Popular Post mikelove Posted August 8, 2025 at 01:58 PM Popular Post Report Posted August 8, 2025 at 01:58 PM Something seems to have gone severely wrong with a recent automated upgrade and it basically scrambled all of the JavaScript files relating to making posts, so that it was impossible to post anything. After unsuccessfully trying to revert to the old files (which Invision irritatingly unpacks from an XML file but was refusing to unpack from a fixed version of that file) I ended up deciding to just restore the whole thing from a backup instead - this unfortunately means that a day or so of posts have been lost, but as I'm currently traveling and it would take several days before I'd be in a position to fix it some other way, that seemed like the least bad option. I've switched the server to daily instead of weekly backups now, so if this happens again and this solution is necessary again, it should mean less lost data. Very sorry for the hassle. 5 1 Quote
mikelove Posted August 8, 2025 at 02:00 PM Author Report Posted August 8, 2025 at 02:00 PM Also, having run a forum on XenForo for a decade and experienced zero of these sorts of 2-to-3-times-a-year severe outages on it: how strongly do people feel about staying on Invision? Moving to XenForo would mean losing the blog function, but it seems to be relatively little used and it seems like a cleaner / more stable / generally better behaved platform otherwise. Quote
Tomsima Posted August 8, 2025 at 02:08 PM Report Posted August 8, 2025 at 02:08 PM Thanks for fixing Mike, very much appreciated considering you're on the road. While blogs are not used that much right now, I feel like it would be a big loss as I know many people 'shadow' follow the progress blogs that students occasionally do here. Presumably a switch would also mean losing access to all blogs from previous years which would be terrible, the blogs on cursive Chinese by Harvey are a good example of something I still refer back to every few months or so. 1 Quote
Yadang Posted August 19, 2025 at 04:10 PM Report Posted August 19, 2025 at 04:10 PM On 8/8/2025 at 8:08 AM, Tomsima said: While blogs are not used that much right now, I feel like it would be a big loss as I know many people 'shadow' follow the progress blogs that students occasionally do here. Presumably a switch would also mean losing access to all blogs from previous years which would be terrible, the blogs on cursive Chinese by Harvey are a good example of something I still refer back to every few months or so. Could blogs be replaced by a thread in which only the OP posts (and replies to themself)? I guess that would not allow for others to comment... Quote
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