Is this thing on… :oo: taps micsqqqeeeeaaaaahh! :shock:
Attention citizens of KH. It’s Sheldon, KH’s faithful and unwaivering technical guru. I’ve been working diligently for the past couple months laying the groundwork for a major forum upgrade. In a nutshell, we have outgrown our existing forum software (PHPBB) necessitating a change to something more powerful and and capable of growing with the ever growing community of KH’rs. The new software is vBulletin and offers us a more stable and secure forum as well as some very nice features for our members (better subscription management, better search, galleries, groups, better spam thwarting, and many more features that will be rolled out in the coming months).
Thankfully, vBulletin is very similar to our current forum software. For all intents and purposes they are pretty much identical. So the learning curve is nearly inexistent. There will be some new features and tools which may be unfamiliar, but the core features of the forum (boards, threads, posting, etc.) will be virtually identical.
While I anticipate the upgrade will go smoothly, there’s one pre-upgrade precaution I would recommend everyone make beforehand: save a copy of your avatar and signature. While my initial tests show that this information is imported in just fine I think it’s still a good precaution to take just in case.
As for the upgrade date…well it’s still tentative. I am hoping sooner rather than later. I will post again once we have finalized a launch date. Unfortunately, KH’s forum will be offline for the duration of the upgrade. My initial tests runs took roughly 6 hours to import in the old forum info. I will try to schedule the upgrade to take place during our least busy periods (12AM - 6AM EST).
In related news: Worldwide productivity increases 10-fold as a result of KH’s forum outage.[/quote]
lol while i would think it would be a good idea to do this in the middle of the day so I get more work done, the truth is that i would obsessively be checking the site all day long to see if it is working again… so middle of the night is good!
In related news: Worldwide productivity increases 10-fold as a result of KH’s forum outage.[/quote]
Sheldon you crack me up! Amy you are a very lucky woman!
Thanks to both of you for the work you do here!! You’re the Best!!
In related news: Worldwide productivity increases 10-fold as a result of KH’s forum outage.[/quote]
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Actually, there are some of us who are still up between those hours…doing stupid college homework (because we work and rear children during the daylight hours). :teehee:
Thanks for continually looking out for us. I can’t wait to see the new changes!!!
In related news: Worldwide productivity increases 10-fold as a result of KH’s forum outage.[/quote]
:roflhard:
Actually, there are some of us who are still up between those hours…doing stupid college homework (because we work and rear children during the daylight hours). :teehee:
Thanks for continually looking out for us. I can’t wait to see the new changes!!![/quote]
My thoughts exactly! If it went down at midnight on a night I had to write a paper, I’d die without being able to have a KH break. :shock: Who’s gonna entertain me and restore my sanity?!
Big hugs your ways… I love KH… and it has helped in so many ways… there isn’t room to list… sufice it to say thank you for looking out for us and doing the upgrade. 6 hours is a bit hard… but , w/ warning… we can get chocolate, watch movies… and email each other till KH is back up and running. If there is anything I can do to help… let me know… ( I’m an expert at tasting chocolate and seeing if it is worth of knitters, lol )
Thanks, Sheldon for the heads up! I belong to another large forum and they went to VBulletin and like it a lot and you are right, it isn’t a significant change for posters to adapt to.
I love it when something necessitates the use of the word necessitating…
Reminds me of when our local cable co. did their fiber optic rebuild and I was temp receptionist…lots of people were not shy in vulgarly expressing how they thought the guys should did the trenches and do the work in the middle of the night when less people were affected by the outages. :?? Now, does it make sense to have people digging in your yard or removing the old wiring on your house when you are sleeping? :doh:
Thanks a heap for all you’re doing…I imagine your announcement coming down like the Great and POWERUL OZ!!! :roflhard:
thanks for the heads up!
Big hugs your ways… I love KH… and it has helped in so many ways… there isn’t room to list… sufice it to say thank you for looking out for us and doing the upgrade. 6 hours is a bit hard… but , w/ warning… we can get chocolate, watch movies… and email each other till KH is back up and running. If there is anything I can do to help… let me know… ( I’m an expert at tasting chocolate and seeing if it is worth of knitters, lol )
:roflhard: