Forum Software Upgrade

[greghutton]

Hi All,

We will be updating our forum software over the next 24 hours. Apologies in advance for any disruption to your browsing the site...

We will also be adding a few new features that you will just love, so watch this space for updates...

[LowPost42]

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You're killin' me, Larry.

[greghutton]

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First of all I must apologise to you all for the downtime of the site.

We experienced problems during a software upgrade, and have had to rollback to the previous working version. We will get the new features out soon... I will post here to inform you of our next attempt...

[LowPost42]

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Well! That was uncomfortable. I was going through withdrawal.

[RandomHero1090]

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Well! That was uncomfortable. I was going through withdrawal.

I feel ya.... however, to quote a great SNL skit....

AND WERE BACK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[dannyra]

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Any idea when your next go at upgrading the software will be? Was wondering if one of the new features will be an RSS feed.

[greghutton]

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Funnily enough... RSS feeds is one of the features we are looking into

UPDATE: We are still awaiting a new database software upgrade, hopefully this weekend should see something new.

[greghutton]

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The database upgrade will be happening tomorrow so expect an outage of the site for a period tomorrow.

The site upgrade will likely take place over this weekend.

Thanks for your understanding... pass on the word.

[greghutton]

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Guy's... a big apology for the intermittent downtime over the last few days I have had major problems with a software upgrade and have just this minute got the content back up and available after another rollback.... there are still several cosmetic problems but the functionality seems to be back in a good state...

THE FUTURE:

1. I will over the next few days be setting up a development environment so that all future upgrades go a little more smoothly

2. Watch out for a new look GTO with many new features on the way...

[LowPost42]

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I'm currently loving how "Latest Posts" automatically divides between viewed and unviewed (or is that updated and not updated)?

[greghutton]

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Pretty neat...

[RandomHero1090]

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...................and were back!

[greghutton]

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You'll be pleased to know that I am setting up the test environment today... so we shouldn't have to go through that again ...

[LowPost42]

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Just a note, quick reply does not work.

[greghutton]

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Looking into this now... Thanks LowPost