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Hello,
During the last week or so, we've been working on improving the performance of the forum. We wanted to directly migrate to our custom solution, but for now this is not feasible, as it's going to take at least a few months to develop.
Before reading the changes, please know that everything is work-in-progress and will most likely be changed in the upcoming days.
Here's some FAQ:
Background works on the custom simpcity site will continue and we'll deploy it when it's fully ready.
And yes.. we have fixed the issue with the data loss, so it never happens again. Sorry about that!
Regards,
SimpCity Staff
During the last week or so, we've been working on improving the performance of the forum. We wanted to directly migrate to our custom solution, but for now this is not feasible, as it's going to take at least a few months to develop.
Before reading the changes, please know that everything is work-in-progress and will most likely be changed in the upcoming days.
Here's some FAQ:
- Why the new style? - We didn't want to change the style, but due to compatibility issues with the new version of the forum, we were unable to directly add the previous style, instead, we tried to alter the design as much as possible to the old one, so you fellas don't feel off.
- All user avatars are missing - we've imported all the data from the old database to a new one, so that the installation is clean and we don't have unused tables, columns, etc. and this took almost a full day. We wanted to start working on the new installation ASAP, so we deploy it earlier - thus why the avatars are missing (it's ~5-6 hours of additional importing and the full import took ~1 day). If a lot of people want their avatars back, we'll create a tool that will retrieve your avatar from the old database.
- Nodes show limited results - it's highly inefficient for the forum to show all of the thread results per node (category) , that's why we have limited the exploration capability and now only threads that have been active during the last 30-40 days will show (we may increase it, if the performance is alright). All threads are fully searchable, this doesn't mean threads are missing! If you liked to explore new content that way - we advise you to move to our "Explore" page instead.
Multiple prefixes per thread are currently not available (but we have them saved) due to a slowdown from the developer.- Tags are missing missing - the addon needs an update from the developer and performance testing from us, then we'll add it again.
Tickets are missing - the addon needs an update, please use the reports for now.
Background works on the custom simpcity site will continue and we'll deploy it when it's fully ready.
And yes.. we have fixed the issue with the data loss, so it never happens again. Sorry about that!
Regards,
SimpCity Staff
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