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You may see a ‘Friend’ invite from me, in the forum. If you accept this invite, I can add you to a ‘Group’ that will enable an activity stream to easily see all Group members’ activities (Topics, Replies). I’ll try to automate this so all forum members join the Group, but for now I’m just manually inviting all recent users. If you’d like an…[Read more]

A couple of weeks ago we were experimenting with the @ symbol, and how it would trigger notifications to other forum members.

You can control this setting for your profile, here’s where to do it.

Yesterday at 3:10 pm MST we eliminated a wordpress plugin that had become very slow, and was causing page load errors and generally slow forum performance. While eliminating the plugin has caused some changes to the user experience (PMs, profiles) it looks like the right call to make the forum faster and more reliable. These charts show the before…[Read more]

Hi Mark,

For your profile, if you see the [userpro template…, then you’ve navigated to the old (as of yesterday) profile page. UserPro is the plugin we eliminated yesterday, and we’re working to make sure we don’t link to those old pages anymore. If you had bookmarked any of those pages in your browser, please update those bookmarks to the new…[Read more]

Hi Marc, I received your message, thanks! Also, the old PMs aren’t available, as they “lived” in the old PM plugin through userpro. If there are important PMs you need to recover, let me know, and we’ll work on it through an older backup site.

We’ve made the change to the forums now (to eliminate the plugin that was causing performance problems) and there are a couple of additional cleanup items we’ll need to do. For example, the ‘My Private Messages’ link in the Forum menu (upper right) no longer works.

But Private messages are back, and I’m hopeful that they’ll work even better.

Mark76 – Thanks for the note. Yes, something didn’t go well when we updated a couple of our wordpress plugins to the newest version. For PMs, the indexing seemed to get messed up, where user profiles and PMs weren’t appearing correctly. This all seems to have come from an issue with the UserPro plugin that we were already planning to abandon, and…[Read more]

We’re working now, to undo some of the areas of the forum that rely on the userpro plugin. Once that’s done, we’ll remove it, and from our testing, it looks like that will fix the errors and slow page loads.

Here’s an overview of what will be affected, although most of the changes are pretty subtle.

• Registration (new user signup) and login…

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