MageUK Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 There will be some forum downtime during the morning (UTC) and possibly afternoon as well. I am going to be attempting a conversion of our forum character set from the current one to UTF-8. This should hopefully future proof us and also fix the problems that the RuneScape News bot has been experiencing (multi-posting, weird characters). I will be maintaining a full backup of the old database should anything weird happen to any of the other characters, but this shouldn't happen. The conversion itself will take some time, as every column in every row of every database table needs to be examined and if necessary, converted. This is much like the original process when we converted from phpBB to IPB, in that everything needs to be traversed. That being said, I wrote this character conversion script myself and optimised it to be multi-threaded in order to expedite this transition, and so the time should be far less for the character conversion itself (around 5 hours). However, I may also be potentially moving us to a different server, and if so, this will make the process take a bit longer, this is still undecided, but rest assured we'll be back online ASAP. The forum will be totally unavailable while the conversion is taking place, and you will not even be able to access the offline page. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. V. Devnull Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Thanks for the heads-up, albeit so shortly in advance. I hope this conversion is far less buggy than the upgrade before it. BTW, if the new server is considerably better and more powerful, you might want to run the conversion on it instead of on the old hardware, so things might be a bit quicker to execute and finish. :thumbsup: ~D. V. "I'm thinking positive here." Devnull and normally with a cool mind.(Warning: This user can be VERY confusing to some people... And talks in 3rd person for the timebeing due to how insane they are... Sometimes even to themself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MageUK Posted October 10, 2013 Author Share Posted October 10, 2013 The server move isn't about power, I want to potentially switch our Operating System. We are virtualised so I can assign power where necessary to get the conversion task done as quickly as possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. V. Devnull Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 The server move isn't about power, I want to potentially switch our Operating System. We are virtualised so I can assign power where necessary to get the conversion task done as quickly as possible.Ah, silly me then. #-o ~D. V. "D'oh!" Devnull and normally with a cool mind.(Warning: This user can be VERY confusing to some people... And talks in 3rd person for the timebeing due to how insane they are... Sometimes even to themself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonkng198 Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Duly noted, thanks for the notice Peter ~Dragon "I can haz cheeseburger nao?!" Kng198 1 [hide=Stats] [/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bows Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 Duly noted, thanks for the notice Peter ~Dragon "I can haz cheeseburger nao?!" Kng198 I love you. Oh, and thanks Peter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragonkng198 Posted October 10, 2013 Share Posted October 10, 2013 I love you too man <3: ~Dragon "Choked with emotion!" Kng198 [hide=Stats] [/hide] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MageUK Posted October 12, 2013 Author Share Posted October 12, 2013 Forum is back (if you didn't guess :P) and the character conversion seems to have gone well (as well as the move). I have emptied the RuneScape News forum and it should begin to repopulate itself as new articles are posted. Seems like there's not a huge amount of historical value in keeping the topics with the broken names. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceus Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Glad to hear everything went well! :) 1 "Fight for what you believe in, and believe in what you're fighting for." Can games be art? --- My blog here if you want to check out my Times articles and other writings! I always appreciate comments/feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kaida23 Posted October 12, 2013 Share Posted October 12, 2013 Yay! I don't have to try and entertain myself anymore. :P An excellent job as always, Peter. :thumbup: 1 Check out my blog to read the Adventures of a Big Damn (F2P) Hero. THE place for all free players to connect, hang out and talk about how awesome it is to be F2P. So, Kaida is the real version of every fictional science-badass? That explains a lot, actually... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenw Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Thanks peter! *Notices the lack of a number separator on post count* 6,924th to 30 hunting, 13,394th to 30 summoning, 52,993rd to 30 DivinationKiln Record (Post-EoC): W 25 - L 0, 14 Uncut Onyx, 8 Jad hits received (Best record: Two in the same kiln)Obby set renewed post update #2: 0QBD drops: 21 crossbow parts, 3 Visages, 1 Kites, 2 KitsMax Port Score [2205] Achieved: 27th April 2013 (World 2nd) Farmyard Rampage ranking: 12th, 50,000 Kills. Dragon Pickaxe Drops: 1 (Times after I first entered Battlefield: 2h) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arceus Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Yeah, all the commas went missing :o (post count, thread views, etc.). "Fight for what you believe in, and believe in what you're fighting for." Can games be art? --- My blog here if you want to check out my Times articles and other writings! I always appreciate comments/feedback. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MageUK Posted October 13, 2013 Author Share Posted October 13, 2013 Should be all sorted now. :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saradomin_Mage Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Upon going to your profile and clicking the Likes tab, a list of posts you received likes on is generated. However, when you scroll to the bottom, you can't click on Page 1 of X to jump to a different page. However, if you scroll back up and switch to the "Given" tab, you can jump to a different page, and switching afterwards to the "Received" tab always you to jump to a different page too. Minor bug. Not sure if there's any other relevant information to provide. In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MageUK Posted October 13, 2013 Author Share Posted October 13, 2013 Upon going to your profile and clicking the Likes tab, a list of posts you received likes on is generated. However, when you scroll to the bottom, you can't click on Page 1 of X to jump to a different page. However, if you scroll back up and switch to the "Given" tab, you can jump to a different page, and switching afterwards to the "Received" tab always you to jump to a different page too. Minor bug. Not sure if there's any other relevant information to provide.What skin are you using? Works fine for me on the Tip.It one unless I'm misunderstanding the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Saradomin_Mage Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Using Deflection. Switched to Tip.It theme and it doesn't work either. using Firefox (if that matters). What happens is that I go to my user profile, then hit the likes tab, and at the bottom of the page is a "Page 1 of X" thing that doesn't let me click it to select a page to jump too. In real life MMO you don't get 99 smithing by making endless bronze daggers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MageUK Posted October 13, 2013 Author Share Posted October 13, 2013 Using Deflection. Switched to Tip.It theme and it doesn't work either. using Firefox (if that matters). What happens is that I go to my user profile, then hit the likes tab, and at the bottom of the page is a "Page 1 of X" thing that doesn't let me click it to select a page to jump too.Seems like it's an actual forum bug, I've reported it, in the meantime you'll just have to use your workaround. :P 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jimmy_jim Posted October 13, 2013 Share Posted October 13, 2013 Get your act together Peter RIP Michaelangelopolousu can control my tip it account, but youll never control how fine i am!This is by FAR my favorite song: I love N_odie and would never edit his posts! I love Rainy_Day too <3 And also Cowman_133. <33 Oh, and Laikrob is a going to hunt me down and kill me like a pest kangaroo if I reveal how awesome she is. I owe tripsis skittles. DarkDude feels like he's missing out. This is my siggy! - n_odie Rainy_Day MINE! - n_odie Rainy_Day And meol shouldn't feel left out. Oh, and Y_Guy is a noob awesome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
D. V. Devnull Posted October 14, 2013 Share Posted October 14, 2013 Well... +5 Likes on this thread, mostly to Peter. Glad to see the forum's running smooth again. :thumbsup: As for this...Get your act together Peter <*punches the hell out of @jimmy_jim*> ... You can let Peter be, seeing as the fault here is Invision's, and not his! :angry: ~D. V. "W00T! ... Hmph." Devnull (p.s.: Now for me to go let my 'Like pool' recharge!) and normally with a cool mind.(Warning: This user can be VERY confusing to some people... And talks in 3rd person for the timebeing due to how insane they are... Sometimes even to themself.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnny.odwyer.5 Posted May 16, 2014 Share Posted May 16, 2014 I'll have to find somewhere else to lurk ;p http://runetrack.com/profile.php?user=Uth Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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