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I will be taking the site down to do a minor upgrade at around 7pm UK time. The upgrade should take 10-30 minutes depending on my frame of mind and error rate :lol: :lol: #-o #-o [-o< [-o<
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JonT wrote: Tue Dec 21, 2021 6:55 pm I will be taking the site down to do a minor upgrade at around 7pm UK time. The upgrade should take 10-30 minutes depending on my frame of mind and error rate :lol: :lol: #-o #-o [-o< [-o<
All done and dusted. Let me know if anyone spots anything amiss.

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thx for your service Jon, my wonderfull new Avatar...it is still there after the upgrade...it is simply what it is...the Avatar ;-)
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A big one, I only have one snowman and I have done over 200km 😳
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Phil j wrote: Wed Dec 22, 2021 3:02 pm A big one, I only have one snowman and I have done over 200km 😳
Tidied up now Phil. Not sure why, but a number of double snowman had gone missing. #-o :oops:
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Thank you very much Jon 👍🏻
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Most skeleton challenge signs are also missing.
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I'm sorry about that Boris, I must have missed that somehow. According to the database there are 53 members registered on the Meterboard who completed the challenge. Can you give me an example of someone who we is missing?

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FYI, to me it looks like you managed to successfully re-trigger the script for the Skeleton challenge as I now also got the Skeleton badge, though I first rejoined the Meterboard about a week ago. Hence, It is not showing all badges for me, which is no problem as I didn’t do them all this year.


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Hi Jon,
Thank you for doing this arduous task of site maintenance. I have no idea about any of it so i am ever so greatful!

I copied and pasted below the Skeleton challenge achievers and can actually find not a single one that actually has a skull 💀 badge. Just look at a couple of names high up on the board, Dwayne Adams, Boris Bossi, Joe Smith, Claudius B, Carol Sergeant: none of them have a skull badge.

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2021 Skeleton Crew Honor Board
Total people: 56

Name Age Country Distance
Dwayne K. Adams 57 USA 214,483m
sharon wilhelm antisdel 65 USA 113,753m
Joe Smith 62 USA 101,867m
Ian Bee 43 GBR 96,264m
Claudius B. 42 GER 95,126m
James Estes 62 USA 81,061m
Karl Meyer 60 USA 70,493m
Paul Kinlin 54 GBR 68,401m
Niels-Bo Nielsen 50 DEN 66,666m
Boris Bossi 53 SUI 65,068m
JOHN KELLER 62 USA 61,038m
Martyn Pallett 34 GBR 60,000m
Fred Asante 45 GBR 56,623m
Guy Blackburn 49 GBR 54,898m
Paul Corrigan 55 GBR 54,750m
Michael Murtha 62 USA 54,562m
Sjoerd Plagmeijer 48 NED 54,000m
Joseph Wilhems 66 USA 51,354m
Michael Smyth 52 AUS 51,082m
M. Boris Züchner 56 USA 50,725m
Mike O'Dell 62 GBR 50,363m
Tim Masick 69 USA 49,000m
Teil Scott 45 GBR 48,724m
Louise Allcock 52 IRL 44,174m
Jeffrey C Franklin 77 USA 43,535m
Tako Lootsma 48 NOR 43,490m
Allen H 57 CAN 42,240m
Peter Strik 52 NED 42,021m
Fred Koene 60 NED 40,419m
Lesley Duffy 56 AUS 40,080m
Chris Tostevin-Hall 56 GBR 40,000m
Collette Lancaster-Lockwood 53 AUS 39,877m
Steven White 46 GBR 39,051m
Kevin Hubbard 61 USA 38,045m
Kevin Parker 62 USA 37,802m
Gary Brown 57 CAN 35,000m
Janeen Dell'Acqua 64 USA 34,867m
Richard Easton 47 GBR 33,843m
Marcus Selle 60 GER 33,666m
Andy Spry 51 ESP 33,282m
Helen Berrier 59 USA 33,259m
Mike Jones 82 GBR 32,989m
Chris Newberry 52 GBR 32,984m
Ilse Van Oyen 40 BEL 32,772m
Jussi Ruusila 48 FIN 32,520m
Jan Haveman 58 GBR 32,189m
Christopher Lloyd 45 GBR 32,000m
Peggy Hubbard 64 USA 31,796m
Cecilia Stroede 53 USA 31,702m
Sheena Haveman 59 GBR 31,360m
Philip Price 87 AUS 31,041m
Lowell Lemoine 78 USA 31,031m
Sue Haga 61 USA 31,031m
Mssr Anti 66 USA 31,027m
Carole Sergeant 65 GBR 31,000m
David Plumb 58 GBR 31,000m
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Maybe the issue might be that the skeleton challenge this year is a and not a ?
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Its not a skull its just a bone this year :fsgrin:
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Carole S wrote: Tue Dec 28, 2021 3:42 pm Its not a skull its just a bone this year
This old man he played one
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Thanks for taking the time to give me all of the information Boris. As Tako points out, the challenge icon is a bone not a skull. The skull is for the 10k distance which is available to children and adaptive athletes. I don't think I changed the icon from last year. Thomas wrote an excellent tool which just allows a "cut and paste" of challenges from the previous season, so I am assuming that I just used the same icons as last year, but I could be wrong.

There was just one Free Spirit who completed the 10K event (Collette Lancaster-Lockwood) but she also completed the 31K which takes priority when it comes to icons. It would actually be nicer if she was to get both, but I must have set the challenge up as an "either or" event, just like the Holiday Challenge where you get only one or two snowmen, not both.

If anyone is on a PC or Mac then hovering a mouse over an icon will give you the definition of the event that it represents. I don't think this works on a phone or tablet though, or at least I haven't managed to find a way to view the descriptions that way.

Anyway, I'm relieved I haven't messed things up somehow, and as a bonus side-effect I have given Tako a bonus bone by forcing the challenge monitor to refresh all of the icons even though the challenge had completed. :fsbgrin:

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Thank you John!

On my iPhone and iPad I can see the descriptions if I keep pressing on the icon on the top of the page where all are listed.
When pressing the rewarded ones behind a name one could also see the individual score/meters one did for that challenge.

To award her with both icons you could make it a separate challenge (that worked earlier). If it is the same tool that Thomas had last year I should be able to help you with that.
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Tako wrote: Wed Dec 29, 2021 11:22 am To award her with both icons you could make it a separate challenge (that worked earlier).
Fixed - I just needed to make sure the challenges had different "tags".
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I will update the Tapatalk plug-in at some point over the next few days. I know a few of you use it, so you may find it is not working for a brief period.
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The Tapatalk upgrade is done. Shout if there are any issues with the forum in general or with the Tapatalk app.


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Thank you Jon!
So far it looks like Tapatalk works fine.
Sending my first post via its app now after your upgrade.
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