All Astronauts

After losing an hour troubleshooting something of mine on somebody's site, it turned out the bug was just an un-applied IPS silent patch.

What are those? Those be the things IPS does now in-lieu of releasing 4.2.6.1, 4.2.6.2 and so on. Unfortunately, not everyone routinely uses the support tool to discover that there are patches available. We've got a dashboard - why not use it?

And so for Spacious, I am. 

If there are patches available for your currently installed version, a button will appear in the dashboard top row. Click it and a box will appear listing the items the patch addresses (in my lost-hour example it was a "search issue"). Click to apply the patch if you so desire. Permissions apply on the other side of that apply patch link. If there is an entirely new version of IPS, the button will not display - this is only for those silent patches - everything is returns to the usual big dashboard announcements. Also note that if there are patches, and you do not install them, and then a new version of IPS drops, the button will no longer display as there are no patches any more - the "fix" is upgrading to the latest version at this point.

The new updates button only displays when you have a 3rd party (non-IPS) application or plugin that has been flagged as having an update available. Same as above applies. If an update url has been provided where you can download the updated version, you get the green update button to take you through. If no URL is provided, that is noted, and you'll will need to track down the updated version wherever (the Marketplace I imagine for now). I'm tired so updates to themes will have to wait for another day before getting included here. No reason for it not to happen - all the same process.

FAIR WARNING! Not responsible for any version conflicts. If, for example, you are running 4.2.6, and a 3rd party update is flagged as having an update available, and you click through and just go ahead and download the thing and install it without reading any release notes saying it requires IPS 4.8 or something that ain't my problem.

This Spacious feature is to just get all those buried update notices front and center on the dashboard. Oh, and there is a task involved so after installing the new Spacious (when avail) nothing will display button wise for 12 hours or so, or just go into the tasks list (with the convenient Tasks button on your dashboard that you enabled with Spacious  ) and run spacious_patchUpdates or whatever it is called to get going immediately.

Released soon. Mainly just sleeping on this though I do have "a day" tomorrow so this might slip to Thrs nite or Friday sometime.

Ehh... got there eventually. Was waiting for feedback on dev versions.

KS 20 Released!

• Bug fixes.
• Add Member avatar/name to mobile menu.

That last one is a fib - that was added in an earlier version, just forgot all about it.

Couple of quirks to be aware of regarding some of the new stuff.

If you reverse post order (newest posts display first) and the topic has enough posts to kick off pagination and then you make a post, after you save the post you'll be kicked to the last page. It will appear that your post is now on the last page and has been stuck after the very first post (or something like that). Just refresh. There are javascript controller/s involved with a lot of stuff round these parts and it will be awhile (if ever) before I dive into that stuff to mixin some fixin.

Searchlight is mainly just good to go for Latin languages. Cryllic, Arabic, etc. languages will be supported when the underlying javascript library I use is updated to support them (which shouldn't be too long as this is actively being working on)

Fixed (you have patched version on your site now). Fix included in KS 20 out later tonight.

Provided it is shrunk enough, and I hear back on another matter, KS 20 will get kicked out today.

Will include the above shrink ray option, fix for me spazzing the searchlight css (its fine but maybe not sticking it inside a separate KS setting if-check? That would be a good idea...) and another searchlight fix for results that land on page 2, 3, etc. of content.

FYI the searchlight feature does not fully support non-Latin languages yet. Arabic/Cryllic/Etc. support will be available with mark.js library 9.x onward. Currently the release is the 8x line. Not sure how long they have until release of 9 but it's there and being worked on.

Shrunk enough?

49 minutes ago, iacas said:

Any traction here?

I said I'd poke at it - something something USA holiday weekend, also 15.5 hours of 80MPH driving yesterday. My brain is only just now returning to what passes as "normal".

Best option would be to shrink it. Removing it leaves a nightmare of ui elements just kinda "there". I still recommend just setting a default cover photo, but I should be able to stick another option alongside the make bigger option to make it smaller. I still need to see if I can check in the template for the presence of the cover photo var. If I can this shouldn't be a problem. 

HEaded out for food, will poke it tonight and see what's what. Also have fixed that PHP 5 / PHP 7 conflict so that's on tap for a release later tonight.

Never thought of that. How about a default cover photo? That might be doable too.

Already done - free too.

For those watching at home this was an IPS bug that was silently patched by IPS a number of days ago. If any of you run into this bug with KS and 4.2.6 run the support tool: you'll see an optional patch thing flagged for you. Patch yourself up and that's that.

Whats the error message thrown?

PM me acp access and I'll take a look. All KS releases are run through two live sites prior to release so I'm curious whats different on your to cause this.

Make sure to hit the support tool to wipe caches as well and seeing if that clears anything up.

There is one thing I'm aware of, I didn't think it affected 19 but it might. The sort forum posts by newest first will not work on PHP 5, only 7. I have a fix so if you are running PHP 5 give a yell and I'll pass it on, this is because the fix is incompatible with PHP 7 so I'd rather the 5's ask for the patched version instead of me having people randomly installing the wrong version. If you aren't going to use this setting at all carry on, no need for anything.

The only changes with 19 regarding search is the addition of the Searchlight feature All that does is adds a javascript mixin on the search results page to throw a flag on the urls, and another javascript controller on the content pages if they were come to via a search result. But nothing in the code itself.

I could sweep the settings that hold the list of live dashboard widgets and remove any ones I've deleted so no one sees that missing template error but I still have not found where the list of dashboard widgets is being written and held. I know how they are read and built up for the list in the Dashboard (I looked into sorting them alphabetically before throwing a tag on mine in that list) so one would think I would be smart enough to see why removed dashboard widgets linger about in the list. It's probably one of these xml/json files for the application that we're never supposed to touch when dev'ing. But, as I said, there is no formal "delete" thingy for removing a widget in the developers mode when working on an app. Just stuff for us to add them easily. I'll get it soon enough.

Anyways...

Spacious 11 Released!

• Spacious Widgets now clearly marked in the widget dropdown list
• System Overview modded with graphs, incorporated Database Widget, etc.
• Users Online now a permanent resident of the Dashboard header. Clickable for details.
• Option to display Theme ID numbers when not in Designers Mode.
• Toggle off "visit site" text to show just the home icon.
• Misc etc. and so on...

System Overview continues to expand. It has now swallowed Database Overview as the utility of that being up on the dashboard all the time was pretty much nil. I want that info but it's not really dashboardy. I'll pull some more database settings/stats in the near future for this. Memory and Server Diskspace now are graphed out. I've settled for memory on multiplying bytes by 1024 and then throwing to the human readable filesize IPS helper. It, as they say, is close enough, reports 47 on my 48 GB server, and it is the same amount the Rocket Chat server on the same machine reports in system stats. Maybe one day I or IPS will grind out a 1024 multiplier readable helper, maybe... The graphs here are just one color (plus the gray background) so I've locked them to your chosen header color but if for some reason you have a gray header you can set the colors for these graphs in the Spacious settings. Note these will roll ro red when you hit the critical levels - which you can now control as you like in the Spacious settings area for this widget! 

Users online up in the Dashboard header. That's going to be members and guests totaled. Click that. Pop up list of members and guests split out AND the first run at a bot list. This is slightly important: do not panic if it lists bots as Safari or Mozilla or something generic like that. IPS has a built in user agent processor and it is good but not foolproof or hyper-detailed. Bingbot might report as Bingbot or it might report as Safari. Dotbot WILL report as Unknown. And so on. I'll need to add some custom parsers and the like and my intent is to hyperlink bots (at least the known good guys) to their respective company's bot-explainer pages. This, like many things in Spacious, is a "now" thing. I'm not doing any historical tracking here.

Also worth noting is that for now this is piggy backed on the Spacious Members Online system task, which ran every 15 minutes but now runs every 10 minutes. That means unless you hit the task list and run spacious_membersOnline manually you'll need to wait 10 whole minutes or so (provided your site has traffic) before it will pull the online count. So no yelling at me. This is likely a placeholder until I decide how I want to pull this info going forward (I might just drop the task run time to 2 minutes or something like that - it's not a big deal database query after all) but for now it's fine.

As a result, the Member Statistics widget has been trimmed of the online stuff. Consider this widget under renovation, maybe renamed to Member Trends or something and give it a bit more (but do not expect a full historical stat package here)

I've got coffee in hand but Stage One is still burning. 

Just delete the widget from the dashboard. It no longer exists. All that stuff has been stuck into the system overview widget.

Regrettably IPS has not made any of the dashboard stuff robust. That means no longer existing widgets error out like that (not being automatically removed from the dashboard) and, even more fun, there does not seem to be a way to remove those now-gone widgets from the widget dropdown. I actually just hide the options with css.

Doing Black Fri updates right now, will follow up with the formal Spacious 11 announcement here tomorow

On 11/21/2017 at 4:42 PM, All Astronauts said:

Done, finished, etc. KS 20 whenever that gets released.

Not released yet. Check your PM's

KS/Searchlight users: I've got some tighter CSS to clear up some spill over searchlighting in post dates, etc. KS 20 and SL 1.1 when released, which will be soon. So for now you'll need to tough it out when you search for numbers and on the results page the post dates are lit up

For those not paying attention.

Otherwise, not released but Bluto got a dev build shortly after his post above that sticks theme id #s on themes in the ACP when not in designers mode.So that's on the way in the next version. That upcoming version is well in-dev right now, nothing I can just drop right now, things in progress, etc.

I do have Spacious widgets marked out in the dropdown now. Finally reached the point where even I got confused what was what.

You'll notice the Gallery widget has the four most recent images now added, along with category count which I can't fathom why I left off in the first place.

Database widget is gone - contents merged with the system overview widget.

Some donut charts added as well. The long debate as to how to best display memory sizes in readable terms continues. IPS has a filesize plugin based on 1000's, but nothing 1024. 

Using the plugin,sticking with 1000s gets you 45.9 or 49.28 GB reported for 48 GB of ram. No matter, if you hover over the amount the actual bytes or whatever is provided. And it is all correctly relative.

What else... the donut chart colors are based on your acp header color, or you can override. A nice matching detail that. BTW, when you hit the warning levels for memory or diskspace the charts go red.

Alexa has changed, they now update daily. The underlying Alexa task updates daily as well but this means I need to adjust some junk. Also I can pull in some additional details if they are available in the free API. But that widget is in my gaze. That and Redis seems to be a thing now so I'll prob add a Redis monitor or status widget too.

Other stuff, as I said, still poking this. Released whenever it's ready.

Didja see that other thing I did? Search result highlights are back, in Pog form! See the Marketplace entry or the more sensible among you who have Kitchen Sink can bask in it's warm, glowing warming glow.

Just FYI for people not paying attention.

1 hour ago, Jesse Crystal said:

Yes, you got it, exactly!

Done, finished, etc. KS 20 whenever that gets released.

And just for clarification, is there a reason you aren't using the topic feed instead? Is it a matter of having the post content displayed?

You just want a topic feed to display the post content and/or the post feed to only show the first post. Have I got it?

On 11/16/2017 at 8:02 PM, Jesse Crystal said:

Feature request: In the Pages extension, have option in Post Feed to only show the first post of a thread.

I don't understand, could you show?

KS 19 Released!

• That thing I did above.
• Searchlight! Search results content now have search terms flagged. Customizable too!
• Ability to set default search results order.
• Almost certainly some other things I've forgotten about.

Yeah, I skipped 18. It happens.

Why allowing you to set the default search results order? Needed after this:

Alright, that thing has been done and submitted to AndyF for Marketplace approval. Gonna integrate it now with KS and then release.

BTW, a quirk, but not a big deal, also not one I'll fix or anything as it isn't me but a function of the system. If you reverse the order of the forum posts so the newest appears first AND now make a search that hits on a post in that topic AND there are more than one page to that topic, it just might be the case where when you click the search result and expect to pop up right to that post that you'll just end up in the topic and your search hit post will be on another page.

A small, small ,quirk but thought you should know.

A well chosen emoji...

19 minutes ago, GK Miller said:

Wow. That's awesome! Thanks! Any guestimate as to when you'll release next?

Imma doing another thing right now. Something that's been driving me nuts for a long time. So much so that I'm going to charge for this thing, but am including it for free in KS. So that's tonight (with bourbon in hand). So... tonight? Maybe? Soon regardless.

13 minutes ago, SammyS said:

Are you talking about the marketplace here? I didnt read about any change to come

Grasshopper, the winds are changing... A breeze has reached my ear indirectly and I (and others) have heard the words they carry. For you and all others soon the wind will blow openly, brazenly: strong and stout words cast across these digital lands.

Beware the wind.

Approve of your avatar btw.

Finished. Will be included in next KS release whenever that happens.

35 minutes ago, GK Miller said:

Feature request:  display forum posts in reverse chronological order (newest first).

I think this is doable. All forums? Some forums.

On a totally unrelated note, for those not paying attention, lots of of the regulars around here are doing a collaborative Black Friday thing. Might want to check out the Marketplace topic on that...

On another note, the Marketplace is about to under go "change" in the near-ish future. Change is scary and so forth and so on. It will be entertaining for everyone involved.