Clarinot

Yeah, the software we use for our forums is from a third-party and something got corrupted. I couldn’t quite figure out the actual cause, but thankfully the reinstall fixed it.

There you go - changed the contrast a bit and made the bold text a bit bolder

if you could share a screenshot of what you're seeing that would be appreciated

I'm so glad to hear the positive feedback on it! If anyone notices weird colors or text that's hard to read, please add on here and I'll get it fixed.

Dark mode is now available. You have to manually toggle it on. Scroll to the very bottom of any page on the forums, and use the "Theme" menu

A bit too late for this season, but it's ready to go for DCI and next year's marching season:

One more update for now, we have moved to a new email provider that should hopefully let all the forums-related emails (topic subscription updates, new member registration, password resets, etc) go out much easier than before. As a one-off, I manually approved any accounts that were stuck in validation limbo, and then turned on email verification again.

I'm glad it is working better!

Thanks for your support! I will look for some additional ways to highlight the donation option. If anyone reading this thread wants to donate in the meantime, please see https://www.txbands.com/#donate

You are not doing anything wrong. The site sends more emails than our web host allows (for anti-spam reasons) so many emails don't make it out. I am working on that now and hope to have it fixed shortly.

Alright, some good news. I moved us over to a private server today, so this should add even more capacity (I guess we'll find out this week!) and between adding cloudflare as well I think that is going to make things a lot more stable. Thanks to everyone for your patience as our little website exploded in popularity!

I don't want to break anything during the busiest time of the season, but in the off season I'm going to do another big upgrade of our site infrastructure to a dedicated server (and yes, it costs more so donations are appreciated!)

Are you wanting a it to just copy a list of all participants one per line?

It's gotten pretty complicated now. They post fake phone numbers for banks, airlines, stores, etc on popular sites like ours that get picked up by google's index, so then when someone searches for a business name they get the wrong customer service number, call it, and provide their info to scammers. TxBands is just kind of a pawn in their game.

There wasn’t a reason, I went with the default. I upped it to 8 hours so everyone will see a maximum of 3 verifications per day. Let’s see how that goes! Note: the verification is still per session, so if you totally close out of your browser, you might have to re-verify before the 8 hours is up.

Sorry I know it’s a little annoying but we’ve had a ton of bot/spam traffic which both spammed the forums and actually is slowing down our servers, so I’ve temporarily raised the level of security to keep the site up and running. We’ve also added email address verification for new accounts. I’m going to take a closer look after marching season to see how effective it’s been.

I turned on a couple of other things to help: the anti bot cloudflare screen you see when you load the site, and new registrations now require email address verification. If it persists we have a couple other things to try.

Yeah this is what I was anticipating. Not perfect but an improvement - this is what I’m seeing myself as well. I’m trying to slow down the bots crawling the site to give us a little more slack.

I've implemented a few changes that can take up to 24 hours to go into effect, so I'll check again tomorrow and see if we need to take further steps.

Try again you should be able to delete your list and do it over

Predictions for Melissa updated to include Hebron. If you already submitted a list, there should be a resubmit button to update your predictions.

Please submit a new event and we’ll get the list updated

The next version of the forum software we use is supposed to have a dark mode included, so this will definitely be coming!

I don't quite follow but I'm intrigued! would you be willing to sketch it?

I'm all ears!