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Misc Winter Whamby 2020, a New Decade

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SD said:
So here's some more news. We are moving away from Tapatalk likely in March. Please let us know what you think and please also use the mobile version of the site to get a comparison


To build on the why? Tapatalk opens up southernwx to unnecessary security risks that we wouldn't have otherwise or with our own app. Tapatalk opens you up as a user to unnecessary risks as well, don't be surprised if your info is being used and or sold. Finally Tapatalk is charging you money for a VIP membership to post at our site. Sorry but that doesn't float with us, we aren't charging you to be a member neither should they.
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It will be nice if there is a standalone app for southernwx.
 
Would be cool if admins/Mets had their posts automatically shared to the Facebook page to get everyone on the site. Like a teaser for more info/comments. Like a cross post. Working on it bare with me.
 
Yeah, there's a lot of risks with Tapatalk. Thankfully the forum is built to be mobile friendly from the start, although some things are a bit wonky on that front.

We'll be getting everything looking really nice, especially for the mobile page.

As a side note, I have enabled a theme/color I have been working on called "Southern Weather v2.0" in the style chooser (bottom of page, or settings) -- it is very much a work in progress and some things won't look right.. but it is available to use if you're willing to risk it, haha.

I'm fixing/modifying it from time to time currently. Suggestions for the colors are welcome.. again.. some things are not stylized or looking right yet.
 
Shawn said:
Yeah, there's a lot of risks with Tapatalk. Thankfully the forum is built to be mobile friendly from the start, although some things are a bit wonky on that front.

We'll be getting everything looking really nice, especially for the mobile page.

As a side note, I have enabled a theme/color I have been working on called "Southern Weather v2.0" in the style chooser (bottom of page, or settings) -- it is very much a work in progress and some things won't look right.. but it is available to use if you're willing to risk it, haha.

I'm fixing/modifying it from time to time currently. Suggestions for the colors are welcome.. again.. some things are not stylized or looking right yet.
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Southern Weather v2.0 looks really good Shawn great job?
 
Shawn said:
There's still a lot of "blue" around from the default coloring, but it'll get worked out, eventually, haha.
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Wondering if the new update allowed us to add images to signatures. I don't remember it allowing it before, but I could be wrong.
 
Ollie Williams said:
Wondering if the new update allowed us to add images to signatures. I don't remember it allowing it before, but I could be wrong.
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I have it on for now, unless the imagery gets way too spam-like or large.

You can put BB code/ rich code onto profiles comments etc now.
 
Ollie Williams said:
Wondering if the new update allowed us to add images to signatures. I don't remember it allowing it before, but I could be wrong.
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In fact, the new updates add a lot more than what meets the eye. There's a lot of changes on the back end like JSON parsing, developer tools, speed. For example, recently we were on PHP 7.0, which is End of Life (believe it or not) and now with the upgrade I was able to upgrade the server over to PHP 7.3 since the forum will run on it now. Massive performance increase.

I'm now able to lazy load imagery to keep the bandwidth down, especially for "guests" and "spam bots" hammering the pages and loading the imagery but never viewing. It defers it until it's actually in view port now, instead of on page load.

Basically, lots of optimization is possible, along with a lot of good front end features for our members.
 
Shawn said:
In fact, the new updates add a lot more than what meets the eye. There's a lot of changes on the back end like JSON parsing, developer tools, speed. For example, recently we were on PHP 7.0, which is End of Life (believe it or not) and now with the upgrade I was able to upgrade the server over to PHP 7.3 since the forum will run on it now. Massive performance increase.

I'm now able to lazy load imagery to keep the bandwidth down, especially for "guests" and "spam bots" hammering the pages and loading the imagery but never viewing. It defers it until it's actually in view port now, instead of on page load.

Basically, lots of optimization is possible, along with a lot of good front end features for our members.
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You should make a post going into detail describing the update.

I'm also curious if the limit for gif weight was raised? If not, is this something you would be willing to change in the future?
 
Ollie Williams said:
You should make a post going into detail describing the update.

I'm also curious if the limit for gif weight was raised? If not, is this something you would be willing to change in the future?
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I have settings in our php ini file to only allow file sizes of 5mb currently as uploads to the server. As we grow and get systems in place, we can likely raise file sizes, but for now, our hosting solution provides us with limited disk space.

For a while, we only allowed links to external images for gifs. We were running into a problem a while back with the "meme" gif spam from just a couple members that were destroying our disk space (non-sense gifs, basically) so we had to lower the upload size. This interferes with weather imagery, so we'll have to come up with a solution for that eventually.
 
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