DemonGoddess

Your continued patience is helpful! A quick fix for the reviews and nav I was pondering absolutely wasn't going to work. This is why I check before trying it.

No, this is temporary, and has to do with having to rewrite parts of the code quickly to make it so the chapter data showed.

Firstly, I'd like to welcome all the new users we're seeing daily! Glad to have you here! Please do familiarize yourself with the Terms of Service and Content Guidelines. This IS a moderated archive. Server Upgrade Update There are some issues, which I'm sure you'll have noticed. First of all, when we attempted to upgrade one of the core languages a little bit more (after prepping the site files for it), it made visible some big issues that were already there with upgrading php from 5.1 to 5.3. When we went to 5.4, and then reverted back, the issues that were there stayed there and visible. So,this meant a complete rewrite of the file which shows the chapter data itself. Between Manta2g and myself, that was 30 hours combined, on the 12th. Just to get that part working again. In the process of doing that, there were some things we've not added back yet. This is TEMPORARY. Will be working on restoring: “next” at bottom of chapter chapter numbering hits (these still show in the story listings in the archive, going to see about it in other places) review ability Understand that with the code stuff, I defer to Manta in this (just as she does with me for the database). I will certainly give it my best effort, but any changes I make will not go live until she's had a chance to go over them. We don't want to break things all over again. Odd characters, (diamonds instead of apostrophes as an example) are the result of the database having been changed to utf8 encoding when mysql was updated as part of the server upgrade. Utf8 is the default for later versions of mysql. For the moment, in your browser settings, change the encoding of the page to utf8 from whatever your browser has defaulted to. To completely fix this I have to do a couple things. First, anywhere any header commands reference charset, I'll change that for utf8. Secondly, I have to convert the data from what was default before (latin1) TO utf8. As the database is 9.3GB, this is going to be time consuming. Further, I have to be very, very careful in that I don't scramble anything when I do this. I'll be doing the conversion table by table. Thank you for your continuing patience! Please remember that the authors you read do like to hear from you! Leave them a review or two, and let them know how they're doing! (yes I know, I'll get this fixed first) DemonGoddess061

@HP_Reader, The chapters you mention in the first story, display correctly. The second story also loads, but with the diamonds. As I said, to fix that temporarily, set your browser to utf8. As the database is 9.3GB, the conversion is going to take me some time. So rather than wait, I'd go ahead and set that in your browser. In the meantime, I'll also set the charset where it asks for it in the file itself in header information. That'll help somewhat, but won't correct it entirely.

to fix that, set your browser to utf8 for encoding for now. I have to convert the db to that encoding.

It is all being addressed. As I said before, just to get the chapters to display AT ALL took a combined 30 man hours for manta and I, in one day. yesterday, we both opted to give our weary eyes a much needed break. Today, AFTER work, I've got some things I'll look at, and show manta before I even think about going live. Remember, she's the primary coder for a REASON. Just as I'm the primary on database, for a REASON. That's where our strengths lie. Hers in code, and mine in overall db stuff. Which is why BEFORE she does something to the db, we talk first, just as BEFORE I do anything in code, we talk first.

Given that between manta and I, we spent over 30 hours COMBINED working on getting the chapter data to display, you also have to understand that the finetuning will come probably later tonight or tomorrow. The priority yesterday was to get the chapter data to display.

@Mira-Claude Thank you for the kind words!

Hi there, I put numbers next to your concerns, so I can address them. 1. The odd characters are from the database language upgrade, which means that the database is now utf-8 for charset. This means I have to convert each and every table from latin1_swedish (the old charset from earlier versions of mysql) to utf-8. In the meantime, you can easily fix this by selecting the character set within your browser. Set it to utf8 and the odd images will disappear. 2. Give me links to some of the truncated ones, and I'll have a quick look. Chances are, that this is also related to the charset change, which is easily fixed with the rich text editor. These are actually things we DO need to know, as you've detailed it, so I know what it is that's happening. That's very helpful

Yesterday, the priority was to get the chapter data to display at all. That's working now. Sure, I understand it's annoying not having "next" and other nav options, but that's something we'll take care of probably tomorrow after our eyeballs get a chance to get rested. Understand that combined, you're looking at over 30 man hours yesterday.

Yesterday, the priority was to get the chapter data to display at all. That's working now. Sure, I understand it's annoying not having "next", but that's something we'll take care of probably tomorrow after our eyeballs get a chance to get rested.

Yesterday the priority was to get the chapter data to display. There is a menu to the left, which displays chapters in sequence.

Here's the situation: Manta had to rewrite the script which displayed the chapters. It's been a very long day for us both, so yes, we also know that you cannot review in the new script yet. She'll be adding that tomorrow.

issues are fixed. review option will be fixed tomorrow

only until tomorrow. The important thing tonight was to get the chapter data to display

Manta is doing some fine tuning before she goes live right now

I've made many, many posts about the white page o' doom thing already today. Yes, we are certainly aware of it. Yes, we are working on it, and yes, we're making progress. We're almost there now.

it's not a DNS or page load issue, it's an outdated script issue.

It's actually the file which loaded the chapter data for reading which was the issue. Manta is almost done rewriting it. It couldn't be patched to make it work, had to be rewritten instead.

Please read the many posts I've already made about this. yes, we are aware of it. yes, we are working on it. (12 hours straight now), and YES, we're making progress!

The login is a separate issue from the white page of doom. Being told to login again, tells me you've logged in using the center boxes. Use the boxes at the upper right corner, and you won't keep getting told to login in again. As to the white pages, that's something we are working on.

Hi there, We are aware of the issue, and have been working on this since 8 am my time (it's now 5 pm). Still working on it.

@TheSublimerOne Thanks! Needed that giggle!

@Lerianis Appreciate the sentiment about the site. We've been working on this for several hours now, hope to have this resolved shortly.

@DaFossil Thanks! Appreciate that! @wrightmother As I've already mentioned, we are working on the issue.