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Reappearance of the Shoutbox

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 8:06 pm
by dlodoski
Hi Folks,

Our hosting provider just migrated the board hosting account to an upgraded environment. The first thing I just noticed was that the Shoutbox is showing again. I will ask our sysadmin to rectify that (it doesn't work very well IIRC).

If anyone notices any other noteworthy changes, please post about them here. Thanks.

Dave

Re: Reappearance of the Shoutbox

Posted: Thu Jul 01, 2021 9:03 pm
by Fred588
It works!

Re: Reappearance of the Shoutbox

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 12:18 pm
by Boppinabe
I have to log in manually when I return rather than automatically. Luckily it remembers the password because I certainly don't.

Re: Reappearance of the Shoutbox

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 10:46 pm
by Aiko
PMs I received and read yesterday were marked as unread again just now. Not sure what happened to my replies to those. :/

Re: Reappearance of the Shoutbox

Posted: Fri Jul 02, 2021 11:17 pm
by dlodoski
Aiko wrote:PMs I received and read yesterday were marked as unread again just now. Not sure what happened to my replies to those. :/

Yea, I had to reconstruct a post that I had made.

It seems like there was a period of time/effort that went down the rabbit hole. It could have been five minutes or an hour. It's hard to say. For people with fixed sites, a migration like this is no big deal. But for dynamic sites like this, it's a hassle. I can only imagine what it's like for someone running an e-commerce setup.

In any case, you should probably presume that your PMs went down with the old ship. I would apologize, except I had nothing to do with the decision or the timing.