Site and Forum maintenance

[blackcauldron85]

Yesterday morning I was able to read lots of threads and post in I think 3 before I got the error message, so that was a record for me.

[Ben]

All these days on, and I haven’t had one single other blip. Weird!

[Daniel]

The updated smilies are... interesting.

[Ben]

In what way…? You no likey?

[ShyViolet]

Kinda weird, like Twilight-Zone-ish. I guess I’ll get used to them lol.

[Daniel]

They look kinda cute on mobile, but are pixely/blurry on desktop.

[James]

They look kinda cute on mobile, but are pixely/blurry on desktop.

They should be much, much less pixely on the desktop! That's why I finally updated them! I wonder if there's a caching issue on your system displaying the new images but at the old size for example.

EDIT: Could also have something to do with the resolution of your display. Phones usually have a higher pixel density than older monitors. Some newer monitors (for example like the one I use from Apple, branded as "Retina Displays") also have it. Since my computer has it I may need to test on a lower resolution monitor to see if they are pixely there.

[James]

Kinda weird, like Twilight-Zone-ish. I guess I’ll get used to them lol.

I didn't create the original version of these emojis, but I did tweak them to try to match the original ones we had here. May continue to tweak a bit so please feel free to comment. Might also try to get the few that were originally animated moving again.

[Daniel]

You're probably already aware, the Youtube feature is missing and embedded clips aren't showing. At least on my end.

[James]

Ugh. Nope was not aware! Thanks for the heads up!

[GeffreyDrogon]

Animated Views works fine on my phone and laptop.

[droosan]

dunno about anyone else, but I was unable to connect with A-V (both the forum and the main site) for the past few days; I got a "connection timed out" or "service unavailable" message, whenever I'd tried.

happy to finally get through, this morning..!

[Ben]

Yeah, the site has been slow or unavailable for the last few days. James is no doubt on it!

[James]

[droosan]