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Submitted by Andy B on Saturday, 27 January 2024  Page Views: 1898

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You won't really see any difference apart from a very welcome speed improvement. It doesn't look like we have done much but the operating system we were running on was due to go to 'end-of-life' in the next few months and the latest equivalent would not run our code without some important changes.

Without this sort of incremental updating the Megalithic Portal would soon go the way of the ill-fated England's Rock Art site (remember that?) operated by the considerably better resourced Archaeology Data Service. (*)

We have done a lot of work behind the scenes on converting characters for full extended / international character support via UTF-8, including emojis etc. We did have extended character support previously but it was not working in a standard way. This helps to future proof the Portal for many more updates.

We also needed to tidy up some broken characters, especially in Japanese. I am extremely grateful in particular to Jan H, and also Martin F and Aska for their help with the migration. We are confident we have fixed the critical issues with the characters. I am aware of display errors in the map pop-up box labels when international characters are used. I need to fix these but I didn't want to hold up the transfer due to this.

Other than that if you do notice any errors in characters, text or anything else please let me know.

Thanks for all your support and please carry on uploading photos and submitting all the incredibly useful information you find on your travels and desktop research. I hope the speed up and reassurance that we are here for the 'longue durée' will encourage you to contribute.

Finally by way of a test, here are some sheep: 🐑🐑🐑 (thanks Alan!) 🙂
Andy B
Megalithic Portal Founder and Lead Editor

(*) Yes I am having a dig here after a very long day of typing into terminals! Come on ADS, pull your finger out and get England's Rock Art back online...

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Re: Welcome to the New Improved Megalithic Portal Web Server by BarryC on Monday, 29 January 2024
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Thanks for doing what you do.
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Re: Welcome to the New Improved Megalithic Portal Web Server by Anonymous on Monday, 29 January 2024
Great. Speed has improved quite a lot. Thank you!
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    Re: Welcome to the New Improved Megalithic Portal Web Server by Neil1911 on Monday, 29 January 2024
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    "Quite a lot" an understatement! I've been blaming my ageing tech and sometimes less than perfect broadband, but this has transformed the experience. Well done and thanks. 👍
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      Re: Welcome to the New Improved Megalithic Portal Web Server by Andy B on Monday, 29 January 2024
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      I know, I can't quite believe it myself. I'm glad I did a bit of research and shopping around to find the best deal and latest server technology.
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    Re: Welcome to the New Improved Megalithic Portal Web Server by Anne T on Tuesday, 30 January 2024
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    Logged on this morning and found the increase in speed wonderful! Thank you for all the very hard work. Much appreciated.
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Re: Welcome to the New Improved Megalithic Portal Web Server by ermine on Sunday, 28 January 2024
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Nice one, does appear to be quite a lot faster. And yes, got sheep ;)

Well done!
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Re: Welcome to the New Improved Megalithic Portal Web Server by Anne T on Sunday, 28 January 2024
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Well done, Andy, Jan H, Martin F and Aska for all the effort involved and for a successful transition. That must be a huge relief.

Will be back online tomorrow to do some more editing - thanks again. Love the sheep!

As an aside, with regards to ERA - keep on digging! I fully support you on this; it's long been a thorn in my side that they took this brilliant resource offline. My understanding from an informal conversation a couple of years ago was that it was all down to money to pay for the work. Of course, I could well be wrong, and an more than happy to be corrected.

Well done and thanks again, team!
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Re: Welcome to the New Improved Megalithic Portal Web Server by TAlanJones on Sunday, 28 January 2024
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🐑 you're welcome 😄
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