Brisbane Fishing Online - Queensland's Premier Fishing and Boating Community - Queensland's Premier Fishing and Boating Community

Brisbane Fishing Website Now With Improved Community Features

The Brisbane Fishing Online site has undergone a significant upgrade to improve the Community section of the site. There have been many bugfixes in the code but more importantly many new features added to help improve the user's experience on the site. One of the big new features is a wholly integrated event system that allows members to easily add events and invite other users. We see this as a great feature to even further promote the community spirit of socials and will make it easy for members to organise fishing trips and events. Other new features that our members will find are:

Profile
# Default website field now uses url type.
# Character limit for status updates now set to 400.
# User can now set their photos as the profile picture when browsing through their own photos.
# When viewing videos, user can now set the video as their profile video provided that they are the owner of the video.

Friends
# Friends listing has the ability to filter by characters.
# Users can now search for members with avatar only.
# New alphabetical navigation option in people browser.

Media
# Photos can now be dragged and dropped directly from the album view.
# Photos in the activity stream summary will now link to the photo correctly.
# Added enhanced content preview for new photo uploads in activity stream.
# Photos can now be deleted from within the album view.

Groups
# Group admin can now edit discussions.
# Added a group invitation page where users can list all the group invites and respond accordingly.
# Group admin and post owner can now edit discussion posts and wall posts.
# Group page now display list of admins on a separate section to differentiate between members and group admins
# When a discussion is replied, the creator and repliers of the discussion will now be notified via email
# Group member will be notified once they have been approved.
# Group administrator can configure to allow or disallow wall post notifications in a group.
# Display a proper message when a non group member views a discussion and can't see the wall form.
# Site administrators are notified when a new group is created and group moderations are enabled.
# Send email notifications to group owner once the group is published.

Events
# New Event system integrated into community section that allows users to create events easily and invite users
# Wall in events can now be commented.
# Added new default avatar for events.
# Event and site administrator can now send email to all event participants.

Applications
# Redesigned My Applications page that supports drag and drop functionality. Users can now drag and drop applications into their desired positions.
# Once an application is added, it will no longer show the popup but instead show that the application is added.
# Application box state is now remembered if it was minimized or shown.

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BFO Site Offline - New Server Move Issues

As you may be aware the Brisbane Fishing Online site has recently been offline whilst we were to move our site to a new server. The reason was because our site was producing database queries that were putting too much load on our shared webhosting server environment and so our webhosts temporarily turned our site offline. We quickly responded and got the site ready to upgrade our site to our own server to eliminate these problems, however knowing our luck, the hosts have had trouble moving our site to this new server and that is why our site has been offline this last while.

{xtypo_warning}The issue is unfortunately still not resolved {/xtypo_warning}

The hosts are contacting the server software company as there is an issue with the software (one of the largest server softwares used in the world as there seems to be a bug) that wont let them restore the site on the new server. The hosts (one of the best in Australia) are trying to figure out the problem and when they do will let us know to try once again to move our site to the new server. This new server will have dedicated ram, more diskspace and let us set the server up to how we want, however it is double the cost of our previous hosting.

We are very sorry for the inconvenience this has caused everyone, and for us it could not have happened at a worse time as we are trying to get our BRC registrations underway. We have been up without much sleep the last few days to try and sort this but there is just not much we can do. Everyone is doing their best to resolve this issue and get our site to its new home :)

Cheers,
Brisbane Fishing Online

Website 'Suspended' due to server load

As our site continues to grow we are faced with the challenge of keeping up to speed with our hosting needs. However, due to the amount of activity on the site recently we managed to put a significant amount of cpu load on the server and so our webhosting account was temporarily suspended.

 

{xtypo_alert}We are now looking to upgrade our webhosting to not have these issues again.{/xtypo_alert}

Hopefully this should all happen without any disruption to the site in the next few days, so until then we have tried to limit the load so the games section is offline and possibly may make some other sections as well. Sorry for the inconvenience and thanks for your understanding.

Database issues (lost information)

Website Relaunched!

{xtypo_alert} Well after some very long sleepless nights we have now successfully (touch wood) upgraded our site. The new framework has better performance, security and ability to integrate new features. So, even though the site is slightly different in layout, the backend of the site has been totally recreated (including databases and all files - hence the reason for the downtime). {/xtypo_alert}

There is still a fair bit of tweaking and bug fixing to do, but we will work through these over the next week or so. If you do find something that isn't working how it should be, or not in the right place etc please let us know in the forum in the Website Relaunched category.

Thanks

BFO

Registration Issues Resolved

Hi Everyone,

Thankyou for your interest in the Brisbane Fishing Online site and we are sorry for the issues you have experienced with registration. It has come to our attention that there has been some issues with the registration process on our return from our time away. These issues have now been resolved and registration is now working correctly. 

So for everyone that has tried to register in the last two weeks or so, if you let us know your username I can manually activate your account or you can simply register again. If you still have problems, don’t hesitate to let us know so we can correct the issues. Again, we are sorry for the inconvenience this has caused and hope you enjoy your time on the site.

Regards,
John
Brisbane Fishing Online

Our Deepest Apologies

Firstly, to all who received the numerous emails sent after midnight last night to 7am this morning we are deeply sorry and apologise sincerely.

It turns out last night, there was glitch with some of the code that makes up the Brisbane Fishing Online site and resulted in numerous emails being sent to people to re-visit the Brisbane Fishing Online site. This was not done intentionally and feel deeply embarrassed that this occurred.

Again, we would like to confirm that we value dearly all our members and don't want to disrupt your daily lives, and as such try to keep emails sent to an absolute minimum.

To all those that were affected please accept our apology

Regards,
Angus and John
Brisbane Fishing Online

'Fish of the Month' Results

Month	Nominated Fish	Prize
Feb	Billfish (All)	Cara Trolling Rod - 1.82m , 30-50lb
March	Mackerel (All)	Daiwa Seahunter Rod - 6 foot, 10kg
April	Tuna (All)	Daiwa Sealine 50 HSD Super Drag
May	Wahoo	TBC
June	Bass	TBC