Rant over, I grew up and upgraded to 4.4.1, so far... php 7.3 is god fast.

 

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So glad I did not update yet, with version 4.4 I decided to wait for 4.4.1 since I figured 4.4 will be bugs turns out from reading everyone's posts 4.4.1 is a bit of a disaster, from lazy loading not working to forum default themes breaking to more serious users not able to access the forum through chrome...

I am currently on v4.3.6 and want to upgrade to 4.4.x to take advantage of the post before registration and SEO improvements, but so far it seems 4.4.x is not ready for production boards yet.

Will 4.4.2 be production ready? (I thought moving from phpBB/MyBB (free) to IPS (paid for, expensive vs what is out there in the paid space) would eliminate these kinds of issues where upgrades turns out breaking functionality.)

Generally from what version do you guys consider a branch 4.4.x to be stable enough to run on a production server?

5 minutes ago, Platinumwealth.co.za said:

Generally from what version do you guys consider a branch 4.4.x to be stable enough to run on a production server?

Every version that is not called “beta”. 

 

6 minutes ago, Platinumwealth.co.za said:

is a bit of a disaster

That’s nonsense and you are clearly misrepresenting those cases cited. 

3 minutes ago, opentype said:

That’s nonsense and you are clearly misrepresenting those cases cited. 

 

 

 I'll add more as they pop up.

I’ve read those cases. And my answer still stands. The only confirmed issue was a lazy load problem limited to forum descriptions. That’s not exactly a disaster. 

Disaster might be a bit of an overreaction, I just feel for that forum admin the amount of effort he had to go through because something did not work as advertised.

45 minutes ago, Platinumwealth.co.za said:

but so far it seems 4.4.x is not ready for production boards yet

https://www.eastmidlandsstargazers.org.uk/

4.4.1 is working like a charm on my site, no issues with Lazy Loading or my themes.

I just upgraded to 4.4.1 and running php 7.3 and mariaDB 10 and using memcache - good god. It's FAST.

 

https://platinumwealth.co.za/forum/ 

Okay I see the chat is broken, let me see if the author has a new plugin. 

Chatbox updated, boom works.

IPS and team, take my money sons! Awesome.

2 hours ago, Platinumwealth.co.za said:

I just upgraded to 4.4.1 and running php 7.3 and mariaDB 10 and using memcache - good god. It's FAST.

 

https://platinumwealth.co.za/forum/ 

Now switch Memcached to Redis and enable both this options:

 

12 minutes ago, RevengeFNF said:

Now switch Memcached to Redis and enable both this options:

 

Hey,

Is Redis free or it has a price?

Is worth the time to install and configure it? A good difference in speed?

Thanks!

10 hours ago, RevengeFNF said:

Now switch Memcached to Redis and enable both this options:

 

I am on Cpanel (will need to investigate if there is a redis plugin and if it will be supported by my host.) 

19 hours ago, marina_ls said:

Hey,

Is Redis free or it has a price?

Is worth the time to install and configure it? A good difference in speed?

Thanks!

Yes its free and a bit faster in my opinion.