Well the upgrade to vBulletin 3.6 is complete and the new skin and features are ready to roll!

Please post any issues you see in this thread.

Thanks!

Good job, Mat.

The first thing I noticed were bright pink pigs with onions for feat running across my screen... then I woke up.

The second thing I noticed were all those announcements on the "New Posts" page. Even on my very high resolution, the first new post is right at the bottom of my screen, so I have to scroll to see the list. Is there really a need for all those announcements on that page?

Top Right-Hand Corner:

Welcome, HostRefugee-Vince!

Links to: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/usercp.php$session[sessionurl_q]

Not quite a bug, just a small mistake... Someone forgot to upload the thumbnails to the store.

Mmm. What happened to the announcement text in the grey bar at the top? I swear it was there earlier.

Pics broken in IE in the Store tab.

Pics broken in IE in the Store tab.

Should be fixed now! Sorry about that, I left a setting from our dev server.

like they say, if it aint broke, dont fix it.

i am glad that inet bar is ogne, but why is there so much white space at the top of the page?

White space? I'm not seeing any, Lauren. :s I see the blank grey bar at the top (Which is being used by iNet to post links to important announcements), but apart from that, everything looks well used to me.

The header is just not going well with the rest of the forums.

There a fair amount of white space surrounding the advertisement at the top, which is pushing the page down ~80-100 pixels more than necessary. It's a bit of an annoyance, but I can deal with it. Still, I would consider tightening that up a bit. Someone with a lower resolution might come to WHT, enter the community and not even see a single forum!

There are still a few old post icons that haven't been replaced too, right? Other than that, the new design is a knockout :)

There a fair amount of white space surrounding the advertisement at the top, which is pushing the page down ~80-100 pixels more than necessary. It's a bit of an annoyance, but I can deal with it. Still, I would consider tightening that up a bit. Someone with a lower resolution might come to WHT, enter the community and not even see a single forum!

Ah. :) Yeah, I guess there is room to reduce that some.

I'm still being driven nuts by those announcements on the "New Posts" page...

I'm still being driven nuts by those announcements on the "New Posts" page...

As am I. :crazy:

I am in love with PM text in the e-mails though :D

Could the icons for Hot Threads be a little clearer? The slightly pink shade v. greyish white doesn't draw a very clear distinction. Maybe heat up the pink to a bolder reddish color?

Can we have it online for more than 2 seconds in a row?

That would be great :)

I like that it looks cleaner now and the store looks cool also.

Is this the upgrade we were all expecting or is there more to come?

Can we have it online for more than 2 seconds in a row?

That would be great :)

True that! I almost cried this morning when I got to work, tried to go to WHT and it went to iNet Status!

I though, ok, whatever, then I went back a little later and it said database corruption!

I almost died!

True that! I almost cried this morning when I got to work, tried to go to WHT and it went to iNet Status!

I though, ok, whatever, then I went back a little later and it said database corruption!

I almost died!

Off loading searches to the slave database server has changed in 3.6.5. All searches were being ran against the master database server which eventually overloaded the server and it died.

It took a forced reboot to bring the db server back online.

Everything appears to be working fine now, and searches are hitting the slave server.

Hey, its no problem... I was just bored for a couple hours lol

At least things are fixed now :D

The following errors occurred with your search:
The string you entered for the image verification did not match what was displayed.

It is not a bug, just extra work. I guess I will not use the search anyone :-(

Heh, what they should do is only enable search image verification for guests :)

Members shouldn't have to put in the code lol

I'd agree that there is unnecessary white space below the main banner at the top. Also, the Media Kit link in the footer seems to have an extra space in it. Other than that I can't find anything, nice work! :agree:

Is it me, or did the "New Posts" function stop working when WHT came back online after the server mishap? I'm seeing new posts in the forum, but the "New Posts" link isn't showing them.

When I click on a username, I see two links titled "Add [username] to your buddy list"

The following errors occurred with your search:
The string you entered for the image verification did not match what was displayed.

It is not a bug, just extra work. I guess I will not use the search anyone :-(

Can someone confirm that the image verification is happening to you when you're logged into the board? I just a few tests, and I only get it if I'm logged out.

--C. A.

Is it me, or did the "New Posts" function stop working when WHT came back online after the server mishap? I'm seeing new posts in the forum, but the "New Posts" link isn't showing them.

It doesn't look like it's working for me either. I logged it, it should be fixed soon.

--C. A.

I'd agree that there is unnecessary white space below the main banner at the top. Also, the Media Kit link in the footer seems to have an extra space in it. Other than that I can't find anything, nice work! :agree:

There is some extra white space after the banner. We'll tighten it up shortly (maybe tomorrow at the latest).

Where is the extra space you're seeing? Between what and what?

--C. A.

There is some extra white space after the banner. We'll tighten it up shortly (maybe tomorrow at the latest).

Where is the extra space you're seeing? Between what and what?

--C. A.

There's a white bar at the top of the screen... I think that's wh at they're referencing.

Sirius

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See Media Kit? When you copy and paste, it only has one space, but it looks like it has two, also when you view source it only has one space.

See attached img:

There's a white bar at the top of the screen... I think that's wh at they're referencing.

Sirius

No, he's talking about the space after the main banner at the top.

Nich

Bug:

When you go to the Store or Find a Host, the right menu bar (which is supposed to be in the light blue) is pushed all the way down to the end of the page.

This is happening in IE6 on my laptop's resolution of 1366x768.

Thanks,
Nich

I have a major, major bug for you to consider. vBulletin calls it a feature, but it is a bug.

CAPTCHA text used to register and within the advanced search area is not only frighteningly easy for spammers to defeat, it is also entirely unusable by people with visual impairments, text browsers, screen readers, many mobile browsing devices and traditional browser with images suppressed.

In some countries, this would be illegal.

Please remove CAPTCHA in favor of the vBulletin No-Spam (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124828) plug-in! Captcha has little effect on me, but using it is monumentally unfair to do this to a portion of the visiting audience, particularly given the fact that there's a far superior alternative available.

/me agrees with the_pm

I have a major, major bug for you to consider. vBulletin calls it a feature, but it is a bug.

CAPTCHA text used to register and within the advanced search area is not only frighteningly easy for spammers to defeat, it is also entirely unusable by people with visual impairments, text browsers, screen readers, many mobile browsing devices and traditional browser with images suppressed.

In some countries, this would be illegal.

Please remove CAPTCHA in favor of the vBulletin No-Spam (http://www.vbulletin.org/forum/showthread.php?t=124828) plug-in! Captcha has little effect on me, but using it is monumentally unfair to do this to a portion of the visiting audience, particularly given the fact that there's a far superior alternative available.

And just to add to that... I installed No-Spam a couple of months ago and it took no more than five minutes. Five minutes of work resulted in us having zero bot registrations after the installation and a system whereby a much wider audience can easily register... and one that is legal pretty much everywhere (I presume) :)

I am just wondering if anyone else has noticed that the posts all feature the little - icon in reference to the Multi-Quote.

When I press it, it becomes a +, but is still attached when I press the 'Post Reply' button. In one way, it could mean that the post isn't added, and by pressing the -, and becoming a +, that it is now added. However, upon further inspection, just under the large textbox under the Reply page, I see:

You have selected 4 post(s) that are not part of this thread. Quote these posts as well, or deselect these posts.

Is this correct or am I missing something?

Bug:

When you go to the Store or Find a Host, the right menu bar (which is supposed to be in the light blue) is pushed all the way down to the end of the page.

This is happening in IE6 on my laptop's resolution of 1366x768.

Thanks,
Nich

I also noticed this issue in Internet Explorer, however it is fine in Firefox.

woot.. WHT fully supports firefox *waits for WHT to start it's own SpreadFirefox campaign*

I am just wondering if anyone else has noticed that the posts all feature the little - icon in reference to the Multi-Quote.

When I press it, it becomes a +, but is still attached when I press the 'Post Reply' button. In one way, it could mean that the post isn't added, and by pressing the -, and becoming a +, that it is now added. However, upon further inspection, just under the large textbox under the Reply page, I see:

Is this correct or am I missing something?

Press 'Quote' on one of the comments to get it to work correctly.

When you go to the Store or Find a Host, the right menu bar (which is supposed to be in the light blue) is pushed all the way down to the end of the page.

Yikes! How'd that slip by? Logged. Thanks for catching that. Eeewww.

We tested this mostly in Firefox, since the majority of WHT visitors are using it. We also looked at it in IE 7 a lot and Safari. This is a big ugly one though. Ick.

= (

--C. A.

Very minor thing, but wasn't there a favicon before the upgrade? I quite liked it as it helped differientiate the tabs.

Is it me, or did the "New Posts" function stop working when WHT came back online after the server mishap? I'm seeing new posts in the forum, but the "New Posts" link isn't showing them.

Same here, no new posts showing on click ... oh and didn't we have a "todays active posts" link before?

All those announcements at the top is a pain!

Thank you, that was exactly what I was referring to. :agree:

See Media Kit? When you copy and paste, it only has one space, but it looks like it has two, also when you view source it only has one space.

See attached img:

Also, I can confirm that searching doesn't require image verification when logged in.

Seems certain threads' last posts, are coming up with the URL: http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?p=0#post0

Don't want to complain about bugs, I just want to say you guys did a kick-a** job on the new WHT look and board upgrade. Very well done people!

Well the upgrade to vBulletin 3.6 is complete and the new skin and features are ready to roll!

Please post any issues you see in this thread.

Thanks!
Not so much a bug, but a feature request. When you click the "jump to post" button in a quote, it requires you completely reload the page to jump to that post. This issue could be resolved if the link were just changed to include the bit after the #. Could this be done?

Don't want to complain about bugs, I just want to say you guys did a kick-a** job on the new WHT look and board upgrade. Very well done people!
Sorry, I do want to mention one thing... The font in the textarea of the QuickReply is resetted to default mono. That's not very attractive :)

I notice that LOGOUT is way over on the far right causing me to have to scroll over to LOGOUT :(

Any chance of putting 'LOGOUT' on the left??

I like the new buttons but the report button does not mix well, it's kinda edgy. Keep up the good work who ever is doing the design work, maybe think about re-doing the header? :D

maybe think about re-doing the header?
I actually think the header is looking very good! I like it's clean style.

It has room for improvement :)

Nice work WHT :)

Is it me, or did the "New Posts" function stop working when WHT came back online after the server mishap? I'm seeing new posts in the forum, but the "New Posts" link isn't showing them. I noticed the same thing. The only thing showing under new posts is announcements.

Sorry, I do want to mention one thing... The font in the textarea of the QuickReply is resetted to default mono. That's not very attractive :)
I was about to mention the same thing.

Looks nice on a laptop but my PDA hates it! Pocket IE crashes before the pages fully load :(

Today's Post link is broken.
it should be http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?do=getdaily

-ASC-

Today's Post link is broken.
it should be http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?do=getdaily

-ASC-

Good catch. Those announcements at the top are kinda overpowering though, huh?

--C. A.

Please can someone fix this?
I know there is a bug report thread and there are several reports about it there, including mine, but this is really irritating ... please, please, please, correct the link.

I'm sure Mat will get on top of it once he arises from his oh-so-needed sleep. :)

"Bug" threads merged :)

When clicking on the image/button/bullet to the right of someones nick and selecting Find all posts by <nick>. The newer posts are not showing in some instances. I can look at a post someone just made and run a "Find all posts by <nick>" and their post is not there - try it.

try it.
I have, way too often today. Hopefully a fix will be coming soon :bawling:

Maybe could be a possibility to leave the old skin online for people who prefer it more than the new one?

Not so much a bug, but a feature request. When you click the "jump to post" button in a quote, it requires you completely reload the page to jump to that post. This issue could be resolved if the link were just changed to include the bit after the #. Could this be done?

That's not possible, since the "jump to post" button jumps to posts from other threads as well as the same thread. Maybe ProSlacka could hack something up, but otherwise I don't think there's much that can be done.

On the subject of the "jump to post" button, could it possibly be made a bit smaller? It seems like it's stretching the quote box, and should be the same size as the top line of text, or slightly larger. But maybe it's just me...


Alex

Yes that would be a K-RAD idea :)

Please consider it!! (The banner is more configured for 800x600)

I think get new posts is not working (search.php?do=getnew).

I think get new posts is not working (search.php?do=getnew).
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?t=597770

I think get new posts is not working (search.php?do=getnew).

It isn't and it's ruining coming here - come on folks please fix the todays active posts!

:( Just saw the search maintenance. Nevermind!

Maybe could be a possibility to leave the old skin online for people who prefer it more than the new one?Yes that would be an AWESOME idea :)

It isn't and it's ruining coming here - come on folks please fix the todays active posts!


Thanks folks, looks like it's fixed :gthumb:

Just the list of Announcements to deal with now :D

Thanks folks, looks like it's fixed :gthumb:

Just the list of Announcements to deal with now :D

Those should be gone now as well :)

Maybe could be a possibility to leave the old skin online for people who prefer it more than the new one?

That's not possible since the old skin was coded under vB 3.5 and there have been numerous changes in the 3.6 skin. We certainly do not want to have to maintain two completely separate skins for the same site. Also there are consistency issues, we don't maintain alternative skins on any of our other communities because of the extra work load on maintaining them.

Those should be gone now as well :)

Indeed they are - coffee break approved for all involved :D

That's not possible since the old skin was coded under vB 3.5 and there have been numerous changes in the 3.6 skin. We certainly do not want to have to maintain two completely separate skins for the same site. Also there are consistency issues, we don't maintain alternative skins on any of our other communities because of the extra work load on maintaining them.Well could you please move LOGOUT to the left hand side Prohacker??

This is terrible,ya gotta scroll way over (Or scroll down to the bottom of the page) just to logout!!!!! (Unless your resolution is so small you can barely read it)

Also i noticed when viewing as a guest,the "NEW POSTS" link has a typo:

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/search.php?do=geliaily

Could you guys maybe make a 'lite skin' where various elements of the design aren't so huge, and a lot of the other needless design elements aren't included? (eg: hosting news on the frontpage, the footer, the header, etc.)

Looks like the Hot Thread You Posted In image hasn't been updated yet...

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/whtimages_blue/images/statusicon/thread_dot_hot.gif

Edit: Thanks to sirius I found another one. :P

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/whtimages_blue/images/statusicon/thread_hot_lock_new.gif


Alex

If you goto:
User Profile > Miscellaneous > Paid Subscriptions > WHT Premium Membership > further info
you get Error 404 - Not Found:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/premium.php

Hope this helps

If you goto:
User Profile > Miscellaneous > Paid Subscriptions > WHT Premium Membership > further info
you get Error 404 - Not Found:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/premium.php

Hope this helps

Fixed, thanks for the post!

when you reply a post (not quick reply), there used to be a navigation something like:

WebHostingTalk Forums : Other Forums : WHT-Announcements, WHT-Feedback, WHT-Questions : forums name you are responding

this gone now.

I made a ticket about this since I was confused by it. But for me anyways it will not let me post a topic in Shared Hosting Offers (http://www.webhostingtalk.com/forumdisplay.php?f=4) because apparently I've made a topic in the last 7 days. Of course if you search my name in that forum it's been past 7 days.

Perhaps they just have things messed up and it's applying the 7 day rule to all the advertising forums..

I posted in the reseller forum just fine after I gave up on the shared because of the error.

The link to Domain Name Talk in the footer is broken. It leads to
http://www.domainametalk.com instead.

Ew..I'm seeing a vertical scroll bar in my browser.

Vista Ultimate
Latest Firefox 2.0
1074 by 768 Resolution...

This may have been mentioned before, but the "posted in thread but no new posts" icon is still from the old skin. I tested in on a few browsers and cleared my cache and it's still there.

K, the vertical scrollbar is officaly gone.

This may have been mentioned before, but the "posted in thread but no new posts" icon is still from the old skin. I tested in on a few browsers and cleared my cache and it's still there.

Yeah, I bugged and bugged SWR about it and he said they're workin' on it. :)


Alex

Just waitin' on gettin' 'em back from the designer. :)

It would be nice to have the option under the top search to display results as posts or threads, instead of it only coming back as posts. :) Almost all of my searches are for threads, which makes the quick search mostly useless for me. They may be others who agree, but with the option, everyone is happy.

hmmm . . . might be room for a couple tick boxes

when you reply a post (not quick reply), there used to be a navigation something like:

WebHostingTalk Forums : Other Forums : WHT-Announcements, WHT-Feedback, WHT-Questions : forums name you are responding

this gone now.

I noticed this myself, it would be really really nice to have that back. Maybe not so much the other forums : wht-feedback stuff, but at least the forum itself would be good.

Maybe placing it next to the Thread: thisthreadhere, something like
Forum: Feedback Thread: thisthreadhere with links to both?
Seems to be quite a bit of room up there in the "reply to thread" section to do this.

It appears we are no longer able to set a search criteria of "boolean" instead of "phrase" in the advanced search option. Is that intentionally absent?

It appears we are no longer able to set a search criteria of "boolean" instead of "phrase" in the advanced search option. Is that intentionally absent?Boolean should be the default option. There shouldn't be a 'choice.'











*I think

when you reply a post (not quick reply), there used to be a navigation something like:

WebHostingTalk Forums : Other Forums : WHT-Announcements, WHT-Feedback, WHT-Questions : forums name you are responding

this gone now.Yeah. Looks like we missed that in a couple templates. We'll get it back together. :wht:

Yeah. Looks like we missed that in a couple templates. We'll get it back together. :wht:

and it seems now fixed, thanks,

I don't know if this is caused by the upgrade but it started shortly after the upgrade: When I first view WHT via my bookmark (I stay logged in all the time) it loads just fine but when I click on a forum it just sits there for at least one minute with this screen: http://fishinghost.com/WHTcrap.gif In some cases it says loading ad juggler or something like that. I assume one or more banner ads are having problems loading. Regardless of why, it's to the point that I don't want to visit WHT any longer because it takes me forever to go through my favorite forums' posts.:mad: I'm all for advertising to pay the bills but I wish the ads would at least load in a reasonable amount of time like under 45 seconds.:mad: Am I the only one that's experiencing this? I have no problems with any other sites, just WHT.

Don't feel left out, I get it too.

The announcement icon at the WHT Helpdesk has the wrong size (should be 49x49)

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/helpdesk/

The announcement icon at the WHT Helpdesk has the wrong size (should be 49x49)

http://www.webhostingtalk.com/helpdesk/

Good catch! I would have never caught it since I never look at the front end of the helpdesk! :)

Thanks for the report..

I don't know if this is caused by the upgrade but it started shortly after the upgrade: When I first view WHT via my bookmark (I stay logged in all the time) it loads just fine but when I click on a forum it just sits there for at least one minute with this screen: http://fishinghost.com/WHTcrap.gif In some cases it says loading ad juggler or something like that. I assume one or more banner ads are having problems loading. Regardless of why, it's to the point that I don't want to visit WHT any longer because it takes me forever to go through my favorite forums' posts.:mad: I'm all for advertising to pay the bills but I wish the ads would at least load in a reasonable amount of time like under 45 seconds.:mad: Am I the only one that's experiencing this? I have no problems with any other sites, just WHT.

Yup I get that exact problem also - many times.

Yup I get that exact problem also - many times.

Actually, it hasn't happened to me for a few days now but it seems no one from WHT cares anyway. I would have thought someone from WHT would have acknowledged our comments with some kind of explanation.:confused:

Actually, it hasn't happened to me for a few days now but it seems no one from WHT cares anyway. I would have thought someone from WHT would have acknowledged our comments with some kind of explanation.:confused:
Actually, installation of (and migration to) a new adserver to replace Adjuggler is something that we have to finish in the next month or so. We've narrowed it down to two candidates and will roll it out in May/June. Adjuggler issues are something we're experiencing across the network and the new platform will be better equipped to handle the load.


:wht:

Actually, installation of (and migration to) a new adserver to replace Adjuggler is something that we have to finish in the next month or so. We've narrowed it down to two candidates and will roll it out in May/June. Adjuggler issues are something we're experiencing across the network and the new platform will be better equipped to handle the load.


:wht:

Thanks for clearing that up SWR.

Actually, installation of (and migration to) a new adserver to replace Adjuggler is something that we have to finish in the next month or so. We've narrowed it down to two candidates and will roll it out in May/June. Adjuggler issues are something we're experiencing across the network and the new platform will be better equipped to handle the load.


:wht:

It was really bad this morning, I gave up and came back later. It's really becoming a pain in the lower extremities!:mad: