Comments on: OFB Housekeeping: Comments Back Online

By: ~amy~

~amy~ — Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:04:55 +0000

I’ve stayed away for a bit due to site issues but I’m happy that all is back and running! Always great info and banter here. And the comments, sometimes, make my day! Thanks for being so diligent! It’s nice to have my daily dose of you all again…

By: OrderedChaos

OrderedChaos — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 20:48:15 +0000

It’s not a Firefox issue, but an overall template issue which has since been fixed.

By: GoCapsGo

GoCapsGo — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:51:54 +0000

I like the new look. OFB is rockin’ more red…

By: Gustafsson

Gustafsson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:26:13 +0000

We are still tweaking the site to retain as much of the old look and feel as we can. At this point, the main change is the look of the comments along with a few slight navigation changes.
The main reason for all of these changes is moving to a stable platform (though you wouldn’t have known it last week) as our readership had outgrown the ability to host the site on the old servers. With the server change came a blogging platform change which naturally creates some inconsistencies.

By: Gustafsson

Gustafsson — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 13:17:59 +0000

GlvSv37, yes there are supposed to be links back to the various parts of the MVN Network. The code is there, but there is a display problem (not confined to FireFox).
In moving to the new server and blogging platform, various stuff broke. Our priorities were to make sure all four of us could login (50% success at the beginning) and that you could comment.
Next on the list is to get our complete archives imported and back up and running. There have been some formatting issues, too.
Thanks to everyone for your patience throughout this frustrating process.

By: OrderedChaos

OrderedChaos — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 12:30:55 +0000

There are supposed to be top-bar links, though I don’t see them either so I suppose MVN is still working on that. Obviously this transition to a new provider and server has taken much longer than we’d hoped, but let’s hope we’re near the end of the service problems.
Sam & Semin, we did our best to keep the look-and-feel of OFB — if you browse to MVN.com you’ll see that most of their partner sites look MUCH different, so we preserved as much OFB-vibe as we could.

By: GlvSv37

GlvSv37 — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 04:25:36 +0000

Are there supposed to be a few links in that blue bar on the top of the page? I scroll over it and get sports related menus. Is the new layout Firefox friendly?

By: semin's neighbor

semin's neighbor — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:14:01 +0000

i really don’t like this layout either! the other one was so much simpler, but whatever. what’s done is done i guess.

By: sam

sam — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 03:03:42 +0000

Bring back the old OFB this new site is hideous and seems much less attractive than the old one. I don’t see the need for an upgrade