"Likes" system and other misc site issues

For those that might have missed it. Our server had a little bit of a hiccup. Thursday night I performed a required software upgrade on the server and it broke our old "Likes" system (it broke a lot more actually, and I was up all night fixing stuff). Well normally that would not be a problem, I woulda probably just installed a patch for that broken software and it woulda worked. Well, turns out, the "Likes" software I was using is no longer available (their website is even down). So I have no way to get support for that software.

It's disconcerting that something like that happened because it was software that I paid for. But I have absolutely no recourse. Companies go out of business all the time.

Anyway, I found new software to implement "Likes" with, and I've done so. I'm not 100% happy with it, but it's all I could find. It's also something I paid for, so we can thank all the "Supporting Members" for covering that cost.

I'm still making changes to this new software so please bear with me. You can post questions about any of this here in this thread.

Thanks Slab, we know you are doing your best. I appreciate you!!!!!

Buster

We love to poke fun at you Ed but the hard work you do is greatly appreciated :biggrin

C'mon guys and gals, gimme some likes here, lets see how this thing works.

One thing that I've opened a support ticket on is, when you click Like, nothing happens. You have to refresh the page to see the like. And I don't like that.

It's weird cause when you unlike a post, it's removed immediately, and you can see that. The problem not seeing that you clicked like is, you will tend to click it twice, and when you do that you are actually "liking it, and then unliking it". Weird system they got. Hopefully I can get that fixed.

Worked for me. And you're right clicking it twice does remove it. Thanks for you're hard work. Really enjoy the site. On here every day.

Oh, and there's still another two pieces of software I need to fix after that Thursday night upgrade fiasco. There's a cache system that helps performance that's still down, and I can't update the advanced search's index. So new posts won't sho in the advanced search yet.

And the other issue is google search. That broken software I mentioned in the first also messed up my URLs (web page addresses). I fixed some, but Google still points to web pages that don't exist anymore. Well, they don't exist by the old name. I already submitted a new site map to google, and eventually they will get their site updated, and it'll all be good. But until then, there might be broken links on googles search engine if you use that. Same holds true for Bing and other search engines.

Doing a great job getting it all back together. Thanks for your work.

You da man!

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Originally Posted by Slab

For those that might have missed it. Our server had a little bit of a hiccup. Thursday night I performed a required software upgrade on the server and it broke our old "Likes" system (it broke a lot more actually, and I was up all night fixing stuff). Well normally that would not be a problem, I woulda probably just installed a patch for that broken software and it woulda worked. Well, turns out, the "Likes" software I was using is no longer available (their website is even down). So I have no way to get support for that software.

It's disconcerting that something like that happened because it was software that I paid for. But I have absolutely no recourse. Companies go out of business all the time.

Anyway, I found new software to implement "Likes" with, and I've done so. I'm not 100% happy with it, but it's all I could find. It's also something I paid for, so we can thank all the "Supporting Members" for covering that cost.

I'm still making changes to this new software so please bear with me. You can post questions about any of this here in this thread.

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We appreciate all your efforts my friend. Have a blessed and Merry Christmas.

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We appreciate all your efforts my friend. Have a blessed and Merry Christmas.

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+1 !!!

I cant get on the Main MS forum, when I click on it it brings me back to the Main forum. I can get the off topic MS, just not the main MS,

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I cant get on the Main MS forum, when I click on it it brings me back to the Main forum. I can get the off topic MS, just not the main MS,

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How are you trying to get there? Are you following a "favorite" that was stored on your PC. Is so, follow the links on the site and recreate that favorite on your PC.

HEre's a link to the new URL:
http://www.crappie.com/crappie/forum...21-Mississippi

Ed, if it wasn't for you, there probably wouldn't be a CDC in the first place. Thanks for all you do, to keep this ship afloat.

I tried your link Slab , same thing, brings me to main forum. I scroll down to states click on Ms brings me to main, Scroll down again to MS and move over to off topic and it comes up.

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I tried your link Slab , same thing, brings me to main forum. I scroll down to states click on Ms brings me to main, Scroll down again to MS and move over to off topic and it comes up.

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OK, I'm thinking you have a bad URL stuck in you local cache on your PC. Can you clear your browsers cache and try again.

Still no good, I had a pop up that said it was done cleaning browser history, whats next

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Still no good, I had a pop up that said it was done cleaning browser history, whats next

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I think you need to do more than just clear history. What browser you using? I'll use that same browser and tell you what you need to clear.

Im using Yahoo

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Im using Yahoo

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I dono, yahoo is not a browser, it's a search engine.

Sorry for the delays in response. I'm working hard to get the performance of the server back up to snuff. We've had issues and I know how to fix it, just working on it still.

Link took me to the MS board, I'm using IE. I need to add a new link to MO since the old one don't work.

Slab, as others said, THANK YOU.


All I can say is if I did all these I would....

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GREAT JOB MAN!!!

great work, now get us a dislike button.

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I cant get on the Main MS forum, when I click on it it brings me back to the Main forum. I can get the off topic MS, just not the main MS,

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I'm having the same problem,can't get to main crappie fishing forum from main page also a few other topics. Some open fine and others just go back to main page. I'm using firefox. this is happening on both my computers. I know you're working on it and will have it back on top soon.
Thanks to you for giving us the best fishing forum on the net.

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Thanks for the hard work. The "likes" counter is still a bit off. It shows 4.2 billion "likes" received by Slab. :cheers2 a popular guy.

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Good job !!

keep up the good work and i will tell the BOSS to get you a raise

It seems to be fixed now, but earlier this morning when I started readying this thread it kept saying the server was busy when i was trying to go from page one to page 2. It seems to be working now.

As everyone else has said. Thank you very much for all of the hard work that you put into this great site for all of us to enjoy.


Bobo

Like system counters are correct for some folks and others are reading several million