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Post by Tom Siddell on Dec 23, 2012 19:03:19 GMT
The current site at gunnerkrigg.com has been slowly falling apart over the years and I've been having to keep things together in the back end to keep it up and running. I've finally decided to get a new site made, and we are making it live right now.
This is just to let you know you might experience some downtime or odd behaviour for the next hour or so.
The site should look basically the same as it always has, but it should actually work for me in the back end. Please post here if you come across any problems.
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Post by notacat on Dec 23, 2012 23:04:00 GMT
The two most recent pages (1133 & 1132) are not displaying right now (earlier pages seem to be OK), don't know whether that's one of the side-effects you were expecting?
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Post by Tom Siddell on Dec 23, 2012 23:39:22 GMT
No worries, I'll let people know when the move has taken place. Until then, there might be some weird things happening.
Also, there is some bad news for the devoted page number/thread goers: It looks like Due to a few hiccups I made years ago, the page numbers are all off by 1 or 2 page numbers... so when the new site is up and running the old page links in the threads here will link back a page or two early.
Sorry about that, but the main reason for this move is to get the site ship shape and iron out any errors moving forward!
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Post by alexh on Dec 23, 2012 23:52:32 GMT
Hi! I'm the one responsible for today's mess. If anyone notices something messed up or unexpected with the site, please email me at fceffect@gmail.com. I can address any issues faster that way.
Thanks for holding up and sorry about the page number debacle!
(I would suggest hard refreshing the page first or clearing your cache if you see something that's off before contacting me, just in case)
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Post by Per on Dec 24, 2012 0:14:57 GMT
Someone could possibly write a script to update the index posts... someone who knows magic.
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Post by alexh on Dec 24, 2012 1:28:32 GMT
Someone could possibly write a script to update the index posts... someone who knows magic. There's a way this can be done. Currently, old links just redirect straight to their associated page, but it's no longer accurate. (for example, www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=516 takes you to gunnerkrigg.com/?p=516) I can manually tell it to point to the right ones, but that would be a time-consuming endeavor. We'll see! |
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Post by imaginaryfriend on Dec 24, 2012 5:53:44 GMT
I just dropped in a bunch of long-belated links to my old posts the other day, thus inviting a jinx. Also at the time that I am posting this the link for Boxbot on the Cast page takes one to comic #205 when it should go to #203. |
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Post by Nnelg on Dec 24, 2012 6:27:10 GMT
I can manually tell it to point to the right ones, but that would be a time-consuming endeavor. We'll see! I don't know for certain how the indexed addresses are stored on the server, but could the job possibly be done more easily by Notepad's oft-overlooked find/replace macro? |
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Post by GK Sierra on Dec 24, 2012 8:17:45 GMT
Hi! I'm the one responsible for today's mess. If anyone notices something messed up or unexpected with the site, please email me at fceffect@gmail.com. I can address any issues faster that way. Thanks for holding up and sorry about the page number debacle! (I would suggest hard refreshing the page first or clearing your cache if you see something that's off before contacting me, just in case) Firefox macros is probably your best bet. It can automate the process of highlighting text in your URL bar and then inputting it in another tab. You just click the record button and do the process as you would normally do it. Very little if any programming knowledge required. (Or you could just farm the job out to someone like Amazon Mechanical Turk and pay people a tenth of a cent per entry to change them all by hand.) |
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Post by alexh on Dec 24, 2012 8:34:27 GMT
Thank you all for your suggestions for the renumbering. But I do have a plan of action for that; it's not getting fixed tonight, though.
I just finished speed-archive binging to make sure everything was in order, so now I can get on to the other issues at hand (which are thankfully fairly light).
Chapter 11 was rough though, haha.
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Post by fuepepe on Dec 24, 2012 8:41:03 GMT
I made an account here to let you know that Chapter 19: Power Station is linking to the wrong chapter on the archives! Keep up the good work.  |
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Post by alexh on Dec 24, 2012 8:49:33 GMT
I made an account here to let you know that Chapter 19: Power Station is linking to the wrong chapter on the archives! Keep up the good work. Thank you and fixed! EDIT: Also at the time that I am posting this the link for Boxbot on the Cast page takes one to comic #205 when it should go to #203. The cast page links have been updated. Thank you! |
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Post by notacat on Dec 24, 2012 10:55:19 GMT
Also, there is some bad news for the devoted page number/thread goers: It looks like Due to a few hiccups I made years ago, the page numbers are all off by 1 or 2 page numbers... so when the new site is up and running the old page links in the threads here will link back a page or two early. Does this mean we can ditch all the complicated code on the Wikia which accounted for the page-skips? |
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Post by TBeholder on Dec 24, 2012 11:21:41 GMT
Of course, inserting two filler/guest/Tom's twitpics/whatever pages in the right places would fix the numbers.
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Post by Tom Siddell on Dec 24, 2012 12:00:27 GMT
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Post by alexh on Dec 24, 2012 12:07:50 GMT
I missed that, it's been fixed!
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Post by alexh on Dec 25, 2012 4:17:27 GMT
Twitter feed updated. It caches the most recent tweet, so Twitter can't rate-limit us anymore (for those wondering where it went)!
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Post by goldenknots on Dec 25, 2012 18:10:52 GMT
I remember running into odd numbering of the pages when I was reading through the archives -- something happened to the order in the range of 44-46, according to my notes... it went 43, 46, 45, 47, I think. Is that completely reconciled all the way through, now? It must have happened again, later, to get the numbers off by two.
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Post by Corvo on Dec 26, 2012 4:51:37 GMT
Aww man. Am I the only one who liked the old "Quick Archive Bar" (below the page) better? Now we can't go quickly to a specific page if we want to.
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Post by Max on Dec 26, 2012 8:10:22 GMT
I remember running into odd numbering of the pages when I was reading through the archives -- something happened to the order in the range of 44-46, according to my notes... it went 43, 46, 45, 47, I think. Is that completely reconciled all the way through, now? It must have happened again, later, to get the numbers off by two. Yeah, in one of the more recent chapters ( Fire Spike, maybe), the page numbers skipped by a few. Aww man. Am I the only one who liked the old "Quick Archive Bar" (below the page) better? Now we can't go quickly to a specific page if we want to. Yeah, but the bar was getting pretty huge. Maybe if there was a way to make it have submenus or something. I wish they still had the calendar archive page, so you could tell when a certain page went live. |
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Post by legion on Dec 26, 2012 9:23:48 GMT
Solution: buy the books.
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Post by Eversist on Dec 26, 2012 9:37:27 GMT
legionHow would that solve the calendar issue?  maxMaybe they'll be bringing that feature back? That was pretty handy for some things.
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Post by legion on Dec 26, 2012 12:00:08 GMT
You need to learn every date by heart~
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Post by Nnelg on Dec 26, 2012 17:03:00 GMT
maxMaybe they'll be bringing that feature back? That was pretty handy for some things. Idea: In stead of trying to re-index every single page number, give each page information as to what page of the chapter it is. Then, include a "Go to Page ___ of this Chapter" box next to the chapter select pull-down menu. When someone enters a number in this box, their destination is calculated as a displacement off of the current page (of chapter) number, which is applied to the overall page number to calculate the final destination. For example: Page 3 of Chapter 19 is p=443. If I wanted to go to to Page 8 of that chapter, the displacement would be (8-3)=5. So, the final destination would be p=(443+5)= 448. If I then wanted to go to Page 6, the displacement would be (6-8)=(-2). Therefore the destination would be p=(448+(-2))= 446. |
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Post by alexh on Dec 27, 2012 7:41:21 GMT
At gunnerkrigg.com/archives/ you can now go to a specific page in a chapter. On a comic page, hovering your mouse over Tom's name will give you the comic's release date. How the date appears might change in the future. The archive_page.php links will be adjusted, eventually. I hope you are all having a relaxing holiday season! |
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Post by Max on Dec 27, 2012 21:11:45 GMT
Thanks!
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Post by maximkat on Jan 2, 2013 19:46:55 GMT
Looks like update broke the RSS.
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Post by Corvo on Jan 7, 2013 3:21:42 GMT
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Post by Morpheus on Jan 7, 2013 11:52:28 GMT
All links from the Gunnerkrigg Wiki links to two pages later than they're supposed to. I know it doesn't have anything to do with Tom, but I don't really know where else to put it. I searched the Wiki for some place to send in bug reports and the like, but couldn't find (I probably just overlooked it though -.-'). I just post this here in the hope that someone who has something to do with it, sees it, and if there is a page where I can report it directly on the wiki, feel free to guide me to it.
I apologize for the slightly unrelated notice.
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Post by llogg on Jan 8, 2013 14:47:17 GMT
Looks like update broke the RSS. Yeah. I re-subscribed and it worked for a few days but it did not get Monday's update. |
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