Announcement Moderate software update 4/10

[Greg Bernhardt]

We're going to be updating PF's core software this coming Thursday in the AM. Style and addons may break, so we'll need time to fix any issues. We've tried to anticipate as much as we could. We expect a downtime as long as 1hr. Thanks!

 

[jedishrfu]

Wow, that's sound cool, exciting and mentors are going to be mopping the floors from the flood of complaints. :-)

 

[berkeman]

mopping the floors from the flood of complaints bug reports].

Fixed that for you.

 

[jedishrfu]

Now why couldn't @Greg Bernhardt do this update on April 1st? Or for more dire results on May 1st? Or really exciting times like the Ides of March?

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Delaying to next week

 

[Tom.G]

And here I thought it was a Perfect update!

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

We're aiming for Tuesday this week. We're adding a dark mode that depends on your mobile settings, so you may see dark mode initially. It can always be switched.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Broken record, but need to delay again by a week to iron something out

 

[Tom.G]

Broken record, but need to delay again by a week to iron something out

Be sure the iron is plugged in.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Still planned for today in roughly 2 hours

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Hey broken record here, work is killing me. pushing to Friday AF cst

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

Update is complete. It was significant on the backend. Lots of things broke. Cleaning up the mess now. Report any issues you come across.

 

[berkeman]

It looks like the link at the top of the page to Featured Content is broken:

https://www.physicsforums.com/featured/

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

It looks like the link at the top of the page to Featured Content is broken:

https://www.physicsforums.com/featured/

yeah this was an addon that went defunct. Xenforo now has it's own built in version. Our previous list of featured threads is lost and we'll need to rebuild with the inhouse version.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

featured content link has been fixed

 

[Ibix]

Text doesn't seem to clear from the editor when I post.

 

[Ibix]

Example:

 

[Ibix]

...oddly, that one did clear.

Edit: but this one did not.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I notice the behavior too

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

ah and some duplicate posts

 

[Ibix]

I wonder if duplicate posts is human error - if the post text doesn't vanish it looks like it didn't post so you hit post again?

 

[berkeman]

ah and some duplicate posts

Yeah, that happened to me a couple hours after the upgrade when my replies did not seem to be going through. I think I clicked Reply a couple of times and got ~3 replies posted eventually. The Edit window where I had composed the reply also was not cleared automatically when the Replies posted. I think that is working better now, though.

 

[berkeman]

QUOTE="berkeman, post: 7258297, member: 8921"]
The Edit window where I had composed the reply also was not cleared automatically when the Replies posted. I think that is working better now, though.
[/QUOTE]
Oops, that's still happening:

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

test test

 

[Ibix]

There's also something screwy with the alert counter. If I have a red notification of one alert and I follow it, I still seem to have one alert until I open the alert dropdown.

 

[Greg Bernhardt]

I suspect these are caching issues

 

[Tom.G]

I suspect these are caching issues

 

[berkeman]

It looks like the little OP notification icon next to the OP's username has disappeared now:

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Post in thread 'Increase horsepower with steam in piston gasoline engine?'

May 5, 2025

As the combusted gas expands in the cylinder from its max temperature at top dead center, the pressure has decreased at 90 degrees of the power stroke because an increase in the volume of the combusted gas decreases the pressure of the gas. At that point, the injected water mist will further cool the combusted gas, but the steam produced by the injection of the mist of water would possibly increase the pressure. So, will the result be an increase or decrease in pressure? One must take into account that the heat to produce the steam comes not only from the hot gas, but also from the hot...

• mikeholcombe

 

[berkeman]

Hmm, and when I try to add a link to that post in my reply above, it changes it to a preview of the thread, rather than just a link to the thread...

 

[renormalize]

Just want to point out the the super- and subscript icons in the toolbar above the edit window are now invisible! But you can still hover the cursor over the blank spots and select those functions. (Windows Chrome)