Johanna

Welcome, John! We are a people of sharp knives and big hammers, and most of us would rather be in the shop than updating a website or trying to figure out where the email disappeared to. If anyone needs tech assistance, call John. Some of you REALLY need to get your websites looking like it's 2025. John can fix you up without breaking the bank. I'm going to start him off with a simple leather project. Then the leather bug will bite him and he will be collecting hides and tools like the rest of us. It's inevitable. Muhahahahah! ~J

We had 25 posts per page, and I set it to 10. This forum was around before smart phones and thumb scrolling. @Wizcrafts Is there anything we can unpin from the Sewing Machines Forum? Search function is back online.

Should be a 2 hour window for edits by members.

I didn't change any edit settings. I'm off to find them now. ~J

I don't have an SSL on the server, just the sites. It's safe to bypass the warning. Have you tried clearing your cache and cookies?

https://50.6.207.207

I noticed your email isn't bouncing anymore. Are you receiving it now? I think our old IP was on a spam list because of the bitcoin hacker. Now that we've changed IPs there are almost no bounces. DNS should be resolved by noon tomorrow. That's what they promised, anyway! Hahaha

Yep. Exactly. We have a new IP address. Just for fun, type "leatherlady.net" in and see if that takes you to the forum directly.

At the bottom of the page you can toggle between themes. I will make changes as you ask for them, or make a third theme. The next board update in a month or two will allow the board to display in dark mode at night on a mobile. I could hack it now, but it's coming, and I have other things still on the list for now. Tell me what to change adjust or fix in "second choice" theme.

We did lose a bit of content. The migration finished this morning and I changed the DNS servers. I realized we had half on the old server and half on the new so I force logged everyone out in order to call up the new server as people came back online. I'm looking at improved spam detection right now. I just had to get this other stuff squared away first. ~J

The migration has begun. We are going to a fancy new server to handle the traffic. All will be well in a few hours. If it gets too bad, I'll shut the board off.

Yes. That wasn't an issue yesterday before I thought I fixed it. I'm getting a lag too.

I have a fob for the car I drive, but this ring of keys lives in my purse. When it was smaller and had my car key I let the braided tail hang out of my pocket to grab it quickly. People noticed it all the time and wanted one, too. Now it’s a 35 year old piece of braided goatskin hidden next to my tissues and epi pen. 🤣 The little things do make a difference.

If you folks get an extra minute, please use the search function hard so that we can be sure all is well with it and it is performing as it should. Thank you!

We have some background indexing that is lagging. It’s affecting the search function too. I have another tech looking at it tomorrow. Thanks for your patience. ~J

I think I fixed the upload size issue. Let me know if the board tries to limit you.

The hacker attempted to exploit the mailserver to send spam. Consequently, LW has made several blacklists for email, where it doesn't even go to spam, just bounces. I'm trying to clear our good name. The server is taking forever to reindex the files, so the search function isn't as reliable as usual. That should resolve itself, but I'm still waiting. When it's done indexing, I can bump up pic size permissions and the software will automatically display it at the best size for your screen. If I change the setting now, it's going to try to affect every pic we have and slow the server down further. I've got it on my list with the new skins you want. Some of this just has to wait until the background tasks finish. I really appreciate everyone's patience. The kind words from you guys makes everything worth it. Thank you. Johanna

I had to shut off the old theme because it kept breaking the limits of the sizes things can be. I have to make a new one that works with the current version of this software.

I will make different themes and everyone can choose how they want to see the forum. Right now the server is still doing background clean up tasks and I'm still figuring out how all the new stuff works. When I'm sure all is stable and good I will make themes. Using this one, right now, eliminates a lot of variables while I'm looking at other things. I've been using different versions of this same software now for almost 20 years and themes are not a big deal. I'll make it to where you can click a drop down arrow and select whatever you like best.

Please repost. I think we both deleted the second post at the same time @fredk

Yep. I'll make some alternative themes. I just want to get everything else running properly first. Looks like the hacker tried to exploit the mailserver in the old adserver. I kinda like the integrated ads and the flexibility they have not to break the skin. Thanks @BlackDragon and holler if you see anything that needs attention.

I'm working on it.