Latest Updates: Arpegi v5.0.1 - Updated: 02/06/2024 (More patching is more patching.)
New board lay-out to give the forum a more alive feel. (1) Reorganised the gaming board. Merged "Computer Help" and "Webdesign" boards. Merged "Tablets and mobile" and "Other games" into one child board. Merged "Hobbies and entertainment". Merged some contest boards into events. Merged both news boards. Moved "Arpegi Battle" from "Games" to "Support". Added a redirect link to our Facebook group!
Deleted a ton of old back-ups on the server. Cleaned up the coding of a few critical files used to load the forum. (3)
Dropped Google Talk support. Installed a new Skype plug-in. (2)
In older browsers, some social networks loaded twice. Fixed a bug where social networks weren't displayed on the posts.
Finally ADDED the FavsList, Twitch.TV and Last.FM fields. Added the Reddit profile field.
Delayed a few updates once more.
Deleted the "Additional Memberlist Alphabet" due to not working on all themes. Put it back, fixed this issue.
Fixed the memberlist unable to load.
Updated to SMF 2.0.8!
Nobbc should work across multiple lines. Package manager shouldn't fail when only 32M of memory is available. Quoting posts with smileys in, in the WYSIWYG editor, shouldn't spout nonsense into the editor. Td tags with a colspan should still function and not consume vast amounts of memory. Using lots of bbcode tags when not an admin should not consume vast amounts of memory. Using queryless URLs, and/or when the PHPSESSID is present, should not consume vast amounts of memory. Breaking long words should function without consuming lots of memory. Adding posts with many smileys or bbc with specific parameter types (many times especially) should not consume vast amounts of memory, e.g. term (definition). Emails should work without consuming vast amounts of memory. Time tags should work without consuming vast amounts of memory. The copyright year should be updated. Board order should always work correctly. The memberlist search feature could, in some cases, throw a database error if no valid fields were specified.
Fixed our anti-spam protection displaying in Russian in older browsers. Fixed our anti-spam protection being not working on SMF 2.0.8 or higher. Fixed some core files displaying the wrong version.
The admin tasks got a major speed boost. Tweaked the easter egg in this change log.
Fixed the broken smileys. (Thanks Inu for the report) Tried to fix "Mixz", wasn't very effective.
License update. Enhanced ban user command to include ban expiration date and delete posts option. Optimized unread topic list to display all unread topics if enabled in a forum system. Add edit information in post data (Need App support). Updated welcome screen page.
Fixed slow loading of the emoticons. Fixed some CSS issues with the calendar and IE9. Fixed some permission issues with the main group.
Added "Our groups" board. Added our groups to the redirect board.
Added "PartyMembers" in to help organizing a RP / contest better. To be able to reserve spots and such.
After installing or deleting mods, there will be an auto redirect. Tried a lot of mods that broke the site for a second.
Deleted the "Post Unapproval" mod since it's barely used.
Fixed the double loading of some emoticons.
Deleted "PartyMembers" for now. (1)
[br] now works as BBC code. (2)
Converted all the HTML-entities to UTF-8. (3)
Global mods can now moderate the shoutbox. Fixed an issue where global mods can't ban a member fully.
Changed the dropdown menu for admins.
Fixed the topic rename feature deleting the prefix when renaming topics. ("RE:") (1) Fixed a permission issue that global mods couldn't change all subjects. Fixed a minor issue with some permissions in the "Announcements" board.
You can now select between different emoticon styles. Added the following emoticon styles: PHPbb, Foxes (Poyno)
Fixed the admin menu option of Simple Portal returning blank. Fixed the undefined errors of Simple Portal. Improved the visual look of the home page of the admin section.
Updated the core of TapATalk from 4.0.1 -> 4.1.1.
Support for marking private message as read. Support for page and per-page parameters in Google deep link URLs to aid in fixing future "Content Mismatch Errors". Optimized app welcome page and smart-banner to automatically add the referring forum to a user's forums list. Removed app links from user online status icons on the online users page. Fixed miscellaneous warning issues. Updated to conform to Google App Indexing requirements. App indexing code added only to post detail pages and omitted from all invalid pages. Fixed a mod conflict issue in DB when searching.
Check the battle changelog for a list of new things!
Fixed a glitch where site pop-ups used the old favicon. Fixed a duplicate emoticon.
Reduced that max number of signatures to 2. Due to the glitch that the mod can't display more then 3 different signatures. You can now use blank rules in your signatures. You can now use lists in your signature. Fixed a bug where an user used the color red, blue or white in their signature dumped an error. You can now use the code bbc in your signature.
Fixed the social icons profile display. Fixed the spoilers being squished to each other. (Fixed this for spoilers in spoilers.) Fixed the double language loading of the PM Quote mod. Fixed the quotes being squished if there aren't [br] tags. Bug also known as: "Quotes ignoring enters".
Installed a new email validator to stop the smartbot (not you Nekobot) from trying to enter to spam on Arpegi.
Fixed a bug where an old mod kept showing as installed while it was deleted. Modified Simple Portal language loading code so that it is loaded for mods and global mods. Bug fix for v1.7 did not include globalized variable $user_info within function. (Bug related to admins)
Removed the fix for the quotes being "squished" because CSS errors :/
Removed some visual updates to the admin area to fix some fatal errors.
Updated to SMF 2.0.9
SMF tries to stick ORDER BY NULL onto INSERT IGNORE queries containing sub-selects with a GROUP BY statement, causing a database error. "Show Results" button always shown for polls as long as you can vote in them. Multi-select boxes for settings were broken when no value had been selected. Some mail providers screw up the activation link. PHP 5.4 changes default charset to UTF-8, which can cause problems with search results and PM notification emails. Make sure opcode cache gets cleared when regular cache does. Log pruning should only delete closed mod reports, not open ones. Fix layout issue with manage permissions page. Adjust image check to not fail on "cellTextIsHtml", unless paranoid. Sanitize all package XML to prevent any XSS attacks. Add session check when previewing posts to prevent XSS via [html] from forged forms. Sanitize maintenance mode title to prevent XSS attacks if HTML is used in it.
Fixed an issue where some php files didn't show up as the most recent version. Changed caching code from caching entire admin menu to only the sub_buttons of the admin menu.
The logs provide now more information about the spiders (bots from search engines) that index the site.
Improved the anti-spam protection.
Fixed the memberlist not loading for admins.
Lazy Admin Menu: Fixed some bad caching in Subs.php. Lazy Admin Menu: Fixed some mods not showing up. Lazy Admin Menu: Fixed some undefined errors. (Still needs some patching). SMF: Fixed an issue with the loading of the server options. (This bug caused various effects.) SMF: Fixed a bug where the 2.0.9 package showed as "outdated".
Updated to SimplePortal 2.3.6
Updates and improvements to the built-in blocks. Several security improvements. Proper logging of portal activity. Several fixes and improvements to the interface. Styling options for board news block. Fixes to shoutboxes module.
These things or on my to fix list.Returning the PayPal Donate button.
The message of this forum being in maintenance mode is now a bit prettier
Removed the "Topic Locked" mod, duplicate features.
Fixed some language files loading wrongly. The BBC code for black & green didn't work in signatures.
v4.0 preparation: Added a feature to add custom BBC code easily to Arpegi. Changed the default profile text. The online threshold is 10 minutes now. Changed the karma texts slightly. Gave some user groups different stars.
Improved our custom BBC manager. Merged the bouncy BBC and the dotted underline into the Custom BBC manager.
Fixed the bouncy BBC not bouncing in Chrome. Fixed the greeting disappearing in some cases. (Not all of them are fixed yet)
Fixed users not being able to use certain mail providers. Fixed some permission issues. Fixed some mods having code for SMF 2.1.x Spoilers shouldn't ignore enters from now on. Quotes still do though :/ Fixed a theme having the wrong name.
There is no longer a separation between topics and sticky topics.