Re: Website

Posted by BigKev On 2021/1/15 9:44:23

Status update, please read:

I've gotten a few PM's and I am sure your noticed that your "Alias" name may no longer be showing correctly.

Along those lines, there used to be 3 name fields for each User. username (the one you login with), Display Name (what is shown in the Forum and other places aka your Alian) and Real Name. For some reason, they have done away with Display Name. So only username and real name are supported.

Some people used the same for all their fields, and so that may not have seen any change.

The problem is that you cant have a username with spaces or certain other special chars in it. So I've now told the forum to display the "Real Name", as of this morning. I've also changed the name of "Real Name" field in the Profile page to show "Display Name" instead. So, if your not happy with how your name is being displayed, please edit your profile and change the "Display Name" to whatever you want to use.

Also, along those same lines, the Avatars, apparently the new software is pretty picky about the avatars (format, size, etc). Probably because of the increased security structure. So if your avatar (the picture to the left in your posts) is missing, please go to your profile and reupload it. There is no way for me to relink them to your ones as the DB structure was significantly changed when converted over to the new version and once it found an avatar wasn't to its liking, it replaced it with that default missing image in your user record.

Sorry about these changes, but with progress come change. I am sure there were reasons for it, but what those are, I have no idea. If those fields were still in the database, I would have moved them over, but when the software "upgraded" the database, it removed all the columns that were decommissioned in the new version.