UK Free TV fix 3: fix everything else...

A few more fixes Photograph: Shutterstock

Brian Butterworth published on UK Free TV 15th July 2023 at 10:58

Yes, UK Free TV did just pass 21 years online!    We started here back on 5th July 2002!

I've fixed several things:

• I've removed all the out of date URLs on the site - especially those on https://ukfree.tv/channels/compare_tv/Defunct
• I have activated all the URLs in comments that were pending my approval
• I've fixed the code to allow it to run as PHP8.2 which has some annoying a new "features" in that it stops working with a "500 error" when the code fails to pre-define object variables.  
• The site has HTTP2 enabled now
• I've changed the way the page cache works so people comments appear quickly.
• I have disabled about 1,000 "Bounce and complaints" email addresses
• I've removed a few spam messages that got thought the filters
• I've set all the Archived pages to show up in their menus again: I was using Google Analytics 3 to do this and it's been discontinued.  

As far as I can tell pages like https://ukfree.tv/extras/BBC_Engineeering are still working and the TV prediction an DAB radio prediction still show their maps and station lists.

I will, shortly be writing some "content" about the future of Freeview and DTT, but I needed to get everything else working first.

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