Future Forum Upgrade

[BeatsMe]

Hey guys,

Just letting you all know that i have started looking into doing an upgrade of this forum to the newer SMF v2 and as such i will be putting the forum into Maintenance Mode at times.

Fortunately i am on the other side of the world for the major part of all the members, so the time that i will be performing the work will be between 2am and 5am UK time.

Being that my work hours are a bit all over the place i'm not able to provide a specific date that i will be performing the maintenance, but the time will be as above... so if you notice the forum in Maintenance Mode you will know why.

At the moment i will be doing some backups and testing on a test site, and if all goes well i will perhaps be able to perform the upgrade next month.

If you have any questions please don't hesitate to ask here.

Cheers,
Franco

[harryhackenbacker]

Sounds good Franco ,what does V2 do better then ( non nerd explanation please ) 

[BeatsMe]

Can't say i have a straight answer for you there Mike... i mean why do we upgrade computer software or even our cars... r/c or 1:1 for that matter.  Well i tend to think because we want and possibly expect something better.  With the SMF software i think that for most members it will be just be cosmetic, ie the look of the forum... but for mods and admins i think it will be better support and better security.

[harryhackenbacker]

Sounds good ,you just have to keep up!!!

[BeatsMe]

Just letting you know that the forum will be going to Maintenance Mode in a few hours...  Should not be too long at all.

[harryhackenbacker]

Just letting you know that the forum will be going to Maintenance Mode in a few hours...  Should not be too long at all.

Must have nodded off and missed that 

[BeatsMe]

Must have nodded off and missed that 

Funny... because i actually delayed it at least an extra hour.... heaps of you UK guys were still on at 2am, plus being a public holiday more people also on here... so i waited i short while.

But, anyway... did what i planned to do and switched back to normal mode.

[harryhackenbacker]

Franco has been working hard behind the scenes on the forum upgrade ,I have seen a test set up
and it's looking well cool , really looking forward to the new look and features ,well done 

[BeatsMe]

yep, coming along nicely now... have had to spend a bit of time learning about php coding 

[BeatsMe]

There's a very good chance that the new forum will be up and running this weekend, so expect it to be down during this time guys.

[harryhackenbacker]

Looking forward to the Upgrade ,amount of time I spend on here !!!!!!  I do want some new
Fookin Curtains to look at 

[BeatsMe]

Ok Gents.... Going to be putting the new curtains up in about 2 hours time  

That's about 2am UK time... Midday AU Time.

[CyberSarge]

Ok hope all go's well

[BeatsMe]

Ok hope all go's well

Shouldn't have any dramas... done it all on a test site first, so should all be good 

[RC-Modelismo]

Looks very good 

Greetz
Oliver