A new AwakeNetwork!

If you are seeing this message, welcome to the new AwakeNetwork!

As I mentioned the other day, AwakeNetwork is going through some changes. This is to allow the site to be more stable, more secure, and more scalable. It also looks prettier, and works better on mobile devices.

While I tried to test the new infrastructure that powers AwakeNetwork as best I can, I have no doubt there will be some minor issues. And there are also ongoing tweaks to the layout and configuration that I plan to do, but my priority was to get the site back up as quickly as I can. The migration was very labour-intensive, and I don't want to repeat it, so now that we are on this new platform I can do those tweaks more or less in-place.

So all that said, please use this thread to report issues or annoyances, and I'll try my best to knock them off quickly. On my short-list of things to address include:

1. The forum sub-menu doesn't match the options we used to have.
2. The forum posts needs some more visual separation on mobile devices. Some subtle colour would be nice.
3. The login/profile dropdown needs more whitespace.
4. Display (and update) the Terms of Service.
5. Import Magazine content.

Thanks for your patience through this, and thank you for your continued participation in AwakeNetwork.

Thanks for the upgrade, Tom.

Tom, I took a quick tour of our new place and it looks great. I'm sure there are pieces to add back and maybe even some to fix, but generally, I'm happy with what I've seen so far. The only suggestion I have is one that you've already sort of mentioned - add some background color to the forum posts.

I should also mention that, currently, email notifications of forum posts is turned off while I set up the bulk mail handler. This is high on my priority list to fix.

Noah, it should be here: awakenetwork.org/forum/111-personal-prac...s-comments-questions . You should also be able to find your practice log from the "My Topics" tab. Do either of those work for you? If not, I think I may have screwed up permissions.

Does anyone else not have access to something they did before? Chris, as an admin, you don't count.

Just as a quick update, there was indeed a problem with the permissions. Nothing a little SQL voodoo couldn't fix quickly. Noah (and others) you should now be able to see what you are supposed to see.

Chris, as an admin, you don't count.

I'm used to not counting, Tom.

Tom, I tried to change my avatar image (JPG file) but while I can upload the file and save it, the image doesn't appear. Do I need to change the file type?

Chris Marti wrote: Tom, I tried to change my avatar image (JPG file) but while I can upload the file and save it, the image doesn't appear. Do I need to change the file type?

No, something is messed up there. I tried to do the same last night and couldn't. In my case, I was getting an error saying that email address was already in use. I am going to turn off avatars for the moment until I get that figured out.

Got it, thanks.

So the avatar upload with the email conflict was just a "me" thing. I have fixed that. But I can also confirm that avatar uploads are still failing, and I am not sure why yet. Furthermore, it seems like I cannot turn off displaying avatars easily (hmm), so right now this bug is outstanding in my backlog.

There is another issue which is that topic subscriptions are currently not emailing out their updates. I had this working while I was staging the site, but the service I am using for high-volume emails is currently inaccessible from my host. This is my top priority to fix, unless quick-fix bugs come in that I can knock off without derailing me too much.

I'd say the avatar issue is the last thing to worry about.

Another useful thing I have found is the "Unread" section of the forum. I live by "unread" in my email, so this is nice to keep things filtered. But related, if you click on a category there is an addition button to "mark category read". As an admin, I see stuff that are not always relevant to me personally so I can quickly mark them as read and move on.

I believe that I now have email notifications of topic/category subscriptions working. To do this, unfortunately I had to declare "subscription bankruptcy" in that any existing subscriptions you may have had are gone. This is probably a good thing because it helped cull out subscriptions from members that are no longer active. However, it does mean that you are going to need to re-subscribe to anything you want an email notification for.

My ask is that we ease into this. If there is something you want emails for, by all means subscribe to it. But for the time being, please limit to a single subscription (like your practice thread, for example). If all goes well for a week, say, then we can open it up to more. Since these emails are classified as "bulk email" we need to ensure that things are flowing nicely to avoid hurting our reputation, which impacts the number of emails that can be sent at one time.

Thanks for your patience and understanding.

Thanks for all your hard work, Tom.