So, this Sunday forum outage....

[Groggy]

It is a fairly major change and will take some time to prepare and implement, why don't you lot go out to your sheds for the day

[Scott]

It is a fairly major change and will take some time to prepare and implement, why don't you lot go out to your sheds for the day

I'm at work with no work to do so I figure being on here annoying the mods and anyone else who will read is the order of the day.

[Chesand]

A nurse with no work to do?? According to my wife (a nurse) there is no such thing.

[Scott]

A nurse with no work to do?? According to my wife (a nurse) there is no such thing.

I'm in recovery at the moment. No emergency theatre. Have restocked, done all the paperwork and the roster for next week. It's one of those RARE moments.

[Scott]

Unless you work at The Northern, all those broken jaws, lacerations and fractured cheeks to repair

[Groggy]

Just advised the outage should occur later this afternoon.

[Groggy]

As the upgrade is significant it would be wise not to create any lengthy or large posts around 4pm (timing may change depending on how things go).

I'd also recommend that any For Sales, PMs or other transactions be delayed to ensure they are not affected.

If you decide to proceed you might want to check any important stuff appears once the upgrade is complete.

Since stability of the system will be unknown for a few days you may want to just hold off on any complex or time consuming stuff that you would really hate to lose, just in case a restore from a backup is required.

[Cliff Rogers]

It is a fairly major change and will take some time to prepare and implement, why don't you lot go out to your sheds for the day

Done a dump run, just having a coffee, will have lunch & head to the theatre for the final performance of 'Chicago' & then bump out & then party.

[ubeaut]

As Greg said - Everything should start around 4pm or a little later. The entire forum has to be backed up, then dismantled, rearranged, violated and put back together in a new suit of cloths. Hopefully the head will be at the top and the feet at the bottom, goodness only knows where the arms and other vital bits will end up. Hopefully where they belong.

This is a very big upgrade and apart from today's effort it will carry on having additions done to it over the next few weeks to months depending on how they integrate. It will be a big change to how it is now and some won't like it.

As I have said in past upgrades - Give it time it may grow on you and if not..... Bad luck. This has been paid for and waiting to be done for almost 3 years. We now have the most stable version available in a number of years and need to let it run for some time before changing anything too dramatically.

There will be a new Market Place in a few weeks that will allow for timed auctions as well as paid commercial adverts and a lot more. This is going to take some time to integrate properly including writing how-to's and examples.

It will all be for the best in the long run there will be only one skin available for now others may be done in time. There will not be a legacy lay out available with this upgrade but we may look at this after the forum and the members have become familiar and things have had time to settle.

A thread will be started for problems where you can let us know of anything that doesn't work. We will endeavour to fix asap any and all problems. You can also report any problems with posts etc by clicking on the "Report Post" icon which on the bottom navigation bar below of all posts and looks like a black triangle with a ! inside it.

Cheers - Neil

[Pac man]

What is a legacy lay out?

[Groggy]

What is a legacy lay out?

It is just a style for displaying different colours. Try the combo box in the bottom left hand side of each screen if you want to try it.

Suggest you don't though, just in case you like it

[chrisb691]

Bugga. Love the legacy skin. Oh well, maybe eventually it will re-appear from the ashes.

[ubeaut]

The legacy layout (skin) puts your info on the left side column of a post where as the new forums will have the info across the top of the post as per wwf skin

Colours have nothing to do with legacy they can be made to have almost any colour, Legacy refers to the layout of the page for viewing posts and nothing much else.

[steven]

Part one of the upgrade has been done.

There will no doubt be some bugs, we'll get to those tomorrow and the following few days.

We have some sweet functionality in the pipeline, this will be rolled out over the next 2-3 months.

[_fly_]

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