Steven P. Administrators Posted November 24, 2015 Administrators Share Posted November 24, 2015 Hi all, After the shambles of an upgrade to 4.x which left parts of the forum either unusable (activity stream/searching/profile options) or just plain broke and feature incomplete (header menus/full spy/links within old topics) of which we also fully acknowledge, we are confident that the upgrade to 4.1 addresses most of our issues. I want to point out, that without our upgrade to 4.0.3, many of the issues we came across may not have made it into 4.1 as quickly. IPS (the creators of the forum software) worked with Neowin to address some of the issues we had, and are still having. Lastly, all of our developers have IRL jobs, and despite this, they have worked tirelessly to make the forums at the very least 'usable' so I want to say a big thanks to them as well. I'm confident most of the issues we're seeing right now will be addressed with the upgrade, and failing, that the days and weeks after. There are certain features you probably don't even notice, yet have been completely rewritten to take load of our servers, such as the minispy which no longer 'jumps' into the page, or resets after a few seconds upon load. The devs have never stopped managing the forums, and the fact that you may not notice this, is actually a good thing! I can't tell you if it will happen on Saturday or Sunday yet, but I'll try to provide some notice before the forums are disabled for the upgrade. We have also ran tests against the live database for the upgrade, and everything is "looking good." Aergan, Jub, Tuskd and 16 others 19 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+E.Worm Jimmy Subscriber¹ Posted November 24, 2015 Subscriber¹ Share Posted November 24, 2015 Steve. Man... You really have to work some magic this time... And by you, I mean them... but you know this already. Steven P. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danielx64 Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I really do hope that the upgrade will bring a better experience for everyone. Even now the old forum is much better, even if I was having issues before the upgrade. Steven P. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeChipshop Member Posted November 24, 2015 Member Share Posted November 24, 2015 Good luck chaps! See you in 2016! i joke greenwizard88, webeagle12, pqt and 8 others 11 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BinaryData Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 If I knew how to do anything with the forums, coding wise. I'd totally help out.Glad to see you guys are working on this. Free beer for the devs! Steven P. 1 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BooBerry Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Great! Looking forward to it. Will the front page will be updated with how the migrations is going & how long will it take? v3 to v4 was down for a long time & it was really annoying to not have any updates about when it will be done. any chance of a lite mode/gmail's comfortable/cozy/compact mode?Thanks in Advance Guys PoultryTumor, guydelup, Miss Contractility and 5 others 8 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Anarkii Subscriber² Posted November 24, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted November 24, 2015 Would we have to wait for the database to be updated again Steve? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steven P. Administrators Posted November 24, 2015 Author Administrators Share Posted November 24, 2015 Would we have to wait for the database to be updated again Steve? Absolutely not. +Anarkii and seeprime 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
techbeck Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Good luck chaps! See you in 2016! i joke Beat me to it! haha Anyway, good luck and hope things go smoother and some of the annoying issues get addressed. Steven P. and MikeChipshop 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DConnell Member Posted November 24, 2015 Member Share Posted November 24, 2015 But seriously, best of luck with the upgrade. Steven P., siah1214, Psyco359 and 2 others 5 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+Sledge Subscriber² Posted November 24, 2015 Subscriber² Share Posted November 24, 2015 Good luck, always a thankless task. seeprime and Steven P. 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pqt Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I didn't realize that the developers weren't dedicated jobs, in that case if an extra helping hand is needed for design/front-end development I'd be willing to offer a helping hand. I do it for a living as it is but didn't know that the devs here were just 'spare time' contributions in a sense. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aergan Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Best of luck with that. Hopefully IPS will deliver a working product for you implement this time around. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zhangm Supervisor Posted November 24, 2015 Supervisor Share Posted November 24, 2015 Upgrades? Bring them on. What's the worst that could happen? +E.Worm Jimmy and b10h4z4rd 2 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TAZMINATOR Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Good luck and hope the upgrade goes smoothly this time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeMaster Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Not looking forward to this. I'm hoping since it is a smaller version jump that will be done slighter faster than last time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Not looking forward to this. I'm hoping since it is a smaller version jump that will be done slighter faster than last time. I rather see it done right than fast. LimeMaster, pqt and Sikh 3 Share Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeMaster Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I rather see it done right than fast. It's a bit late for that since the damage has already been done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveLegg Developer Posted November 24, 2015 Developer Share Posted November 24, 2015 Not looking forward to this. I'm hoping since it is a smaller version jump that will be done slighter faster than last time. As you say it's only a minor version bump, the extent of the database changes and rebuilding of posts needed is much smaller (in fact, I'm not sure there is any rebuilding of posts as part of the 4 -> 4.1 migration) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Raa Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 I know you can't promise it, but I hope all goes well. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LimeMaster Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 As you say it's only a minor version bump, the extent of the database changes and rebuilding of posts needed is much smaller (in fact, I'm not sure there is any rebuilding of posts as part of the 4 -> 4.1 migration) Well, if there is no rebuilding of posts this time, then that's pretty good. Means no extra content loss. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adrynalyne Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 It's a bit late for that since the damage has already been done. Yes but it CAN get worse. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tompkin Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 Best of luck!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+JHBrown Subscriber¹ Posted November 24, 2015 Subscriber¹ Share Posted November 24, 2015 I'm not into luck, so I won't say good luck. However, I will a send a prayer for all of those involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Torolol Posted November 24, 2015 Share Posted November 24, 2015 can't wait to see the plethora of new bug+glitches that will happens on next update. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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