Site upgrade of 2017, part II - All is Not Lost

Discussion in 'Customer Service' started by soccernutter, Mar 21, 2017.

  1. blissett

    blissett Member+

    Aug 20, 2011
    Italy
    Club:
    --other--
    Nat'l Team:
    --other--
    Hey! It finally happened!!! :eek: ("...it finally happened, oh yeah... It finally happened: I'm slightly mad...", for whoever gets the reference :p).

    Today, I opened my page on BigSoccer to be welcomed by shiny green new tags reading "NEW" on each of the forums (and subforums!) who had new posts in them!
    So, now I don't have anymore to explore every single forum/subforum to see if it has new messages (or ruin my eyesight and my memory to watch at the date of the last post).

    It took some time, but I guess with this upgrade we got very close to having most of the old functionality of the website completely restored. Or, at least, this was the main issue for me, and now I can live quite peacefully with all the rest of the upgrade.

    For whoever made this possible, thanks for listening. :thumbsup:
     
    dark knight repped this.
  2. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    That's very good to hear! Not that I care at all about the shiny green "NEW" tags. ;)

    Maybe the admins are working in stealth on some other issues...

    I notice that the green arrows behavior has changed. They used to disappear after 2 seconds or so. Now they don't disappear at all??? That will surely piss off some folks, so why not try to make them stay for 5 seconds as a happy compromise?
     
  3. fatbastard

    fatbastard Member+

    Aug 1, 2003
    Lincoln (ish), Va
    Club:
    DC United
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yep, that's about halfway or more to what we asked for but very enjoyable progress.
    Well, that could not be too much more annoying could it ..... If they're going to stay on constantly and we get a toggle to turn them all the way off, that's cool, otherwise they just block the BigSoccer copyright and quick navigation button (or the lower-right part of the post you're reading).
     
  4. dark knight

    dark knight Super Moderator
    Staff Member

    Dec 15, 1999
    Club:
    Leicester City FC
    Always on goes with transparent so they don't block anything - seems easier to use no?
     
    Winoman, fatbastard and blissett repped this.
  5. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm good with the new green arrows. And I was one of the people who talked the most about their value. ;)

    I think I can live with them the way they are now... staying visible permanently and now being transparent. I do think it's visually a bit more elegant to have the pop-up for 5 seconds after you hover lower-right, but if that wasn't easy to do, then this solution seems a good 2nd choice.

    Thanks to anyone who put in time on this. Onward.
     
    fatbastard and blissett repped this.
  6. jond

    jond Member+

    Sep 28, 2010
    Club:
    Levski Sofia
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Ever since the revamp BS has been loading much slower for me, even freezing. No other tabs or sites I have open experience this, it's only BS.

    Anyone else having similar issues?
     
    sitruc, vilafria and crazypete13 repped this.
  7. Dead Fingers

    Dead Fingers Moderator
    Staff Member

    Jan 22, 2004
    St. Paul, Minnesota
    Club:
    Minnesota United FC
    Bump
     
  8. Earthshaker

    Earthshaker BigSoccer Supporter

    Sep 12, 2005
    The hills above town
    Club:
    San Jose Earthquakes
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Yes, same here. Very frustrating. I don't have this problem with other sites I visit.
     
  9. lynne

    lynne Member+

    Oct 11, 2003
    I just logged on and noticed the same. I'm using Chrome (if that info helps).
     
  10. Dante

    Dante Moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 19, 1998
    Upstate NY
    Club:
    Juventus FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I'm also having this issue, it's only on BS. I'm using a Mac with Safari.
     
  11. sitruc

    sitruc Member+

    Jul 25, 2006
    Virginia
    I think part of it might be some really shitty ads that are doing a lot to even get around blockers. I've seen this on a few computers in different browsers. I don't mind ads and supporting websites that I regularly use, but there have been some bad ones that make the page loads slow, are obtrusive and remove functionality.
     
    Dr. Wankler repped this.
  12. jond

    jond Member+

    Sep 28, 2010
    Club:
    Levski Sofia
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    It's getting worse. USNT PBP thread would barely refresh yesterday. Site is freezing while typing out posts. I constantly have to close the BS tab and open a new one. No problems on any other sites I visit.
     
  13. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    How about your teams owner for the ava?

    [​IMG]
     
  14. Dante

    Dante Moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 19, 1998
    Upstate NY
    Club:
    Juventus FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I think it's getting worse, or at least it is for me, pages keep reloading because of errors, even while I'm typing replies.
     
    vilafria repped this.
  15. vilafria

    vilafria Member+

    Jun 2, 2005
    I thou
     
  16. vilafria

    vilafria Member+

    Jun 2, 2005
  17. vilafria

    vilafria Member+

    Jun 2, 2005
  18. vilafria

    vilafria Member+

    Jun 2, 2005
  19. vilafria

    vilafria Member+

    Jun 2, 2005
    nds ffffxffx
     
  20. The Jitty Slitter

    The Jitty Slitter Moderator
    Staff Member

    Bayern München
    Germany
    Jul 23, 2004
    Fascist Hellscape
    Club:
    FC Sankt Pauli
    Nat'l Team:
    Belgium
    Bad cache?
     
  21. crazypete13

    crazypete13 Moderator
    Staff Member

    May 7, 2007
    A walk from BMO
    Club:
    Toronto FC
    I had this happen with an ad with a loading wheel image cranking the whole time.

    Keyboard response lag was bad - but once I submitted it went away.
     
  22. Dante

    Dante Moderator
    Staff Member

    Nov 19, 1998
    Upstate NY
    Club:
    Juventus FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Not sure, so far this morning not having the same issue. Now I'm just getting a bit of lag.
     
  23. Dr. Wankler

    Dr. Wankler Member+

    May 2, 2001
    The Electric City
    Club:
    Chicago Fire
    I get this, too. In (EDIT: FIREFOX) I occasionally get ads talking to me and preventing me from typing or even moving down the page. In Explorer, I get "long running scrip" notices. And in Chrome, it freezes this page and the page that I'm listening to.

    Doesn't happen very often on my iPad (Safari), but when it does, it's page crash after page crash.

    As was said above, I don't mind the ads, but if it makes it impossible for me to use the site, then it seems counter-productive.
     
  24. NorthBank

    NorthBank Member+

    Arsenal; NYRB
    United States
    Mar 29, 2006
    Connecticut
    Club:
    Arsenal FC
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    I've generally not been having the website problems as recently reported, but today I do notice that things are very sluggish on BigSoccer.com.

    I wonder when the last time the server was rebooted?
     
  25. jond

    jond Member+

    Sep 28, 2010
    Club:
    Levski Sofia
    Nat'l Team:
    United States
    Today was the worst since I started experiencing the issue.

    Has staff commented anywhere? Been a month.
     
    vilafria repped this.

Share This Page