Migration Complete. Report any Issues.
Hey guys, the migration is complete. Everything is almost identical like before. The comment section was improved. Now you can like and dislike comments. The time of the comments is your local time. You can reply to any comment and replies to it (not only one level of threading). You can post comments using facebook, twitter and G+. Also we kept the anonymous option but we also added the “name only” option which is the same but at least you will be recognizable.
If you have any issues please report them here but first try to clear your browser cache.
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The original google avatar doesn’t show up, but other than that, the new comment system is very good 🙂
Lol you wrote “Comming Soon” instead of “Coming Soon” in the forum section
Perhaps the name of the website should be
http://Www.starwarsnews.com
You also post about ep.8 and 9…
;everything looks`s mighty fine Viral! – especially love the new cover art:}
Yaay!! Avatars and Lightsabers :)!
Yes … and red lightsaber for “dislike”!
Dislike leads to hate, hate leads to …
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uhm… let’s see… (btw the McQuarrie Art at the top is an awesome idea)
Interesting
Love the first image released from ROTJ! You’re a good man Viral, no mater what everybody else says!
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Well, this is new.
Little lightsabers
Haha, here comes the ‘Like’ and ‘Dislike’ features. “Edited” and “Liked” myself. Awesome site, btw.
This works great 😀
So, can we still delete our own comments?
Yes we can. In first 10 minutes after posting a comment :O
I feel spoiled. Thank you for making that emotion possible! 😀
Does the “Dislike” button work?
Yes.
Evidently so.
OMG. I’m going to abuse the “Dislike” button until I get- *yawn*
This is the best site for SW news as I don’t have to goto TFN anymore and deal with many of those radical fans where every debate turns into OT vs PT. This site has been added to my favorites!
You can like or dislike a comment just once. You can’t like a comment that you’ve already disliked and the other way around.
Love the site, I check it daily. I’m afraid I’ve noticed a few problems post migration. I find that sometimes the site freezes when loading. Sometimes the url isn’t found at all. I’m using chrome on android.
I’m having some issues with Chrome too. I hope things will get better in 48 hours. When the dns cache is flushed with everyone.
Awesome! Now I do not have to enter my yahoo account every time I comment.
Congrats with the new back end. However: the site is suddenly much slower here… And visually the like and dislike buttons actually distracts a lot. I would skip the icons personally, or make buttons with a shape that makes it more loose from the text. For the rest, keep up the great work!
I agree. The lightsabers are very annoying!
Wow. I have never been able to comment and now I can! Awesome update!
Harrison 6 monts out 🙁
Read that too. Also hearing that film release might be delayed. Only a rumor though. May’16? Injury must have been more severe than first reported?
Great work! Thanks you for the site, Viral. I check it everyday.
I’ve been surfing this website since last year on my mobile phone.
Now it creates such an amount loading and presenting this website, loading a news-post that it eventually kills my browser.
I’m browsing without Java but something on the website is causing such load of bandwith that it simply overloads the memory of my mobile phone. It must be several megabytes, unless I abort loading process quicly, and I simply can’t afford that.
I hope Viral Hide can fix that!
Testing if avatars are somehow connected to a name…
No, they are not.
Muhahaha I deeslike everyone
We’re gonna need an adjustment period to get used to ALL THIS POWWWWAH… >|D
People are going to abuse the dislike system. Got an opinion about something? Better not be in the minority, bud.
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Here is an idea:
I seen you are using BlueHost for your site, I would advise getting a linux server from OVH.com(can get them for $3) install NGINX, php-fpm & MySQL signup for cloudflare(DDos Protection) and you will see the loadspeed increase by 50%.
What about smiley faces options?
🙂
http://makingstarwars.net/2014/06/star-wars-boba-fett-stand-alone-spin-rumors-thoughts-opinions/
Apparently, there’s a little more evidence that the first spin-off is centered on Boba Fett. A *little*, mind you.
Love this site.
I like the lightsabers!!
You guys should probably come up with another name for the site since it’ll be irrelevant once episode 7 comes out. Not something that’ll have to change with every movie either like starwars8news.com.
I personally come here for ALL my star wars news, so maybe something that’s more general to star wars overall since you guys don’t JUST talk about episode 7?
This site is like theforce.net to me from back during the prequel days. I used to visit them all the time for anything (while avoiding the spoiler articles like the plague) related to the then-new movies coming out. They’re quite different now, but this site has definitely filled that void.
Anyways, just a thought. Love this site guys, keep it up!!
I think something esoteric like “Star Wars Sequel News” should cover it after Episode VII comes out and the hype settles to a more reasonable level. Although you’d still get a few people complaining whenever the site reports on something that isn’t movie-related.
Not working on iPhone.
Looks great! I hope the transition wasn’t too headache-inducing. ;^)
Love this site, check it almost every day, but now it doesn’t work on my iPhone.
I like the new banner, would be cool to see a new one each month or so.
What’s your iOS?
iOS 6.1.3. Could be that I just need to update my phone lol
There’s something weird that happens, but may just be on my end.
Whenever I come to the site, the whole page loads MINUS the tittles of the topics. They take a couple more seconds to low. The blue-greenish text. Used not to happen before.
I don’t like the likes and dislikes, it seems juvenile.
Oh grow up John hahaha what’s wrong with a little fun huh? Thanks viral!
This site somehow, inexplicably, has further cemented itself as the number one Star Wars news site, in my opinion. Seriously, how do you go from being the best to being better than the best? You are quite literally feuding with yourself for the top spot. That is almost unheard of 🙂
The lightsaber Jedi_Sith/Like_Dislike path correlation is awesome, and from the looks of things it would seem as if everyone is already enjoying those new options… some, perhaps, a little too much, heh-heh.
Seriously, though, fantastic work @Viral Hide, and to anyone else that may have assisted, as well.
Oh, for God’s sake, not this like/dislike plague !!! The new site is great but please, spare us this useless feature that is ruining communities on the net ! At least get rid of the little lightsabers which are taking too much space…
Yes I think they’re not bringing the desired effect. Later we’ll remove the dislike button and make the like button really small.
That would be a smart move, thank you for your answer !
The comments section seems a bit jumbled around, not sure if anyone else is having this issue.
Not working on iPhone or iPad for me.
I have tried it on iOS 7.1.1 and it’s working. Maybe you should update?
Or why don’t you work on a responsive webdesign and work on a new CMS system using the same database structure as you use at the moment that way you will be able to get it working with all phones.
Or make an iPhone app, using jquery to detect if people are on there phone if they are tell them to download the starwars7news ap.
Don’t like that my google pic wont show! Don’t like the random south park star wars pics @ all!
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Love the site but its much slower since the migration. I’m using Chrome on a Nexus 7.
Yes I know. The old blog was hosted by google and it would be hard to beat that. Soon we’ll start using a mobile version of the blog and it’ll increase the speed on these devices.
Viral since the migration the websites been a lot slower and it doesn’t always load. It may just be my computer but its the only website doing it so idk, is anyone else having this problem? Also, I very much like the lightsaber addition.