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    12 February 2023 at 12:42 pm #171

    Tech update

    Easy PDF/Print/Email – its your time to shine so grab that copy and make it so! You’ll find the pdf/print/email icon at the bottom of pages.

    Social login and sharing – another great sharing tool. You can log in right from your favourite social platform (e.g. FB/Twit…) and you’re good to go.

    Live weather map – this is called a “Widget.” You’ll see many widgets over time that add a value to you for quick reference.

    Zoom services. Not just for us. If you want a hosted Zoom meeting, we can add your username as the admin, set up your page and preferences, times and meeting type… and you’re good to go inviting your own attendees. You’re the boss.

    Friends activities – you can set up your own groups, friend lists and everything related using the menu options.

    If you have a special area of interest, we can set up dedicated areas on the forum and website for you. If we notice special not-for-profit regular interests, expect this to be the result.

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    12 February 2023 at 2:03 pm #175

    Tech update

    Facebook social login setup completed. You can now log in using Facebook.

    Google login option is pending verification for their system. Twitter and others depends on user interest. Please let us know.

    The Members system ‘captcha’ is being upgraded to inhibit spam registrations.

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    13 February 2023 at 9:41 am #179

    Tech update

    Facebook messenger contact widget is now installed. It is on the bottom-right of the screen (blue round icon.) To work for FB, we had to associate our NZSpirit merchant account rather than the facebook group (spiritual group) account. You can now click and leave messages etc for our attention. If it gets annoying, we’ll deal with it.

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    19 February 2023 at 9:09 pm #248

      FACEBOOK INTERNAL UPDATE DISRUPTING FACEBOOK – FORUM LOGIN

    Facebook are undertaking internal updates right at the moment. As we just changed the Facebook group from NZ Spirit to Spirit.org.nz, it may be a connected issue.

    The group change was to seperate our activities from another group called NZ Spirit, which we were unaware of when first using the name on Facebook.

    Please try again on another day. Othewrise, kindly register as a new user here if you are not worried about linking your Facebook account.

    Kevin.

    admin
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    Posts: 56
    12 March 2023 at 9:56 pm #338

    Tech Update
    12 May 2023

    Please use REGISTRATION to join the website. At the moment, the Facebook connect is being reprogrammed by Facebook. We have to re-register with them to complete that which will be done in due course. For now… REGISTRATION is your go to.

    Once facebook Connect is running, you can also log in via that option. Please note however, it sets up a seperate user. This is good for some reasons (for those who know how forums run) and allows you to use a different log in for alternative purposes.

    We are putting aside funds ($US 250 approx) for an upgrade to the website theme. The ultimate is to have a fully versatile theme that runs what ‘we the members’ want, when we want it, how we want it. As far as possible. And to be fully blog, forum, services, cell, tablet, notebook, desktop intuitive and friendly. We have done extensive research and monitored progress on the hundreds of ‘themes’ out there and have a significant winner. There is an annual option, but the option at USD $250 is lifetime-forever (as far as forever means technically.) Our current funds for this are $0 lols. So a little way to go.

    Programming with the new theme will be extensive (likely 100+ hours) as we work through and document every update. However, incredibly, we expect little, if any, site downtime, rather a small amount of temporary slow-down as utilities are heavily updated. The change ot the new theme will be programmed at a set time and occur instantly. We will full test each change before you see it live. That means, continuity will be preserved. We don’t expect to be proceeding with that for a month due to other outlays that must be first met. Funds need to be put aside for these upgrades. But we are self-funding. No ask made to public.

    Our focus and attention changes as people join. Today we welcomed back one of our founding Senior Moderators (and editors) Karen (Cavylady.) Karen reports that the REGISTRATION works and as known, the FB Connect technically sucks right now. Confirmed.

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    16 March 2023 at 8:00 pm #347

    Scheduled Server Maintenance

    Hi there,

    In our continuing efforts to provide the best performance possible, we need to perform scheduled maintenance on the server.

    Outage Date: Thursday 23rd March 2023
    Outage Window: 2200 – 0000 NZT
    Expected Outage Duration: 15 – 30 minutes

    These essential updates allow us to keep our platforms as secure and stable as possible, so we thank you for your understanding. Should you have any questions or concerns, please email us at admin@spirit.org.nz.