The Official Anti - Change Thread ( the HFB Update thread)

[SniperHF]

Most everyone is saying grey mode now

We are in a state of flux right now it seems.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

New reactions

 

[Cloned]

Don’t mind me, just testing the new reactions.

 

[Viqsi]

So was this a planned outage?

Don't websites usually... provide some sort of notice?

Put up a banner, weeks in advance?

Instead of just randomly going down for 24 hours?

Ownership was informed that an update was coming. Site admins were not. And literally nobody knew that said update would bring the site's theme to its knees.

I for one am hoping XFCloud provides "testing" instances to clients in the future to prevent this sort of thing. IIRC this is arguably the first truly big update since they started the service (certainly the first since HF moved to same) and some lessons should be learned.

 

[Seedtype]

Don’t mind me, just testing the new reactions.

I don't see any? (or do you mean the Like stuff)

 

[SniperHF]

So was this a planned outage?

Don't websites usually... provide some sort of notice?

The upgrade to the new version of XF was planned. The new version of XF breaking every single theme element of a dozen or so sites (not just HF) was not.

 

[Poppy Whoa Sonnet]

I don't see any? (or do you mean the Like stuff)

Yeah, now there's sad and angry

 

[Lunatik]

Don’t mind me, just testing the new reactions.

I like he sad/mad additions... I never liked "liking" bad news

 

[Koivu11]

Is it possible to get square avatars back? The circles don’t look great.

 

[Golden_Jet]

We are in a state of flux right now it seems.

I see that, I went from grey back to white, good luck, appreciate it.

 

[Lunatik]

I don't see any? (or do you mean the Like stuff)

yeah the addition of sad/mad in addition to like, lol and wow

 

[Cloned]

Yeah, now there's sad and angry

Also whoa

 

[Seedtype]

I like he sad/mad additions... I never liked "liking" bad news

I agree there should be a proper dislike emote, but they said they're gonna remove them. /shrug

 

[Viqsi]

I like he sad/mad additions... I never liked "liking" bad news

Yeah, I feel the same about "sad". On That Other Site I Help Admin, we (well, I) custom added a "solidarity" reaction emoji as well for similar purposes.

"Dislike", OTOH, is... not helpful IMO.

 

[These Are The Days]

Well.... if we need positives, I have noticed the lack of ads blocking every square inch of my screen. How about you guys?

 

[Satans Hockey]

I love the new website, don't even need to use a pop up blocker like normal. Love it! Leave it be!

 

[BB79]

Hey I have an idea, let's change how the boards look and move everything around at exactly the midpoint of the season to screw with everyone!

This black and blue theme is ghastly

 

[Lunatik]

Hey I have an idea, let's change how the boards look and move everything around at exactly the midpoint of the season to screw with everyone!

This black and blue theme is ghastly

they didn't have a choice in the matter, read teh notice at the top of the page

 

[Gaylord Q Tinkledink]

 

[BB79]

they didn't have a choice in the matter, read teh notice at the top of the page

I don't know who this Xenforo guy is but I'm going to slug him in the face

 

[Cloned]

I don't know who this Xenforo guy is but I'm going to slug him in the face

Ever watch The Matrix?

 

[amnesiac]

I just threw up

 

[Viqsi]

I don't know who this Xenforo guy is but I'm going to slug him in the face

Xenforo is the folks behind both the software that makes this forum possible and the cloud hosting service the forum runs on. We're ever-so-slightly dependent on them for our very existence.

Life's like that sometimes.

 

[HockeyVirus]

Just here to say after understanding the situation, thank you admins for working hard to try and bring our forum back. Tough situation to be thrown into having everything reset unexpectedly and a bunch of upset users.

 

[Iggys Dome]

I look forward to new and unique ways to troll by using the "sad" and "angry" emojis.