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The Flat Earth Society => Announcements => Topic started by: Daniel on June 12, 2011, 05:46:58 AM

Title: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Daniel on June 12, 2011, 05:46:58 AM
The forums have had some major problems over the past 4-5 days due to malicious hackers.  As luck would have it, though, our forums software made the long-awaited jump from v1.1.13 to v2.0 over the weekend.  I'm hoping that whatever vulnerabilities were making us a target in 1.1.13 have been removed in the new version.  Fingers crossed.

Unfortunately, the old theme we used doesn't seem to have a 2.0 version, so things are looking a little different at the moment.  I'm looking for a better theme but I figured this one would do for the time being.  If anyone has suggestions for a blue theme compatible with SimpleMachines Forum 2.0, I'm all open to suggestions.

If anyone runs into bugs in the new software, please let me know and I'll do what I can to fix them.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: cmdshft on June 12, 2011, 06:04:41 AM
Random Musings is unaccessable because the theme is broke or something.

Also, our rank star images are broken.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Daniel on June 12, 2011, 06:05:21 AM
Random Musings is unaccessable because the theme is broke or something.

Already noticed and already fixed.  Try now.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Verrine on June 12, 2011, 06:10:47 AM
Hate the new theme.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Mrs. Peach on June 12, 2011, 06:25:26 AM
Some kinks here and there but who's complaining!   ;D ;D ;D
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Vertical Horizon on June 12, 2011, 06:54:31 AM
The Earth is Flat. There is no denying this in an airplane at 15 thousand feet with clear visibility in all directions.

It's computers that are strange and unfathomable...

(http://)
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Wendy on June 12, 2011, 08:14:26 AM
The quick-reply box is broken for me, being about 2.5x my original browser/screen width. Also, stickied topics in RM aren't being shown up top for me, though that might be an issue of my own settings. And my avatar is broken, but that is easily fix'd.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Trekky0623 on June 12, 2011, 08:41:00 AM
Is there any way we can change the forums to not look so ugly? I liked the look we had going before. :(
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Lorddave on June 12, 2011, 08:57:36 AM
If you don't like the theme here's your options:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?action=search;version=63
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Thork on June 12, 2011, 09:12:31 AM
If you don't like the theme here's your options:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?action=search;version=63

Excuse my total ignorance, but are you suggesting I can pick my own theme? If so I would like that.

é
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Lorddave on June 12, 2011, 09:15:12 AM
If you don't like the theme here's your options:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?action=search;version=63

Excuse my total ignorance, but are you suggesting I can pick my own theme? If so I would like that.

é
I'm saying that, of the themes I linked, you should pick one to propose as the new TFES theme.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Space Cowgirl on June 12, 2011, 09:18:14 AM
I kinda like this theme.

I'm having the same weird quick reply issue as Wendy. The reply box hangs off the screen to the right, but it's still usable.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: WardoggKC130FE on June 12, 2011, 09:35:48 AM
I like the new look and its good to be back.  One question though, are we going to get back the "view my replies" and "view new topics" buttons?
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: gotham on June 12, 2011, 09:55:08 AM
Great to have the site back.  :)  Thanks Daniel!

This layout is quite fine.  I like it best of the ones indicated by Lorddave on the simplemachines website.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Thork on June 12, 2011, 10:13:45 AM
I like the new look and its good to be back.  One question though, are we going to get back the "view my replies" and "view new topics" buttons?
Look top right. They are links.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 12, 2011, 11:09:54 AM
This theme would be fine if the theme images were edited to remove the gradients and keep it at solid colors.

Also, the background of the thread posts need to be lightened up.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Mrs. Peach on June 12, 2011, 11:31:47 AM
Could the "View the most recent posts on the forum" button thingy be activated, please?  I get a 404 Not Found.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Lorddave on June 12, 2011, 11:35:21 AM
Could the "View the most recent posts on the forum" button thingy be activated, please?  I get a 404 Not Found.
Works for me.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Nomad on June 12, 2011, 11:48:48 AM
I absolutely hate this theme.  This is not just a case of "its new so it sucks," nor is it just a hater hating.  it is awful.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Mrs. Peach on June 12, 2011, 11:49:46 AM
Could the "View the most recent posts on the forum" button thingy be activated, please?  I get a 404 Not Found.
Works for me.

Hmm.  Does it just not like me?

Here's what's happenin:  Instead of going to
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?actions=recent
it goes to http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php

Even when I manually enter it, it still reverts.  Sup wid dat?
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Lorddave on June 12, 2011, 12:03:24 PM
Could the "View the most recent posts on the forum" button thingy be activated, please?  I get a 404 Not Found.
Works for me.

Hmm.  Does it just not like me?

Here's what's happenin:  Instead of going to
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?actions=recent
it goes to http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php

Even when I manually enter it, it still reverts.  Sup wid dat?
It's action not actions.
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?action=recent
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Mrs. Peach on June 12, 2011, 12:08:04 PM
Ooops.  I mistyped in the post.  But anyway, following your link I get:
Not Found
The requested URL /forum/index.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.theflatearthsociety.org Port 80
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 12, 2011, 12:13:45 PM
Here are a few blue SMF2 themes:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=1724

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=2009

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=1706
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Lorddave on June 12, 2011, 12:24:45 PM
Here are a few blue SMF2 themes:

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=1724

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=2009

http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=1706

Only if there hasn't been a significant change in the layout between the various RCs.  They likely work though but still... gotta be careful.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: gotham on June 12, 2011, 12:28:14 PM
The lighter background examples Tom listed do look better with not as much contrast in the colors.  Of those listed, the first one listed called "5th" has the least dark blue in it. 
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Tom Bishop on June 12, 2011, 12:32:35 PM
I agree that the first one in my list, 5th, is one of the better ones. Facebook SMF is another one which might work. It's a theme modeled after Facebook.

Facebook SMF: http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=2195

Daniel should try them out.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: iwanttobelieve on June 12, 2011, 12:44:36 PM
like the new look, thanks for getting it back online. props!
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Wendy on June 12, 2011, 01:09:04 PM
This theme would be fine if the theme images were edited to remove the gradients and keep it at solid colors.

Also, the background of the thread posts need to be lightened up.

Alternatively, we could set the text to be completely black by default, like so.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Daniel on June 12, 2011, 01:20:57 PM
For those of you complaining about the theme: this isn't necessarily the final theme.  It's just the first one I found that was 2.0-compatible and looked vaguely like our old one.  I'm looking into others.

I'll also check into the bug issues a few people have mentioned.  Thanks for bringing those to my attention..
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Trekky0623 on June 12, 2011, 01:21:52 PM
Too many gradients in my opinion. I like simple white with some blue.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: WardoggKC130FE on June 12, 2011, 01:35:31 PM
I like the new look and its good to be back.  One question though, are we going to get back the "view my replies" and "view new topics" buttons?
Look top right. They are links.

Sweet!
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Space Cowgirl on June 12, 2011, 01:40:12 PM
Now, if only you could find a way to keep the spambots from getting through registration.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Daniel on June 12, 2011, 01:48:25 PM
Now, if only you could find a way to keep the spambots from getting through registration.

2.0 should be better for that.  The captcha looks more a bit more complicated and there's the option to make the user answer a question in addition to the captcha.  We'll see how it goes..
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Space Cowgirl on June 12, 2011, 02:22:50 PM
Someone needs to purge the member list (of spambots), but there are 800 pages so it would probably take forever. 
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Wendy on June 12, 2011, 02:51:33 PM
Also do remember that it's easy to set up a dozen or so spambot accounts manually and have them lie dormant. This is achievable in minutes. The forum will never be 100% spam-proof.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Space Cowgirl on June 12, 2011, 03:28:18 PM
Well, no forum is 100% spam proof, but spambots have already got past the anti-spam countermeasures today. Stop Forum Spam has some mods that might help http://www.stopforumspam.com/contributions

Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: gotham on June 12, 2011, 03:46:36 PM
If the site theme is changed at some point, does that mean that it has to be down again for any length of time?
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Colonel Gaydafi on June 12, 2011, 03:59:43 PM
I absolutely hate this theme.  This is not just a case of "its new so it sucks," nor is it just a hater hating.  it is awful.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: WardoggKC130FE on June 12, 2011, 04:29:43 PM
I have to admit...I'm not a fan of the quote boxes.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: parsec on June 12, 2011, 04:45:55 PM
I have to admit...I'm not a fan of the quote boxes.
neither am i. If there was anything why I liked TFES, it was because quoting looked tidy and organized. Actually, I thought SMF was way better than other forum software mainly because of that. Now it looks like every other lame forum.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Mr Pseudonym on June 12, 2011, 04:49:48 PM
I have to admit...I'm not a fan of the quote boxes.
I agree with Wardogg... for once.  :P
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Parsifal on June 12, 2011, 06:37:12 PM
Ooops.  I mistyped in the post.  But anyway, following your link I get:
Not Found
The requested URL /forum/index.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


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Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.theflatearthsociety.org Port 80


That's really odd. index.php is redirecting you to index.html for some reason.

Could you download GNU wget for Windows (http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/#download) and paste the output of wget.exe -S http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?action=recent (in the command prompt) here? This will allow us to see exactly what HTTP headers are being returned by the server.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: WardoggKC130FE on June 12, 2011, 07:27:18 PM
I have to admit...I'm not a fan of the quote boxes.
I agree with Wardogg... for once.  :P

It happens to all the forum members eventually.   Nothing to worry about.    :P
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: frostee on June 12, 2011, 08:11:59 PM
You have all forgotten the worst part.

WHERE IS THE CHRISTMAS THEME?! WHERE IS IT?!
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Mrs. Peach on June 12, 2011, 08:32:22 PM
Ooops.  I mistyped in the post.  But anyway, following your link I get:
Not Found
The requested URL /forum/index.html was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.


--------------------------------------------------------------------------------

Apache/2.2.11 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.11 OpenSSL/0.9.7a mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 Server at www.theflatearthsociety.org Port 80


That's really odd. index.php is redirecting you to index.html for some reason.

Could you download GNU wget for Windows (http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/#download) and paste the output of wget.exe -S http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?action=recent (in the command prompt) here? This will allow us to see exactly what HTTP headers are being returned by the server.


Thanks!  :)  I will try Mr. Tech Support Nice Guy.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Mrs. Peach on June 12, 2011, 09:10:42 PM



That's really odd. index.php is redirecting you to index.html for some reason.

Could you download GNU wget for Windows (http://users.ugent.be/~bpuype/wget/#download) and paste the output of wget.exe -S http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?action=recent (in the command prompt) here? This will allow us to see exactly what HTTP headers are being returned by the server.

christ. I hate Vista. I downloaded wget thing, I told it to run.  Nothing happened, it doesn't appear in applications, it doesn't appear it programs, it doesn't appear anywhere except as the exe. on my desktop, it short it is lost.

I'm too stupid to follow your advice.  I'll try again later.  :'(
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: parsec on June 12, 2011, 09:28:37 PM
double-clicking it won't run it. I think it needs a command-line execution with the parameters Parsifal specified. Then, it will probably generate an output file with the required diagnostic data.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Parsifal on June 12, 2011, 09:47:30 PM
christ. I hate Vista. I downloaded wget thing, I told it to run.  Nothing happened, it doesn't appear in applications, it doesn't appear it programs, it doesn't appear anywhere except as the exe. on my desktop, it short it is lost.

I'm too stupid to follow your advice.  I'll try again later.  :'(

As parsec said, it needs to be run on the command line. You need to open a command prompt by going to Start -> Run and typing cmd.exe, and you need to be in the folder where the file is (you can do this with cd C:\whatever). Then type wget.exe -S http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?action=recent.

This is annoyingly convoluted in Windows, and if you were on a GNU/Linux or BSD system you would already have some version of either wget or curl available.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Mrs. Peach on June 12, 2011, 10:00:40 PM
You guys are so sweet.  :-*   I did run on it on a command line but I have now solved the problem by emptying every last thing out of the cache instead of just the default clear cache (which was the first thing I did when the problem arose and about twenty more times to boot.)

Thanks again.  :)
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Particle Person on June 14, 2011, 02:12:50 AM
A darker theme would be nice.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Beorn on June 15, 2011, 02:18:36 PM
I can't put my finger on what it exactly is, but somehow I find browsing the Show new replies to your posts really annoying.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Nomad on June 17, 2011, 06:41:48 AM
I still hate this theme
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: markjo on June 17, 2011, 09:42:20 AM
I still hate this theme

Lurk moar.
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=48985.msg1204606#msg1204606
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Particle Person on June 17, 2011, 07:02:35 PM
I still hate this theme

Lurk moar.
http://www.theflatearthsociety.org/forum/index.php?topic=48985.msg1204606#msg1204606

It doesn't really matter, all of the options are terrible.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Nomad on June 19, 2011, 10:22:10 AM
It's true, but there are better ones than the one that was up though.  Thx
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: EnigmaZV on June 23, 2011, 11:33:12 AM
Christmas?
http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=156 (http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=156)
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Space Cowgirl on June 25, 2011, 04:39:25 PM
Now, if only you could find a way to keep the spambots from getting through registration.

2.0 should be better for that.  The captcha looks more a bit more complicated and there's the option to make the user answer a question in addition to the captcha.  We'll see how it goes..

There's a mod that compares the memberlist and new regs to the SFP spammer database. It blocks known spambots from registering. This mod plus the questions might actually stop the bot invasion http://custom.simplemachines.org/mods/index.php?mod=1547
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Daniel on July 04, 2011, 12:47:43 PM
Christmas?
http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=156 (http://custom.simplemachines.org/themes/index.php?lemma=156)

That's one of the most visually offensive things I've ever seen.  Consider it installed.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: yamasaki5 on August 30, 2011, 07:43:01 AM
It is learned that it is particularly interesting.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: Thork on August 30, 2011, 07:50:10 AM
^ My money is on PizzaPlanet. Strange behaviour, obsession with Japan, unfathomable humour.
Title: Re: We're back and better than ever!
Post by: PizzaPlanet on August 30, 2011, 07:13:04 PM
It is learned that it is particularly interesting.
Fixed.