Forum Activity for @claygordon

Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/21/15 07:10:10AM
744 posts

One of my most prolific members ... missing almost all content?


Ning To Jamroom

Brian -

Paul and I will be looking into this today. I just noticed it last night (can't check all 10,000 members' records) when someone put a comment on the member profile.

I have NOT done anything with that profile. They must be in the right quota because if were not I would not even be seeing the modules listed in the profile's navigation menu bar.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/21/15 07:07:25AM
744 posts

Missing profile photo on private note


Ning To Jamroom

Sounds good all the way around.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/21/15 06:32:58AM
744 posts

Have to move off Arvixe NOW -- Linode? Digital Ocean? Other?


Jamroom Hosting

@Paul -

Sent you the information you requested via email.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/20/15 11:04:35PM
744 posts

Have to move off Arvixe NOW -- Linode? Digital Ocean? Other?


Jamroom Hosting

Well, this could have been a real problem - but was patient and I worked it all out.

I initiated the transfer request and got an email back from Arvixe saying that I was using too much disk space (on an UNLIMITED account) and I was storing backups on the server against their Acceptable Use Policy.

It turns out that the directory with the Jamroom install had about 34GB in it and the Softaculous backup folder was about 37GB. I deleted the Softaculous backup and ran the the Delete Media tool (my browser crashed towards the end of that process but everything appears to be okay - I think the process was still running on the server, anyway, by the time I got the browser reloaded and I re-ran the tool everything was clean) and then manually deleted all of the /cache folders and got it down to a tad over 28GB. Crazy. There was only 12GB in my Ning archive.

So, the Arvixe tech support guy on the phone (which is cool - it is almost 02h00 here) got the person who's going to do the transfer on the phone to make sure I wouldn't get another email saying I was still using too much disk space on my UNLIMITED account. I just hope it happens quickly (gigabit ethernet between boxes too much to hope for?) so I can update the DNS soon.

Setting an alarm for an hour from now to see if the email has come that the Xfer is done with the IP address I need. And then it's crossed fingers to hope that performance improves enough to make the whole process worth the effort.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/20/15 10:34:07PM
744 posts

Can I Non Techie Do This?


Ning To Jamroom

@Michael -

If you think about the header/menu design I want to move to (there's a thread on this), can I do just the header, footer, and index page using Site Builder?

I need to pull the CSS classes for the profile page menu and use them for the header. I don't want to have to redesign every page.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/20/15 09:25:36PM
744 posts

Have to move off Arvixe NOW -- Linode? Digital Ocean? Other?


Jamroom Hosting

Thanks @SE for the recco. I don't feel qualified to jump into a bare metal environment where I am expected to manage the server - and they want an extra $40-100/mo for cPanel and, and, and ...

Maybe if I felt I was competent to manage the server, or thought it was important to me to learn how to manage a server I would feel differently. But I want to focus on my community and on chocolate, not worrying about Apache config files and working from a command prompt.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/20/15 06:32:17PM
744 posts

UX observation - keep tag cloud context


Ning To Jamroom

Michael -

More like the attached. It's not perfect and it raises other issues. SO - let me know if I am going to far with this.

And speaking of UI/UX, how come I can't add an image to a comment without posting and then editing the response?
ScreenShotTagCloud.jpg ScreenShotTagCloud.jpg - 97KB

updated by @claygordon: 01/20/15 06:33:06PM
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/20/15 05:43:51PM
744 posts

Missing profile photo on private note


Ning To Jamroom

Try it and let's see. But it puts another design requirement on top of it. The basic approach to logos in all of the default JR skins is wide and short.

I don't want to make more work of this tonight than need be. If it's missing in my system - it's missing everywhere? So, let's think this out in a way that makes the most sense in the long run.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/20/15 05:31:45PM
744 posts

One of my most prolific members ... missing almost all content?


Ning To Jamroom

@Brian and team:

This is FAR more important to me than the tag cloud UI/UX issue or the missing photo in system profile notes.
Clay Gordon
@claygordon
01/20/15 05:30:29PM
744 posts

UX observation - keep tag cloud context


Ning To Jamroom

Brian -

I thought about the names. It's the behavior: when you click on a tab in a tab panel, the idea is to switch between the tab panels.

When you click on tag cloud now, you break the UI/UX expectation by loading another page - all the tabs disappear.

What I am proposing is to leave all the tabs in place and within the tab panel display the tag cloud in a row of tabs. Basically duplicate what you have at https://www.jamroom.net/tags/documentation/modules without the Tag Cloud tab because it is in the parent tab row.

Nested tabs in other words. This makes the whole approach orthogonal.

Another UI thought on this page

Why not use the sort order icon here rather than a pick list? There are only two option for sorting that I have seen. More consistent with the rest of the UI.
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