🆕 Forum Update Log (Dec. 2018)

[djensen]

This is the log of changes made to the forums in December 2018.

Here is a link to the previous update log:

• Forum Update Log (Nov. 2018)

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Saturday, December 1, 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: Added badges to new patrons

:ballot_box_with_check: Updated goal graphics

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Sunday, December 2, 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: Restarted server a few times

:ballot_box_with_check: Attempted to debug search problems

:ballot_box_with_check: Filed bug about slow/crashing search

:ballot_box_with_check: Turned off search

:ballot_box_with_check: Manually removed all the the unnecessary temporary import data from the database

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Tuesday, December 4, 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: More debugging and bug filing and followups

:ballot_box_with_check: Deleted old search records

:ballot_box_with_check: Re-indexed for search excluding the TripleA games

:ballot_box_with_check: : Re-enabled search

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Wednesday, December 5, 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: Renamed the Axis & Allies 2nd Edition category to Axis & Allies Classic

:ballot_box_with_check: Debugged invalid session issues

:ballot_box_with_check: Restored missing avatars

:ballot_box_with_check: Reset profile images for profiles with missing avatar files (also had no avatars on old forums)

:ballot_box_with_check: Moved new upload files to attached volume storage (forgot to do this after migration)

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Thursday, December 6, 2019

:ballot_box_with_check: Changed the colors of nearly all the categories to a new color scheme.

:ballot_box_with_check: Set the badges for all of the 2017 Patrons (meaning if they were a 2017 patron and were showing only one badge I manually changed it to show them all, unless I knew they didn’t want any).

:ballot_box_with_check: Sent chat messages about the Support Drive to 2017 Patrons who have not subscribed this year.

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Friday, December 7, 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: Added sponsor badges

:ballot_box_with_check: A little more debugging on a few pesky bugs.

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I keep forgetting to update the log. Some of the little things might get dropped off the list. I won’t update the log if all I do is add some badges or send a bunch of chat messages.

Sunday, December 9, 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: Designed new patron ribbons for 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: Installed the Trophy plugin for the ribbons and medals

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Monday, December 10, 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: Filed a github issue for NodeBB to implement widgets to “hide from” a group (so we can hide ads for patrons)

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Friday, December 14, 2018

:ballot_box_with_check: Upgraded server to 2GB/2CPU

:ballot_box_with_check: Enabled clustering (2 servers are running, 1 for each CPU)

:ballot_box_with_check: Re-enabled automatic restarts for crashes

This one was quite a bit of late night work but needed to be done since we were getting hammered by Google crawlers and indexers.

:ballot_box_with_check: Updated to the latest version of NodeBB

:ballot_box_with_check: Continued the conversation regasrding the random log out problem.