Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
Page 3 of 11 FirstFirst 1234567 ... LastLast
Results 21 to 30 of 102
  1. #21
    Join Date
    May 2006
    Location
    127.0.0.1, Pennsylvania
    (Lancaster County)
    Posts
    20,351
    Rep Power
    21474874

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    Quote Originally Posted by danp View Post
    I'll note, we are fully aware that the PAFOA search is not all that great, and once we get past the infrastructure-transfer part of the process and into the software upgrades process we will be looking into our options for a better, more comprehensive search solution. Thanks for your continued patience!
    The PAFOA search works just fine, as long as there is content to to search for. But when people just post links to articles with a cutsey title the search doesn't work at all. If people would post informative titles and a blurb from the linked article that includes the names of the people involved, then the search would work just dandy when it comes to finding the thread later for updates.

    The front end needs to work for the back end to work.
    Rules are written in the stone,
    Break the rules and you get no bones,
    all you get is ridicule, laughter,
    and a trip to the house of pain.

  2. #22
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Location
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    (Philadelphia County)
    Age
    42
    Posts
    4,353
    Rep Power
    4350210

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    Quote Originally Posted by t1066 View Post
    This search: http://forum.pafoa.org/search.php
    has always worked well for me.
    Yep! That still works, it unfortunately puts a lot of load on the database which is why we keep it enabled, but don't make it the primary search function.

    We're hoping to be able to promote that search back to the primary search in the future.
    Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
    Purchase a Forum SubscriptionBuy some PAFOA MerchandiseHelp PAFOA's Search Engine Ranking


  3. #23
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Lebanon, Tennessee
    Posts
    4,941
    Rep Power
    21474854

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    ^What they all said about the YouTube button. I was just assuming that modern versions of vbulletin would support it. Even better, for example, on my simple machines forum gaming site, it automatically embeds YouTube videos when a user simply posts the URL. No need for buttons or code.

    I assumed that modern versions of a paid professional software would have similar capabilities. I could be assuming too much.

    Justin
    Life has a melody. Not great, not terrible.

  4. #24
    Join Date
    Dec 2007
    Location
    Northampton County, Pennsylvania
    (Northampton County)
    Posts
    17,641
    Rep Power
    21474870

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    The search works great.

    The only problem with the search is it will deny queries for many 3 and 4 letter words. Sometimes you can work around this, sometimes you just can't. Let's face it, the gun business is filled with short acronyms than nobody spells out as well as firearms that have model numbers but no names (or variable names).

    I understand the intended reason for it, but I think the limits cause more harm than good. You should at least be able to search short terms in a thread title only query.

  5. #25
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Location
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    (Philadelphia County)
    Age
    42
    Posts
    4,353
    Rep Power
    4350210

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    Quote Originally Posted by JustinHEMI View Post
    ^What they all said about the YouTube button. I was just assuming that modern versions of vbulletin would support it. Even better, for example, on my simple machines forum gaming site, it automatically embeds YouTube videos when a user simply posts the URL. No need for buttons or code.

    I assumed that modern versions of a paid professional software would have similar capabilities. I could be assuming too much.

    Justin
    Modern vBulletin may in fact have such functionality, we're two major releases behind (which is one of the main things that will be fixed in the second phase of this undertaking.)

    Once we get there we'll re-evaluate where we're at, what could be improved, and how best to accomplish it.

    In the meantime you can use the {youtube}<id>{/youtube} bbcode tag if you want to embed a YouTube video.
    Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
    Purchase a Forum SubscriptionBuy some PAFOA MerchandiseHelp PAFOA's Search Engine Ranking


  6. #26
    Join Date
    Sep 2014
    Location
    Scranton, Pennsylvania
    (Lackawanna County)
    Posts
    182
    Rep Power
    1452253

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    Quote Originally Posted by danp View Post
    Hey Justin, what do you mean by a YouTube button?
    This is from another forum, they run vbulletin, dunno what version. Just hit the button and the format is inserted in the reply box, you just have to insert your link between the correct brackets. Shouldn't be too hard for all the Rocket Surgeons we have here.

    Attached Images Attached Images
    My goal in Life is to become the kind of problem that people throw money at.

  7. #27
    Join Date
    Oct 2010
    Location
    Lebanon, Tennessee
    Posts
    4,941
    Rep Power
    21474854

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    Quote Originally Posted by danp View Post
    Modern vBulletin may in fact have such functionality, we're two major releases behind (which is one of the main things that will be fixed in the second phase of this undertaking.)

    Once we get there we'll re-evaluate where we're at, what could be improved, and how best to accomplish it.

    In the meantime you can use the {youtube}<id>{/youtube} bbcode tag if you want to embed a YouTube video.

    Understand priorities. Thanks for the hard work!

    Justin
    Life has a melody. Not great, not terrible.

  8. #28
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Location
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    (Philadelphia County)
    Age
    42
    Posts
    4,353
    Rep Power
    4350210

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    I have made a change that removes our current Content Delivery Network from the chain serving up icon images throughout the forum in preparation for an infrastructure move.

    If anyone notices forum-design-related images such as editor icons, buttons, rating stars, etc missing or broken please post the info here.

    I have checked each of them myself and everything appears fine, but who knows!
    Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
    Purchase a Forum SubscriptionBuy some PAFOA MerchandiseHelp PAFOA's Search Engine Ranking


  9. #29
    Join Date
    Mar 2006
    Location
    Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
    (Philadelphia County)
    Age
    42
    Posts
    4,353
    Rep Power
    4350210

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    As part of the preparation for moving the forum to the new infrastructure, we have removed our content-delivery network from all image/stylesheet/javascript assets on the forum.

    As far as I can tell, nothing has visibly changed, but if you see broken images or design aspects to the overall forum template, let me know.

    Transition to the new infrastructure should happen sometime this week if all goes well, then it's onto phase 2.
    Dan P, Founder & President, Pennsylvania Firearm Owners Association
    Purchase a Forum SubscriptionBuy some PAFOA MerchandiseHelp PAFOA's Search Engine Ranking


  10. #30
    Join Date
    Jan 2007
    Location
    Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
    (Allegheny County)
    Posts
    33,570
    Rep Power
    21474887

    Default Re: Technology Upgrades Progress

    Quote Originally Posted by danp View Post
    As part of the preparation for moving the forum to the new infrastructure, we have removed our content-delivery network from all image/stylesheet/javascript assets on the forum.

    As far as I can tell, nothing has visibly changed, but if you see broken images or design aspects to the overall forum template, let me know.

    Transition to the new infrastructure should happen sometime this week if all goes well, then it's onto phase 2.






    GTFO!!!
    I called to check my ZIP CODE!....DY-NO-MITE!!!

Page 3 of 11 FirstFirst 1234567 ... LastLast

Similar Threads

  1. A Work in Progress
    By priell3 in forum Gun Pictures
    Replies: 2
    Last Post: September 12th, 2011, 02:38 AM
  2. AR Build in Progress
    By hertz in forum General
    Replies: 5
    Last Post: November 14th, 2009, 11:13 AM
  3. Making progress...
    By bighornjd in forum General
    Replies: 6
    Last Post: November 4th, 2009, 06:43 PM
  4. Replies: 17
    Last Post: February 10th, 2009, 04:13 PM
  5. 'Liberty' OUT, 'Progress' IN!
    By Broomhandle in forum General
    Replies: 1
    Last Post: May 28th, 2008, 09:28 AM

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •