Forum Software Issues and Suggestions

Thomas More said:
I have been having tweets fail to load. All I see is this. Other content still seems to load normally. I can click the tweet and see it on Twitter, but just can't see it here like normal.
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I had that for a couple of hours, a few days back. It will probably get back to normal by itself.
 
Houston, we have a problem!
I can't ignore certain members. Are we entering a two-tiered society?

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Does this feature exist and can it be enabled? As the forum grows, this would be a major time saver for those members who can only check in a once or twice a week. Nobody wants to click 'New posts' then have to sift thru 9 pages of threads.
 
пуд said:
Does this feature exist and can it be enabled? As the forum grows, this would be a major time saver for those members who can only check in a once or twice a week. Nobody wants to click 'New posts' then have to sift thru 9 pages of threads.
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On the to-do list.
 
Any plans to implement an exif remover?
I can't find the post on RVF, but as far as I can remember Roosh did something like this with his forum.

As for Linux you can do it by yourself with this command:
jhead -purejpg imagefile(s)
 
Bird said:
Any plans to implement an exif remover?
I can't find the post on RVF, but as far as I can remember Roosh did something like this with his forum.

As for Linux you can do it by yourself with this command:
jhead -purejpg imagefile(s)
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You can also use imagemagick (built in with many distros):

mogrify -strip image.jpg
 
Bird said:
Any plans to implement an exif remover?
I can't find the post on RVF, but as far as I can remember Roosh did something like this with his forum.

As for Linux you can do it by yourself with this command:
jhead -purejpg imagefile(s)
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Good idea. I will do this shortly.
 
Cynllo said:
They work for me. May be due to country/IP or something in your browser cache.
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I have tried:
Clearing the cache in Brave.
Shields down in Brave.
Different browser (MS Edge), I never use Edge normally.
Being logged out of both CiK and YouTube, in Edge.
On my phone with Wi-Fi Brave/homepage app and no VPN.
On phone with 4G internet, no VPN, Brave
US, Italy, and UK VPN's on PC
Restarting the PC.
On my android tablet with Brave, no VPN.
Nothing on any device, country, or config works.
 
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Now the YouTube embed preview is hitting me with endless catchas. I did about seven before giving up.

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Ember said:
All YouTube embeds are broken for me. Instead of displaying it shows:
View attachment 1032

I have tried this on both US and British VPN servers.
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I've looked into this, and the tried embedding an unavailable video using Youtube's embed on another domain. It also did not work. It appears this relates to music videos.

Your best option is to install this browser plugin:


That ports all YouTube videos via proxy sites.

It needs some configuring.

These should be good instances to use for YouTube:

 
Cynllo said:
I've looked into this, and the tried embedding an unavailable video using Youtube's embed on another domain. It also did not work. It appears this relates to music videos.

Your best option is to install this browser plugin:


That ports all YouTube videos via proxy sites.
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Thanks, if it gets embeds working here, then I will look at installing this on a different browser, like Firefox. The reason being that I don't want to lose the YouTube front-end on Brave, I like the recommendations on the home page and use it more than anything else.
 
Have you guys considered adding a maintenance page whenever CIK site needs to be down for maintenance, updates, upgrades, etc.? Below is a screenshot example of an Xenforo's add on called "Maintenance Page". I do not know if there is a cost to the Maintenance Page add on or if it's free to use.
xenconcept-maintenance-page-xenforo-2-2-webp.5560


If the above Xenforo's add on does not work, then one can always create a simple custom maintenance page in HTML or PHP. (Link to an article below.)


The goal is to improve user experience so having a maintenance page will help everybody understand that there is a site downtime.

Note: Above suggestion is based on my experience as a former front end web developer for 20+ years. We always had to create custom maintenance page, 404 Error page, etc. whenever the website needed to be down for a few hours.
 
Below is an example of creating a custom maintenance page in plain HTML format. One can add bells and whistles if needed - i.e., image.

HTML: 
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
    <head>
        <title>CIK Forum is Under Maintenance</title>
        <meta charset="UTF-8">
        <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">   
        <!-- css -->
        <link rel="stylesheet" href="maintenance.css">
    </head>
    <body>
        <div class="container">
            <main>
                <h1><abbr title="Christ Is King">CIK</abbr> Forum is Under Maintenance</h1>
                <p>Sorry for the inconvenience but we&rsquo;re performing some maintenance at the moment.</p>
                <p>Thank you for your patience.</p>
                <i>The <abbr title="Christ Is King">CIK</abbr> Admin &amp; Tech Team</i>
            </main>
        </div>
    </body>
</html>
 
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