Updated: Forums offline around 9am CST Saturday, August 1st 2009

[Svpernova09]

Update:

The plan is to take these forums offline around 9am CST Saturday, August 1st. I'm estimating we'll be back up and running by 3pm CST (GMT -6).

If you are able to get to the site there is NO guarantee anything you do will be saved / still there. So please refrain from trying to do anything really important before 3pm, or before I give the "all clear lets see what we can break".



After a lot of breaking things and fixing things we're nearing a forum conversion to VBulletin. What does this mean to you? Well, if you've written a guide or tutorial, you're post is going to be mangled to hell once we change over to VB. It will need to be reformatted. There will be a LOT of forum posts that will need to be reformatted. Anything that you want to keep a copy of from these forums, I suggest you get it before July 31st. This version of the forums will not be publicly available after July 31st.

Things you want to do before July 31st:

• Save your avatar
• Save your signature
• Mock Fenril and / or Gurb
• Save any images you have in the gallery
• Make sure you're email is current and you have access to it
• Save any posts you would like to repost or any content you want saved

The most important step, if you don't care about anything other than being able to log in, is your email. You will be required to do a password reset in order to log in to the new site. This requires the site sending an email to your email address with instructions on how to reset your password. If you do not get this email, you will not be able to reset your password. Also make sure any mail from *@dual-boxing.com is not being filtered into your spam folders.

Any posts made on July 31st or August 1 may disappear. So please keep a copy of anything new you post just in case we need to do a roll back. Plan on d-b being down a full day, it may not take that long, it may, so we're going to black out the site while we do the migration. I'm not anticipating anything I haven't already seen in the 4 test conversions I've done already, but you never know. Once we're back up and running I'll post an all clear message and we'll open the flood gates.

There will be problems. Burning board to Vbulletin is not an ideal conversion, there are a lot of differences a that are not easily handled. So if you have something break on you, please let us know how to recreate it exactly so we can fix it. I'll create a temporary section just for bug reports and such. If you have ANY questions, now is the time to ask. Please keep all discussion about the migration here so everyone has easy access to the same info.

[Khatovar]

*Mocks everyone so no one feels neglected*

Thanks for the notice, I'll be sure to go through and backup any posts I'll need to resubmit. :thumbsup:

[Zal]

Why is d-b converting to vbulletin? And will there be a search box so i don't have to fix my signature?

[Ellay]

This current software has an abundance of errors associated with it and it consumes a lot more resources than it should.

[Svpernova09]

Why is d-b converting to vbulletin? And will there be a search box so i don't have to fix my signature?

There will be a search box, and the search should work far better than what we currently have. Yes, you'll probably have to fix your signature.

[Jafula]

Well, if you've written a guide or tutorial, you're post is going to be mangled to hell once we change over to VB. It will need to be reformatted.

I don't know the logistics involved; but I would hope it would be possible to write a (php or sed/awk or whatever) script to migrate the existing formatting of these posts to the formatting used by VB.

Can I help? I'm willing to give writing said script a go.

*Edit: sweet post #666

[heffner]

Any chance you could just export the current posts to be available to access as read only once you change over? There is a lot of great info on here that is likely going to be lost =(

[Fat Tire]

yea, I am really worried about losing posts/threads which contain such valuable information.

[Ughmahedhurtz]

I presume the wiki will be unaffected? Or should we back those up too?

[Svpernova09]

I presume the wiki will be unaffected? Or should we back those up too?

The Wiki is going to unaffected.




No threads are "lost". They just may need some reformatting. But we're definitely not dumping information.