Current Website Updates (April 2010)

[shroomAzoom]

As you may be able to tell, I'm doing some updates to the website. You may ask yourself, why would he be doing that now? Good question. The admins have noticed that there has been a backlog in verifying new members since early March. In an effort to determine what is causing the problem of validation emails not getting out to potential new members, I've updated to the latest software. In addition to the regular forum software, the NWOG website runs a bunch of additional software to maintain the portal, front page, galleries, and other parts of the site. It's taking some time to get those (along with the website theme) back and operational. But the heart of the site, the forums, are functioning. AND, I think I know what's been preventing new users from receiving their validation email. So, I'll be fixing that soon too, hopefully. Thanks for your patience.

[shroomAzoom]

Well, if you haven't been online this morning, you may have missed out on the excitement. That's a good thing. If you have been around, you'll notice most of the website features coming back online; the portal, the theme. We're still working on getting the galleries back and some other things.

If you haven't been around this morning, you'll probably just notice the galleries are down and the site is just a little bit different. We've been upgrading the software (in an attempt to suss out the source of a new membership validation problem.

We hope to have things back to normal later today. Thanks again for your patience!

[Hunters-5]

I know you're still working on things with the update, but on the main page the shortcut to the NWOG logos and such - does not work.

[shroomAzoom]

Thanks Hunters5. You're right (on both accounts.) We were running a "pages" extension that allowed as many custom pages within the portal software as we wanted. But with the upgrade, that extension no longer works. So, I'm looking for a replacement. That's also why the SCC Cache submission and the Milestones submission pages aren't working. 

[phillipie99]

The log sheets can be found here if anyone was looking for them.

[shroomAzoom]

Alright, good news! The pages portion of the website is back in business. I'm currently in the process of putting all the old pages back online. That may take a little time, but we should be back in business (as far as pages go, at least) within the next day. Pages that need to be added are all the Featured Cachers, Milestones, SCC Cache submission (PRIORITY ONE), Resources and NWOG Gear. If you don't hear back from me on this in a couple days, that's because it's been taken care of. Over and out.