Dave
Staff member
Remember when we talked about vBulletin going to v4? Well, that time is nearly here. For the past few weeks Ame and I have been testing (and retesting), beating our heads on the wall and trying to get things done. In fact, according to vBulletin, the new Gold release will be done about the 21st of December. What we'll do at that time is to totally upgrade the Test forum, make it look the way we want and then we'll be ready to rock.
ON OR ABOUT JANUARY 1st, I will be making an announcement as to when we are doing the move. It may be January 2 or it might be farther out than that. Right now it's up in the air. Suffice it to say you will have ample knowledge something is about to happen.
When it does all go down we will be shutting the boards down, making a total backup of the boards and then doing the move. If successful we will turn everything back on and listen to you bitch about how it looks different. If it doesn't work then we'll restore and try again. If it fails twice we'll put everything back, turn stuff on, make an announcement and go back to square 1.
The new site is going to look cleaner, more "ours" but will have a bit of different functionality.
For example, instead of a "Bug Forum" there's going to be a ticket system. You see something wrong you open a ticket and we work on it, closing it when done.
We will be losing a few add-ons that are not being ported to v4. Ones that I really like, too. Like LiveTopic and Prevent Double Posts. This can't be helped.
So keep an eye out for the notice that this is going to happen. And once it does we're going to start actively promoting ourselves, we're going to get Project Wonderful ads which I hope will be replacing the Google ads.
Stay tuned, folks.
ON OR ABOUT JANUARY 1st, I will be making an announcement as to when we are doing the move. It may be January 2 or it might be farther out than that. Right now it's up in the air. Suffice it to say you will have ample knowledge something is about to happen.
When it does all go down we will be shutting the boards down, making a total backup of the boards and then doing the move. If successful we will turn everything back on and listen to you bitch about how it looks different. If it doesn't work then we'll restore and try again. If it fails twice we'll put everything back, turn stuff on, make an announcement and go back to square 1.
The new site is going to look cleaner, more "ours" but will have a bit of different functionality.
For example, instead of a "Bug Forum" there's going to be a ticket system. You see something wrong you open a ticket and we work on it, closing it when done.
We will be losing a few add-ons that are not being ported to v4. Ones that I really like, too. Like LiveTopic and Prevent Double Posts. This can't be helped.
So keep an eye out for the notice that this is going to happen. And once it does we're going to start actively promoting ourselves, we're going to get Project Wonderful ads which I hope will be replacing the Google ads.
Stay tuned, folks.