SITE MIGRATION NOTICE (please read) & other related talk about format

Has the new layout of HFBoards resulted in you visiting less?

  • Yes

    Votes: 154 54.8%
  • No

    Votes: 127 45.2%

  • Total voters
    281

HamiltonNHL

Parity era hockey is just puck luck + draft luck
Jan 4, 2012
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The upgrade to xenforo 2 is great.

But why this site cheaps out on a Style is beyond me.

It hasn't worked ever. And the authour was banned from Xenforo for good reason.

Here is another style flaw.
 
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HamiltonNHL

Parity era hockey is just puck luck + draft luck
Jan 4, 2012
21,172
11,726
@Mess

Did the migration ever get completed ?

MSG me if you'd like the names of some Xenforo experts from xenforo.com. Alternatively, the HFB admins can ask for expert help in the Xenforo forums and ask who people recommend.

This site consistently has problems with Website administration of Xenforo and some cheap and effective consulting with experts will go a long way.
 

HamiltonNHL

Parity era hockey is just puck luck + draft luck
Jan 4, 2012
21,172
11,726
We will begin migrating and updating the software at approximately 11 AM ET Wednesday 11-11-2021 The site will remain up but content posted after that time will not be migrated to the new site. The migration and update could take up to 24 hours. We are not anticipating downtime. Search will have to be indexed on the new platform so it's not going to work properly for at least a day. Addons like Sportsbook, Media Gallery, and Articles will take some time to be fully configured but will be functional. The new server cluster provides the resources we need to avoid disruptions with heavy traffic. There will be a new bookmark system, but existing ones will not be carried over. If you want to keep them you need copy them. Light and dark styles will be provided. Emojis and push notifications will be supported and we expect to add a progressive web app. As always there will be some suffering.


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Bookmarks not carried over.

Nice notice.
 

HamiltonNHL

Parity era hockey is just puck luck + draft luck
Jan 4, 2012
21,172
11,726
This site "randomly" reloads threads when typing replies.

Another sign of ridiculously bad website administration.
 

ACC1224

Super Elite, Passing ALL Tests since 2002
Aug 19, 2002
74,036
39,798
I was never one to come on this site with my phone but started to over the last while and it is amazing to me how awful it is.
Be a great opportunity for an alternate site to take away some of the business here.
 
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Michael HOMERUNing

Registered User
Feb 24, 2019
2,497
2,373
The site is borderline unusable on my phone. It’s an iPhone 12 There are ads blocking the posts. Sometimes the page randomly reloads and I lose everything I’ve typed l. I’m also currently blindly typing right now, the reply box scrolls upward past my view after I start typing
 

leafsleafs

Registered User
Jul 12, 2006
155
83
Here
I use an Ipad.

Pretty much given up reading posts on this forum, as it just constantly reloads.

Not worth the hassle.
 
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LeafSteel

GO LEAFS GO!!!
Mar 5, 2014
5,746
8,658
Toronto
The pop up ads are completely out of control and irrelevant.
WTH do I want with ads in Spanish?

Unusable on an iPhone.
 
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rojac

HFBoards Sponsor
Sponsor
Apr 5, 2007
13,053
2,937
Waterloo, ON
The pop up ads are completely out of control and irrelevant.
WTH do I want with ads in Spanish?

Unusable on an iPhone.

Pay the 12 bucks a year to be a sponsor and you don't need to worry about ads. As a sponsor, I don't think I've had any issues using the site on an iPhone other than the issues that one has doing anything from a phone.
 
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Oct 15, 2014
12,064
11,334
The Duke's Archives
I'm not seeing these ads on any of my browsers. I don't use MS products and I use the Brave browser on my Apple device.

I can vouch for the Brave browser. I used to have a ton of issues on HFB with other browsers on my phone, but Brave has been really smooth and nearly flawless. The only issue I found is if you're spamming backspace to move words up in a long message, a few letters can get mixed up a bit. Very minor, though.

I use Brave for everything now. Highly recommend.
 

ponder

Registered User
Jul 11, 2007
16,969
6,306
Vancouver
I get new crashes now.
these don’t appear, the whole pages reloads and you lose what you’ve typed.

this site is mismanaged.

The admins obviously need help.
This happens constantly on mobile, and is absolutely brutal. I lose easily half the comments I try to post. It’s making the site borderline unusable.

I’m a software developer myself, and this is probably the worst bug I’ve seen go unfixed on a popular site for so long.
 

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