Upgrades, Site to be down for a little while

[sheila]

I'll be taking the site down for a couple hours starting around 9pm on Saturday night. (2/19--tomorrow). I have an upgrade and a couple other mainenance issues to take care of. Hopefully, it will only take a little while, and OUAL will be back up before midnight EST.

[Brooke]

Thanks for the warning.

[Dennis]

Can you fix the time when you're doing this?

[sheila]

:lol: I will see what I can do.

Sorry that it is such short warning... there will be another outage next weekend at some point (we have to figure out exactly when, though)

[Lette]

Can you fix the time when you're doing this?
:)

[Theresa]

Thanks for the warning! :)

[Amy]

Glad to know it's back up, but why is it EVERYONE'S birthday? :lol:

[Silke]

Glad to know it's back up, but why is it EVERYONE'S birthday? :lol:
I just posted a thread on that, Amy! :lol:

[staggats]

we had so many little customizations, that when we did the upgrade, a few of our enhancements really stand out. thanks for making us aware of the birthday thing, I think sheila just turned it off, and we'll get it working properly as soon as pratical.

[sheila]

Can you fix the time when you're doing this?
The time is fixed. :)

[Karri]

I am having problems w/ the home page. I can get into OUAL using my history (so I can get into a previously viewed/posted on page), but I cant get to the initial home page! Its blank!

[sheila]

I just fixed it.

[Dennis]

Thanks for fixing the time!

[staggats]

i think we figured out what was causing the page load speed problem too. So until i find a better way to do it, there will be no more telling you how many post & threads since your last visit

[Dennis]

Stagg, I'll take that tradeoff!

[staggats]

Stagg, I'll take that tradeoff!
So I guess you noticed the speed increase since the upgrade. It was running smoothly and then sheila installed that hack, and the page load went to a crawl. Now that it's fast again, I might come and visit more often.:jester:

[Silke]

So I guess you noticed the speed increase since the upgrade. It was running smoothly and then sheila installed that hack, and the page load went to a crawl. Now that it's fast again, I might come and visit more often.:jester:

Oh yeah, now you're talking. :dude:Major difference. Thanks. :)

[Silke]

Does anybody else get the error message "An error occurred while attempting to log you out." when you are logging out?

[staggats]

Does anybody else get the error message "An error occurred while attempting to log you out." when you are logging out?

It happens to me too, but I just ignore it. Now for a much more important question --

Why are you wanting to log out anyways??

[Silke]

It happens to me too, but I just ignore it. Now for a much more important question --

Why are you wanting to log out anyways??

:lol2:Gotta sleep once in a while.

[Mandi]

So I guess you noticed the speed increase since the upgrade.

You're not kidding! Man pages are loading so fast now! I'm loving it! :aok:

[Stacy]

thanks guys.

re:logging out -- i never log out i just close the pages so i can sleep. :)

[Nichole]

Wooooooohoooooooo!! I'm loving the page load speed!! :victory:

[Barb]

Wooooooohoooooooo!! I'm loving the page load speed!! :victory:

Me too!!

[Dennis]

Silke, unless you're using a shared computer and you're afraid someone will use your login, there's no need to log out.

Dennis

[Silke]

Silke, unless you're using a shared computer and you're afraid someone will use your login, there's no need to log out.

Dennis

I was more concerned about my work computer. I just have to clear my cookies now everytime.

[Mrs. Shae]

did the upgrade do something to old posts ... Karri PM'd me about one of my recipies having *odd characters* ... when i checked ... it wasn't just my receipies ... and wasn't only on one thread ... here are some examples ...

CHOCOLATE ÉCLAIR CAKE
a 13� x 9� pan
½ to 1 cup Chopped Green Onions
½ to 1 cup Chopped Celery
figuring it didn’t matter

[Jayne]

This speed is awesome!!

Jayne

[sheila]

did the upgrade do something to old posts ... Karri PM'd me about one of my recipies having *odd characters* ... when i checked ... it wasn't just my receipies ... and wasn't only on one thread ... here are some examples ...

CHOCOLATE ÉCLAIR CAKE
a 13� x 9� pan
½ to 1 cup Chopped Green Onions
½ to 1 cup Chopped Celery
figuring it didn’t matter

Oh no. I will have to look into that. I dont' think it was supposed to do anything to the old posts, but it appears that isn't the case. I will see if there is any documentation on this.

[Mrs. Shae]

Oh no. I will have to look into that. I dont' think it was supposed to do anything to the old posts, but it appears that isn't the case. I will see if there is any documentation on this.

Sheila ... if it is any help ... from what i remember of my posts ... it seems like the things that *changed* were:

letters that had some sort of "accent" to them [ É ] ... "quotation marks" ... my use of the three periods [...] between sentances or fragments ... and something prior to [some ... not all] fractions ...

[staggats]

It happens to me too, but I just ignore it. Now for a much more important question --

Why are you wanting to log out anyways??

I was really only poking a little fun, it wasn't a serious question. I was asking the question in a why would you every wish to leave this place sortof way, and in my own odd way I thought it was humerous because I rarely stop by. That's all

Anyways on to the real reason why I'm back again, and that is because I got the "There have been XX threads and YYY posts since your last visit!" back up, and this time we're obtaining that info much more efficiently.

[staggats]

Sheila ... if it is any help ... from what i remember of my posts ... it seems like the things that *changed* were:

letters that had some sort of "accent" to them [ É ] ... "quotation marks" ... my use of the three periods [...] between sentances or fragments ... and something prior to [some ... not all] fractions ...

That is exactly what it is, and is typically an issue when you copy and paste from a M$ Word document into the WYSIWYG, and your browser is rendering the text in a font different than the one originally used in the M$ Document. It's also possible that other users do not have the font installed on their system that would allow the character to be rendered correctly. The upgrade also may have modified CSS attributes, and now some text will not render the non-typeable characters correctly.

To prevent this from happening in the future copy and paste from plain text editors such as emacs, vi, notepad, etc.

[Mrs. Shae]

To prevent this from happening in the future copy and paste from plain text editors such as emacs, vi, notepad, etc.

thanks for the answer ... but now another question ... i do notice that i have to go back and re-edit my posts when i copy from Word [mainly a line spacing issue] ... but since all of my recipies are in Word ... if i copy and paste them into notepad and then copy and paste into a post here ... will that work?

[sheila]

Yes, that will work. That's usually what I do.

[Mrs. Shae]

Yes, that will work. That's usually what I do.

:thumbsup: thanks ...

and btw ... the pages do load WAYYYYYYYYYYYY faster ... and OT ... but the recent addition of a Wedding section is AWESOME ... i LOVE this site :biggrin:

[Dennis]

and btw ... the pages do load WAYYYYYYYYYYYY faster ... and OT ... but the recent addition of a Wedding section is AWESOME ... i LOVE this site :biggrin:[/font]

Be careful - you don't want Sheila, Stagg and Wendy to get swelled heads! :)

[Dennis]

Anyways on to the real reason why I'm back again, and that is because I got the "There have been XX threads and YYY posts since your last visit!" back up, and this time we're obtaining that info much more efficiently.

Can you get it to work on the home page? It still says "There have been threads and posts since your last visit!" without any numbers.

Dennis

[sheila]

:thumbsup: thanks ...

and btw ... the pages do load WAYYYYYYYYYYYY faster ... and OT ... but the recent addition of a Wedding section is AWESOME ... i LOVE this site :biggrin:

Wedding section? I didn't add a wedding section.... :scratch:

Can you get it to work on the home page? It still says "There have been threads and posts since your last visit!" without any numbers.
I'll remind Stagg to look into it. I know why it doesn't work, but I don't know how to fix it.

[Silke]

Don't we have that threads and posts thing back already? :scratch: It shows up on my right corner.

[Jennie]

I had to post over here - I've been not visiting as much because it's been so slow but things are soooooo much zippier that I'm back and posting again like a made woman. THANKS guys and gals for the hard work and upgrades!

[Lette]

Love the upgrades! :up:

Thanks so much for the time too! :awink:

[Mrs. Shae]

Wedding section? I didn't add a wedding section.... :scratch:


:blush: OMG ... totally embarrassed here ... i got sites confused :blush:

[Brookamy]

:spitwater

[Dennis]

Don't we have that threads and posts thing back already? :scratch: It shows up on my right corner.

Right, but the one on the home page doesn't work. It doesn't have any numbers.

[Nocona]

It never has (for me), Dennis.

[Dennis]

Me neither Nocona.