Forum software upgrade - please report issues

TT added back in. I'm sufficiently convinced. Please be aware that some of the new TT app version contain ads. We don't show ads to logged in members (only to guests) but I think (but cannot confirm) that TT might show ads to everyone.

 

Thanks for adding TT back. my tool bars are blank right above where im typing this.

 

Yep, Mine too, except for the "Reports" Flag.... The "Moderation" Flag, and the "Moderators Forum" Flag have disappeared...

 

Switch styles then refresh then switch back, M just had me do that and it worked for me.

 

Nope, still the same....Oh well, I will get by....

 

Thanks M for the TT being re-enabled!!!

 

I believe that Moderation flag will only appear when there are things to moderate. Moderation forum flag has been removed. The updated version was not working well. RH has a thread on this in Mod forum.

 

OK, Thanks Melbo....

 

Just realized that the new editor has auto-save:

 

The display of new posts before reply is an excellent feature, as well as auto-save.

 

Made a few other changes that reverted the forum theme/style.
Please let me know if you see anything that doesn't look right or that you'd like changed - couple of small color changes but nothing major. forum should be loading faster for most of you. If not hold Shift & F5 for a hard refresh on your browser.

 

So no other complaints? This is a first... Tac?

 

Another thing I LOVE about this update:


I can revert back to default font color with the ability to click 'None'. This feature was not possible with the older theme style. No complaints from me, only praise!


One thing of note, however. I do not see a link in the main navigation anywhere for members to navigate to the SM help page: Help | Survival Monkey Forums It used to be on the top nav bar, but I can't find the link anywhere. Thankfully, I remembered where the page was located and just manually navigated to it.

 

Glad you like the new editor.

Help was moved to the footer (by design) as help is a rarely used link and didn't warrant space in the navigation tabs,

 

Update on Tapatalk.

All of you, paid TT app or free TT app are going to begin seeing ads. Forum owners have little control over it.

Also, when you uploaded an image in TT previously, it actually sent the file to the survivalmonkey server for storage. Now, they have disabled that option and all images/files you upload are to be sent to a server in China and will be served to TT that way. In the past, we could override that and force files to stay on the server... not after today and the biggest problem with this is that we are the Information Archive - nothing should ever go red X or be missing. If TT users upload pictures over the years to TT servers in China and then they go bust or disappear, all our images are broken.

We have about 19-25 visits from users on TT each day compared to 3500 visitors daily. I agreed to bring it back but once again ask you to log into the site from your mobile browser, save sm to your home screen and give it a try. I'm especially concerned that we are allowing our content to be hosted in a country that is high on the list of cyber attacks in the US.

 

Did you ever get this working? I know that when we upgrade the server side of tt, sometimes tt users need to go into Settings > Reset Cache to get things working.

 

I for one, have uploaded the browser on my droid and use tapatalk secondary. If TPT needs to go.... I am good with that and support your move 100%. Thanks for the consideration of the matter previously. Your explanation to the issue.... above.... compels me to agree that we should not support TPT for the limited usage. YMMV
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