Ok its that time again...

once every 5 or so years we do have to do a serious upgrade to the site system software

Due to the nature of the upgrade and the custom side of the main  site features  along with the amount and the age of the content on here it can be just a bit problematic.

Plan is to start it all next Monday Night 12th May 2025. Once the upgrade has been carried out , there may be a lot of work afterwards to get the main features back up and running as you are used to, so 

Anyway ideally the total process will take no more than 3 days ,The site should be available but as said some main features may be lacking or indeed absent for a short time

Just letting ya know in advance, all happening next week

 

 

 

 

 

56 minutes ago, Martyn Pitt said:

Yes Mike that is what I am seeing, I need to remove the right hand column, I wear wide field varifocal specs and it makes reading the posts distracting.

Thanks

Martyn, there's no easy way to offer that at the current moment

a work around could be to drag your browser window so its smaller in width, as when the site hits a certain width the sidebar falls down and out of view and so it will then be single pane view

any good?

21 minutes ago, Source Team said:

thats odd as the image shows dark text but the browsers doesn't

so the theory is got to be the browser settings?

have you got another browser on your pc you could test the site out on?

if that's the same it may be your pc settings?

Strange -

I use Firefox normally, but I just tried it in Chrome and Opera and it's fine. I think the problem with Firefox is the distinction between bold and light text is lost, as if any styling is not happening.

For me at least using opera is an ok workaround.

Cheers

Mick

52 minutes ago, Source Team said:

Martyn, there's no easy way to offer that at the current moment

a work around could be to drag your browser window so its smaller in width, as when the site hits a certain width the sidebar falls down and out of view and so it will then be single pane view

any good?

Thanks for the reply I will try that.

On 16/05/2025 at 00:05, Mike said:

Gav

Its ok here, maybe a browser issue, as some have had issues with the editor, can you try another one and see if the same?

Hi Mike,

You right, the delay in letters appearing only occurs when I'm using Safari on my iPad. Using Google browser to reply an the digits appear instantly.

I guess I'm just gonna have to live with the delay on my iPad.

Best

Gav

1 hour ago, Illusive said:

Hi Mike,

You right, the delay in letters appearing only occurs when I'm using Safari on my iPad. Using Google browser to reply an the digits appear instantly.

I guess I'm just gonna have to live with the delay on my iPad.

Best

Gav

yep can't do much for older browser versions, maybe type elsewhere then use copy and paste for the longer posts

2 hours ago, Mick Holdsworth said:

Strange -

I use Firefox normally, but I just tried it in Chrome and Opera and it's fine. I think the problem with Firefox is the distinction between bold and light text is lost, as if any styling is not happening.

For me at least using opera is an ok workaround.

Cheers

Mick

just checked on firefox here and it all seems ok from here, same as other browsers, maybe its a firefox settings thing?

have to smile as just thought that you can always use our brand new 'dark view'!

1 hour ago, Mike said:

yep can't do much for older browser versions, maybe type elsewhere then use copy and paste for the longer posts

just checked on firefox here and it all seems ok from here, same as other browsers, maybe its a firefox settings thing?

have to smile as just thought that you can always use our brand new 'dark view'!

I really like the dark mode - it's much less eye strain than the white background! Big thumbs up from me!

Mike,

Don't know if these have been mentioned or brought to your attention but the Google maps have "disappeared" from the events page .

I just looked the Twisted Wheel event for 25th May and the map was there.

Logged to change something and when I saved the change, the map has gone with the following error-

No matter what I try, It will not return

This happens on my windows 11 PC and also on Android phone.

The other minor thing is when adding the "END" time for the event I cannot get the colon ":" to show betwen hour and minute.

John Green

Edited May 19May 19 by John Green

2 hours ago, John Green said:

Mike,

Don't know if these have been mentioned or brought to your attention but the Google maps have "disappeared" from the events page .

I just looked the Twisted Wheel event for 25th May and the map was there.

Logged to change something and when I saved the change, the map has gone with the following error-

No matter what I try, It will not return

This happens on my windows 11 PC and also on Android phone.

The other minor thing is when adding the "END" time for the event I cannot get the colon ":" to show betwen hour and minute.

John Green

looking into it John, will post once resolved

9 hours ago, Mick Holdsworth said:

Strange -

I use Firefox normally, but I just tried it in Chrome and Opera and it's fine. I think the problem with Firefox is the distinction between bold and light text is lost, as if any styling is not happening.

For me at least using opera is an ok workaround.

Cheers

Mick

MIck

Looked a bit deeper and it looks like you are using a old version of firefox

If you can you be best upgrading or switching

cheers

mike

Hi Mike

I've noticed that the paid for pink event banners/headers are no longer showing on the activity stream when they used to before the upgrade x

Edited May 19May 19 by Jumpinjoan

3 hours ago, John Green said:

Mike,

Don't know if these have been mentioned or brought to your attention but the Google maps have "disappeared" from the events page .

I just looked the Twisted Wheel event for 25th May and the map was there.

Logged to change something and when I saved the change, the map has gone with the following error-

No matter what I try, It will not return

This happens on my windows 11 PC and also on Android phone.

The other minor thing is when adding the "END" time for the event I cannot get the colon ":" to show betwen hour and minute.

John Green

ok on the google maps issue, thanks for making us aware, appreciated

now resolved

all entries that entered details should now be showing their map ok

1 hour ago, Jumpinjoan said:

Hi Mike

I've noticed that the paid for pink event banners/headers are no longer showing on the activity stream when they used to before the upgrade x

thanks Joan, on the list todo

thumbs up

Many Thanks Mike,

13 hours ago, Source Team said:

MIck

Looked a bit deeper and it looks like you are using a old version of firefox

If you can you be best upgrading or switching

cheers

mike

It's an old version of Windows (Win 7), so that's probably the root problem.

19 hours ago, Mike said:

have to smile as just thought that you can always use our brand new 'dark view'!

I'll try that Mike, but where can I find Dark View. Thanks.

Hi Mike,

Hope all ok.

I can’t locate sales feedback page on new format.

Any advice?

Cheers

Keamus

2 minutes ago, Keamus said:

Hi Mike,

Hope all ok.

I can’t locate sales feedback page on new format.

Any advice?

Cheers

Keamus

Hi Keamus

been mentioned a few times above

feedback is off line at the moment

up to 2 weeks , as said waiting for the author of that app to update, if not available by then will look at an alternative version/setup - data is kept so hopefully wont be too much of a pain or too long

a week or so left

cheers

Thanks for clarifying!

4 hours ago, Mick Holdsworth said:

I'll try that Mike, but where can I find Dark View. Thanks.

Scroll down to the bottom of the page Mick - in the left hand corner there are 3 icons - click on the one that looks like a half-moon for the dark option. I find the dark mode causes much less eye strain! Hope this helps.

On 19/05/2025 at 17:46, John Green said:

The other minor thing is when adding the "END" time for the event I cannot get the colon ":" to show betwen hour and minute.

John Green

this and similar hassle with the door tax entry has now been resolved

21 hours ago, Kathryn Magson said:

Scroll down to the bottom of the page Mick - in the left hand corner there are 3 icons - click on the one that looks like a half-moon for the dark option. I find the dark mode causes much less eye strain! Hope this helps.

Thanks Kathryn, that is better, for me atleast.

on an on it goes....

work is taking that bit longer than first thought, the time and effort needed to rewrite, rebuild and such all our custom features on here, has been a bit more than first anticipated

example is the events 'near me' map feature, which took a fair few hours to sort

anyway this is now open for members for final testing and all being well will open later today for all

https://www.soul-source.co.uk/events/14-local-soul/

I'm assuming we're stuck with this dreadful font and its terrible spacing forever now ?

It's really doing my head in to read , what was wrong with the existing font that meant it needed "upgrading" (and also shrinking) in such an awful way ?

36 minutes ago, Woodbutcher said:

I'm assuming we're stuck with this dreadful font and its terrible spacing forever now ?

It's really doing my head in to read , what was wrong with the existing font that meant it needed "upgrading" (and also shrinking) in such an awful way ?

The upgrade meant a complete reset of all the site customisation that has been carried out over the previous years, returning the site back to a default format

The current font is one of the default fonts that the system software now offer and was felt to be best suited after the reset of the site, the previous font family used wasn't offered as a choice and so was/is not available at this time

Your post is the first mention/feedback that have had about the new default font choice, yep sure could change or could offer other options in the future but it all needs to be done in a deliberate way when things are rock solid, which unfortunately they are not yet