📰 News & Updates

🛠️ Site Update: Forum UI Upgrade + Video Upload Fixes

A couple of technical updates just went live.

✅ Forums UI Modernization

We updated the FishBSE Forums to a more modern layout to improve readability, navigation, and overall experience (especially on mobile).

🎥 Video Upload Issue (Fix Implemented)

A user reported that video uploads weren’t working — and they were right.

What happened?

During our move to Cloudflare, an unexpected limitation kicked in:

• Cloudflare limits uploads to 128MB

• Our upload system was originally built to accept 300MB+

• This mismatch caused uploads to fail in a way that created client/server communication issues

• Worst part: users were getting no helpful warnings, so it looked like the site was just broken

What we changed

✅ We adjusted video handling so the system now enforces safer limits and responds properly when files are too large.

📱 iPhone .MOV Processing Bug (Fixed)

Another major issue: iPhone users uploading .MOV files were running into failures.

How our system works:

1. The video uploads

2. The server then processes it

3. It trims/converts it into a web-friendly format for faster loading

The problem was happening during the processing step specifically for certain .MOV formats.

✅ This has now been fixed and iPhone uploads should work normally again.

⚠️ Current Known Issue

Generated Listing Footer Bug

There’s currently a bug where footer.php doesn’t render correctly inside auto-generated listing pages (example: /listings/listing-626.php).

• It’s not breaking listings

• It’s just causing the footer UI to display wrong in those generated pages

Not urgent, but it’s on the fix list.

What’s Next

Now that uploads are stable again, I’ll be shifting focus back toward improving the forums engine and community features.

As always — if you run into anything weird, report it. That’s how these issues get caught fast.

Forum Open Discussion.