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Chat => General => Topic started by: chocadmin on October 23, 2008, 10:21:56 pm

Title: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on October 23, 2008, 10:21:56 pm
Yes, very soon you'll be able to upload your own chocolate products for everyone to vote on (just like reviews I get to approve them before they go live, but hopefully you'll all be ok with that?).
I've got a few products to upload that'll probably take the current total to 600, and there are some more tweaks to old code to use the new database and thus make everything a bit simpler to administer.
Please reply with your thoughts on what you'd like to see in the upload process, how you expect it to work and any other thoughts on this.
Thanks,

   ChocAdmin.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Upload your own chocolate
Post by: paulham on October 23, 2008, 10:26:10 pm
Did you give any more thought to putting some "past masters" on in order that we can wax lyrical about how good things used to be?
Would a pic from the web be ok rather than a photo taken by the uploader?
Title: Re: Site Progress: Upload your own chocolate
Post by: chocadmin on October 23, 2008, 10:34:38 pm
A pic from the web would be OK - although there may be issues with image size (see my other post about that), adding old products would be entirely up to you the CR community, and whether you had an image (can't go adding stuff without pics now can we :) )
Title: Re: Site Progress: Upload your own chocolate
Post by: paulham on November 19, 2008, 07:13:20 pm
Is this ready to launch yet?
Title: Re: Site Progress: Upload your own chocolate
Post by: chocadmin on November 20, 2008, 10:07:50 pm
erm very nearly. I'll do some testing at the weekend and PM you when the submission page is ready to go (first version might have to only support one image upload, instead of the 3 or 4 I'd prefer).
I won't make it completely live for everyone until I've cleared my backlog - although that'll probably happen some time next week.
Thanks.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Upload your own chocolate
Post by: drterror666 on February 04, 2009, 12:37:16 pm
I tried to upload some chocolate, but I couldn't get it into the little slot.  Oh, I think I've buggered my computer...
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on December 30, 2009, 11:17:16 pm
So I didn't finish the upload as I got stuck into clearing a big backlog of chocolate.
I then got on to creating the Facebook beta interface (list in a separate thread).
So now I'm just updating code (largely moving some of the code from asp to php) so that voting can go quicker, and bars can be listed in a consistent manner site-wide.
Next step will be to replace the 'big' chocolate retrieval list page with something a bit quicker (to load and use), and that maybe takes up a bit less screen space to present the information.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on January 06, 2010, 11:33:55 pm
The Americans are coming. Yes a few bars from the USA are just about to go online for voting. After this initial batch I have a couple more and a couple of Canadian products.
Hoping to get the upload sorted soon so that products from around the world can be added by everyone else.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on April 03, 2010, 08:23:15 pm
Another update (sorry no the upload bars isn't there yet  :-[ ).
If you go to the chocolate page (chocolate on the navigation bar) you'll now get your rank (based on votes logged), total number of products voted and name for your ranking  :)
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: xiaqinghua1989 on September 26, 2010, 08:14:15 am
where there is a will,there is a way。
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Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on September 26, 2010, 02:23:31 pm
WOW - thanks for that incredible insight, mr. unpronouncable screen-name spammer person.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: drterror666 on September 26, 2010, 06:11:46 pm
Ugg boots are for people who can afford a gap yah and shoot defenceless foxes!
Title: Admin, where are you?! WTF?! m?..
Post by: DwachNess on January 12, 2011, 05:35:13 am
Quote
I tried to upload some chocolate but I couldn't get it into the little slot.  Oh I think I've buggered my computer...

 
wow, seriously?!     
     
ANY QUESTIONS???
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on January 12, 2011, 09:03:47 am
umm...
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: drterror666 on January 12, 2011, 01:22:43 pm
Yes, i had to throw the old PC away because it had become clogged with chocolate.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on January 13, 2011, 11:46:35 am
you silly billy, dr. t!
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: drterror666 on January 13, 2011, 03:11:20 pm
I won't do it again...
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on October 05, 2011, 09:07:19 pm
Shoutbox is now turned off while I look at trying to install the latest version of the forum system we're using.
Last time I did the install it worked ok but conflicts with install elements (primarily the shout box) meant I had to roll back to this version.
When I do the upgrade things will probably go blue until I've put in the correct colours for everything.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on October 07, 2011, 10:52:54 am
don't know if this is related (or maybe it's just me) but the youtube videos aren't embedded anymore. they just appear as links.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on October 09, 2011, 06:56:00 am
Yep, just turned that off earlier in the week too. As it's grand prix time I'm just about to back everything up and start the upgrade again - fingers crossed this time.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on October 09, 2011, 01:56:46 pm
keep up the good work, chocadmin.

site is upside down atm! took me ages locating the forum! ;-)
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on October 09, 2011, 05:26:16 pm
just fixed ordering. failed to update this morning - again. don't know if it's a hosting problem or issue in the forum config.
Best thing for me to do is do an install elsewhere and then find out the differences in code or migrate all our data. ah well...
Slowly starting to add links for my favourite blogs onto individual product pages which is some progress at least.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: titocasas on October 13, 2011, 08:42:27 pm
great news now we can offer out chocolate products in another ways.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on October 13, 2011, 09:58:29 pm
cool! can you e.mail me a twix then?
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on October 16, 2011, 09:49:08 am
UPGRADED! I think.
OK so there will be some things I'll need to sort over the next few days (adding back in options, and I expect your stars won't be working right now).

Testing and feedback in this post will be greatly appreciated!
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: Forth Bridges on October 16, 2011, 10:59:37 am
IT DOES look so much better! well done!
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on October 16, 2011, 06:21:44 pm
Bizarrely some of the (key) settings got lost during the day while I was out. That's really strange - was it hack, I've no idea (doesn't look like it).
I've put them back so it's all up and running again.
If things go offline completely again please e-mail me at [email protected]
Thanks all.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: oldspice on October 16, 2011, 07:33:57 pm
It all looks lovely and fresh chocadmin!
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on October 17, 2011, 11:23:44 am
well this all looks very cool!
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocolate chick on October 17, 2011, 11:36:36 am
I agree it does look a lot fresher and cleaner. Though to be honest I was fine with how it used to look x
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on October 17, 2011, 12:11:03 pm
if it aint broke...

no, seriously - you gotta change things from time to time. very snazzy indeed.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: loulou on October 17, 2011, 07:18:12 pm
He buggared his computer. Good grief .
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on October 19, 2011, 04:43:22 pm
not that it was ever really used (except for spammers etc.) but will shoutbox ever be returning?

also, the adult forum has vanished. is this just me? or if not, is it a permanent thing? (i mean it's not like it was ever used in recent years.)
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on October 19, 2011, 10:09:28 pm
I hid the adult forum coz it wasn't being used - can always be brought back if bounty wants to return to his old ways ;)
Shoutbox caused me some problems in the upgrade process so I'll only bring it back if there's a lot of demand.
Thanks.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: wjp666 on October 19, 2011, 10:17:34 pm
i don't think either will really be missed so i wouldn't lose much sleep over it.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
Post by: chocadmin on November 02, 2013, 10:15:14 pm
Latest new 'thing' - I've put a different mod on for logging or registering via social networks. It supports quite a few (just got problems getting google and yahoo to work at present). It'd be great if someone could try it out and see if it works.
Thanks.
Title: Re: Site Progress: Updates and Modifications
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