TGO David

@Dustbuster It looked a *LOT* like that.

Mmm. Beer.

It's not whining... its feedback. Feedback drives improvement, or at the very least conversation. Don't hold back when you have an opinion. I might not act on every suggestion but I guarantee you I consider all of them.

My day started with a visit to TGO around 6:15AM right about which time the forum decided to puke because of a corrupt search index. I worked on that until I absolutely had to walk out the door and head to my job, and then worked on it a bit more for another hour or so between meetings, to get it back online. At one point I literally had to completely obliterate the forum database and restore it from a backup I took right before the outage occurred (premonition???) and even then it looked it it wasn't going to come back online. We've only been around since 2007 and have 25,000+ members and several million posts and private messages. All of which flashed before my eyes a few times while trying like hell to get it to work again. But hey! Here we are! Go, technology! I swear I might become Amish and swear this stuff off one of these days. Until then, there's beer. How was your day?

I appreciate the gratitude more than you may ever know. This week has sucked.

Thanks folks!

Folks, this sucks and there's no way to sell it any differently. In order to correct a problem that manifested this morning related to our software upgrade last week, I am having to rebuild the search index for TGO. This process takes about 3-5 days to complete. My best guess is that it will be done some time late Friday evening. While this process runs, some of the search features will not work as expected. Namely... The search for New Content / Activity Streams will only show new posts and threads from right now, forward, until the index rebuilds. Once it rebuilds, it will show new content from prior to this moment. Think of it as "temporary amnesia" for the forums. It'll know all of the new stuff it meets between now and when it finishes, but it will not know the old friends from prior. Give it time and it'll start to remember. Likewise searching for content of any sort prior to this moment will be hit-or-miss until the index is rebuilt. I know we just went through all of this last weekend but there was a problem of some sort that finally reared its ugly head this morning and caused our outage. I was able to work around it, but we've got to square off and face this ugly bit of work for a few days to get to a better place. Please bear with us and accept my apologies for the inconvenience. If there were any other way, I'd have taken it.

I only want to know about things that weren't pre-existing to this morning, right now.

Please let me know if you experience any oddities out of the forum after the outage that we had this morning. I believe I have corrected all of the issues that were present prior to us having to go offline for a few hours.

Look, I don't do this very often but I simply am not having this conversation. Tapatalk isn't going back on our server anytime soon. Maybe ever. IPBoard 4 is still fairly new and Tapatalk's development cycle is not in-step with theirs. The problems they caused me during the software upgrade very nearly became catastrophic. I'm sorry that it seems like a big deal from your side of the screen, but it's an even BIGGER deal from my side. I will monitor what Tapatalk does moving forward and may revisit this later, but for now it's a No-Go.

I've got an idea forming up for another shirt design later. Maybe we can do these quarterly or something. Do two runs of t-shirts in the warmer weather, long sleeve T's for the cooler weather and hoodies / sweat shirts for the cold weather.

Well I can make the font larger very easily. Let me play with some combinations tonight.

It occurred to me that it would be beneficial to allow an easy way to identify where an Event or Gathering was occurring inside the state of Tennessee, which in turn helps knit communities together to create what I am going to call "TGO Rally Points". These Rally Points are really just logical representations of the way our Tennessee members are relatively close to at least one of the five major population centers in the state: Chattanooga Knoxville Memphis Nashville Tri-Cities With that in place, you can now choose to use (purely optional) an area prefix when starting a new thread about an Event or Gathering in this particular forum. You do so by choosing the option from the drop-down when you are creating your thread.

Willis, how much for a Pro-Tech Magic outside of the TGO special edition? I am keeping #00 in the safe as a keepsake, but really would like a non special-edition to carry.

I don't know... how much money do you want to make at work? The wider the margin, the more things we get to do in the future and the easier it is to pay TGO's light bills.

@bud - Top right of the screen there is a link that says "Unread Content" right beneath the search bar.

That won't stop push notifications through the web browser unfortunately. Those are disabled at the browser itself. This thread tells you how...

With IPBoard version 4, we began having the option to receive notifications of things from the forum via your web browser. If you want to turn that feature off, you do it from the web browser itself. Click the items in order of the numbers in the screen shots below. For Chrome For Firefox

Guys let's start new threads for new issues. Right now there's no way anyone else can benefit without reading through pages and pages of material when all of this stuff is being dumped into one thread.

@analog_kidd ... Whoa man. Those are positive comments. It kind of surprised me to see something about features people like.

@Capbyrd - Wow, good catch. Those should be fixed now.

I'm keeping my eyes peeled for a place that will do embroidery on demand and complete order fulfillment. If you know of one, let me know.

Thanks for the orders, guys. We make very little profit on these because of Teespring's margins, but you all have been asking for shirts so this is the best way for me to provide them. If response is good, we'll offer more shirts in the future. If response isn't good, well... I'll refer back to this thread when people ask us to make shirts.

People keep saying this, but the old TGO theme and the new TGO theme are almost identical in terms of colors used and the way the colors are distributed. There is so little difference between the two it isn't even funny. I don't understand how this seems "brighter" or more white or whatever. I am seriously confused by this response.

Ya'll need to quit signing up for multiple accounts, first of all. It causes more problems. Just send an email to admin at tngunowners dot com and I will fix it for you.