Johanna

Thank you Alex! I'm going a little crazy trying to keep up with things this week, and I couldn't have said what you just did any better. Thank you for explaining posting so well. ~J

Okay, Chancey- that made me snort coffee up my nose. There are no "Gods", just me and a handful of other green people. We're more like janitors than royalty, but I really liked the "best site in the whole wide world" part. That got my attention! Okay, we'll add it in there next to motorcycles, but you have to promise to help fill it up with pics of your pretty work! Encourage your friends to share there too so the place isn't empty. You folks make my job fun. I've been playing guitar for 40 years now...and music is good for the soul. When my phone rings, I have to turn Pandora down to answer.) ~J

You understand exactly what we are trying to do: "Education, entertainment and fellowship". Would you like to join the ambassador team and help out with the welcomes and bumping up any oversights? ~J

I warned everyone that things might be a little bumpy for a day or two until we get everything sorted out! Thanks for letting me know what happened to you. I'm still working on the issues. ~J

We usually post new stuff in "Show Off" and then the mods sort the older posts into the proper catagories after a few weeks. If you see any inappropriate posts just click "report to mods" and one of us will delete/move/edit/ the post as needed. HTH Johanna

Because we have been upgrading the hardware that runs this site and I haven't set the time on the new server yet.

The flags are from a modification we did 3 boards ago. The feature has always had problems, but I kept it because of the convenience. The latest version available seems to work, but it's missing the country of Israel. Strange. huh? So I Googled the developer's name. Oh, yuck, I don't want to buy anything from someone so hateful. So I am looking for another country flag mod, and the info is still being collected for use, but I'd rather wait to find a clean version than to use the one currently being offered. I am not the only board owner upset about the anti Semitic stuff, so I expect something soon. Cheers. ~J PS I wanna go to Sweden too!

I might be there- need to wait and see what this next week slams us with! Hope to see everyone soon!

That's a good idea. When we set up the original forums we didn't anticipate the interest in all the "other machinery" you mentioned. (We didn't think we'd have 30,000 members either, but, hey, our coffee is always fresh and hot and people like it here.) Thank you for the suggestion. It's on the list. ~J

I asked Kate, our highly skilled Server Administrator, to look into this also. And then she made some excellent suggestions that I will be following up on to try to get the very best performance out of our board. Thank you Kate and everyone else who is helping to transition our board into the latest and greatest! Keep the feedback coming! ~J

I'm sorry you are having this problem, but I can't replicate it. Speed testing services show room for improvement, but in fractions of a second. I will continue to try to find a solution for your problem.

I have tried every browser, several different computers and 2 different ISPs and always the board is faster now than it was before the update. On my computer it's point and click. Cascabel, there is not a lot of "garbage" loading in the background- actually a lot less is loading compared to the old board. What kind of computer do you have? Connection? What kind of browser do you use? Have you cleared your cookies recently? Anyone else experiencing slow page loading times? Almost all the mail to me mentions how much faster the board is now, so I am eager to troubleshoot the problem. Even during peak periods, no page is taking longer than 3 seconds to load for me. ~J

Is anyone other than Cascabel experiencing slow loading of pages? I'm hearing that the board is much faster than it was, and it certainly is at my computer.

You got me, Phil! Thanks for the kind words. I'm trying.

I was doing a lot today, and am probably responsible for the sql errors. I'm just about done "under the hood", so I think these errors will go away. At one point today the whole server went down for a few moments. I think my heart stopped beating and I broke out into a cold sweat. I took off the mod that allows you to see your time spent on the forum. Some boards have members that get a kick out of knowing. I turned it on about 4pm yesterday, and off about the same time today. Unless you folks want it back, it's gone. The popups are intended to be a convenience. I will look for a way to allow members to use them or not. There may be a mod for that. The mobile skin is blue by default. I can put colors on it and make the icons spiffier, but I want to get the Gallery sorted and a couple odds and ends done first before I start skinning our phones. The favicon is back- but I had to hit F5 half a dozen times for my browser to figure it out. Give it time, and the cow will return. Please keep the feedback coming. I want this board to be flexible enough to let you use it your way, and easy enough to use that no one smashes their keyboard with a hammer. Let me know if you notice any errors or bad links. I'm pretty sure we're good, but I can always use the extra eyes. I know some folks don't like change, but there are many security improvements that came along with this update, and that alone is worth the hassle. You might get cooties from FB, but you won't get it from LW. As far as the speed goes- we're a lot faster at page loading than we were on the old board, and I'm not done optimizing yet. It should keep on improving. Let me know if you continue to have any issues with pages loading. ~J

Will you mobile device users please check the board and make sure you are getting the mobile skin displaying correctly? I want to make sure that is working fine before Tapatalk goes on. Thanks!

Forgot the favicon- fixed that. Shut off the "time spent" feature. Will continue to investigate speed issue.