PLEASE READ - NEW FORUM STATUS

All,

Ok, ok, ok…so we’ve talked about having the new forums up and running for 5 months now. Well, we aer going to give it a go this friday, May 13th. Yes, I know…Friday the 13th! Nothing like setting ourselves up, eh?

Here is what will happen:

  • At 9:00am PST, the forums will go into maintenance mode so everything can be read, but no additions.

  • We will make announcements though out the day, under this thread, as to the status.

  • Hopefully, we will have everything moved over and rerouted by 5:00pm on the same day.

That’s all for now!

-Chris

Yay! ;D

Fantastic news, thanks Chris! :smiley:

If I may, can I ask why we need a new forum? :slight_smile:

coz the current one has many issues. Search for posts about this - there are many :wink:

Sounds great. Thanks!
Good luck with the movement and hopefully we’ll see the new one in action (after) tomorrow.

:slight_smile:

I’m torn between saying “About time” and “Yey!”. And my cynicsm says we’ll get an excuse on friday on why it’ll be happening on monday (or whatever) instead.

Now now, at least its news.

Woot new forums! Woot less spam! Woot, more admins?

Kev

Well I know I for one have been whining quite a bit about the delay… if we only knew what was going on with all those other “high priority” things we would be much more understanding… I remember something about weekly updates… :wink:

Anyway, it is great to see that it is finally going to happen. Thanks!

First update!:

We are changing the time the site will go into maintenance mode. The time will be 9:00am EST, not PST. This is to allow me to do a full site backup before the switchover.

Thanks!

-Chris

A good plan. Hope it goes smoothly :slight_smile:

And we are IN MAINTENANCE!

-Chris

I updated the news feed earlier. Here’s what is happening:

  • The server is live and the software is being installed
  • Backups of the entire JGO site occurred. Turned out there is a TON of files and data, and I backed them up twice :slight_smile:
  • New forums will go thorugh a data import shortly

More news to come!

-Chris

Well, setting myself up for some work on Friday the 13th…

The update is taking longer than expected. I am workign to get everythign moved over and to make sure that no data is lost. Will update as the evening moves along.

-Chris

Still moving data over. Back in a bit.

-Chris

Ok, so the issue I have is that I am moving all of the posts/members across the wire and it is a boatload of stuff. Unfortunately, this means that the forums may be down for another day. I can’t risk having people enter more data and not hae it move over to the new forums during the conversion.

Sorry for the delay, but it will be worth the wait in the end :slight_smile:

-Chris

UPDATE

With over 35,500 files downloaded and cross checked, we are not finished yet with the data migration. This means that the server will not be ready tonight and we will let the transfers happen throughout the night. I should have the server up and running tomorrow.

This means, of course, that these forums must stay in maintenance mode one more day. Sorry for the inconvenience.

-Chris

Happy Saturday everyone! Here’s the latest:

  • Almost all of the files have been moved over (it’s a long way to our lab from the east coast :slight_smile: ).
  • Setting FTP batches overnight sounds like a great idea, error checking is a bitch.
  • After checking all of the data, making sure everyone’s account, settings, profile, posts, etc. moved over I will do the fourm upgrade.
  • I am still optimistic that everythign will be finished today and up for the evening.

More to come!

-Chris

New update!

Apparently, the forums have angered Mother Nature as a massive thinderstorm is now blowing it’s way thought my area. Hoping that it won’t take the power out before the last bit of data moves. If you don’t hear from me for a while, you know what happened :slight_smile:

-Chris

All data installed, first forum update went off without a hitch and am now moving to the second set of upgrades. Working a bit late on a sat, but am glad that the new forums will be up for you to enjoy.

Hang in there!

-Chris