Welcome to the newly upgraded TreasureNet.com!

[TreasureCatto]

Was it animated before, your avatar? Which profile pic?

Open forum avatar was animated

 

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[Treasure_Hunter]

Yes think he means animated, mine was animated too and now is picture.

 

[kingskid1611]

Interested to see the progress. This is my favorite place to visit.

 

[JohnDroid]

Open forum avatar was animated

Yes think he means animated, mine was animated too and now is picture.

Unfortunately the new software does not support animated gif's in the Avatars anymore. One benefit is page size. For example, if you had a large animated gif (large as in amount of data, not physical size of image) -- it would take a long time for someone to download it, especially on mobile, and would hold the page up from rendering.

The software now automatically optimizes all uploaded images (avatars, attachments, gallery, etc) to reduce their size and make the site load faster for everyone.

Apologies on the lack of animated support, unfortunately we won't be able to add that one back in.

 

[JohnDroid]

Please check the first post of this thread as I edit my first post with additions/changes/updates.

 

[TreasureCatto]

Unfortunately the new software does not support animated gif's in the Avatars anymore. One benefit is page size. For example, if you had a large animated gif (large as in amount of data, not physical size of image) -- it would take a long time for someone to download it, especially on mobile, and would hold the page up from rendering.

The software now automatically optimizes all uploaded images (avatars, attachments, gallery, etc) to reduce their size and make the site load faster for everyone.

Apologies on the lack of animated support, unfortunately we won't be able to add that one back in.

Aw man, Thanks JD

 

[JohnDroid]

I've just manually updated all the thread thumbnails in the "Today's Finds" section that are on the front page (for me) so you can see an example:

Today's Finds! 📅

What did you find today? Share it with others in the Today's Finds Forum. Always a "timely" place to visit.

www.treasurenet.com

Instead of showing the users Avatar, it will show a thumbnail from one of the attachments uploaded in that thread. It's a quick way to give you an idea of what the content might look like.

Please let me know your thoughts.

 

[JohnDroid]

I've got a basic framework for the new Banner Finds add-on partially working. We will have to change some phrases, for now it's labeled "Golden Threads" -- we may stick to that moving forward, not sure. It shows up on the forum index page. I need to move a lot more into it but we are still testing things. Just a heads up.

 

[creskol]

On the old forum, the names of the members ( and guests) viewing the posts was visible at the bottom of the page. That doesn't seem to be the case here. I liked that feature.

 

[Clay Diggins]

It's standard procedure when changing url formats to provide a redirect page to the same content under the new scheme.

All my saved links to Treasurenet now result in a 404 error. That's bad practice and results in loss of users.

Please consider providing a redirect from the old content urls to the new content urls. It's a pretty simple process that would quickly give you many more page views.

 

[creskol]

Last night, the old forum was in READ ONLY .. This morning it was a 404 error. I kept trying to get on, an it finally dawned on this old man that maybe I needed to reenter a search for Treasurenet.com which seemed to work thank goodness!

 

[Clay Diggins]

Last night, the old forum was in READ ONLY .. This morning it was a 404 error. I kept trying to get on, an it finally dawned on this old man that maybe I needed to reenter a search for Treasurenet.com which seemed to work thank goodness!

From the average users point of view Treasurenet just disappeared off the internet due to a lack of a general redirect.

I too searched and found the "new" Treasurenet by going to the root of the site. Most users won't know how to do that. With a simple redirect that wouldn't be necessary.

 

[JohnDroid]

On the old forum, the names of the members ( and guests) viewing the posts was visible at the bottom of the page. That doesn't seem to be the case here. I liked that feature.

With an add-on I think we can add this functionality. I will look into getting that going. (Edit: It will be about 4 or 5 days before I'll be able to add this functionality, so hang in there)

It's standard procedure when changing url formats to provide a redirect page to the same content under the new scheme.

All my saved links to Treasurenet now result in a 404 error. That's bad practice and results in loss of users.

Please consider providing a redirect from the old content urls to the new content urls. It's a pretty simple process that would quickly give you many more page views.

We have about 500 hand coded redirects. Unfortunately, the process is not "pretty simple" -- as the old forum software used some identifiers that don't translate. In addition there are a ton of anchor links that don't translate, etc. So, we've tried to get as many as we can but it certainly isn't easy or perfect and we can add more.

If you can PM me or email me a list of the URL's that aren't working properly I'll be happy to look into them. Please let me know, TIA. Email is [email protected]

Last night, the old forum was in READ ONLY .. This morning it was a 404 error. I kept trying to get on, an it finally dawned on this old man that maybe I needed to reenter a search for Treasurenet.com which seemed to work thank goodness!

Do you know what URL was still giving you a 404 error page this morning?

 

[JohnDroid]

From the average users point of view Treasurenet just disappeared off the internet due to a lack of a general redirect.

I too searched and found the "new" Treasurenet by going to the root of the site. Most users won't know how to do that. With a simple redirect that wouldn't be necessary.

Which URL were you visiting? All the root URL's were working, ie treasurenet.com, www.treasurenet.com, etc.

 

[4Nines]

I've just manually updated all the thread thumbnails in the "Today's Finds" section that are on the front page (for me) so you can see an example:

Today's Finds! 📅

What did you find today? Share it with others in the Today's Finds Forum. Always a "timely" place to visit.

www.treasurenet.com

Instead of showing the users Avatar, it will show a thumbnail from one of the attachments uploaded in that thread. It's a quick way to give you an idea of what the content might look like.

Please let me know your thoughts.

I like that a lot! Looks good and is also functional 👍

 

[4Nines]

Which URL were you visiting? All the root URL's were working, ie treasurenet.com, www.treasurenet.com, etc.

I think some of these might just be cached pages in people's browsers and they need to do a hard refresh

 

[JohnDroid]

I think some of these might just be cached pages in people's browsers and they need to do a hard refresh

Could be, I'm sure there are some URL's that people had bookmarked that are no longer valid. I can redirect them if I know what they are. I'm adding hundreds of redirects each day but I'm working down a list a few hundred thousand long of URL's that are only hit once... Sorted by actual hits is how I'm adding them.

 

[Doubter in MD]

No animation? What?

 

[creskol]

With an add-on I think we can add this functionality. I will look into getting that going. (Edit: It will be about 4 or 5 days before I'll be able to add this functionality, so hang in there)



We have about 500 hand coded redirects. Unfortunately, the process is not "pretty simple" -- as the old forum software used some identifiers that don't translate. In addition there are a ton of anchor links that don't translate, etc. So, we've tried to get as many as we can but it certainly isn't easy or perfect and we can add more.

If you can PM me or email me a list of the URL's that aren't working properly I'll be happy to look into them. Please let me know, TIA. Email is [email protected]



Do you know what URL was still giving you a 404 error page this morning?

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http://www.mytreasurespot.com/main/read.php?3,533605

 

[Treasure_Hunter]

It's like when you get a new CO, we always said " things are going to be different around here...not better, just different" .... :LOL:

If you re-upload your avatar you should be able to move it around and center it however you want. The importer is rather dumb and doesn't necessarily line them up very well.




We can manually change your username, just send me a PM (now called Conversations) -- if the username is not already taken we can update yours.



Thank you, the new attachment system is much much better than the old one. This site gets massive amounts of attachments and this should be great moving forward... we have some good ideas on how to make adding banner finds/finds much better than it is currently.



Once we get all the bugs worked out on this skin we might be able to get a dark skin going. That's a little lower on the priority list but it is on the list.

The problem with name ARC was it was already taken, that is what stopped it from being used by AARC.