XenForo Migration Issues

Dr. Bantham

Dr. Bantham

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In an attempt to address issues with the migration to XenForo, I am going to establish lists which identify and prioritize resolutions.

HIGH PRIORITY ERRORS
  1. Email notifications not working. Your are not likely receiving email notifications if you are watching threads, etc. This is a high priority as it would also result in issues trying to reset your password. Please let me know if you have received emails prior to today. I made changes this morning that may have fixed the problem, but will not know until it has been tested.
  2. Page redirects. Links to old vBulletin threads, posts, etc. will result in errors. I have installed a mod for redirects, but it is not working.
  3. Video embeds, and other remote content, were previously embedded with custom tags that are no longer relevant, resulting in a meaningless text stream instead. If I had thought this out more, I would have disabled such add-ons and stripped the tags. Now I might be able to search and delete for these tags, but my first attempts to do so were unsuccessful.
AESTHETIC ISSUES
  1. vBulletin styles have been lost, and the generic XenForo style is all we have at the moment. I believe I can pick at least one style to emulate, but I am not yet familiar with creating new style templates and this will be a lower priority relative to errors and functionality.
  2. Avatars images have been clipped in the import. I think it actually cropped the images instead of simply restricting the view, so I may have to find a way to rename the old images to match the current format and replace them.
  3. There is no portal page that summarizes content. There are add-ons that can do this, which I will evaluate and consider implementing in time.
MEMENTO MORI
  1. The extensive Library of Byzantium database of Ligotti works has been lost. There is a possibility that it can be recreated as resource content in another format.
  2. Though there is a "like" feature in XenForo, the vBulletin "like" system was an add-on and this pre-existing likes were lost.
This is a working list. I have not even scratched the surface of what I am already aware of, but I will add and strike-out items over time. Please reply to this thread with additional items to be categorized above or otherwise. I cannot fix it if I am not aware. I appreciate everyone's patience and support.

FIXED ITEMS HAVE BEEN IDENTIFIED WITH STRIKEOUT
IF THERE ARE STILL ISSUES WITH ANY OF THESE ITEMS, PLEASE REPLY OR DM ME WITH DETAILS
 
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Zaharoff said:
Wayback can be very haphazard.
THIS LINK ought to take you where you want to go.

The Repository - THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK

Reserved for Posts Relative to Content from The Repository
web.archive.org web.archive.org
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Articles have not been corrupted, but are perhaps not as prominently accounted for and ill formatted now. I was trying to specifically refer to the THOMAS LIGOTTI BIBLIOGRAPHY resource, which was somewhat of a database unto itself and featured pages for referenced sources such as this page for SOADD:

Songs of a Dead Dreamer - Silver Scarab Press - THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK

Songs of a Dead Dreamer - Silver Scarab Press Books
web.archive.org web.archive.org
 
Some times, the site logs me out for no reason.
Other times, I log out, check an hour later and am still logged in.
 
I am hopeful that the email functions have been restored. You can help me confirm this by “watching” a thread and confirming if you receive email notification of replies.
 
It looks like the domain port broke the mod for vBulletin redirects. I should be able to fix this once I get computer access.
 
I managed to strip all of the old AME BBCode tags from links such as YouTube. They have not automatically been parsed, but I found a way to do that en masse and will have a go at that very soon. I am warming up to XenForo after I get to know it better. There is still a lot of work to be done but it seems less daunting than before. I think it is quite fast and clean on mobile devices. Once I get a few major issues out of the way I will attempt a custom style. Perhaps SOADD as it was my personal favorite.
 
My account is not getting logged out, and I am on for long periods making corrections to a thread.
When I paste text from a doc file it double spaces, from a txt it is single spaced.
Certainly not an issue, just an oddity.
Custom style would be welcomed.
 
Zaharoff said:
My account is not getting logged out, and I am on for long periods making corrections to a thread.
When I paste text from a doc file it double spaces, from a txt it is single spaced.
Certainly not an issue, just an oddity.
Custom style would be welcomed.
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This issue was likely isolated to myself alone as I have also been trying to import related domain email and had my IP blocked for too many email access attempts with an incorrect password.
 
Dr. Bantham said:
I managed to strip all of the old AME BBCode tags from links such as YouTube. They have not automatically been parsed, but I found a way to do that en masse and will have a go at that very soon. I am warming up to XenForo after I get to know it better. There is still a lot of work to be done but it seems less daunting than before. I think it is quite fast and clean on mobile devices. Once I get a few major issues out of the way I will attempt a custom style. Perhaps SOADD as it was my personal favorite.
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As for the first custom style attempt, I am going for THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK style which was based on The Nightmare Factory cover art. The dark color variant of the default XenForo style most closely resembles the color palette of TNN, and should therefore be a good learning template to start with. By the way, you can switch from light to dark modes at the bottom of the page or have it match system settings of your device default and even switch based on time of day if your device supports the option.
 
Dr. Bantham said:
As for the first custom style attempt, I am going for THE NIGHTMARE NETWORK style which was based on The Nightmare Factory cover art. The dark color variant of the default XenForo style most closely resembles the color palette of TNN, and should therefore be a good learning template to start with. By the way, you can switch from light to dark modes at the bottom of the page or have it match system settings of your device default and even switch based on time of day if your device supports the option.
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The new theme looks good but I'm wondering why the avatar images are styled with 150px width by 200px height, since that stretches the aspect ratio and causes the image to spill into the text section, at least on Chrome on a Mac?

.avatar.avatar--m {
width: 150px;
height: 200px;
font-size: 58px;
}

The default style has 96px by 96px and that looks ok here too.
 
Metaphysical Mutant said:
The new theme looks good but I'm wondering why the avatar images are styled with 150px width by 200px height, since that stretches the aspect ratio and causes the image to spill into the text section, at least on Chrome on a Mac?

.avatar.avatar--m {
width: 150px;
height: 200px;
font-size: 58px;
}

The default style has 96px by 96px and that looks ok here too.
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The original avatars were rectangular and taller, and this was my first effort at allowing the taller images instead of the square XenForo default that cropped most avatars. The new theme is simply the stock XF theme with THE NIGHTMARE FACTORY style banner from the old site slapped on, which was close in color scheme.
 
Looks like on the old site they were 150x188, but it seems that XenForo has resized them to 96x96. The copping is done before the image is displayed so 96x96 gets stretched out to 150x200.
 
Metaphysical Mutant said:
Looks like on the old site they were 150x188, but it seems that XenForo has resized them to 96x96. The copping is done before the image is displayed so 96x96 gets stretched out to 150x200.
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I voided the attempt to correct the avatar size due to the stretching effect. It looks like ZenForo did not clip the original images, it is simply displaying them in a square format which visually crops the image. If you click on the avatar while fully viewing a profile, you should see the full image. I'll figure this one out.
 
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