Steven P. Administrators Posted January 11, 2010 Administrators Share Posted January 11, 2010 (edited) As you may have seen here: https://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=864082 we are planning to relaunch Neowin this weekend. Daves sig kinda gives it away ;) Aside from a few things left to do with the forums, we are virtually complete. A few details: We are upgrading from Invision Power Board 2.x.x to 3.0.5 which includes: Invision Power Blogs 2.1 (RC2) (so long as there is no final release before Friday). Completely new theme called Atlas. New mobile version (forum and news) [*]All previous themes you are used to on the forums will be scrapped, but will be compensated for new colors of Atlas (Blue, Midnight, Green, Reddish, Brown, Black). [*]Full page spy and mini spy (now known as latest forum activity) [*]Full replacement of our content management system (now Neowin Management System) to be replaced with Ignition, built from custom code by DaveLegg on Synapse, this handles our news. News posts have already been converted to work fully on the new news system, it is a major upgrade and if you like Neowin now, you'll love it on the new system. The forum however is a bit different. We have around 10 Million posts to convert from 2.x.x to be able to work with IPB 3.x. A test has already taken place and I can say that it takes just under 2 days to convert! Dave isn't on now but I'm planning on asking him if we can append the rest of the post data on Friday rather than having to run it completely again. During the downtime IRC will be functional and we'll have a placeholder page with details on the upgrade, a video walk-through of the new features and we'll do out best to answer any questions you have on IRC. The upgrade is planned to start at 12PM GMT which will be for most US visitors, the early morning hours of Friday, and will last at LEAST 6 hours, the actual time could be much longer. Dave will probably have something to add to this post later today, so stay tuned! Edited January 12, 2010 by DaveLegg Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RoomKid Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Amazing news, I simply can't wait! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saxondale. Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Good stuff. Hope for the smooth upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted January 11, 2010 Author Administrators Share Posted January 11, 2010 Good stuff. Hope for the smooth upgrade. We've run a test upgrade and it all works as it should :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NienorGT Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Amazing! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LOC Veteran Posted January 11, 2010 Veteran Share Posted January 11, 2010 Someone update the Neowin Wikipedia article! :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kirkburn Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Wahey! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Argi Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 full page spy End of productivity right there! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vip Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Nice, it happens while i'm at work ^_^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KiHu Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 BUt...during the relaunch. WHERE WILL I GO FOR MY TECH NEWS! :<<<<<< srsly though, great to hear, cant wait Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cabron Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Can't wait for the mobile version of the homepage!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kreuger Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Awesome news. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+InsaneNutter MVC Posted January 11, 2010 MVC Share Posted January 11, 2010 2 days of downtime is quite a lot for a big site like Neowin, i'm sure it will be more than worth it (Y) Good luck! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snowl Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 where will I go for my daily lolzhelp? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barney T. Administrators Posted January 11, 2010 Administrators Share Posted January 11, 2010 Excellent news! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creamy Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Yay, great news! :) Good luck with the upgrade! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
REM2000 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 looking forward to mobile version :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jamesclarke555 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Sweet!!! :woot: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jelli Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Sounds good, can't wait for it to go live. Plus with the site down I guess I shall make an appearance on IRC again :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nashy Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Bring on mobile! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Himanshu- Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Good! (Y) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
red_balloon Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 This is great! A few days after I joined as well! (Y) :jump: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Elliot B. Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 I don't like change. We'll see how it turns out :p Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Phantom Helix Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 there has to be more than can be pruned, 1 post wonders and topics that will never need to be used ever again But I AM EXCITED!!!!!!! weeee :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: :drool: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max84 Posted January 11, 2010 Share Posted January 11, 2010 Finally! This will be great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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