Ok, the guild is now running on a new host (fly.io).

I finally created a real deployment pipeline so that I can easily push changes to the server instead of the solution I had before.

I still have some things on my TODO list while I'm here:

1. Ensure the new server setup is working and there are no issues that popped up during the move.

2. Do a major database version update. The guild's database version is so old that as of last year Amazon has been charging me extra just for the pleasure of running it.

I've cloned the 50gb guild database to see if the upgrade would succeed, and it did. But it's always scary.

3. Upgrade the guild's code dependencies. Some of the packages the code are so out of date that I had to remove them just to finally launch the server yesterday.

If anyone likes reading 12-year-old code or wants to follow along, the guild is available on github: github.com/danneu/guild

@Carlyle Thanks lemme look

Issues:

- [x] Avatar upload stopped working (Fixed?)

I'm going to wait until fewer people are online to make a massive code change and a big database update. So the upload systems will be broken until then.

Update:

- Ok, I applied the db update and some major code changes. Now I need to ensure everything still works.

I had genuinely thought that you had died in the Amazon Rainforest or some shit, Mahz.

I had genuinely thought that you had died in the Amazon Rainforest or some shit, Mahz.

Yeah, he, I dare say, was "mahzacred".

Database upgraded from postgres 12 to postgres 16 just now

It went better than expected.

Next I will do a big code deployment where I attempt to do some whole scale modernizations. And if that succeeds, I will remove the global nag banner.

It took almost 10 years but the update is here.

@Crimson Flame Oh, I see your status update. Looks like the list of recent profile views has broken.

Looking into it.

@Crimson Flame Oh, I see your status update. Looks like the list of recent profile views has broken.

Looking into it.

It simply reset itself. No need to fix afaik, it'll just display nobody until people start visiting their profile again.

edit: on the topic of this--maybe there could be an option to hide it for those who don't want it/don't care about profile views?

Mahz, there appears to be an issue at the moment with tagging or quoting where pressing reply takes you to a page that only states "Internal Server Error".

I was about to make a post about that!

Thanks I think I fixed it.

Thanks I think I fixed it.

@Mahz, yes, it would appear so.

Much appreciated.

I did another sweeping update, so it's possible more random things break like email notifications.

The guild code is much nicer to work with now.

Okay, let's have Mahz tackle a real problem now. Something that actually hurts people and causes them anguish.

Given that BBC code works inside of tables, I do not think it is necessary for tables to auto-bold the first row of text. Tables also do not play nice with each other when you put tables inside of tables. The table that is inside a table tends to bold up even if you skip placing it in the first row.

Here's a link for clarity and one users mental breakdown.

The sites working on mobile again so whatever demon you sold your soul to seems to have worked. Good job Mahz

Okay, let's have Mahz tackle a real problem now. Something that actually hurts people and causes them anguish.

Given that BBC code works inside of tables, I do not think it is necessary for tables to auto-bold the first row of text. Tables also do not play nice with each other when you put tables inside of tables. The table that is inside a table tends to bold up even if you skip placing it in the first row.

Here's a link for clarity and one users mental breakdown.

Agreed. It was a mistake on my part to make the table so opinionated.

I should remove the styling from the table bbcode.

Though off the top of my head I'm not sure how it should work on small device widths.

The current table implementation uses html/css width=100% and then it adds a horizontal scrollbar if the table content can't fit. I'm not sure if this is useful or not.

Maybe you or a bbcode expert like @Exit can chime in on what they think the right trade-off would be?

What would the ideal table bbcode syntax look like? e.g. maybe [table] by default has width=100% but [table=min] has no width; it's determined by content size.

If anyone has a list of bbcode improvements that are curated to the ones you think are most important, I'd like to read that in general. But in the meantime I could make the table bbcode more general/useful.

The sites working on mobile again so whatever demon you sold your soul to seems to have worked. Good job Mahz

What was the issue before?

Site just didn't load period.

Site just didn't load period.

It wasn't a mobile specific issue; We were having issues with the servers up until just recently. Mahz fixed them for us so the site should be more stable.

By the way, @Mahz just wanted to remind you of what I asked earlier in DMs since you said to toss ya a reminder.

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It wasn't a mobile specific issue; We were having issues with the servers up until just recently. Mahz fixed them for us so the site should be more stable.

I hadn't the faintest idea it wasn't just a mobile issue. Good to know.