CloudFlare

[hek]

To speed up the main site we're setting up a CDN from CloudFlare. This should improve image downloads and speed up things for our US friends.

Hopefully the migration won't affect the site availability more than a few seconds.

We will later look at CDN/caching (at least images) on the forum as well.

[Yveaux]

@hek Interesting...
Maybe also switch to more conventional forum software (current version still behaves like cr*p if you ask me, especially on mobile devices. And yes, I did clean out my cache/cookies multiple times...)

[hek]

Thats weird. Nodebb is mobile-first and it works quite nice for me on android. But I agree there still is a few bugs that needs to be sorted out. The team behind it seems to be working hard on fixing problems that is reported.

I like that there is no need for special apps to read forum like you need for SMF and many others.

[Damme]

@hek I also think this forum sucks (sorry, no offence, you did a good job setting all this up, but the forum software sucks) It works to look at on a android phone / tablet, but on PC with chrome, opera, mozilla it just doesnt work as it should do. I actually use the tablet to view the forum becos I just have this iterface on a PC, its too big! I'll havetozoom out :P

[bjornhallberg]

I don't mind the forum, but I'd still like to see tapatalk support. Don't know if it exists, seeing as nodebb is already supposed to be mobile-centric. Saw some discussion about this elsewhere, there sure are some tapatalk haters around :-/ I just like the ability to get push notifications of replies and such. And have all forums in one app and not have to open a web browser, which is still sort of slow on my Galaxy SII.

[hek]

@Damme said:

I actually use the tablet to view the forum becos I just have this iterface on a PC, its too big! I'll havetozoom out

What resolution are you using? What parts is too big? A screenshot could help to understand the problem.
It could be theme related. Do you see the same problems here: https://community.nodebb.org

[Yveaux]

Just some annoyances that come to mind:

• The popup to jump to where I left off works on chrome on a PC, but doesn't work on android tablet/phone. I have to scroll down all the time and when I finally get to the bottom the whole thing does not display the new messages...
• When entering text on android the other messages are completely obscured by the text entry window.
• The top/end navigation buttons on the top (that are only visible on PC( why not on android?)) only jump one page down or so.
• both my android devices are full HD and yet I'm typing this message with only 2 (two!) lines visible because there's too much space reserved by stuff I don't care about (my sensors logo, subject, 'replying to' same subject, formatting buttons, discard/submit buttons and then finally my text entry box with keyboard below)

[hek]

@Yveaux said:

The top/end navigation buttons on the top (that are only visible on PC( why not on android?)) only jump one page down or so.

Agree should be there!

both my android devices are full HD and yet I'm typing this message with only 2 (two!) lines visible because there's too much space reserved by stuff I don't care about (my sensors logo, subject, 'replying to' same subject, formatting buttons, discard/submit buttons and then finally my text entry box with keyboard below)

Press the little button just left of spacebar on android keyboard. This should make keyboard movable and a bit smaller.

[marceltrapman]

The only two things that do not work well are jumping to where you were with your last visit and (sometimes) sending a message does not work on first click but that is it.
I quite like the way the forum looks.

[hek]

@bjornhallberg said:

I just like the ability to get push notifications of replies and such.

As soon as 0.5 is out I will add pushbullet support.

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/1796/nodebb-plugin-pushbullet-push-notifications-for-nodebb

[bjornhallberg]

@hek said:

@bjornhallberg said:

I just like the ability to get push notifications of replies and such.

As soon as 0.5 is out I will add pushbullet support.

https://community.nodebb.org/topic/1796/nodebb-plugin-pushbullet-push-notifications-for-nodebb

That'll be great, thanks!

[Yveaux]

@hek said:

Press the little button just left of spacebar on android keyboard

I have a button with a globe, microphone and '123' to the left of the spacebar. These will not make the keyboard moveable.
Which one do you mean?

[hek]

Maybe a samsung feature? Before I took screendump I did a press-and-hold on the button left of spacebar.

[Yveaux]

@hek That's definately not a standard Android keyboard!
I'm on stock Android, and this is how it looks on my Nexus 5:

[Damme]

OT: I recommend hackers keyboard for android devices.. :)

[Yveaux]

@Damme I'll try it. Thanks for the tip! :+1:

[daulagari]

About the forum, see also http://forum.mysensors.org/topic/213/can-not-reply-on-the-forum-or-locked, I can not post or reply using Firefox.

[hek]

Ok, CloudFlare has now been deployed for http://www.mysensors.org. Guess it takes a couple of hours for caches to be filled with content.

Would be great if someone in US/Asia region could give some feedback. Do you notice any speed change when browsing the build instructions?

[BulldogLowell]

@hek said:

Ok, CloudFlare has now been deployed for http://www.mysensors.org. Guess it takes a couple of hours for caches to be filled with content.

Would be great if someone in US/Asia region could give some feedback. Do you notice any speed change when browsing the build instructions?

I'm in China in a small village and can see it is improved.

[hek]

@BulldogLowell said:

I'm in China in a small village and can see it is improved.

Ha.. good to have the mysesnors family team spread around the globe :smile: