Johanna Report post Posted August 22, 2009 I wanted to warn you now before the board goes offline temporarily and you all get the shakes. We are going to be down for a few hours while we add some new fancy features to serve you better. In the meantime, while the board is down, or anytime you have a free moment, please contact your favorite vendors and urge them to support LW. Ad details are here: http://leatherworker.../adnews/ad.html Call Jerry of artisansew.com, Kevin of Springfield Leather, Peter of Waterhouse Leather, Cobra Steve and Ivan Sampson, the rosewood burnisher guy, and tell them you appreciate their support of leatherworker. They have made the new improvements possible. But we have so many quality vendors who should be advertising here- directly to their target market, our 6500+ members, people like you! Please contact them and tell them how great LW is, and how much you would like to see their ads supporting our efforts to grow and bring education, entertainment and fellowship to all leatherworkers, their current and future customers. We support the leather community, but LW is growing so quickly that we need funding to pay for the expansions. In exchange for backing LW, our advertisers get exposure to the people who will buy, delivered directly to their website from potential customers from all over the world! YOU can help LW by encouraging your favorite suppliers and vendors to support LW, and you can help them to increase their sales and reputations. Sellings advertising during a recession isn't easy, but so far our advertisers have found their investments have paid off. I need your help to convince more of them. Here is a handy list of people and places to contact: RETAILERS: Tandy Leather Factory www.tandyleatherfactory.com Dana Jones djones@tandyleather.com Worth Jackson wjackson@leatherfactory.com 817-872-3200 Siegel of California www.siegelofca.com Steven Stiegel siegel.leather@gmail.com 800-862-8956 Hidecrafter www.hidecrafter.com Eric Edrich eric@hidecrafter.com 817-878-5797 Zack Whites www.eleatherworks.com Tim Cox 800-633-0396 Standing Bears Trading Post www.sbearstradingpost.com WC (Wayne Christenson) cowboywc@earthlink.net 818 342-9120 Brettuns Village www.brettunsvillage.com Churchill Barton trunks@brettunsvillage.com 207-782-7863 Fire Mountain Gems www.firemountaingems.com 800-423-2319 Chris & Stuart Crazy Crow crazycrow.com 903-786-2287 PUBLICATIONS Leathercrafters and Saddlers Journal www.leathercraftersjornal.com David Reis davidjournal@newworth.net 715-362-5393 Shop Talk! www.proleptic.net Dr. Dan Preston shoptalk@proleptic.net 207-495-3600 Smoke and Fire www.smoke-fire.com editor@smoke-fire.com 800-766-5334 LEATHER Hermann Oak Leather Shep Hermann holc@hermannoakleather.com 800-325-7950 Wicket & Craig Matt Bressler mbressler@wicket-craig.com 814-236-2220 SEWING MACHINES Tippmann Industrial Products www.tippmannindustrial.com Bob Tippmann bob@tippmannindustrial.com 800-533-4831 Cowboy Sewing Machines www.neelsaddlery.com Ryan Neel neelre@comcast.net (866) 507-8926 Raphael Sewing Machines www.raphaelsewing.com mail@raphaelsewing.com 866-415-8223 Super Suppliers C. S. Osborne www.csosborne.com 973-483-3232 cso@csosborne.com Ohio Travel Bag www.ohiotravelbag.com info@ohiotravelbag.com 800-800-1941 Feibing www.fiebing.com custserv@fiebing.com 800-558-1033 Standard Rivet Company www.standardrivet.com 617-268-3100 Chaylor Fenneli www.chaylor.com Keith Johnson chaylor@bigpond.net.au Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
rdb Report post Posted August 23, 2009 The new look caught me unaware. What a difference a few hours make! You must have worked your tail off getting this going safely. Congratulations, and I will do as you ask about everyone supporting each other. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hidepounder Report post Posted August 23, 2009 WOW Johanna!!!! Caught me completely by surprise!!!! WOW, I've gotta go prowl around!!!!!! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CitizenKate Report post Posted August 23, 2009 The forum is up and running, but we're still in the process of restoring the site theme and getting all the custom features working again. Meanwhile, check out the new features... and more to come! Kate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Double U Leather Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Here's a question.......have the previous messages sent in the inbox, or received been vaporized or are they still available? I'm like everyone else. When I opened the forum page, I about fell over. Huge suprise!!! I'm not real good at change, so at first I kinda panicked a little..........LOL. I'm sure I'll get 'er figured out though. I do hope all of the past messages can be restored. Keep up the good work. This place rocks. P.S. Now that we have a new "house" in cyber space, do I have to clean up after myself better? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Johanna Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Here's a question.......have the previous messages sent in the inbox, or received been vaporized or are they still available? I'm like everyone else. When I opened the forum page, I about fell over. Huge suprise!!! I'm not real good at change, so at first I kinda panicked a little..........LOL. I'm sure I'll get 'er figured out though. I do hope all of the past messages can be restored. Keep up the good work. This place rocks. P.S. Now that we have a new "house" in cyber space, do I have to clean up after myself better? I'm not seeing the old PMs yet either, or the calendar, or the ads...LOL give me a little bit to see what we can sort out yet. Johanna Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TimKleffner Report post Posted August 23, 2009 HI JO YOU caught me off gaurd!!! Looks great ... Good Luck to all of us who support LW Happy Tooling Tim Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TwinOaks Report post Posted August 23, 2009 I was just about at the point of calling Jo, but I figured I'd wait and see. Quick note: Everything is taking about twice as long to load right now. That may be due to the changes, it may be my end of the pipe, I dunno.Also, the screen keeps jumping around, shifting up or down, apparently at random. Lemme know if I can help out,Mike Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
D.A. Kabatoff Report post Posted August 23, 2009 (edited) While I can certainly appreciate the fact that some people like change and a fresh, new look, I for one am not one of them. I have enough changes elsewhere in my life that it's been nice to be able to come to a forum and not have to try and figure out something new. I suppose I'll just have to suck it up and figure this stuff out like everyone else, but I sure don't like it (of course, my opinion is likely to change by tomorrow). :wtf: Darc ps. don't know why I put the cow there... Edited August 23, 2009 by D.A. Kabatoff Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MHolzer Report post Posted August 23, 2009 (edited) Is there a place for us to report bugs? For instance, on all the posts, instead of the date and time, it's showing h:i:a which should be the hour, minutes and seconds. And the member info on the side here <=== is showing j-Fy instead the joined date. Edited August 23, 2009 by MHolzer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Regis Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Johanna & gang, Site is looking terrific. Hope you are getting some sleep between fixing all the odds & ends. Looks like I'll have to learn my way around in the new format. Thanks for striving to keep up to date. Regis Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
jcivitello Report post Posted August 23, 2009 (edited) Is there a place for us to report bugs? For instance, on all the posts, instead of the date and time, it's showing h:i:a which should be the hour, minutes and seconds. And the member info on the side here <=== is showing j-Fy instead the joined date. That was the first thing I noticed when I seen the site this morning, it's the PHP scripting code that displays date & Time but for some reason it's posting the code instead of the date & Time......Johanna you need to check with IP Board on this issue.......other then that the site looks GREAT!!! Edited August 23, 2009 by jcivitello Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CitizenKate Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Hi guys, We do apologize for any inconvenience anyone is experiencing. Thanks for all the bug reports (it's fine to report them here, or in the feedback section). We are reviewing them regularly, and obviously there is still some work to do! Kate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jordan Report post Posted August 23, 2009 I used the fast reply box last night and as far as I can tell it did not post to the forum. Perhaps I did not do it right? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MHolzer Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Oh, and the logout button doesn't seem to work, not that anyone here would ever willingly log out Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
hidepounder Report post Posted August 23, 2009 (edited) I'm not seeing the old PMs yet either, or the calendar, or the ads...LOL give me a little bit to see what we can sort out yet. Johanna You're definitely making progress fast though...quotes are highlighted today and some other things are working.... Glad I saved my personal notes though.....I'd have to shoot myself if I lost those. I'm not sure "New Content" is sorting correctly....maybe it's my settings....I'll check that out. Also, someone will have to teach me how to read the new "date" system...I only understand dd/mm/yy. I can't figure out what the "status" deal is. My profile page kept telling me I hadn't set my status! What is that....our condition...like happy, sad, hung over? I guess I'm "Verticle".......beats the alternative! Lookin' good Gals!!!!!!! Bobby Edited August 23, 2009 by hidepounder Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cobra Steve Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Oh, and the logout button doesn't seem to work, not that anyone here would ever willingly log out Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MHolzer Report post Posted August 23, 2009 (edited) I can't figure out what the "status" deal is. It's kind of like Facebook or Twitter. Basically a way to let everyone know what you're up to at any point in time. Johanna or Kate : Is there twitter integration for the statuses? Edited August 23, 2009 by MHolzer Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
whinewine Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Sorry: I hate this format, I feel it is horrendously cumbersome, I don't like ANYTHING about it. I had to go to a different browser even to get this far- on my previous browser, I couldn't even get in to see any posts- everything locked up! This makes me even not want to make the effort to try to get into the site- it's such a PITA to deal with. Hell, you have to click on a link just to see a picture. I don't like it. why ruin a good thing? :wtf: russ Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TwinOaks Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Speed is coming back to 'normal' when loading pages, but there is a definite lag on interactive pages like this reply. Clicking to another area (like when I decided to add to this sentence instead of writing below) caused it to hang up. I got a full white page, no text, graphics, etc. Had to refresh the page with the browser button. Chat doesn't recognize this site's ID yet, I know, work-in-progress. PM's are gone. I know y'all are working on it and we appreciate it. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
CitizenKate Report post Posted August 23, 2009 There are people working to develop add-ons to integrate Twitter with IPB, but the ones I've come across are still pretty unstable. However, this version of IPB does have built-in integration with Facebook: IP.Board will now support a basic implementation of Facebook Connect as an option for logging into IP.Board and associating their account with the same login as their Facebook account. This feature will be off by default and can be optionally enabled by the administrator. I wouldn't be surprised to see future updates to add the same kind of functionality with Twitter. Kate Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TwinOaks Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Russ, with the way the site is expanding, and some of the upcoming features I've heard whispers about (like videos) there was simply no choice but to upgrade. At some point the old version of the site would have become obsolete. One of the major factors is the advertisers here. It takes money to run the site, and while AFAIK no one gets a salary, there's still bills to pay. The ads pay for things like bandwidth, server lease, program license fees, etc. In the past, member contributions were able to offset some of the costs, but not all. So here we are with the new version. Yes, there's bugs in the system right now, and I'm absolutely positive that they're being addressed. Remember, all the members and even the moderators (*gasp*) have families, yards to mow, church to attend, homes to clean, etc., as well as donate their time to this website/forum. This isn't half as bad as the Big Crash was, and this was planned. Now there's just a few wrinkles to iron out. It'll get better, we just need to give the crew a little time to work on it. One of the things I personally liked with the old style was a non-white background. For my eyes, it was easier to read the screen with the leather shaded background than it is a bright one. Plus, I've grown accustomed to knowing where everything was (control wise). Well, time to learn the new way! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Cobra Steve Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Johanna, lookin' good! Keep up the good work, Steve Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
King's X Report post Posted August 23, 2009 You guys (& ladies) do your thing as long as I can reach this place and continue to learn. Any change will take time to get it straighten out, so we have to show some patience. I like the RSS option personally since I have that going on my desktop for news. On a side note, I was on late last night and it freaked me out when I saw no forum and a forbidden notice when I tried to logged on. I am glad we are up! Johanna and crew, from me, thanks. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
MADMAX22 Report post Posted August 23, 2009 Well this will take some getting use too lol. Just wanted to add a couple of things I saw that Im not sure if they are bugs or not. On FF it seems to work pretty good but the PM's which you allready know about arent there. On IE8 which I primarily use lots of the post have a long dead space which makes it impossible to scroll down with the mouse wheel like I normally do. It doesnt do it in FF just IE8. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
