OT: CBJ Lounge XXII (All Non-Sports, Non-Political Talk Here)

[ThirdPeriodTurtle]

Yeah hope they get the theme fixed and returned back to normal soon. I don't hate the default theme vehemently but the old felt nicer (I'm oldschool anyways, so more text and condensed reading is preferred).

Now, if this update also actually helps the site perform better and not get bogged down with ads if you're not a sponsor, that'd be great.

 

[MissADD]

This is going to take some getting used to

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

So far, I like not getting bombarded with pop ups telling me I need to disable my pop up blocker when I already have it turned off.

That's a bonus.

 

[ThirdPeriodTurtle]

Oh yeah btw, anybody else find it suspicious that the NHL.com videos and game recaps were not available last night/today until recently - exactly at the same time as the HFB update took the site down? Conspiracy, I tell you. Only logical conclusion is that HFB is secretly run by Bettman.

(To be specific, videos did work, but they did not upload new ones, so e.g. the Chicago-Colorado game only had the first one or two goal videos up, and the rest was nowhere to be found. The games also only had "Gamecenter" available, no recaps. They fixed it some hours ago, right around the time HFB had the maintenance message showing after the original database error messages... Very suspicious.)

 

[CBJWerenski8]

is this thing on

one thing I hate is that I cannot distinguish what is and what isn’t a stickied thread anymore. They’re all compiled together. Maybe that’s just my settings

 

[Viqsi]

Been so busy on the mains that I forgot to check in on my home forum. Mea culpa.

Here's where this is all being discussed:

Thread 'The Official Anti - Change Thread'

Thursday at 2:34 PM

I HATE THIS CHANGE CHANGE IT BACK I HATE HCNAGE

• Mr Kot
• Replies: 406
• Forum: National Hockey League Talk

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(@CBJWerenski8 and @Double-Shift Lasse, there's also a mods thread about it which you can probably easily find)

Short version: it's our hosting provider's "fault" and is being actively worked on. We got force-updated to a newer version of the Xenforo software, and while ownership saw it coming, site admins didn't (because ownership didn't tell anyone, bravo to them). But it wouldn't have mattered because Xenforo Cloud doesn't provide a way to test and see what impact such an upgrade will have on your collected add-ons, so there wasn't much of a way to head this off in advance in any case. So everybody's caught off guard scrambling.

I'm trying to assist where I can since I also "own" a Xenforo Cloud site and so know some of the issues, but I've been limited mostly to just providing info where possible.

 

[Viqsi]

is this thing on

one thing I hate is that I cannot distinguish what is and what isn’t a stickied thread anymore. They’re all compiled together. Maybe that’s just my settings

Nope, that's a known issue with this default theme. Everyone hates it and we all hope it can be banished soon.

 

[ThirdPeriodTurtle]

Been so busy on the mains that I forgot to check in on my home forum. Mea culpa.

Here's where this is all being discussed:

Thread 'The Official Anti - Change Thread'

Thursday at 2:34 PM

I HATE THIS CHANGE CHANGE IT BACK I HATE HCNAGE

• Mr Kot
• Replies: 406
• Forum: National Hockey League Talk

• 
• 
• 

(@CBJWerenski8 and @Double-Shift Lasse, there's also a mods thread about it which you can probably easily find)

Short version: it's our hosting provider's "fault" and is being actively worked on. We got force-updated to a newer version of the Xenforo software, and while ownership saw it coming, site admins didn't (because ownership didn't tell anyone, bravo to them). But it wouldn't have mattered because Xenforo Cloud doesn't provide a way to test and see what impact such an upgrade will have on your collected add-ons, so there wasn't much of a way to head this off in advance in any case. So everybody's caught off guard scrambling.

I'm trying to assist where I can since I also "own" a Xenforo Cloud site and so know some of the issues, but I've been limited mostly to just providing info where possible.

Thanks! Having run a couple of smaller vBulletin/phpBB sites with custom themes and even a XenForo (that we didn't modify much because of these kind of issues lol), I feel your collective pain. Coupled with the amount of users here, it must be a madhouse. Cheers, good luck getting through it all in one piece. Hopefully most folks understand when they read the reasons behind the update and issues.

 

[Viqsi]

Thanks! Having run a couple of smaller vBulletin/phpBB sites with custom themes and even a XenForo (that we didn't modify much because of these kind of issues lol), I feel your collective pain. Coupled with the amount of users here, it must be a madhouse. Cheers, good luck getting through it all in one piece. Hopefully most folks understand when they read the reasons behind the update and issues.

The key issue with this sentiment is "when they read".

 

[Iron Balls McGinty]

Pop ups are back. Knew it was too good to be true.

 

[Jovavic]

Anyway to change back to light mode from dark?

 

[Viqsi]

Anyway to change back to light mode from dark?

It's ostensibly tied to the default in your OS - if your OS theme is dark, HF will be dark. That's how it's supposed to operate, anyways.

 

[Jovavic]

It's ostensibly tied to the default in your OS - if your OS theme is dark, HF will be dark. That's how it's supposed to operate, anyways.

You're awesome, thanks! I use Firefox to see this site on mobile and Chrome for everything else so I forgot that.

 

[Double-Shift Lasse]

Ahhhh now I have to click into the division before I can click into CBJ forum??? Ahhhhhhhgggggg

Fixed?

 

[GoJackets1]

Fixed?

Not on mobile.

 

[Monstershockey]

Not on mobile.

You may have to re-favorite the Jackets page. I've had that happen before and I just opened the Jackets page and saved it as a new favorite and it worked. Mine still opens to the Jackets page on mobile, my desktop opens the the main page, like it did before the update.

 

[ThirdPeriodTurtle]

Hey we got the stats back for profiles and the rectangle profile pics. Nice. Slowly but surely things returning to normal. Very curious to see how the "big" theme changes/colors will go, if it's basically just the previous style as it was or if there's some tweaks.

 

[CBJWerenski8]

Light mode doesn’t work on mobile. Maybe it’s just me

 

[Viqsi]

Hey we got the stats back for profiles and the rectangle profile pics. Nice. Slowly but surely things returning to normal. Very curious to see how the "big" theme changes/colors will go, if it's basically just the previous style as it was or if there's some tweaks.

The goal is to bring back the color theming we had before, but that's being worked on quietly. At this rate, tho, it'll probably be next week.

 

[Viqsi]

Light mode doesn’t work on mobile. Maybe it’s just me

If your mobile defaults to dark mode for everything else, HF will default to dark mode. I understand they're working on making it possible to specify one or the other independent of system settings but that's still a work in progress.

 

[koteka]

The goal is to bring back the color theming we had before, but that's being worked on quietly. At this rate, tho, it'll probably be next week.

What’s with that girl’s head as a like option?

 

[Seedtype]

Not on mobile.

It's fine for me now on mobile.

 

[Viqsi]

What’s with that girl’s head as a like option?

It's a mains board meme.