Admin Announcement Site Upgrade 2026

[Chief]

Over the next few days we will be upgrading BigFooty's back end and then the forum software.

Site Availability: The site may be disabled for a short time on Friday 2nd Jan.

Posts and Uploads: There may be a short period of time tomorrow where anything you post will be lost: it will not persist into the upgraded system. Save your magnum opus for the weekend.

Log in: You will need to log back in after we cut over to the upgraded system. Make sure you know your password and your email address is correct.

Search: The Search Index will rebuild over a couple of days, so will be either unavailable or incomplete during that time. We will update this thread with any news on search.

New Stuff: Go here, anything marked "2.3" is our dealio.

Site Notices will be posted to let everyone know what is happening.

[UPDATE Jan 11]

The Sunday 11th phase of BigFooty's maintenance and upgrade has been completed. Reactions are limited for now. Search is rebuilding. Scheduled Posts are back! Other upgraded features may look/operate slightly different. The styling and colours will change over time.

• Customised Reactions: Not working until the next phase of the upgrade is completed.
• Scheduled Posts: Setting this up now!
• Search: Still reindexing.

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Swap to DARK theme:

Jan 13th - I'm reverting the colours to try and make this new styling system work.

Jan 14th - Let's see how we go this time

Jan 18th - More features are returning today. Watched content bars, hopefully the club supporter icon as well.

Jan 21st - SEARCH DAY! Search is back.

Jan 24th - Another upgrade for back end stuff incoming - this will let us re-enable the full reactions system.

April 7th - Changed background colour for selected text - now more visible. Try it!

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If you have any issues or questions, please post them here.

 

[Grasshopper17]

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[Chief]

TEXT SELECTION.

I have made a change in the styling for the background on general text selection.

I'm now working on the colour for text selected inside the input box.

 

[Grasshopper17]

TEXT SELECTION.

I have made a change in the styling for the background on general text selection.

I'm now working on the colour for text selected inside the input box.

Just for recreation's sake to pass the time away, right?

 

[Chief]

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Just for recreation's sake to pass the time away, right?

Nope. To help people on Dark mode. Previously it was very low contrast making it hard to see what was selected.

 

[Chief]

BUTTONS

Buttons get a change. Previously in, say, the search function, the ADVANCED SEARCH button was more prominent than the SEARCH button, leading to clicking on it by accident.

I'm trying to flip these without messing with other button styling. Let's see how we go.

 

[Braklet]

Nope. To help people on Dark mode. Previously it was very low contrast making it hard to see what was selected.

Thank you, Chiefy!

 

[JHF1870]

This keeps happening with and not sure what's causing it. Happening with one poster only afaik

I'm using dark/Night mode. They use light mode afaik.

Pretty sure settings revert back to standard when you create a new post right?

Also it's worth mentioning that when I select text that I'm typing in dark mode I can't see the selection due to the similar colour of the selection to the background.

UPDATE, actually I realized this is happening frequently. I can recall multiple times I've had to select text because it loooked like someone didn't post anything but the text is black on black.


This is what I'm talking about (Selected TEXT HERE)

 

[JHF1870]

Here's an example of the code. Two posters with different colours on the posts. I don't think they're manually changing it.

 

[Chief]

Also it's worth mentioning that when I select text that I'm typing in dark mode I can't see the selection due to the similar colour of the selection to the background.

UPDATE, actually I realized this is happening frequently. I can recall multiple times I've had to select text because it loooked like someone didn't post anything but the text is black on black.

a) Yes that's my next project - work out how to change the colour of text selected inside the edit box.

b) not sure about the black text. Are they copying and pasting from a website that has that text colour?

 

[JHF1870]

a) Yes that's my next project - work out how to change the colour of text selected inside the edit box.

b) not sure about the black text. Are they copying and pasting from a website that has that text colour?

B) two posters had different colour codes when I looked at the BB, they said they copy and pasted from a DM.

 

[Chief]

B) two posters had different colour codes when I looked at the BB, they said they copy and pasted from a DM.

I'm guessing the original DM had those colours set.

Let's try:

This text is default, no colour setting.
This text is set to black.

I'll copy that to a new post.

 

[Chief]

This text is default, no colour setting.
This text is set to black.

 

[Chief]

This text is default, no colour setting.
This text is set to black.

Nope, that doesn't l;ook like it.

Any info on the browser they are using?

 

[JHF1870]

Nope, that doesn't l;ook like it.

Any info on the browser they are using?

Don't know but I use edge

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Chiefy.

When will pinned comments be shaded in grey again?

 

[Chief]

Chiefy.

When will pinned comments be shaded in grey again?

Don't know, sorry.

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Don't know, sorry.

BUGGER!

It makes everything missable and the pinned comments/posts (sans pictures/photos) superfluous.

 

[squashface]

If the goal was to make the website leagues less usable then the site upgrade was a raging success.

Removal of the 'Watched threads' icon so now I have to navigate through a menu to see them
Removal of the thread title above the reply box so now I have to scroll to the top of the page to make sure I'm posting in the right thread
Removal of the greyed out pinned post so it doesn't flag in my brain that the info in the post is pinned for a reason

 

[Chief]

If the goal was to make the website leagues less usable then the site upgrade was a raging success.

Website leagues? What's the issue?

Removal of the 'Watched threads' icon so now I have to navigate through a menu to see them

It's in an add-on that is not up to date as it was written by someone no longer a part of the site. There's another reasonably large step that needs to happen before we can get that updated.

Removal of the thread title above the reply box so now I have to scroll to the top of the page to make sure I'm posting in the right thread

Yes that is a manual addition I made directly in the code and will return soon as I can work out a way to do it cleanly in this version. I think I'm a step closer than I was earlier in the season.

Removal of the greyed out pinned post so it doesn't flag in my brain that the info in the post is pinned for a reason

Yes that background colour needs to be fixed up. The new styling system is easier to manage in some ways, trickier in others.

 

[Chief]

pinned comments/posts (sans pictures/photos) superfluous.

How do you get to that conclusion?