What's Currently Still Being Fixed After Migration

Ol argedco luciftias wrote:View source

I would not be unhappy with this update if it was actually functional. I would not care about the changes in how it looks if everything worked correctly. But when the most important things are broken and it appears that the only thing gained is a different look, that is not an equal trade.

I am not so unhappy about this just for an emotional reason or for any small reason. But when you throw away tens of thousands of posts of valuable information by making it impossible to search and access any of these, people are not going to be happy about this. And it is not just an emotional reaction based on nothing for this loss to make people angry. Or the loss of other features like the preview.

I don't know any programming. But I do work on repairing, modifying, and upgrading systems that are each used by hundreds of people per day and thousands of people per year. If I have to shut something down while working on it, people are already unhappy. If I do something wrong and I have something stuck as non functioning, everything is fucked up and it's all my fault. So the way I work every day is a similar situation as doing an upgrade like this. I don't touch or change anything without understanding exactly what it will do. I don't touch or change anything unless I am certain that I can put it back exactly the way that it was. I do something, then I immediately test it to see that is is correctly functioning the way that I expect it to, then I move to the next thing. I never change a hundred things at one time without testing them. And if I change something and it ends up not being functional, I immediately put it back the way it was so that it is functional, and then can try something different.

Even if my work is not with programming, the procedures while doing it are the same. Because this is how to avoid all of these kinds of problems. I'm not just talking as somebody with no similar experience.

Hey we just fixed this, calm down and try searching again.

Anything else I should do?

ApolloAbove [JG] wrote:View source

Hey we just fixed this, calm down and try searching again.

Anything else I should do?

Thank you very much. I didn't expect that this would be fixed. I'm thankful that I was wrong.

Ol argedco luciftias wrote:View source

I would not be unhappy with this update if it was actually functional. I would not care about the changes in how it looks if everything worked correctly. But when the most important things are broken and it appears that the only thing gained is a different look, that is not an equal trade.

I am not so unhappy about this just for an emotional reason or for any small reason. But when you throw away tens of thousands of posts of valuable information by making it impossible to search and access any of these, people are not going to be happy about this. And it is not just an emotional reaction based on nothing for this loss to make people angry. Or the loss of other features like the preview.

I don't know any programming. But I do work on repairing, modifying, and upgrading systems that are each used by hundreds of people per day and thousands of people per year. If I have to shut something down while working on it, people are already unhappy. If I do something wrong and I have something stuck as non functioning, everything is fucked up and it's all my fault. So the way I work every day is a similar situation as doing an upgrade like this. I don't touch or change anything without understanding exactly what it will do. I don't touch or change anything unless I am certain that I can put it back exactly the way that it was. I do something, then I immediately test it to see that is is correctly functioning the way that I expect it to, then I move to the next thing. I never change a hundred things at one time without testing them. And if I change something and it ends up not being functional, I immediately put it back the way it was so that it is functional, and then can try something different.

Even if my work is not with programming, the procedures while doing it are the same. Because this is how to avoid all of these kinds of problems. I'm not just talking as somebody with no similar experience.

Why do you assume that HPZM or JG AA would be ok with these major bugs? If they couldn't be fixed, the option to revert back is always there. However, as HPZM described, we need to improve the forums, and sometimes this results in certain risks.

Regarding the operation of ToZ, any work done is more informal in nature, without the financial support of thousands of customers and supporting technicians who can learn the full extent of the systems at play. This would take too long to establish, given the goals of ToZ and any plans for expansion. These are two separate situations and factors which influence the timeline of product development.

So that is why the development cycle was expedited, even if that resulted in some hiccups. You cannot lose faith over this just because some problems appeared, especially as it is through your own user experience that highlighted to us these problems in the first place. Maybe the process is turbulent, but is not a sinking or sunken ship that it may feel like, as it has only been a few days and JG AA has been working very hard to patch and restore everything.

Ol argedco luciftias wrote:View source

Thank you very much. I didn't expect that this would be fixed. I'm thankful that I was wrong.

Please have a little faith in us and don't over-react. These problems represent severe problems for us first and foremost as it's on us to make the solutions happen.

All of these have always been fixed. Everything mentioned here is either fixed now or will be fixed. Therefore, that must be kept in mind.

We know what we are doing.

We even plan here, if things go well, to introduce all posts from 2006-7 going all the way into the ancient history of the ToZ Yahoo Groups, to salvage the information. Not 100% sure if possible yet, but this board is very strong and we can do many things.

Patience and care is required, please recognize we are working on everything constantly.

Also, do notify us of any bugs found, and we will get in and address them until the forums are 1000% functional.

Hp. Zevios Metathronos wrote:View source

As maybe you know, I have a work for Yahoo groups. I'll leave the link.

https://mega.nz/folder/9nchATiC#e6YA72YAtsTGSRGi9NhezAExternal ↗

Very soon I will add nearly 200 articles here. For now there are 56 sermons. I plan to make this a separate topic.

I may seem a little overzealous. But I believe I can do it.

Regards, HP Zevios Metathronos.

Is there a sign or a section like 'favorite post'? I read some sermons twice. We could create such a place.

Look! If you want to know what my problem is? I would like to do an article but the thing is I don't even know what to do? People keep telling me that you can do your own thread? And that you can upload music on here and share it? And I tried to and it doesn't work I don't even know what I'm doing wrong laugh out loud? And it seems to me that everybody is complaining about something and now I might as well talk about the problems I'm having? I see everybody else posting a thread and they have their questions and you know I have got a shitload of questions? And I have got a lot of things that I want to share and talk about and if I knew how to do an article I would be right up there with HapS Lydia and some of these others on here that come up with great ideas! Sharing wonderful articles and sermons and threads and I am desperately trying to figure out a way where I can do that? Plus I would like to share music and every time I try to it doesn't come through

Dragonheart666 wrote:View source

Look! If you want to know what my problem is? I would like to do an article but the thing is I don't even know what to do? People keep telling me that you can do your own thread? And that you can upload music on here and share it? And I tried to and it doesn't work I don't even know what I'm doing wrong laugh out loud? And it seems to me that everybody is complaining about something and now I might as well talk about the problems I'm having? I see everybody else posting a thread and they have their questions and you know I have got a shitload of questions? And I have got a lot of things that I want to share and talk about and if I knew how to do an article I would be right up there with HapS Lydia and some of these others on here that come up with great ideas! Sharing wonderful articles and sermons and threads and I am desperately trying to figure out a way where I can do that? Plus I would like to share music and every time I try to it doesn't come through

You can post anything you want (within forum rules) to this subforum, but the clergy subforum is only for clergy. This is even in the title and the description. I had to delete your post, if you did not have it saved I can copy-paste it to you in DM.

We have many valuable members who post articles to the main subforum, and they help to enrich the ToZ community and all of the members here :)

Now I feel like a dork.. I posted my thread in the wrong group. And can't move it to where it should be

Dragonheart666 wrote:

And another problem I just did a thread and accidentally sent it to the clergy instead of the Temple of Zeus and I'm trying to repost it. HPS Lydia gave me a picture and was showing me how to do it but when I go to log on to the Temple of Zeus group the post is not pop up all it does is leave me an open space to do another one and I don't want to do a whole nother thread duplicate because I would have to take a photo stat picture of it and copy it word for word and send it into the right group! So the thread that I have created quote how do people feel about nursing homes these days? And that was my thread and I posted it into the wrong group! And now I can't move it and reposted where it should be! I should be able to have that on my own profile or where it should be at the end of the thread so that I could have an option? As to take it down if I have to or if I need to move it?

I sent it to you so you can just copy-paste it. If you're on a phone, press and hold to highlight all the text, copy it, then go to where I showed you, and paste it in. If you're on a laptop, then just click and drag to highlight all your text, then copy it.

Remove any extra text like the part that I had written, and then post it :)

Alright I will try that

ApolloAbove [JG] wrote:View source

Hey we just fixed this, calm down and try searching again.

Anything else I should do?

Hello,

I am not sure if anyone else has mentioned that old forum smilies and symbols do not work, and could be imported. Should be a pretty straightforward fix, right? https://www.ancient-forums.com/index.php?threads/help-wanted-trancemaking.91997/post-475248External ↗

Hp. Zevios Metathronos wrote:View source

Never is a big word, there will certainly be some differences, but there are also some perks. One of the perks is that if certain programmers respond, we are going to do tremendous things for the forums, for both the history of the ToZ and the future. None of this was possible in the previous software.

Perhaps one of the most cautious people to certain changes has been me. There was endless forethought and planning for this that goes back 3 years in time.

However, if you see a forum software collapsing over 250 active users, you cannot expect the 25k active users to be lifted by it.

This platform for example, can and might support in the future a minimalist theme. The previous one wasn't even loading the pages, and it was a heavily paid, armored and powerful server, still to no avail because the software sucked.

My best recommendation for future points on all of these matters is to not try to judge the whole universe based on the size of your own shoes, because you will more than likely understand that bigger things cannot exist within the confine of this "comfort".

I realized that this system has a lot more potential than the previous in every way, which I mentioned several times, my only assumption was that it won't be compatible with the previous database, which looks like I was wrong about.

I tend to fall into the mistake of assuming and judging things as I see them.
Thank you HP, ApolloAbove, and everyone who works on this!

ApolloAbove [JG] wrote:View source

All old links should work now, just put in a fix. Please test it further and let me know.

Works for me. Look forward for the search function.

The media function, if possible, could include embedding alt sites like Odysee and Bitchute, and even better, enabling us to upload videos here.

Egon wrote:View source

and even better, enabling us to upload videos here.

We can attach files, but there is a strict limit because we would need a lot of storage. If we would have a lot of storage like at least a petabyte we could make a ToZ video hosting platform like youtube. 1petabyte is 1000+ Terrabyte. Youtube has at least 1 exabyte which is 1 million+ terrabyte.

I presumed as much, that is why I suggested expanding the approved sites if that's a thing. Maybe another option could be embedding the link to a literal video file that one uploads somewhere else as links to video files ending in .mp4, .mkv and such.

AFODO wrote:View source

We can attach files, but there is a strict limit because we would need a lot of storage. If we would have a lot of storage like at least a petabyte we could make a ToZ video hosting platform like youtube. 1petabyte is 1000+ Terrabyte. Youtube has at least 1 exabyte which is 1 million+ terrabyte.

Why are there two sections for forum statistics? I think one is enough. The small one is my preference as the big one does not look aesthetically pleasing.

Thanks for your hard work, JG ApolloAbove!

Egon wrote:View source

Works for me. Look forward for the search function.

The media function, if possible, could include embedding alt sites like Odysee and Bitchute, and even better, enabling us to upload videos here.

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I believe it theoretically could, because the Embed from Odyssey is actually fairly straightfoward. Not sure, we will check this out however.

I'm not sure if the "Unread" function works properly. If I click on "New Posts", it sorts unread posts on the top, after a while it says "Threads below have not been updated since your last visit." but there are threads below that I never seen.

(although now I have 3 pages of unread posts which have never happened since than, maybe this got fixed right now?)

AFODO wrote:View source

I'm not sure if the "Unread" function works properly. If I click on "New Posts", it sorts unread posts on the top, after a while it says "Threads below have not been updated since your last visit." but there are threads below that I never seen.

(although now I have 3 pages of unread posts which have never happened since than, maybe this got fixed right now?)

Above that line are topics where new comments have been added since the last time your account was logged in here. Below that line, you have not read those yet, but nothing new has been added to them since last time you were here.