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This document describes the changelog for enhancements made to FreddysHouse forums:
18th October, 2013
16th January, 2005
18th October, 2013
- Upgraded MySQL
- Upgraded the OS
- Started the migration test phase to XenForo 1.2.x with a completely new skin
- Upgraded XenForo to 1.1.5
- Upgraded PHP from 5.3.x to 5.4.x
- Migrated from APC to Zend OpCache for PHP opcode caching
- Upgraded certificates used on forums.freddyshouse.com and s6.freddyshouse.net to StartSSL Class 2 wildcards.
- Upgraded to latest version of XenForo. This version allows for the upgrade of add-ons without the dreaded white screen of nothing, so you should be able to carry on whilst I do stuff behind the scenes
- Upgraded to XenForo Enhanced Search 1.0.1
- Upgraded the XenFracture skin, might be some glitches here and there.
- Upgraded Conversation Essentials.
- Upgraded Template Management System.
- Rebuilt search system using ElasticSearch 0.90 Beta 1
- Upgraded Stock Trader addon to RC 2.
- Installed the ThreadBan addon. This grants the ability to ban users from participating in threads
- Upgraded XenForo to 1.1.3.
- Removed some links from the navigation tab and moved them to FH Links.
- Installed a profile completion addon.
- Created some new trophies.
- Set default method of password storage to Bcrypt.
- Installed an addon by SheepCow to automatically convert passwords stored using the MD5 hash to SHA-256 (due to import from vbulletin and the method it used to store passwords) upon a successful login.
- Upgraded Post Ratings addon to 1.3.1. This brings significant performance enhancements and allows negative ratings to be hidden as they are not used on FreddysHouse.
- Installed the addon Tag Me.
- Installed User Essentials.
- Upgraded ForumRunner to version 1.1.2 to enable support for thread prefixes from the phone app.
- Upgraded the FreddysHouse Green theme to use spritesheets. Will convert other themes to use the spritesheet over the next week.
- Installed Conversation Essentials. Take a peek at https://forums.freddyshouse.com/account/preferences and look at the new options under Conversations.
- Upgraded Post Ratings addon to version 1.2.0
- Installed TMS (Template Modification System).
- Upgraded MySQL.
- Upgraded XenForo to version 1.1.2.
- Upgraded XenoMorph framework to version 1.1.2.
- Implemented a secondary site for loading of javascript and images.
- Wrote a script to pre-load the index into RAM.
- Implemented the Post Rating addon.
- Upgraded XenoMorph framework to version 1.1.1.
- Installed the XenForo Enhanced Search module. Searching on less than 3 letters is now supported.
- Upgraded XenForo to v1.1.1
- Enabled Yubikey authentication for all registered users. Yubikey is a hardware USB keyboard (smaller than a pendrive) which facilitates 2 factor authentication. More information can be found at http://www.yubico.com
- Updated TinyMCE (the editor) to version 3.4.7 to see if it solves mobile phone issues.
- Upgraded forum software to v1.1 GOLD.
- Installed the FreddysHouse Tools: Yubikey authentication addon. This addon allows you to protect your account with two-factor authentication. More information at http://www.yubico.com
- Made changes to the media library to support true streaming. You can seek to any point on a video.
- Upgraded forum software to v1.1 RC 1.
- Upgraded forum software to v1.1 beta 5.
- Pointed forums.freddyshouse.com to a Varnish reserve proxy for ipv4.
- Changed some settings of the caching system APC.
- Installed Igbinary which is a drop replacement PHP serializer. Modified APC and PHP to use Igbinary instead of the builtin PHP serializer.
- Switched to using Memcached for PHP variable storage instead of APC.
- Tightened up the security of the forum installation.
- Migrated from vBulletin to XenForo 1.1 beta3. Rejoice
- Installed the XenQuotation mod.
- Started the tidyup of groups/permissions.
- Removed all user paid upgrades (they do not import into XenForo).
- Increased limits on Private Messages for every member to 5000.
- Updated ForumRunner to version 1.7.0.
- Further server optimisations.
- Implemented a 404 page.
- Migrated to a new server. IP Address is 193.138.95.70
- Upgraded Forum Runner plugin to latest version.
- Upgraded MySQL to 5.5
- Removed Xcache and installed APC (opcode caching systems for PHP). APC is now being merged into the core of PHP so it made sense to move to this caching solution.
- Started testing the Forums under nginx (Engine-X) to replace Lighttpd. For all those who want to test, modify your local hosts file and put the following in : 193.138.95.61 forums.freddyshouse.com. If you experience any problems please report them in the feedback forum. Things to certainly test would be the blogs and the gallery.
- Upgraded forum software to latest version in the 3.x series.
- Updated templates to accomodate changes in latest version.
- Removed some mods.
- Increased performance by utilising cookieless domains for static content.
- Upgraded forum software to latest version.
- Upgraded SEO software to latest version.
- If you are logged in then a part of history begins to unfold itself.
- Upgraded Photopost software to the latest version.
- Updated the forum software to the latest version. There will be templates wrong including skins, they will be fixed so don't panic.
- Updated many mods to the latest version in preparation of an upgrade to the latest version of the forum software.
- Updated the forum software to the latest version.
- Enabled visitor messages to profiles (forgot to activate it ages ago).
- Enabled social group creation (doh! noone had permissions to create any, now you can!)
- Upgraded the forum software to the latest version. The biggest impact on this upgrade is that user's cannot use their username as the password.
- Installed AME (Auto Media Embedding).
- Added Last.FM information in User Profile page, you need to add your Last.FM details in your control panel. Check my profile page for a demo here.
- Upgraded the forum software to the latest version.
- Installed a couple of new mods.
- Upgraded a few existing mods to the latest versions.
- Upgraded forum software to version 3.7.0. Updated all current mods to the latest versions.
- Installed VBBlogs 1.03. Most of you should be able to create a blog within the forum system. Version 3.7 of the forum software will allow much more in the way of social networking....
- Changed default behaviour when voting on polls to NOT refresh the thread's last update time. This will stop voting from bumping threads.
- Upgraded forum software to version 3.6.8
- Added new breadcrumb mod to show breadcrumbs at bottom of threads.
- Upgraded the forum code to the latest version.
- Upgraded the FreddysHouse and DAOC styles to use the latest templates. Thanks to SheepCow for actually doing the templates for us.
- Upgraded certain specific mods to FreddysHouse to use product templating. Thanks again to SheepCow.
- Removed Inferno Warning system and activated the inbuilt infraction system.
- Upgraded the photopost gallery software to the latest version.
- Added SEO mod.
- Updated QuoteIT! mod to latest version
- Removed dead templates.
- Added the Steel Blue theme
- Added the Heavy Metal theme
- Added Google AdSense to thread display pages. Subscribed users do not see them.
- Re-added the latest version of v3 Arcade for vb 3.5.x
- Reactivated the removal of user's who have not completed their registration after 10 days
- Upgraded base forum code to 3.5.4
- Upgraded many of the hacks/plugins/products used to the latest versions
- Changed MySQL to 5.0.19
- Added a World of Warcraft style.
- Added warning system.
- Added couple more themes.
- Got the signature mod working.
- Added a forum rules/announcement extension
- Implemented hosted forums.
- Other little tweaks to images and the like.
- Finally upgraded the forums to VB 3.5. Let the fun commence.....
- Updated forum Code of Conduct and forced all users to agree to them if they want to continue using the forums.
- Enabled all users to be able to post polls. If abused will be removed.
- Imported some old messages....
- Installed new icons for the default style. Have passed to Jinglebells to recolour ready for VB 3.5
- Added gallery software. All users who subscribed should check "The Elite forums" for further news. All registered users can upload images to do with wallpapers and desktops.
- Created an NFS setup so all the webservers get their content from one place. Should make it easier to maintain going forward.
- Added a new optimizer to further speed up web performance. Should be pretty fast now.
- Added new database server. The forums should hopefully be extremely responsive.
- Forgot to add, recompiled apache, php, zend across all webservers to latest versions
- Installed beta of FH services which initially offers only email.
16th January, 2005
- Added IBProArcade. Need to get some more games for it.
- Added a registration hack. This sends out email reminders for those that haven't activated their account. If after 10 days the account is still not activated then it is deleted from the forums. This will help catch those that add incorrect email addresses.
- Upgraded the forums to the latest version of VBulletin. Remove all references to petz/arcade from the code in preparation for new Arcade system.
- Activated FlashChat. A simple forum based chat system like IRC using Flash.
- Beefed up anti-spam measures.
Users have to be registered for 7 days and have 5 posts before they can:
a) create new threads
b) use the bbcode URL
- Added a change to stop spammers from posting urls as soon as they signup.
- Added page generation stats to the bottom of each page.
- Installed a Journal system into the forums. Link is in the navbar.
- Activated the load balancer and pointed the primary IP at it.
- Upgraded the portal page to use CMPS, an advanced portal system which allows modules and pages to be created.
- Upgraded the forums to the latest software. Hopefully many little quirks and bugs are resolved by this!
- Upgraded VBArcade to the latest version. Should reduce CPU load on the forums, also has a search facility (located under Search in the navbar).
- Changed where the images for the forums are loaded from to reduce the load on Apache. Hopefully there are no broken images.
- Updated the Code of Conduct. Basically spam and you win a 2 week ban and we will edit your postcount/virtual money down to 0. Also added information on Trading.
- Activated VBArcade. Follow the link in the navigation bar or failing to understand that, click here
- Added vbPetz. This allows you to create a pet, look after them and engage them in battles with other forum users. You will need to create your pet (initially there is only a dog) by following this link
- Installed a link database system. Not live yet, need to find some people who are willing to maintain the database.
- Added a quote system to the forums. See the home page.
- Put the old images back until the new ones are finished, more to stop the whining.
- Re-added the seperator between sticky threads and normal threads.
- SAS and Summo have agreed to sort out the graphics on the board. Thanks guys. Appreciated.
- Upgraded the forums to vBulletin 3.0.0 GOLD. The smilies have changed, the graphics have changed. The graphics are anti-aliased and need to be rejigged for each style so apologies for the white outline around each one. Some template changes need re-applying....
The only downside I can see so far is that the style stored in your cookie is lost so you need to select it again.
- Reduced the time you have to go back and edit a message you posted to 5 minutes.
- Updated the DNS to send all traffic thru a new load balancer. Hopefully this will help spread the forum load.
- Moved the forum SQL database to another physical server. This will speed up the boards (hopefully).
- Disabled some options that display what is currently happening across the boards to reduce the number of SQL queries that are carried out. Most notably, "Who's Online".
- Removed colour tags as it was doing my eyes in no end and I really don't want to wear glasses just yet.
- Increased the character limit for PM from 10000 to 20000.
- Re-enabled the reputation system. You can only give someone a good reputation without a comment. Let's see how this works eh?
- Changed user titles. There were lots of them and it seemed to be encouraging some people to post farm to get to the next title. We now have 3 titles. upto 50 Posts = Fledgling Freddie - upto 1000 posts = Regular Freddie - over 1000 posts = Scrounging Bastard
- Added a rule about nudity in the CoC, so people know what is and isnt allowed
- Added yet another bloody rule about people telling others to "Die" and things like that. Save it for the playground kids.
- Added announcement drawing attention to this changelog
- Changed the time to wait before you can send another Private message from 60 secs down to 15 secs.
- Added a rule to the CoC about not posting your email address in the forums for all to see
- Removed users viewing the current thread, save cpu cycles and database queries.
- Upgraded the forum software to RC2
- Added a template change will show a user's signature once PER page.
- Added a high contrast style, white text on black
- Updated login.php and register.php to fix security hole in RC1
- Added some green buttons for the GREEN style - you will need to HARD refresh your cache to pick them up
- Added some smiles for those that requested them
- Changes the shit blue ones - smilies that is
- Upped the max message length to 20000 chars
- Upgraded forums to VB3 RC1
- Added SheepCow's signaturemod hack
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