Server Maintenance

[Brandon_Martus]

I’ll be doing some server updates and Discourse upgrade either this Sunday (Dec. 11) or Monday (Dec. 12) morning. The site will be unavailable for a while during these updates.

[Zatack7]

What version of Discourse is it being upgraded to?

[Brandon_Martus]

2.9.0.beta14, most likely

[FrankJ]

Thanks for what you do.

[Tom_Line]

As long as it isn’t 2.9.0.betaVexModeration I think we’ll all enjoy it.

[Andrew_Schreiber]

Wasn’t BetaVex the competitor to VHS (Vex Hosted Server)?

(thanks Brandon, appreciate keeping us modern)

[Brandon_Martus]

Update is complete. Let me know if there are any issues.

[Zatack7]

Thanks for keeping the site up to date!
From what I can tell, the version of the google emojis used on the site was updated, but in the process, the reaction emoji was replaced with , and was replaced with . I wonder why, as this makes it a bit harder to immediately distinguish what emoji has been used to react.

[kedas]

By the way 2.9.0.beta14 has messed up user text field labels (broken by 34e21525d0417603b741b58f44703787efda68af):

Which could be (kinda) fixed by overriding javascripts/discourse/templates/components/user-fields/text.hbs in a theme (at least this is what I did for theg2m.com - if you have a better patch feel free to share):

<div class="controls">
  <label class="control-label" for={{concat "user-" this.elementId}}>
    {{this.field.name}}
    {{#if this.field.required}}<span class="required">*</span>{{/if}}
  </label>
  <div class="instructions">{{html-safe this.field.description}}</div>
  <Input id={{concat "user-" this.elementId}} @value={{this.value}} maxlength={{this.site.user_field_max_length}} />
  <InputTip @validation={{this.validation}} />
</div>

[MARS_James]

Interesting the first replacement you list has been how mine have always looked, the second has been updated for me.

[TheFlash]

The new hamburger menu is an interesting design choice - Its gonna take some getting used to (Kinda irritating that it moves position while open vs while closed so u cant quickly toggle it open and closed)

Ig just always keeping it open is an option lol

[MikLast]

@TheFlash

Ig just always keeping it open is an option lol

ill be keeping it closed. Muscle memory instead will be my downfall…

It was also interesting to look at the notifications from 2019 i never cleared all pop up at once.

[Richard_Wallace]

@TheFlash

The new hamburger menu

Wait, what? There’s a hamburger menu on this forum? No one told me!

[Bmongar]

@Richard_Wallace

Wait, what? There’s a hamburger menu

I’ll take a double with raw onion, jalapeno and ketchup please

[marshall]

How much money would you be willing to take to keep it like this until after kickoff?

[asid61]

I can finally react properly on mobile! Huge upgrade.

[marshall]

@asid61

I can finally react properly on mobile

He upgraded you too?