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Hi folks!

I've noticed that the forum software is lagging behind a version or two, so I'm performing an upgrade. There should be no dramatic difference, from what I read this is mostly a security upgrade to prevent people to create profiles with 'fake' links — something that does not affect us much, since these forums have restricted registration (i.e. non-CDS citizens cannot automatically register themselves here).

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Uh, having some problems with the upgrade... so probably the rest will be done tomorrow!! (I'm in a hurry just right now, so I've pretty much reverted what I could)

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Refraining from posting the RA meeting transcript now to keep things easy for you. Have no idea if it does matter at all. Nice to read you btw. Have a good one.

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Thanks for letting us know! I logged in here and was screaming till I saw your explanation!

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lol, I was screaming too as the forum looks very odd for me atm but now I am relieved and will wait patiently till your work is finished :)

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Glad to see the explanation Gwyn, after my 'what the....?!' to myself.

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Sorry! Unfortunately I had not much time to fix the pending issues, I will attempt to do it in the next few hours...

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.. we're slowly getting there...

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Thanks for all the hard work. :)

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It seems to be working now! You should do a hard refresh to make sure you get the latest version of the home page.

Note that the slideshow thingy for the CDS Flickr image pool is back (it may take a bit to load the first image), and this time, this ought to work on all sorts of browsers (it's HTML5 and not Flash as the previous one... which has disappeared from existence anyway), including iPhones. The 'new' logo should also work with higher resolution on Retina displays (alas, the new icons here on the article editor do not).

And hopefully, just hopefully, everything is fixed now :)

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Looks good, Gwyneth! Thanks for working so hard to get the upgrade done quickly!

P.S. The slideshow is cool! :D

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Sylvia Tamalyn wrote: Sun Jan 21, 2018 6:19 pm

P.S. The slideshow is cool! :D

I missed it :) Now if I only could make it clickable... I know there must be a way, I just have to figure out how!

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It is clickable as far as being able to page through the slides. Might be hard to make it click to redirect to Flickr (if that's what you mean) since there is already one "click" coded into it?

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@Sylvia Tamalyn, to be honest, I don't know; I haven't coded the slideshow myself (that's waaaaaay beyond my abilities!!), I'm just using it, probably I missed an option or two...

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Looks great Gwyn, thanks :) Only one little teenie thing that would be nice if you could do, and that is to change the favicon to the 'new' shield. Mizou put it on https://cdsdemocracy.org/, so you could get it from her if you like.

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