Steven P. Administrators Posted July 24, 2015 Administrators Share Posted July 24, 2015 (edited) Hello all, First of all I want to say thanks for your patience while this upgrade has been pushed back a few times, some have had to do with not being ready, while other planned dates clashed (twice) with me being out of the country and Redmak (Marcel) also being out of the country on a recent weekend. Right now Marcel is looking at our progress, we have already had about a week of staff testing going on and there isn't anything major to report. Barring show stoppers, the upgrade could take place tomorrow (July 25th). The forums will be down for at least a day, maybe two, because the longest part of the upgrade is converting our 14 year old database to IPB4, which is required. The developers think it could go quicker because we are on a multi-server setup, while our test environment is a (single) virtual server, but we really don't know for sure. I encourage everyone who wants to stay in contact with other members for a chat, to setup your IRC account now (if you haven't already) because registering it willl be unavailable during the member database upgrade. The IRC should be up and running for the duration of the upgrade. There will be bugs, and Timan should be on hand to handle reported issues once the forum upgrade is completed. Edited July 28, 2015 by Steven P. Jose_49, Draconian Guppy, gameboy1977 and 5 others 8 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I will also warn everyone the layout WILL mess with muscle memory I've done an upgrade on one site of mine and I will do another soon as well. unless neobond here has tweaked the layout enough... hope he does MikeChipshop and +E.Worm Jimmy 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted July 24, 2015 Member Share Posted July 24, 2015 Let's be honest, you can blame yourselves all you want Steven, but any one who's ever worked with IPB knows that Invision are 900% to blame for most upgrade delays Steven P. and remixedcat 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielx64 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Let's be honest, you can blame yourselves all you want Steven, but any one who's ever worked with IPB knows that Invision are 900% to blame for most upgrade delays Couldn't agree more and I dont think that it even ready for prime time yet, IMO Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Redmak Administrators Posted July 24, 2015 Administrators Share Posted July 24, 2015 They are pushing out updates almost on a weekly basis. This both makes me happy things are being fixed but also worries me. +Zlip792 and MikeChipshop 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I used to work there and it was very hard to have to fix a lot of stuff for customers that upgrades caused. -_- and one thing when I worked there..... RECACHE, AND RECACHE AGAIN AND BE SURE TO RECACHE. that was the "incredible reset animal" that one client talked about lol. MikeChipshop 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielx64 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 I used to work there and it was very hard to have to fix a lot of stuff for customers that upgrades caused. -_- and one thing when I worked there..... RECACHE, AND RECACHE AGAIN AND BE SURE TO RECACHE. that was the "incredible reset animal" that one client talked about lol. Today it like you fix one thing then something else breaks remixedcat 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
remixedcat Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 There was an upgrade when I worked there that broke everyone's theme to the point where the text input boxes did not work unless it was the shoutbox. One forum I worked on that was hella active (more then 2K active users at any given moment) had the shotbox blow up LOL. I reverted to default theme and it worked after a recache and a couple code edits. I had to tell them we could NOT support 3rd party themes and that was up to the theme author. 3rd party theme support isn't normally offered. We only made exceptions for certain clients. But most upgrades even minor ones seem to break customizations quite hard and it was a pain to fix. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Anarkii Subscriber² Posted July 24, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted July 24, 2015 Im just surprised that Redmak has made an appearance after all this time Hopefully it goes well with minimal downtime Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted July 24, 2015 Author Administrators Share Posted July 24, 2015 Apparently theme customization is harder than with IPB3? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielx64 Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Apparently theme customization is harder than with IPB3? Haven't tried myself but I have heard that some have issues with getting into designer mode. And watch out for IP.Content/pages seems that they are backward now, unless they improved when I last tested then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
123456789A Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 When will Neowin be updated to look like Windows 10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hmm, I wonder if after the upgrade we will be satisfied with the customer service provided by Steve. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bdsams Veteran Posted July 24, 2015 Veteran Share Posted July 24, 2015 Can't wait for this, the update looks soooo much better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iampedro Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Looking forward monday to seeing version 4 implemented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Roger H. Veteran Posted July 24, 2015 Veteran Share Posted July 24, 2015 Gonna be epic! Obligatory: itshappening.gif Well.. someone had to do it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoman Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 When will Neowin be updated to look like Windows 10? Timan could design a theme similar to Windows 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+chorpeac MVC Posted July 24, 2015 MVC Share Posted July 24, 2015 Cool, good news. Good luck with the update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Timan Veteran Posted July 24, 2015 Veteran Share Posted July 24, 2015 Can't wait for you guys to see the new lack of darkside theme! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 IPS 3.0.0 was released on June 23, 2009 IPS 3.1.0 was released on June 1, 2010 IPS 3.2.0 was released on July 25, 2011 IPS 3.3.0 was released on March 20, 2012 IPS 3.4.0 was released on November 27, 2012 IPS 4.0.0 was released on April 9, 2015 IPS 4.0.1 was released on April 15, 2015 IPS 4.0.2 was released on April 21, 2015 IPS 4.0.3 was released on May 1, 2015 What version are we running now and what's new with v4.x? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted July 24, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted July 24, 2015 Good luck with the upgrade, and see everybody on IRC. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1337ish Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Wow I cant believe you are going to put 4.0.11 on here, IPBv4 isnt *there* yet imo. It will be interesting to see how you get on with performance etc. If you could capture some load graphs from before/after I would be very interested to see how you found it. I am aware of a few sign in issues with the cache which cause you to log in multiple times before it works for example. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
macoman Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Can't wait for you guys to see the new lack of darkside theme! Tim are you going to make a Windows 10 theme for the main page? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Draconian Guppy Posted July 24, 2015 Share Posted July 24, 2015 Hello all, First of all I want to say thanks for your patience while this upgrade has been pushed back a few times, some have had to do with not being ready, while other planned dates clashed (twice) with me being out of the country and Redmak (Marcel) also being out of the country on a recent weekend. Right now Marcel is looking at our progress, we have already had about a week of staff testing going on and there isn't anything major to report. Barring show stoppers, the upgrade could take place tomorrow (July 25th). The forums will NEVER be down because we are so awesomesauce! the longest part of the upgrade is converting our 14 year old database to IPB4, which is required. The developers think it could go quicker because we are on a multi-server setup, while our test environment is a (single) virtual server, but we really don't know for sure. I encourage everyone who wants to stay in contact with other members for a chat, to setup your IRC account now (if you haven't already) because registering it willl be unavailable during the member database upgrade. The IRC should be up and running for the duration of the upgrade. There will be bugs, and Timan should be on hand to handle reported issues once the forum upgrade is completed. FTFY. Question, would setting up a duplicate database to hold the fort while the conversion takes place, be to much of a hassle? (granted all the info available would only be the one before the conversion started) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Frank B. Subscriber² Posted July 24, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted July 24, 2015 In case you don't know how to connect to Neowin IRC tomorrow, here's a guide to connecting to #neowin I wrote a while ago. +Anarkii 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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