BigRedMax

They said I have to go through the hosting company.  I have started a ticket there. 

I have also put in a request to Fivvrr for a programmer to see if they can fix it. 

I have asked if Invision can revert back to a previous back up of the template. If they can we may or may not lose posts. 

Really not happy with this BBS software. Xenforo is much better and more intuitive. 

There was an issue with the BBS software and the server upgrade. Took a lot of back and forth between the two to get it fixed. 

Thanks to @Mavricand our source for BBS upgrades for their help. 

11 hours ago, Mavric said:

I'm still seeing a different version on my desktop than my phone. Is like the dns on my phone is hitting one server and my desktop is hitting another.

I am going to cancel the old server and hopefully that will resolve this issue. 

Here is the response from the server company. Going to leave it the way it is now. 

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I have checked the forum thread and I would like to apologize for the inconvenience that was caused. My colleague Mark was personally instructed by me to restore the database from the old server, which contained your most recent posts and forum updates until the name servers update of the domain name.

 

Some posts and updates from yesterday might still be missing because they are stored on the database on the new server, which does not contain the older updates. Regretfully, there is no direct way to merge the two databases due to the nature of the IPB system and the fact that its developers do not offer such a solution. The only way to restore the missing posts will be to recreate the same I am afraid.

I have reached out to the server company again. Don't expect to get a response until tomorrow. 

The new server upgrade has just been activated. Supposed to improve load time and performance. 

Got this information from our ad ops. 

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Google ads are currently experiencing sporadic issues where the browser might display a dialog box (or “popup”) to indicate a pending download. This is not- a malware attack. Due to the nature of the issue, we are not currently able to block these dialog boxes. The issue has been escalated and is being investigated.

Also, we will be doing a migration to a new faster server and will be upgrading the BBS software as well. 

It has been reported to our ad ops. Screen shots would be helpful. 

I have reported this to our ad ops. 

43 minutes ago, Danny Bateman said:

Well this is frustrating. I set my computer down in the middle of a PM to go throw in a load of laundry, and come back to find two ads intruding on the body of said PM. I was mostly fine with banner ads, especially the ones that are out of the way. The pop up ones that block the screen are annoying AF but tolerable. Ads that literally clog up posts themselves are the breaking point for me.

 

 

It is a new agency and they have been paused. 

Should be fixed by tomorrow. 

1 hour ago, GSG said:

This one is covering the whole damn page!

 

I am working on getting all pop ups blocked.  They were never approved. 

10 hours ago, BigRedBuster said:

@BigRedMax I'm guessing the majority of people use this site from a mobile device.  

So....why in the heck do you make it so damn difficult to use it on a mobile device?  

I am assuming you are referring to the anchor ad at the bottom. It has a close button in the top right. 

With the corona virus ad revenue is down 75% so the anchor ad is not going to go away as it has the best view ability and revenue. 

I have tried to keep a balance between generating revenue to cover the cost of the purchase and running the site and it will be at least another year or two before I break even. 

5 minutes ago, ZRod said:

I waited a little bit to be sure, but it looks like my quoting issue we're fixed. So, thanks for that @BigRedMax 

I have asked the ad agency to turn off the mobile anchor ad until they can get a close button on it. 

@TonyStalloni  The link is broken. 

Congratulations to Eric. Completes the hat trick of Husker Heisman winners. Here is the list of all 19 Huskers in the HOF. I had the opportunity to attend the 2018 induction of Aaron Taylor. May have to make it back to NYC this December. 

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If you can post the click through URLs I can get them blocked. 

Here's a full summary of yesterday's press conference and practice. 

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13 minutes ago, Landlord said:

anyone else get the feeling he's not actually fixing any of this and fine to let us all leave and get more traffic to huskermax?

That is not the case. The Invision software platform is finicky and hard to deal with. It has been a learning experience and my first consideration when purchasing the site was to migrate to Xenforo which is what is on HuskerMax. Based on feedback I kept the Invision platform and will continue to keep it. 

1 hour ago, ZRod said:

@BigRedMax It's been two weeks since I posted my issue on the previous page. I've literally been able to use the quote function once i  that amount of time because it was just peaking over the blank ad space. What can be done  to fix this?

 

Also, I just saw an anti Bernie Sanders ad in this thread, so political ads are still around...

Sent you a PM. 

The site optimization has been turned off. It appears that it was causing the problems. 

The politics ad have been blocked site wide and the screen squeezing problem should be resolved. 

We also did a site optimization that has improved the site loading speed. 

I spoke to the ad agency yesterday and they are checking into the screens being squeezed and also limiting the political ads to the politics forum only. 

I have a call with the ad agency tomorrow. Will follow up after the call.