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Title: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 11, 2020, 02:11:11 PM
Previous hosting arrangement wasn’t playing nicely with SMF mobile theme. I have to license the plug in yet and install it but hopefully by days end we will have a nice mobile theme.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on May 11, 2020, 03:25:25 PM
Was worried you threw in the towel!
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: spark mandrill on May 11, 2020, 04:27:44 PM
Like I assume everyone is to some degree I'm busy with real life stresses at the moment, but wanted to say that I miss arguing with you morons.  Hope all is well and that you're all staying healthy and to some limited degree sane.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 11, 2020, 04:57:59 PM
Same to you, moran.

I hope having a mobile theme will bring Tempo back. From what sidra told me he’s one of those guys that brings a charger with him to a bar so he doesn’t have to worry about his battery dying while he sat there furiously typing on it. Probably arguing with us.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 11, 2020, 06:55:04 PM
 She's the vector.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: illinicalvin on May 11, 2020, 07:57:28 PM
Same to you, moran.

I hope having a mobile theme will bring Tempo back. From what sidra told me he’s one of those guys that brings a charger with him to a bar so he doesn’t have to worry about his battery dying while he sat there furiously typing on it. Probably arguing with us.
This makes me want to prowl bars in Lakeview once this is done to find the guy who looks enough like the avatar with a phone charger plugged in so I can introduce myself.

As mamador.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 11, 2020, 10:09:06 PM
That’s fantastic. Bonus points if he’s with Jeff Frank.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Peoriaman Bucshon on May 11, 2020, 10:47:35 PM
It's about time I tracked down you cesspoolers. Clearly you need some real moderating, and as you can tell by the fact that I have taken a selfie in my car while wearing sunglasses, I mean business. I don't have time for you snowflakes doing whatever you want. Damn millennials. I was on the front lines in the Cold War, filing paperwork while you were in diapers. Custard, I will be looking for moderating orders by 0900 tomorrow AM.

Lovie Smith sucks.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on May 12, 2020, 01:10:18 AM
Same to you, moran.

I hope having a mobile theme will bring Tempo back. From what sidra told me he’s one of those guys that brings a charger with him to a bar so he doesn’t have to worry about his battery dying while he sat there furiously typing on it. Probably arguing with us.

It is a lot easier to read and post on the phone.  Good job.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 12, 2020, 04:40:29 AM
I thought Doug was a drone pilot. Maybe I should ask him next time.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ILLove1997 on May 12, 2020, 10:12:16 AM
It's about time I tracked down you cesspoolers. Clearly you need some real moderating, and as you can tell by the fact that I have taken a selfie in my car while wearing sunglasses, I mean business. I don't have time for you snowflakes doing whatever you want. Damn millennials. I was on the front lines in the Cold War, filing paperwork while you were in diapers. Custard, I will be looking for moderating orders by 0900 tomorrow AM.

Lovie Smith sucks.

I like this guy, whip you dumb idiots (not an ad hominem pls don't ban) into proper web foruming shape
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 12, 2020, 03:44:09 PM
In order to get the plugin I have to license it and in order to license it I have to make an account and in order to get the account the account has to be approved by a moderator and thus far I’ve not been approved
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 12, 2020, 03:52:07 PM
It's about time I tracked down you cesspoolers. Clearly you need some real moderating, and as you can tell by the fact that I have taken a selfie in my car while wearing sunglasses, I mean business. I don't have time for you snowflakes doing whatever you want. Damn millennials. I was on the front lines in the Cold War, filing paperwork while you were in diapers. Custard, I will be looking for moderating orders by 0900 tomorrow AM.

Lovie Smith sucks.

Can you give me directions to Richwoods HS?
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 12, 2020, 05:58:08 PM

thus far I’ve not been approved

So no AMP?
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on May 12, 2020, 08:14:12 PM
In order to get the plugin I have to license it and in order to license it I have to make an account and in order to get the account the account has to be approved by a moderator and thus far I’ve not been approved

For whatever reason it is better on one phone but not the other.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 12, 2020, 10:10:36 PM
It's not the phones. It just depends on how high you are.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 14, 2020, 06:49:46 PM
Ok so I got the approval and the license but am having trouble with the install, stay tuned
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 16, 2020, 10:43:46 AM
Still looks crap here. But honestly, do we deserve nice things?
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 16, 2020, 01:18:30 PM
Hey man I gave you 2-3 weeks to get your shit together and open a forum on Illini Report. I thought to myself, “Rob deserves it for all his hard work and effort covering the Illini, I want him to have it and get some clicks out of it.”

But time passed and nothing happened and everyone was struggling with the reddit format so I took 2 hours and $35 and made a half-assed forum for half-assed Illini fans. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Chickengeorge on May 16, 2020, 01:36:13 PM
Hey man I gave you 2-3 weeks to get your shit together and open a forum on Illini Report. I thought to myself, “Rob deserves it for all his hard work and effort covering the Illini, I want him to have it and get some clicks out of it.”

But time passed and nothing happened and everyone was struggling with the reddit format so I took 2 hours and $35 and made a half-assed forum for half-assed Illini fans. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I appreciate your efforts.  Works fine for me. 
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 16, 2020, 01:55:31 PM
I did manage to get the free HTTPS thing. That was a pain in the ass.

The LK dog got one of his tech guys to investigate fora plugins, but he encountered the same problems I found.

It would be nice to have a forum with embed capabilities. I don't know why this web thing is so difficult, but obviously being 29 years old it's probably some millennial bullshit.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on May 16, 2020, 04:25:36 PM
Still looks crap here. But honestly, do we deserve nice things?

Unlike Tempo, I think the rest of us are appreciative.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on May 16, 2020, 06:40:40 PM
Hey man I gave you 2-3 weeks to get your shit together and open a forum on Illini Report. I thought to myself, “Rob deserves it for all his hard work and effort covering the Illini, I want him to have it and get some clicks out of it.”

But time passed and nothing happened and everyone was struggling with the reddit format so I took 2 hours and $35 and made a half-assed forum for half-assed Illini fans. 🤷🏻‍♂️
Works for me. TY.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: illinicalvin on May 17, 2020, 09:22:23 AM
Hey man I gave you 2-3 weeks to get your shit together and open a forum on Illini Report. I thought to myself, “Rob deserves it for all his hard work and effort covering the Illini, I want him to have it and get some clicks out of it.”

But time passed and nothing happened and everyone was struggling with the reddit format so I took 2 hours and $35 and made a half-assed forum for half-assed Illini fans. 🤷🏻‍♂️
I dig it.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 21, 2020, 09:39:21 PM
Is there a particular OS or browser which renders this site as mobile?
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 21, 2020, 10:12:52 PM
I’ve spent some hours this week trying to get this figured out. I paid for, downloaded, and installed the mod, but it’s not working correctly. I’ve been back and forth with customer service about 50 times. I have a golf forum I started in 2013 on this exact same platform with the exact same mobile mod installed the same way with the permissions set the exact same way. When I enable it here it renders something that looks kinda like Tigerboard.

On my other site it’s worked flawlessly for years. I literally told the customer service rep today I’d make them an admin account if they’d just come and get it working for me then I’d delete the account once they were done. I haven’t received a response yet. I’m flummoxed.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 22, 2020, 12:08:54 AM
As everybody's grandmother once said "oh nothing fancy, I just want to surf the web"
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on May 22, 2020, 01:56:12 PM
Wow! Can I modify the colors? The borders are all ND puke green on my phone!
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 22, 2020, 02:08:45 PM
I’m
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 22, 2020, 02:08:58 PM
I’m working on that right now.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Judge Judy on May 22, 2020, 02:42:09 PM
I have to say this is pretty nice. Nice job Custard Fart!
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 22, 2020, 02:54:07 PM
Reminds me of Linda Blair.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Judge Judy on May 23, 2020, 10:59:44 AM
I’d say if you made the green color into Orange or Blue, this format is the best I’ve seen. Make it happen🙌🏼
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 23, 2020, 01:47:42 PM
Rock, chalk, etc.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Judge Judy on May 23, 2020, 02:19:54 PM
Rock, chalk, etc.

Very reminiscent.... but hey I didn’t pay any money to fix it, so I’ll stay quiet I suppose.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 26, 2020, 05:22:17 PM
The colors are very limited. Trust me this is currently the best option.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Judge Judy on May 26, 2020, 09:45:12 PM
The colors are very limited. Trust me this is currently the best option.

Hey it’s fantastic, thanks for doing this! No complaints here.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on May 27, 2020, 12:41:46 PM
The colors are very limited. Trust me this is currently the best option.

Hey it’s fantastic, thanks for doing this! No complaints here.
I used to run a forum using smf. Its really easy to change the theme colors around. You can also use free ones and alter them to your liking.

Just go Here (https://custom.simplemachines.org/) and search for orange themes then alter a good one to fit the Illini color scheme. There are a ton of great mods to spice this thing up too.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on May 27, 2020, 08:07:56 PM
The colors are very limited. Trust me this is currently the best option.

I have experienced this limitation. WordPress didn't, for example, offer orange.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on May 31, 2020, 05:38:06 PM
Mobile not working right now.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on May 31, 2020, 06:13:46 PM
Working for me currently
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on June 16, 2020, 10:02:42 AM
Check your PMs Custard
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on June 16, 2020, 10:37:39 AM
Go ahead and do your thing JC and save us from my mediocrity.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on June 18, 2020, 07:44:38 PM
Updated a few things. I think if you reupload your avatar it will go to the correct size on the forum. Embedding videos should work now as well. If anyone runs into issues let me know  8)
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ridingthegrange on June 18, 2020, 08:27:49 PM
Thanks for the enhancement!  This looks great!
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on June 18, 2020, 09:46:43 PM
Awesome thanks for the assist
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Chickengeorge on June 19, 2020, 07:50:02 AM
Thanks for the enhancement!  This looks great!

Agree, big improvement!
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on June 19, 2020, 10:02:39 AM
I can’t seem to toggle between desktop and mobile. I can request desktop and mobile themes on my iPhone but nothing really changes. I’d like to see the format wider to fill the screen and not have the big spaces between the replies and quotes in threads. I will check it on my laptop later.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on June 19, 2020, 10:55:51 AM
I can’t seem to toggle between desktop and mobile. I can request desktop and mobile themes on my iPhone but nothing really changes. I’d like to see the format wider to fill the screen and not have the big spaces between the replies and quotes in threads. I will check it on my laptop later.
Yeah, Im still searching for the code to shrink the space between replies. When you say you want the format wider, are you referring to the entire board? If so, I can fix that this weekend. As for the mobile theme...that theme has a mod attached to it that isnt playing nice. The mobile theme was sketchy for me before changing to this theme. This theme seems to be ok on my mobile phone, but hit me up this weekend and we can jump on discord and try to fix the mobile theme. If you go look at the "candy" theme, I already changed the colors of it to match this forum. I just cant seem to get the thing to play nice.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ILLove1997 on June 19, 2020, 11:27:11 AM
I can’t seem to toggle between desktop and mobile. I can request desktop and mobile themes on my iPhone but nothing really changes. I’d like to see the format wider to fill the screen and not have the big spaces between the replies and quotes in threads. I will check it on my laptop later.
Yeah, Im still searching for the code to shrink the space between replies. When you say you want the format wider, are you referring to the entire board? If so, I can fix that this weekend. As for the mobile theme...that theme has a mod attached to it that isnt playing nice. The mobile theme was sketchy for me before changing to this theme. This theme seems to be ok on my mobile phone, but hit me up this weekend and we can jump on discord and try to fix the mobile theme. If you go look at the "candy" theme, I already changed the colors of it to match this forum. I just cant seem to get the thing to play nice.

good job Jimmy, have a smite
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on June 19, 2020, 11:58:06 AM
I can’t seem to toggle between desktop and mobile. I can request desktop and mobile themes on my iPhone but nothing really changes. I’d like to see the format wider to fill the screen and not have the big spaces between the replies and quotes in threads. I will check it on my laptop later.
Yeah, Im still searching for the code to shrink the space between replies. When you say you want the format wider, are you referring to the entire board? If so, I can fix that this weekend. As for the mobile theme...that theme has a mod attached to it that isnt playing nice. The mobile theme was sketchy for me before changing to this theme. This theme seems to be ok on my mobile phone, but hit me up this weekend and we can jump on discord and try to fix the mobile theme. If you go look at the "candy" theme, I already changed the colors of it to match this forum. I just cant seem to get the thing to play nice.

The forum is really narrow on mobile. I love the desktop.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on June 19, 2020, 12:05:25 PM
I can’t seem to toggle between desktop and mobile. I can request desktop and mobile themes on my iPhone but nothing really changes. I’d like to see the format wider to fill the screen and not have the big spaces between the replies and quotes in threads. I will check it on my laptop later.
Yeah, Im still searching for the code to shrink the space between replies. When you say you want the format wider, are you referring to the entire board? If so, I can fix that this weekend. As for the mobile theme...that theme has a mod attached to it that isnt playing nice. The mobile theme was sketchy for me before changing to this theme. This theme seems to be ok on my mobile phone, but hit me up this weekend and we can jump on discord and try to fix the mobile theme. If you go look at the "candy" theme, I already changed the colors of it to match this forum. I just cant seem to get the thing to play nice.

The forum is really narrow on mobile. I love the desktop.
Oh yea, I dont have control over the mobile aspect of this theme. The best solution is to get the actual mobile theme you have and fix it so when you are on a mobile device, it defaults to that actual mobile theme. For some reason though its being a dick.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on June 19, 2020, 12:10:16 PM
Why is ILLove's post above being shown as being edited by Jimmy?
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 19, 2020, 12:15:05 PM
Why is ILLove's post above being shown as being edited by Jimmy?
I think that means Jimmy tossed the smite back to Illove. 🤔
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on June 19, 2020, 12:17:16 PM
I can’t seem to toggle between desktop and mobile. I can request desktop and mobile themes on my iPhone but nothing really changes. I’d like to see the format wider to fill the screen and not have the big spaces between the replies and quotes in threads. I will check it on my laptop later.
Yeah, Im still searching for the code to shrink the space between replies. When you say you want the format wider, are you referring to the entire board? If so, I can fix that this weekend. As for the mobile theme...that theme has a mod attached to it that isnt playing nice. The mobile theme was sketchy for me before changing to this theme. This theme seems to be ok on my mobile phone, but hit me up this weekend and we can jump on discord and try to fix the mobile theme. If you go look at the "candy" theme, I already changed the colors of it to match this forum. I just cant seem to get the thing to play nice.

The forum is really narrow on mobile. I love the desktop.

Go figger.
My mobile is much wider than desktop.
But I prefer the old version.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on June 19, 2020, 01:59:39 PM
The quotes are sooooo much better in this format though. That was annoying af having all the quoted text running down a single stream and you’d swipe and swipe and swipe. So that’s a huge improvement. This mobile version looks much nicer when turned to landscape mode.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Judge Judy on June 19, 2020, 02:56:06 PM
The quotes are sooooo much better in this format though. That was annoying af having all the quoted text running down a single stream and you’d swipe and swipe and swipe. So that’s a huge improvement. This mobile version looks much nicer when turned to landscape mode.

Well how do you turn it to landscape mode for mobile, because the mobile format on this sucks.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on June 19, 2020, 06:42:38 PM
Why is ILLove's post above being shown as being edited by Jimmy?
I gave it a "thumbs up" doing so seems to mean i edited it lol
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on June 19, 2020, 11:33:17 PM
The quotes are sooooo much better in this format though. That was annoying af having all the quoted text running down a single stream and you’d swipe and swipe and swipe. So that’s a huge improvement. This mobile version looks much nicer when turned to landscape mode.

Well how do you turn it to landscape mode for mobile, because the mobile format on this sucks.

Turn your phone sideways
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on June 25, 2020, 11:18:30 AM
My first time logging in on a computer/lap top. This is a much nicer format. Wish something could still be done to make mobile a little nicer, but I now get why the change was made. Nice job!
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on June 25, 2020, 11:22:59 AM
Ok, still need to work on some of the quotes appearing in a straight line down the page....
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: fucking on June 25, 2020, 11:32:54 AM
Turn your phone sideways
Auto-rotate is for cucks.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on June 25, 2020, 12:21:42 PM
I was just suggesting it for any cucks who might want a better mobile experience. We know Dave from effingham and DCPeru hate it too.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on June 26, 2020, 04:43:59 AM
Well, I can tell you that I did not lock the COVID thread this time and I was unable to open it on my phone.

Now you can blame Custard.....
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on July 15, 2020, 04:42:28 PM
 When I am on a computer, how do I get the posts to widen out? Everything is narrow when quoted.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on July 15, 2020, 05:48:44 PM
When I am on a computer, how do I get the posts to widen out? Everything is narrow when quoted.
Widen your brain, and bring your vision with.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on July 15, 2020, 06:59:20 PM
When I am on a computer, how do I get the posts to widen out? Everything is narrow when quoted.
Widen your brain, and bring your vision with.

I already have a big brain. My hat size is larger than Steroid Barry Bonds'.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on September 06, 2020, 08:22:01 PM
Something happened....
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Somewhere in Mn on September 06, 2020, 10:00:24 PM
Something happened....
Same.
Clicked on desktop view, and I'm back to the old format
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on September 07, 2020, 10:05:59 AM
I was messing with some things last night.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Jimmy Chitwood on September 07, 2020, 10:38:29 AM
Also, Ive added this site to tapatalk and it works quite well for phones. Just search tapatalk for Illini hq and you can find the site.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on September 07, 2020, 10:56:40 AM
Awesome thanks JC. Have never really used Tapatalk before but this is great.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on September 19, 2020, 09:52:45 AM
WTF is up with my text message apps? Texts are not coming through when on wifi (doesn't matter where). Everything was fine for a long time and then BOOM!  (Wondering if the apps updated or something.) Have Samsung 8+, used the Google Messages (as I like that I can get them on a computer) and now back to using the Samsung default messages app (as I can at least see who sent the texts that are not coming through).

Yes, turn the phone on and off once daily. Have cleared out the cache for both messaging apps. Nothing changes. Sucks as much as 2020.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on September 22, 2020, 10:24:11 PM
Alright, what is the point of the calendar on this website?  I cannot add any events to it.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2020, 10:28:11 PM
Anyone who'd like to add their birthday is welcome to do so. Just shoot me a PM with your birthday and Social Security number.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: ThePAMan on September 22, 2020, 10:47:35 PM
Anyone who'd like to add their birthday is welcome to do so. Just shoot me a PM with your birthday and Social Security number.

I wanted to put made up stuff on there to see if anyone noticed....
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on September 22, 2020, 11:13:08 PM
Maybe we could place bets on what day Tempo and Spark show up next?
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Reacher on January 14, 2023, 07:36:11 AM
This place could use some poster upgrades, that’s for sure.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Reacher on January 14, 2023, 07:37:36 AM
Anyone who'd like to add their birthday is welcome to do so. Just shoot me a PM with your birthday and Social Security number.

June 24. And 3.
Title: Re: Site upgrades
Post by: Custard on January 14, 2023, 10:08:23 AM
Man thanks for the reminders of how funny I used to be