Software Upgrade: Prepare for Changes & Bugs

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A major software upgrade is scheduled for early next week, potentially causing the forum to be down for a few hours. While users may not notice design changes, new features and numerous bug fixes are expected, although compatibility issues may arise with the chess and blog features. Users are advised to back up their blog entries, as an official blog system is being considered but has known problems. The solved threads feature will be replaced with a built-in thread prefix feature, and users should anticipate some initial glitches post-upgrade. Overall, the upgrade aims to enhance functionality, though some familiar features may be temporarily unavailable.
  • #61
That's the thing I was talking about, what happened to the Forum Jump? What if I say please? Can we get it back then?

PLEASE!
 
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  • #62
My tag cloud keeps disappearing and reappearing. Is this a bug, or due to some tinkering?

Or perhaps the forecast called for a partly tag-cloudy day on PF :wink: ?
 
  • #63
I never had a tag cloud, so I don't miss it - I think.
 
  • #64
lisab said:
My tag cloud keeps disappearing and reappearing. Is this a bug, or due to some tinkering?

Or perhaps the forecast called for a partly tag-cloudy day on PF :wink: ?

Tag cloud looks fine to me. Are you still having problems?
 
  • #65
Its been alright for a while. One must expect hiccoughs while Greg is tinkering.
 
  • #66
Everything's OK right now.
 
  • #67
The tag cloud is there every time I look.
 
  • #68
lisab said:
Or perhaps the forecast called for a partly tag-cloudy day on PF :wink: ?

:smile: I haven't noticed any problems. Unless you've managed to catch some off times while Greg has been tinkering with things, maybe it's a browser issue? What browser and version do you use?
 
  • #69
I hate to nudge, but I hate to continue without Forum Jump (hat tip to Chi) even more.
Greg? Mentors? Anyone have any info on when (or if :eek:) Forum Jump will rejoin us?
 
  • #70
bump? c'mon, don't make me send this as a PM...
We going to get Forum Jump back?
 
  • #71
When I 'log out' , the little pop-up (that I assume is supposed to say 'do you want to 'log out') says 'undefined'.


and why do I have to 'log out' twice before the 'log out' link disappears?
 
  • #72
Thanks for these!
 
  • #73
Astronuc said:
Thanks for these!


:smile: I was staring at that trying to figure out what "these" were. All becomes clear when I quote you though.
 
  • #74
What does that mean?
 
  • #75
Phew, I was using both sup and sub tags for at least a month, not knowing that they are supposed to appear with the next upgrade :wink: There were no buttons in editor, but tagged text was properly formatted. I am lazy and I don't like to put all these tags so I have added a feature of exporting UBBC coded reactions to one of my programs, one day I copied/pasted the reaction - and it just worked... That's why I know.

5Fe2+ + MnO4- + 8H+ -> 5Fe3+ + Mn2+ + 4H2O
 
  • #76
As Moonbear said, all becomes clear when you quote Astronuc's message. They are talking about subscipts and superscripts.
 
  • #77
I guess I didn't notice the change because I use Latex each time I need to type subscripts or superscripts. I didn't know it wasn't possible earlier.
 
  • #78
It was possible before the upgrade, we just didn't have a button in the new post page.
 
  • #79
But for sure it was not possible at some earlier stage, I remember I was missing it as LaTeX for things like H3O+ is an overkill.
 
  • #80
Borek said:
But for sure it was not possible at some earlier stage, I remember I was missing it as LaTeX for things like H3O+ is an overkill.

It's been available for quite a while, you just had to remember the tags!

Congrats on becoming gold, by the way Borek!
 
  • #81
cristo said:
It's been available for quite a while, you just had to remember the tags!

Almost for sure they were not available around the time I joined PF.
 
  • #82
Borek said:
Almost for sure they were not available around the time I joined PF.

Hmm.. ok, so they may not have been around in the stone ages :biggrin:
 

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