Collateral Damage from the forum upgrade

FinsnFur · January 06, 2011, 12:49:34 PM

My plan is to keep this place available for a short amount of time once the new forum is up, so that if need be certain things can be retrieved. I'll just place it at a different URL (web address) so that we can keep all our equity the same sorta speak.

With that said, I need to remind you that the add-ons will no longer exist until reinstalled on the new forum. Which will not be immediately because the Final Version of the software were upgrading to hasnt been released, which means a lot of the add-ons arent completely ready either.

Once developers release a final version of the forum software, I'll update any changes made to the scripts which will bring us up to date with that and then we can start looking at adding the toys back. Some are saying February, some are saying Spring

The only one I'm a bit concerned with is the Photo Gallery. There's no way for me to recover, save, or piggyback the images in there during migrating to the new forum. So if you have albums in there and those images are the only copies you have, you should start saving them to your PC.
I'm not real pleased knowing that images from the gallery that were used in posts will be dead, but I guess we have to have rain if we want flowers.
Noooo no

thats not what I meant. I dont want any flowers.

KySongDog · January 06, 2011, 01:52:35 PM

Good luck, Jim.

Even if the site implodes and we lose half the stuff, no problem, we will just start over.

securpro · January 06, 2011, 05:09:12 PM

What are we gonna do till then ?

FinsnFur · January 06, 2011, 05:11:57 PM

Eat cake

Till when?....it's not going to take long at all.

weedwalker · January 06, 2011, 05:19:00 PM

Add ons and toys? What are those?

FOsteology · January 06, 2011, 05:45:12 PM

With this new super-duper upgrade, does it include an increased storage capacity of the emoticons?? There has been a time or two I wanted to use a couple,
and found that they had already been used up, and insufficient time had elapsed for their regeneration....

Yotehntr · January 06, 2011, 05:45:27 PM

Quote from: weedwalker on January 06, 2011, 05:19:00 PM
Add ons and toys? What are those?

I think he's getting rid of all the

's and

's ....

weedwalker · January 06, 2011, 06:54:52 PM

Quote from: Yotehntr on January 06, 2011, 05:45:27 PM
Quote from: weedwalker on January 06, 2011, 05:19:00 PM
Add ons and toys? What are those?

I think he's getting rid of all the 's and 's ....

Oh boy, that's really gonna cut down on some of the post counts.

FinsnFur · January 06, 2011, 07:24:03 PM

Where ya been Weed

Quote from: FinsnFur on January 01, 2011, 06:08:33 AM
Since a lot of our toys, Photogallery, arial maps, chat, shoutbox, etc, have not been brought up to date by their developers, to be compatible with the upcoming version of forum software yet, we will not have a lot of those right away.

slagmaker · January 06, 2011, 07:46:59 PM

Let me see if I got this straight

. We have to update software to stay up to date but the software we are updating to is not up to date yet

.

FinsnFur · January 06, 2011, 07:56:32 PM

You couldnt be any more correct Slag

The change over is inevitable. Looking at the bottom of the forum you see where it says "Powered by SMF 1.1.12"
The new version is jumping to 2.0 but since it's not completely ready for public release they are releasing 2.0RC4.

The RC4 means Release Candidate. As in... if testers cant find anything wrong, that will be the final version. But right now it's a candidate.

The developers themselves are using 2.0 RC4 on their public forum and I did one fresh install using it for a new client and had no problems...and since I have to do this swap over migration for this place and six other clients. This place is gonna be the Guinea Pig.

bambam · January 06, 2011, 08:41:24 PM

I haven't been this confused since my wife asked me what clothes I was going to take on our honeymoon.

FinsnFur · January 06, 2011, 08:47:53 PM

That shoulda been an easy one BamBam..."NONE"

bambam · January 06, 2011, 09:10:19 PM

Quote from: FinsnFur on January 06, 2011, 08:47:53 PM
That shoulda been an easy one BamBam..."NONE"

That's exactly what I was thinkin' .

FinsnFur · January 07, 2011, 01:11:57 AM

The OLD forum is now located at http://www.finsandfur.net/praevius/

"praevius" being Latin for "previous" thank you

I put a lot of thought into that.

I'll leave that up for a while in case anything needs to be retrieved.
All posting privileges have been turned off over there.

I've still got a little work to do here....but right now... me need sleep.

slagmaker · January 07, 2011, 09:02:41 AM

So far I dun like it

. BUT it will grow on me I am sure

. Looks like its all working or at least everythigns working that is up to date

.

Hawks Feather · January 07, 2011, 09:04:04 AM

Nighty Night Jim. Sleep well.

Jerry

HaMeR · January 07, 2011, 09:09:27 AM

What's not to like slag?? Nobody got lost in the shuffle & all our Friends are still here.

KySongDog · January 07, 2011, 09:57:01 AM

I like it. It is different but I was getting tired of looking at 22-250 shells.

vvarmitr · January 07, 2011, 12:08:29 PM

Quote from: Semp on January 07, 2011, 09:57:01 AM
I like it. It is different but I was getting tired of looking at 22-250 shells.

Better those than bucks & turkeys!