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[Toan]

Hello everyone!

I'm sure you all remember (and haven't been very pleased with) the amount of server downtime we've been having over the past month or so. Well, in order to attempt to resolve these server errors and extra downtime we've been experiencing, Khuffie and I discussed a server migration to a new host based in Australia.

We ultimately decided to go through with it, we completed the change-over this morning, and we're finally fully back up and running now! Let me know if anything needs to be adjusted, but everything should be functioning perfectly normally.

Thank you everyone for your patience!

[Crimson Lego]

I think everything's been fine, thanks to you and Khuffie for taking the time to fix it!


EDIT: Changed 'the same' to fine, it sounded a little weird in that context.

EDIT2: Uh, everything's upside down.

EDIT3: Oh wait, tomorrow is April Fool's..







I see now.

Edited by Leo Crimson, 31 March 2013 - 09:38 AM.

[Sir Turtlelot]

Fortunately, I can upside down fairly easily.

[Nevermind]

Yeah...I think something when wrong. My screen is wigging out.

It's ahh.....upside down..??

EDIT: Okay obviously attachments aren't working properly but anyway MY SCREEN IS LIKE THIS WAT

Right click and open in new tab to see the attachment properly :/

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Edited by Nevermind, 31 March 2013 - 08:36 AM.

[Sir Deimos]

Well played.

[Kisseena]

HAHAHAHAHAHA THIS IS THE BEST EVER.
Laz, shouldn't you be able to see this?! You're in Australia! BAH DUM PSHHT.

[Doctor Pogo]

˙ɥbnoɥʇ ǝuop ןןǝʍ ˙sǝʎǝ ʎɯ ʇɹnɥ ʇɐɥʇ 'ɟooʍ

[Quistis]

I was about to say something, and then realized April Fool's is tomorrow. Nice guys, very nice.

[canas is back]

Well it's good that I can read upside down (or just use my phone and flip it around)

[Wolf O'Donnell]

Well, the moment I saw 'Australia' being mentioned, I realiesd exactly what was happening. Especially seeing as I never experienced this mysterious downtime that was alluded to.

On another note, I'm really impressed that even the controls are somewhat reversed.

Fortunately, I can upside down fairly easily.

Oh, I can upside down too. I can upside down perfectly.

EDIT: On a separate note, the media tags don't work upside down. And when I try to edit a post, the screen scrolls all the way down, away from my post.

Edited by Wolf O'Donnell, 31 March 2013 - 11:02 AM.

[Chikara Nadir]

I dunno, guys, upside downing is a fine art form that only the smartest and bravest can master. I think we can all do better than ever with this move to Australia, though.

[JRPomazon]

You sassy bastards.

[Sir Turtlelot]

Well, the moment I saw 'Australia' being mentioned, I realiesd exactly what was happening. Especially seeing as I never experienced this mysterious downtime that was alluded to.

On another note, I'm really impressed that even the controls are somewhat reversed.

Fortunately, I can upside down fairly easily.

Oh, I can upside down too. I can upside down perfectly.

EDIT: On a separate note, the media tags don't work upside down. And when I try to edit a post, the screen scrolls all the way down, away from my post.

Upside downing is where it's at.

[J-Roc]

Oops, I thought this was because the Oilers smashed Lena's lousy Canucks. I forgot all about April Fool's. I posted it on the FB group but deleted now so I don't ruin the gag, this is pretty good actually. I just took the base off of my monitor and flipped it upside down. Problem solved.

[SL the Pyro]

oh god when did I start sitting on my head

Really though, this is brilliant. I had to remember that it was April Fool's before understanding why the entire website did a 180. I wonder if YouTube tages work with this...

Your browser does not support iframes

EDIT: Nope, apparently not. Oh well, it was worth a try.

[Fëanen]

Huh? Looks like everything's normal to me. I'll look more closely later, right now I have to clean some footprints off my ceiling.

[DarkJuno]

Quick, someone flush all of LA's toilets and check to see which way the water rotates.

I'm also somewhat disturbed by how easily I can read all this - it's just the orientation of going down to up that's making it kind of weird.

Edited by DarkJuno, 31 March 2013 - 02:10 PM.

[SnowsilverKat]

Well done!

I'd make a witty comment regarding being upside down, but it seems they've all been done already.

[Showsni]

Hover over me!

[Veteran]

[Twinrova]

I fucking lol'd. I love you Vet. XD

[Goose]

Hey Team. Welcome to the land down under. I'm not surue what your talking about regards to upside down, but I can see things fine. I hope you enjoy your time in my country and may the crocodiles not give you an enama.

[Wolf O'Donnell]

Why would crocodiles give us enemas?

[wisp]

Why would crocodiles give us enemas?

That is what I'm wondering. O.o;;

[deep]

Oh god it's back to normal thank our savior Toan

[Toan]

Oh god it's back to normal thank our savior Toan

Yeah Australia wasn't working out. Had to practically stand on our heads for them to get anything done...

[Crimson Lego]

Oh god it's back to normal thank our savior Toan

My neck and I heartily second this.

[Sir Deimos]

Oh god it's back to normal thank our savior Toan

Yeah Australia wasn't working out. Had to practically stand on our heads for them to get anything done...

This pun shaved twenty years off my life.

[Fëanen]

I have to know - how exactly did you do that?

[Toan]

Oh god it's back to normal thank our savior Toan

Yeah Australia wasn't working out. Had to practically stand on our heads for them to get anything done...

This pun shaved twenty years off my life.

New goal: Pun Synile to death. Apparently this one was a doozy, must work harder in the near future to finish the job.

I have to know - how exactly did you do that?

Easy - not sure how much you (or others reading) know about web development, so I'll take it one step at a time.

So, generally when a webpage is built there's the HTML file that sets up the areas of the webpage and the actual content of the page itself. Then there's a file called the "CSS" file that stands for "Cascading Style Sheet", and it's linked inside of the HTML file. It dictates how the page is actually going to look - colors, fonts, where links and stuff go, the works. When the HTML file is loaded, it sees that it needs to look at the CSS file and say "oh so that's how this content will look" and displays it. (For anyone who is curious about this and wants to read more, here's a beginner's tutorial on HTML and CSS!)

The content is displayed in areas, called <div> in the code. Each one should have its own unique title, so that in the CSS it can be called out to have it's own unique look. For instance, the <div> that controls the "Change Theme", "Mark Community Read", and "Help" buttons at the bottom of the page in the Sylo skin is called "footer_utilities". In the CSS file for that skin, "footer_utilities" is told to be font size 11, among other things.

Now, that's all pretty basic stuff so far. LA is extremely complicated when it comes down to having so much dynamic content. PHP templates dictate a LOT of how each page is generated, but luckily for me there is a template called "globalTemplate" that sets up EVERYTHING else to work, since things like the banner at the top, login stuff, and footer stuff never ever changes when browsing around LA.

SO.

To make this work, I found everything inside of the <body> tags on LA and made a new <div> tag to surround all the content possible, and titled it "flip". And in the CSS, I said the following:

#flip {
	  -webkit-transform: rotate(180deg);
	  -moz-transform: rotate(180deg);
	  -ms-transform: rotate(180deg);
	  -o-transform: rotate(180deg);
	  transform: rotate(180deg);
   }

What this does is tell every browser under the sun that supports the latest version of CSS (version 3) to use the "transform" function and flip the page 180 degrees. "webkit" browsers are browsers like Chrome, Safari, and mobile browsers for Android and iPhone. "moz" is short for Mozilla, so Firefox, "ms" is Microsoft, so IE, and "o" is Opera. Barring all those, if the browser can't be identified, we simply try to catch everything else with just saying "transform" anyway. (Technically speaking, if you really wanted to view LA on April Fools, all you'd have had to do was go get a REALLY old browser, like Firefox 3.0, or IE7, that doesn't support such newfangled CSS!)

And voila! The page is flipped. I did stick in a bit of Javascript magic to make the page load at the "bottom" (the new top), though, to try and make the experience weirder/more "realistic":

<script>
   window.onload=toBottom;

   function toBottom() {
	  window.scrollTo(0, document.body.scrollHeight);
   }
</script>

And that's all. basically 10 lines of real "code", and I stuck it in every skin so the effect was widespread.

I hope everyone enjoyed it!