What Announcement?The announcement at the top of the board.
I'm sure there'll be a multitude of new things for everyone to complain about as a result of it. I'll make sure I've got all my favourite gifs handy when I need them
Look at the top of the forums right above the sticky threads...
Oh ok thanks Tazar,
Lies.
and Post Count reset
If you select all your PMs, at the bottom is a drop down menu where you can export to TXT files etc. But as said above, Pms should transfer.
We're going to give Flutter an extra special, pink, fuzzy, fluffy type of avatar of some sort.
No, there is no risk. During the initial testing, outgoing and incoming messages were all migrated successfully. Also, if for whatever reason they are not, the old site will still be here--you'll still be able to access them.
Yes, this will happen for some users, as stated in the announcement. However, the old site will still exist. We can simply glance at your old post count and update accordingly.
YAY!!!We're going to give Flutter an extra special, pink, fuzzy, fluffy type of avatar of some sort.
With 2 million posts, we're certainly a hefty board, but we're a shrimp compared to some of the 10-12 million post boards that have successfully migrated to XenForo. Also, we've already tested the migration system and will be testing again this weekend. The one bug that we did find, one of the three founders of XenForo personally helped correct. I think it should work! But if it doesn't, this site will still be here. We'll simply open it back up.
Yes, you should be able to immediately log into the new system. When we say "downtime," basically we'll just be placing vBulletin into maintenance mode to prevent additional data from being added to the database while the XenForo system reads and copies the database. This actually isn't necessary, but just a precaution to make sure everything is pulled over successfully. When it's in maintenance mode (for three or so hours), the forums won't be accessible but all portals will still be available.
I know. I really hope this new software helps fortify our stability. :<
do ya think ya'll could make my permanant mark go *poof*? I really wouldn't mind if it did!!!
Currently, the way to do this is to create custom sidebar column here: http://vboards.stratics.com/usc_cp.php. Add the forum you want to watch and it'll appear in the floating side column that floats on the left side of the forum.
The announcement at the top of the board.
I'm sure there'll be a multitude of new things for everyone to complain about as a result of it. I'll make sure I've got all my favourite gifs handy when I need them
Considering no website I've gone to since the birth of the internet has had more down time than Stratics it certainly can't hurt!
I can't but agree. The weekly downtime has been completely and utterly unreasonable. I really hope that the new setup will make us a more professional organization.
Will you link to an example?
Hmmm....I'm not sure what you mean, Syrus. I'm talking about the link at the very bottom of the page, the one in the right corner that says "Archive." It used to take you to page after page after page of old threads from the various Stratics forums, including UHall. It wasn't a particularly "pretty" set of pages, but they were functional.
We haven't done anything to them related to the move. Have you been able to access them since our acquisition by TGN?
Yes. Many times. I dug up some old threads on February 14th from the archives and put the links in these two posts: http://vboards.stratics.com/2089061-post15.html and http://vboards.stratics.com/2089391-post18.html, so I know that the "Archives" link was working as recently as 12 days ago.
I'll ask Stephen if he knows where they are.
Thanks, Syrus.
*nods* Especially when considering that the boards are constantly under bot assault. Look at the notes section under reforging information. It claims to have defended itself over 10k times in slightly more than six weeks. And I am willing to bet that that little comment window is not alone.
One new feature is that we've agreed to create a "Suggestions and Bugs" forum attached to Stratics Central's category. Although we won't be able to implement every suggestion, we think it's important for the whole Stratics community to play a role in the development of our functionality.
Tina, Stephen wasn't sure what happened to the archives, but if you were able to access them recently, they're still on this server somewhere. We're not going to delete these forums, nor anything from this server, for months post-transition. During this time, we will make every effort to locate and re-activate the archived content.
Administrators and moderators will be required to access existing infraction histories on a case-by-case basis and re-apply the points. These forums will remain up, so this history is safe. However, a better option would be to never give them a reason to access your old history and re-apply the points.
You're crazy. I like you, but you're crazy.Administrators and moderators will be required to access existing infraction histories on a case-by-case basis and re-apply the points. These forums will remain up, so this history is safe. However, a better option would be to never give them a reason to access your old history and re-apply the points.
Yes, there will be some new features, including a "like" button!
XenForo is very light. Not sure how the backend works (I'm a writer, not a techy), but there's lots of helpful info here: http:XenForo Help | XenForo and XenForo Community.Will the new forums finally catch up to 1998 and use CSS instead of having images and javascript for everything? I'd love to be able to look at posts while tethered but stratics eats more bandwidth than youtube with all of it's images, not to mention it just seems silly to have an image of the color blue for the background instead of simply setting the background color.
would probably save you guys a small fortune in bandwidth bills as well
