Update: Our server move is complete! Everything looks great on our new hardware, with all bugs squashed and our average response time holding at a blazingly fast 40ms =)
Hope everyone has a great weekend!
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We have been notified by our hosting provider (SoftLayer) that the pod our servers are located on needs upgrades, and we are being required to move our servers.
We have been working on this for the past few weeks to ensure a smooth transition and plan to initiate the move on Friday July 6th. Due to the size of Shivtr's database, we expect the transfer to take about 8 hours to complete.
If your site uses a Shivtr subdomain, such as *.shivtr.com or *.wowhordes.com, you won't need to do anything. Once the move is complete your site will simply be running on our new, shiny hardware!
However, if your site uses a custom domain name, you will need to update its IP address to point to our new server. When we begin the transfer, the old server will display a maintenance message, with a note showing our new ip address and help on how to update your domain name.
If you have any questions on this feel free to ask below, or email us at support@shivtr.com
Hope you are having a great summer of gaming! =)
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This is our first major downtime in several years, and a bit out of our hands as our data center is forcing us to move. But normally, we rarely have downtime, and most updates are hot patched without requiring downtime =)
Cheers,
If your guild is at a Shivtr subdomain, such as myguild.shivtr.com, you won't need to do anything =) All Shivtr subdomains will be automatically updated to point to the new servers IP address.
Cheers,
also with some of the changes happening, will ESO guilds have added features to their sites that are integrated with the game?
thank you for your time! have a great day!
For ESO specific features, we like adding game specific options, but typically the game devs need to make some data available for us to access (like how wow has the armory, server status, server alerts, etc. all available for us to provide features for).
If ESO has some content like this you can notify us specifically for this game with our "Request a Feature" link for ESO in our games db here - http://games.shivtr.com/games/83 =)
Cheers,
1) The site background vanished so I had to edit the CSS to update the path. I had used the absolute link from the theme editor in another area of the custom CSS so had to update it to match the new location.
2) The old "Paypal Donate" button path changed so I had to update that in my custom donations text block. Same fix as #1. Both these two worked until the IP change.
3) The left/right paging controls in the admin audit log are no longer clickable (In FireFox Win10). Visually they look correct but they are just not clickable. The dropdown box paging control is clickable.
4) The paging controls on the front-end site applications are messed up and no longer match those on the forum (which still display correctly).
https://shivtr.com/site_admin/55631/audit_logs
https://strokemywookie.com/site_applications
https://strokemywookie.com/forums/2060814
I'm only asking if you changed it so I know if you've finished and I can go tinker with the custom CSS to make them fit the site theme. Don't want to tinker and then have to re-tinker in a few days.
Thanks for reporting the pagination link issues, these are all now fixed =)
For your paypal btn, and likely your site background, our assets have a digest value assigned to them, basically a long random string, and this may change whenever we update our assets; its used to force update cache on Amazon Cloudfront, so direct links to these assets are not likely to always exist...
(we don't typically update all assets, but we did here since we moved servers)
Thanks again for these reports, and if you notice any further issues please let me know =)
Have another feature request... on the Audit Log can you allow us to search by email address please? (partial word matching is even better) It will make it easier to spot people that we have banned from guild who keep making accounts like this guy today who made another 5 accounts... An IP ban won't work for him as he lives in a shared house with other people that are still in our guild who are not trolls like him 😅
https://strokemywookie.com/events/872288/instances/15237973
You probably already know this but just in case, I've noticed after the move when entering DKP if adding a player to multiple entries (such as start to finish, hours, bonus, items) it creates duplicate entries and counts them as additional raiders. It makes DKP entry a bit of a chose now and it also skews the number of raiders we had in a raid (should be in the 20's-30's but now in the 70's-100's.) =P
Thanks!
Came here to notify of a "bug" that I don't know how to solve - in our page applications (it's a World of Warcraft Guild, so we recruit by applies) you can't choose Druid as your class, so people are getting a bit confused about that. Any fix?
Thanks, and keep up the good work!
I've tested this in both Firefox and Chrome. It was working a couple of weeks ago when I added the last raid team roster.
I've tried this with an existing layout that is linked to another page and as soon as Update is clicked the layout/page association is lost.
So currently I have no way to create new raid team pages as each has its own layout and I can't edit old ones. Please fix as I've just spent 3 hours working on the newest team's logo 😅
The new page is called Storm Squadron and the layout for it has the same name.
Is this just my guild's website?
I just want the Storm Squadron page assigned to the Storm Squadron layout.
This is our new x16 person nightmare raid team. The new team has already caused a bit of a stir within the guild and I am concerned that their team roster page looking crap compared to the others will be seen as an insult by the guild leadership. I have explained that it is due to a bug but I'm sure some people will be muttering "how convenient".
For the calendar event repeat-days bug; I'll just have to make multiple clones of events for the calendar instead of picking days to repeat on but I can handle that myself.
Sorry to keep dropping bugs on you, I'm not intentionally finding them 😄
Thank you!
This issue with the sections is now fixed, so you can do this now =) Will check the events issue now.
Hope you had a great weekend,
www.odaegaming.com
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Cheers,
https://strokemywookie.com/forum_threads/2899604
This is his user account:
https://strokemywookie.com/members/2451526
I highly doubt he has the intelligence to work out how to hire a lawyer and I also doubt he will go to any more effort to have his details removed. GDPR does not say posts made by the user have to be removed and I'd prefer if all his forum posts and mails were not deleted from the system as it could break some threads or at least break the conversational context.
Thought I'd post here to give you a headsup and see what you think.
Sorry about the trouble.
Thank you.
https://strokemywookie.com/events/880227?event_instance_id=15348170
The image gallery one happens when I upload a series of pictures and when I upload individual ones. There is no pattern and it is not consistent. If I upload a series of images then usually it's just one of them that will not be uploaded/linked correctly.
The images I'm uploaded tend to be jpg and the file size is less than 300KB (usually 200 or less) as I run them through an optimiser before uploading.
Nothing is different in the process I use. It is the same as before the image host was moved.
Gallery
https://strokemywookie.com/gallery_categories/50670
Image Page
https://strokemywookie.com/gallery_images/1008896
Direct Image Link
https://s3.amazonaws.com/s3.mmoguildsites.com/s3/gallery_images/1008896/original.jpg
https://strokemywookie.com/events/884155
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