Members RoadRanger Posted March 13, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 13, 2014 Tapatalk integration would be nice... I kindof assumed they would have turned that on... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Dogoth Posted March 14, 2014 Members Share Posted March 14, 2014 It's been a week and I'm sure there's more than 20 pages of posts (a total of 200). I hope they eventually put all of the archived posts up (there was some great info there if you searched for it). So far so good (had a bit of email address confusion). Can I see more than 10 threads per page? I have a pretty big monitor so I usually like 100 or so items per page. Also sometimes I don't check in for a week or two and that could easily be 3 pages back (or more). Hmm a new home. I'll give time to settle in :-). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 19, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 19, 2014 Wow, just occurred to me that my little Mackie DL1608-centric forum is getting more posts that the four or five sub-forums I follow here. Not an encouraging statistic for the "reboot" of HC. I don't see many (any?) newbees here since - did they straighten out the new user registration thing? At one point it was demanding a credit card so obviously driving away all newcomers . EDIT> It took over 15 seconds to post that and the editor is still FUBAR . EDIT> It took over 30 seconds to post the edit . EDIT> Only 2 seconds for that last one . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dbMontana Posted March 19, 2014 Members Share Posted March 19, 2014 Wow, just occurred to me that my little Mackie DL1608-centric forum is getting more posts that the four or five sub-forums I follow here. Not an encouraging statistic for the "reboot" of HC. I don't see many (any?) newbees here since - did they straighten out the new user registration thing? At one point it was demanding a credit card so obviously driving away all newcomers . EDIT> It took over 15 seconds to post that and the editor is still FUBAR . EDIT> It took over 30 seconds to post the edit . EDIT> Only 2 seconds for that last one . RR, given that the old links/bookmarks dead end on a "Not found" page rather than get redirected to the new/good URL, I wouldn't be surprised if many occasional users just figure that HC is gone (for good?). Heck, I just Googled "Harmony Central forums" and the link Goggle returned to me for forums (http://www.harmonycentral.com/forums/) fails at the dreaded "An Error was encountered -- Unable to load your default controller. Please make sure the controller specified in your Routes.php file is valid." ...page. No wonder huh? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 19, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 19, 2014 ^ Yah, that's pretty sad - you can easily set up your server to have any errors redirect to your base website, that's what I do:http://cacophony.aspinock.com/randombadaddress.phpGuess they should have hired me to oversee the "upgrade" LOL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members abzurd Posted March 20, 2014 Members Share Posted March 20, 2014 It's a pity, but I've kind of moved on. Between the deserted streets, the fact about a week ago I stopped being alerted to subscribed threads, the site being "down for maintenance" about 25% of the time, and the site speed lagging considerably over pretty much any other page, let alone forum, the point of diminished returns has been passed. Yes, I get it's a free forum, but the value comes from the contribution of the community and that's been all but destroyed by blunder after blunder spanning several years. It doesn't matter who's fault it is. The bottom line.... It's not hard to host forums.... the rest of the internet has figured it out. I registered at Gearslutz last week and have been participating there. I've seen a few familiar faces. I'd forgotten what a well participated forum was like. I'll still be around here as long as there's a pulse and truly hope the patient recovers. With 5-6 years now of backsliding, so much damage has been done I just don't hold out much hope that the forum returns to it's former glory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dbMontana Posted March 20, 2014 Members Share Posted March 20, 2014 I hear ya abzurd. I've always valued your contributions but I also do understand and sympathize. I'm hanging in for now -- Optimism: The triumph of hope over experience? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members mikekars Posted March 21, 2014 Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 I don't suppose the PM's will come back? I had a few pieces of advice in there I would have liked to keep. I guess I should have printed them or figured out how to store them locally. Abzurd sort of articulated the current ethos for ( I suspect ) many of us. I am not ready to give up quite yet on HC but won't be investing any energy in niceties like my footer/signature again. My avatar came back automatically or I wouldn't mess with that either. If the old posts come back and are searchable, then we will probably all forget about these little problems a month from now and everything will be full steam ahead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members 6Imzadi Posted March 21, 2014 Members Share Posted March 21, 2014 I had a bunch of subscriptions where Aged taught me stuff. Well, a bunch of people taught me stuff, but you get the idea. Now my subscriptions are gone. I was looking for something the other day and found that out. Anyone else lose theirs? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Miko Man Posted March 23, 2014 Members Share Posted March 23, 2014 Fourth or fifth try at resetting to the new password seems to be a charm. Oh well... I'll see how things go. Mark C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 23, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 23, 2014 Fourth or fifth try at resetting to the new password seems to be a charm. Oh well... I'll see how things go. Mark C.Hopefully the upgrade to the latest VBulletin in a couple days (?) will go smoothly and "fix" a bunch of issues. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Mogwix Posted March 25, 2014 Members Share Posted March 25, 2014 the more things change, the more they stay the same. I guess that's never been more poignant than here at HC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 25, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 25, 2014 Hmm... we're back after the shutdown to upgrade to 5.1.0 but looks like we are still at 5.0.5 ?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted March 25, 2014 Members Share Posted March 25, 2014 Hmm... we're back after the shutdown to upgrade to 5.1.0 but looks like we are still at 5.0.5 ?? Stealth upgrade? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 25, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 25, 2014 Stealth upgrade?Well, they did say "phase 1" whatever that means. It would be nice if they could be more forthcoming with details so that folks don't lose heart and wander off . And I guess it's too much trouble to post a quick status to FaceBook: https://www.facebook.com/harmonycentral or Twitter: https://twitter.com/harmonycentral when they are down for maintenance . Maybe an update here too: http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum/ is that too much to ask? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wesg Posted March 25, 2014 Members Share Posted March 25, 2014 Letting us know about scheduled maintenance ahead of time might be a novel idea, too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 25, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 25, 2014 Letting us know about scheduled maintenance ahead of time might be a novel idea' date=' too.[/quote']They sorta did at: http://www.harmonycentral.com/forum but yah, at least a heads-up on FB and Twitter would be considerate. Sure is dead in here now . One has to assume that this morning's shut-down with no visible changes thereafter means it didn't go well . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dbMontana Posted March 26, 2014 Members Share Posted March 26, 2014 Indeed -- back again -- one more time. Anybody left here? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members RoadRanger Posted March 26, 2014 Author Members Share Posted March 26, 2014 ... and once again . Looks like they got the upgrade working, seems a bit faster . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members wesg Posted March 26, 2014 Members Share Posted March 26, 2014 HELLO, Hello, hello....Is there anybody IN here?Just post if you can hear me.Is there anyone at home? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Bobby1Note Posted March 26, 2014 Members Share Posted March 26, 2014 HELLO, Hello, hello....Is there anybody IN here? Just post if you can hear me. Is there anyone at home? No!!! We've all gone to Tequila Willy's for Margaritas. (treat's on Harmony-Central) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members agedhorse Posted March 26, 2014 Members Share Posted March 26, 2014 Seems faster to me too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Miko Man Posted March 26, 2014 Members Share Posted March 26, 2014 Make both of mine on the rocks, no salt please. Mark C. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CMS Author Craig Vecchione Posted March 27, 2014 CMS Author Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well, nobody told me about either of the two upgrade site closures, so don't feel excluded. I've tried to communicate the importance of communicating. But I'm at least hopeful since the updates did fix a bunch of the problems, especially the posting speed and error messages...that was a deal-breaker for me. I can't moderate if I can't post more than one every couple of minutes. This is all a lesson in how a bad consulting firm can completely hose their client. HC has now been victimized twice, in my opinion. First by Jive, and then by Lithium. Neither had any business doing forums. It's as if they'd never done one before, but figured, "how hard could it be?". In my humble opinion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members dbMontana Posted March 27, 2014 Members Share Posted March 27, 2014 Well, nobody told me about either of the two upgrade site closures, so don't feel excluded. I've tried to communicate the importance of communicating. But I'm at least hopeful since the updates did fix a bunch of the problems, especially the posting speed and error messages...that was a deal-breaker for me. I can't moderate if I can't post more than one every couple of minutes. This is all a lesson in how a bad consulting firm can completely hose their client. HC has now been victimized twice, in my opinion. First by Jive, and then by Lithium. Neither had any business doing forums. It's as if they'd never done one before, but figured, "how hard could it be?". In my humble opinion. Thanks for chiming in Craig. Many consulting firms unfortunately survive by proselytizing the latest and greatest whiz-bang state-of-the-art 21st century solution that will do everything you want faster and more reliably that any other product -- until it doesn't. Technology should enable communication not get in the way as it has repeatedly here at HC. Fingers crossed this time! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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