul of the server software (namely upgrade PostgreSQL to 9.1).  Along with this I have permanently upgraded Triela's ram to 768mb from 512mb.  As the temporary upgrade has done wonderfully in quashing the forum hiccups and 403s, I made it permanent (and doubled our HD space too lol).

Attached images will now pop up a new window when you click on the thumbnail if the image is larger than 640x480.  And eventually I'll get Mikopics up I swear T-T

Oh yeah, and this little thing called search, yeah it's back.  I've installed Sphinx, a fulltext search engine.  I've been testing various search engines for a while now and have had a working Sphinx implementation on my test box for about a couple of months so I figured it's time to bring it live.  Search is enabled for everyone and should be nearly instantaneous.  Searching "testing" got me 19 pages of results in about 2 seconds, a monumental increase in speed.  I will be watching loads closely to see how things progress.

Next upgrade in the works is a mobile version of the forums for you guys lucky (or unlucky) enough to browse from phone/tablet browsers.  If you want to see how they look now you can manually specify the theme with the following links.

http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/?theme=15 <- iOS (iPhone/iPod Touch) /Android devices
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/?theme=16 <- featurephones and miscellaneous devices
http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/?theme=17 <- Nokia/webOS devices

To revert back to the main theme goto http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?theme=14 or clear your browser's cache and cookies.

15 will be for iPhone/Android phones, 17 will be used for webOS/Nokia phones (or devices using Opera/Firefox Mobile), and 16 will be used for phones with limited browsers (mostly feature phones).  The looks (mostly colors/images) are not set in stone but the overall layout and featureset won't change much.  This will be based on autodetection, although I will embed the links into the top of the forum nav bar to let you freely change between them.  Bug reports will be limited to supporting the default browsers on your device, I do not have the time nor the resources to try every single custom browser on your Android phone (I'm looking at you Momiji using FF Mobile xP).  Support will obviously be best for the devices I own, Android/iPhone phones and the HP Touchpad tablet (webOS).  If you have an uncommon device, as long as you can provide me screenshots or detailed explanations of broken behavior I will try to do a best faith attempt at correcting them.  If not the original WAP interface will remain, and will be the failsafe mode for all mobile devices.

[Helepolis]

Fuck yea! theme 15 is the shiz on my iphone. I love it in every way.

Also Search function being back is ace. I know many member were 'complaining' about this :V

[J.O.B]

GET OFF MY LAWN!!

Seriously TSO. Thanks for the updates. I'm so happy search is back.
And as you can tell, that message made me lol.

[Drake]

>search

FUCKING CHRIST ILU TSO HAVE MY BABBIES

[helvetica]

PS to revert back to the standard theme goto http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?theme=14 or clear your browser's cache and cookies.

[♛ Apher-Forte]

For your hard work, I wish to give the greatest thanks.
you just gave me an option to post stuff using my Iconia Tab/

[helvetica]

Oh yeah, attached images will now pop up a new window when you click on the thumbnail if the image is larger than 640x480.  And eventually I'll get Mikopics up I swear T-T

[Vyrien]

YES! SEARCH! I always wondered why that never worked for me :V

[helvetica]

Search was disabled because the old built-in search functionality in SMF is insanely slow.  Our forum is definitely tipping on the larger scale of things and it would literally take me weeks to build the search index.  I've been hunting and evaluating fulltext search engines for a while and settled on Sphinx as SMF has a plugin for it they give out to big forum operators.  Only challenging part was that it was developed and tested against MySQL, so I had to spend some time porting it to PostgreSQL (as usual lol).  It's been sitting on my test box for a while now working, I was just waiting for SMF 2.0 final to come out before deploying it.  The theme being tested and completed was my last hold up, I already certified all of my custom mods worked fine on SMF 2.0 final a while ago.

[Vyrien]

Aaaah, I see, I always just thought it was because I didn't have enough posts or something. Thank you!

[Tengukami]

PS to revert back to the standard theme goto http://www.shrinemaiden.org/forum/index.php?theme=14 or clear your browser's cache and cookies.

I was just coming back to ask about this - I like 17, and all, and I'm sure it'll look good on my phone.

Also, hooray for a working search function!

[Zengar Zombolt]

Oh yeah, and this little thing called search, yeah it's back. 

All's well with the world.
:thankstso:

[helvetica]

17 and 16 aren't sizing right in portrait mode, way too tiny (at least on my phone).  Even in landscape the font is kinda small.  I imagine on tablets it'd be fine as-is though.

I do like the text onry look for 16, not as primitive as the WAP site but stripped down enough to make it usable on old featurephones and crappy connections.

15 looks slick as hell, just need to toy with colors.

[Mimachiro]

Yay for progress. Thanks for putting in the time to make things better, TSO. :3

[Aba Matindesu!]

Please have my babies.

[Kyo Tanaka]

Thank you for the hard work~!


I've deleted my cookies and cache, and clicked on the link, but I still got the same theme. Am I doing something wrong?

[Tamer Anode/Cathode]

Thank you for the work you've put into this upgrade.

[Alice★f]

Beautiful. The site looks wonderful on my ipad.

[Jes_Isaive]

Look how easy it is to do stuff from my iPod now. ilu forever tso.

[Esifex]

Only hiccup I'm seeing here is the text boxes keep stretching off the side of the window without having the proper word-wrap boundary in place. Just keeps going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and going and wow it still hasn't wrapped back around yet :C

[helvetica]

Covered in the very first post in the bug reports thread.  Reload the page or clear your cache, you have al old stale version of the site layout cached.

[Esifex]

Oh, right.

Hurr durr.

[Agent of the BSoD]

OH YEAH IT IS AWESOME ON MY iPod!
What's this? Search is back? :teaspit:

Awesome! Good work TSO!

[pineyappled]

\o/
Now I can lurk on iPod without killing myself to do it! Search is a nice bonus, too. Thanks, TSO.

[helvetica]

Ok you can now load the various mobile themes with the following addresses:

http://iphone.shrinemaiden.org/
http://mobile.shrinemaiden.org/
http://simple.shrinemaiden.org/

I adjusted the curve-mobile theme (mobile.shrinemaiden.org) to properly detect the screensize of most devices, so the font scaling should be greatly improved.

[Yukarin]

I use chrome and oh my god I just noticed.

DAT POINT ITEM

Nice touch.

[Aba Matindesu!]

I use chrome and oh my god I just noticed.

DAT POINT ITEM

Nice touch.

Very much so.

[Tengukami]

I am so thankful for the favicon. I know it's not a big deal, but seeing all those favicons on my bookmarks bar, but MotK's poor, lonely white square looked so sad.

Oh, and not just a point item - a point item with a blue background using gradation! Nice touch.

[DarkslimeZ]

Not to brag or anything but I told you people would love it helvetica *hugs*

[wooterz]

I still don't have the favicon. Is something broken on my end?