Published on 12, July, 2020
Brand update and maintenance, 26 September - more details
..."more Details" links to information saying:
Brand and site maintenance - 26 September 2018Owing to planned maintenance, this site will be unavailable overnight on 26 September, including the early hours of 27 September. We are doing two pieces of work:
Refreshing the design to reflect the National Autistic Society's new brand.Updating the software to a new version. The main benefit to this should be improvements to the listing of messages in threads, and the flagging of new messages. We want to implement this in order to help with problems that users have reported
...The words "new brand" link to a (small) Page, here:www.autism.org.uk/.../2018-09-13-changing.aspx
... いま, From myself: I begin this Thread because that is one of the things which I myself used to be most useful for, upon this Forum... But Now things are different and so I Post less (!). Also, However, not everyone notices the Main NAS message, and, also, WebPM says that "As ever, your feedback after the update is welcome." upon the following Thread:
community.autism.org.uk/.../82297
...Lastly from me, this next Link is actually the latest Thread for Posting "Strange" Things... but not many people remembered it...
community.autism.org.uk/.../
...That Thread contains many Links to other Threads which are for specific problems (Older Errors, Notifications, Ideas, Spam, Copybots, etc.).
In closing: All in all, Thanks NAS - especially Mr.WebPM. And Good Luck to all.
Many thanks for all the comments. I'm hoping to address some of the issues, so I'll try to summarise, because they appear in different messages in this thread:
I'll comment separately on colours.
Thanks for the speedy response, WebPM (if only other sites had such a responsive web-dev!)
1) Thanks for the advice; after clearing my browser cache, the home page links do seem to be working OK now.
3) I've had a few spells where loading has been very slow, and occasional disconnected/reconnected boxes. I haven't spotted any particular pattern to it, and it's not clearly any better or worse than experienced before the update. It was very slow the first time I logged in after the update, but maybe that was just new uncached content being loaded?
Trogluddite said:1) Thanks for the advice; after clearing my browser cache, the home page links do seem to be working OK now.
...Yes, this worked for myself, also, and so Thanks.
Trogluddite said:Thanks for the speedy response, WebPM (if only other sites had such a responsive web-dev!)
...Just to say that I sometimes try to say this - I often Thank Mr.WebPM as separate. from NAS - but no-one is really allowed to make the distinction...(!)
...In short, this Post here is again Thanking WebPM for maintaining this Forum, and NAS for allowing it in the first place. Again. :-)
Yes, that agrees with my observations. The slow-down is most noticeable when loading and following notification links, opening the "insert emoticon" pop-up, etc. Regular browsing when I'm just "lurking" doesn't seem any less responsive than any other web pages that I visit.
You're welcome. The disconnected/reconnected boxes relate to a fundamental feature of the software, on which we are continuing to feed back. My experience is that any other slowness that does occur is when you are signed in - you may care to confirm that. We'll investigate on that basis.