As we are now moving forward and working with people who know the technical craft of web development and not just wrecked for a living, let's create a thread to compile a list of technical issues that need fixing.
If people think of something, they can report it here and we can add it to the OP (this) post list and we can assign an issue number for site bugs, and see if we can get it sorted. It would then be infinitely easier to refer to the issues as 'bug 1' or whatever. Users can report anything they notice, and then smods and admin can feel free to update/expand this OP post as new issues arise. I really find it quite hard to keep track of the various issues when they're not catalogued. It would help if people could be very specific and state when the problem first arised and what exactly is happening etc.
Once we have resolved an issue we
Bug 1 (Critical): Cloudflare errors since May. The problem seems to effect bookmarked links and iirc was claimed to be caused by an issue with referrals not working properly... or something.
Bug 2 (Critical): Login not being remembered. Every time I come here I seem to have to login. Sometimes I go to post a message and I'm logged out. Cloudflare maybe? (Edit:I had to login again to post this, even though I was already logged in. Point proven.
Bug 3 (Moderate): HTTPS is not fully functioning, and if you access the website via https firefox/chrome gives an unsecure connection warning and limits certain parts of the website. HTTPS everywhere does not default the website to HTTPS like it should. This entire problem niggles me and is both a security issue, and it means that certain aspects are missing on HTTPS on firefox such as the buttons on the posts etc.
Bug 4 (Minor): Certain characters (currency symbols etc) showing up as question marks. This is due to an outdated character set because of our archaic version of vBulletin. It will be fixed with XenForo, because XenForo will come as standard with modern, compatible character sets. IIRC it originally started because a couple of users
really wanted to use ASCII art, and the character sets were fiddled with.
Bug 5 (Minor): Editing posts on mobile deletes the post. This will be resolved when we upgrade to XenForo, as mobile browsing works absolutely fine out of the box, and it is specifically a vBulletin problem.
Bug 6 (Critical): The text formatting/buttons/smileys/post icons etc seem to be all messed up/missing, which is screwing the formatting of the website. Does anybody know roughly when this started, and if it was instantaneous? I think I was away when this started happening, so missed the discussion/people noticing.
EDIT - We have enabled the "Default vB" style, if you prefer to work within that for now (go to the bottom left of any page and there is a pulldown to choose styles. Default is out of the can, whereas all the others are derivatives of Aria and share the broken image problem. We've worked on the Aria missing images, and nearly half the smilies are back, and most of the edit buttons But you'll need to flush browser cache to get rid of the broken img thingy and have it start showing the true images again. Give it a whirl, gimme your thoughts.[/yquote
Bug 7 (Moderate): The site WiKi at http://wiki.bluelight.org is completely down and returning a 'server not found' message.
Please feel free to to chime in, I know there's more I can't think of right now.
If I miss any bugs that people contribute in the thread, please PM me and I will add them to the list.