IMPORTANT: Server and software upgrade

Brent@DVXU

Brent@DVXU

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I will be taking down DVXUSER.COM around 10:30AM PDT tomorrow, Friday, June 9. We will be moving to a newer/faster/better server as well as a vBulletin forum software upgrade. We have been testing the server and software in a dev environment for a few weeks and we are ready to go live. Be prepared for pretty significant UI/UX changes. Think of the new site as a 2021 car where our current site is 2010. There will be no CD player anymore....
 
Yes to dark theme. As far as duration, I won't really know until things populate and such. I am hoping a few hours (fingers crossed).
 
Also, if you are getting an error on the landing page, it is likely because your bookmark or browsing history is autopopulating url as www.dvxuser.com/v6. You no longer need the /v6, it is simply www.dvxuser.com. If you have the /v6, it will be looking for a directory that does not exist and error out.

I physically had to remove the /v6 from my Recents in Chrome to get it to load properly on my iPhone.
 
Tom Roper said:
I'm 1st. What's my prize? Lol..
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An eternal "resolution discussion" loop.

PS. As Brent said, remove the IRL by clearing the previously existing page info off your browser.. I was able to land on the opening page via the private browsing feature but not under my "regular" Firefox starter page. Until I cleared V666.
 
Best new feature: Site is now responsive to the font scaling feature on my iPad.

[If you click on the smallLARGE “A” in the search bar, you can change the size of the font, making reading easier!]
 
Thank you, Brent.

It looks like the site also now has a valid SSL certificate: https://www.dvxuser.com/

That link loads without a certificate error, but the stylesheets won't load. I think this is because the <base> HTML tag hard-codes the protocol:

HTML: 
<base href="http://www.dvxuser.com/" />

The remedy would be to omit it, like so:

HTML: 
<base href="//www.dvxuser.com/" />

or even a mere slash:

HTML: 
<base href="/" />

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You could also add a redirect, so that anyone who tries http://www.dvxuser.com/ gets bounced to https://www.dvxuser.com/

You might also want to View Source and update any other tags that hardcode the http: prefix. The most durable fix would be make them all relative URLs. If you must include the domain, then just omit the protocol.
 
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Perhaps I'm missing it, but I no longer see the way I used to always navigate this site. I would log on and then click New Posts, and it would show me all the threads that had new comments posted since the last time I had logged on. I could then click on a little square next to the thread title and it would take me to the first new post in the thread. This was by far the most useful way to navigate the site for me, especially on thread topics that went on for many posts across many pages. I could quickly see what were the topics that had new comments and if I was interested in the topic I could quickly be taken to where the new comments began.

Is there a way to navigate the new site in this same manner? "Latest Activity" is decidedly not doing this for me.
 
Yes I have to agree with that...exactly how I interfaced with the forum...would be great to have the new posts button back
 
hoju said:
Best new feature: Site is now responsive to the font scaling feature on my iPad.

[If you click on the smallLARGE “A” in the search bar, you can change the size of the font, making reading easier!]
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I also use an iPad. What smallLARGE A? I would also like to be able to adjust the overall font size of the new DVXUSER.
 
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