Scot Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 A little while ago today we had a relatively brief outage of the forums. Although there were pretty ominous-sounding error messages that implied issues with the database, the database was apparently not affected.I'm awaiting report from our Webhost, but I believe the problem may have been caused by some sort of internal network error at my host. It appears to be fixed now, but since I have had no word, we could be in for futher hiccups.I also wanted to let everyone know that we will be upgrading the forum software to the 2.0 version (a major upgrade) in the near future. Possibly the very near future.When this happens, for at the least several days, there will only be one forum skin -- the default blue one.Hopefully, there will be more detail on this to come before the upgrade. If not, we'll explain it after the upgrade.Please be patient with us while this is going on. There are always problems after an upgrade. Please do not hassle our forum moderators and admins with a lot of urgent requests to fix minor things. We will get to fixing all things that may break as quickly as our lives and scheduels allow. We appreciate knowing what's broken, but please do so in a friendly way.I appreciate your help in this.-- Scot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Paracelsus Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Hi Scot...I think this notice might do well to be "bumped up" to a header in the same area as the Forum Rules link.More likely to get read there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_P Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Nobody reads that section. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teacher Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I guess I am a nobody then! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Plukaduk Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 I guess I am a nobody then! I read them as well... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nlinecomputers Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 Rules. We have rules here? Who the heck did that? Why wasn't I informed of this? Who died and made you God? I demand a recount! Heck I demand vote! And a pepperoni pizza while you are at it. And maybe some beer......Geez rules. Next they will want to count how many posts we make and have little smiley things all over the place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ross549 Posted February 10, 2005 Share Posted February 10, 2005 The recount is complete. Those that have a vote have spoken. The Count---------Rules: 1No Rules: 0 Thanks for your vote, Scot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ed_P Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 I guess I am a nobody then! No, no, no. I was being facetious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted February 11, 2005 Share Posted February 11, 2005 2.0 upgrades that I have done have been quick and painless. 2.0 is really nice software too, but not worth the price imho. There are 2.0 skins available too if you look around. I've installed a couple on a board I have and it was a piece of cake. Admins and mods are really gonna like 2.0 that is for sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scot Posted February 11, 2005 Author Share Posted February 11, 2005 For once I am happy to support that something new for the forums costs us not a dime. The 2.0 upgrade is free because we host at IPS, the company behind the forum software. So there's one of the pay-offs for going with IPS. Also, so far, I've been very happy with IPS. The MySQL errors we had the other day? They admitted that it was there fault, and asked for patience as they were implementing something to prevent the problem in future. There was no damage to the databases at all.And they're not expensive.Some day I hope we have a dedicated hosting situation. But until then, this is pretty darn good.-- ScotP.S. Your post in this thread gave me a chuckle, Nathan. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
havnblast Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Incase you miss the post in the ATL forumSkins --> http://skins.invisionize.comhave to just sign up is all and around 60 skins ready to go for ya Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arena2045 Posted February 12, 2005 Share Posted February 12, 2005 Thanks Kelly for the link, however, we want to stick with our own home-brewed skins. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
patio Posted February 17, 2005 Share Posted February 17, 2005 inexspensive is good, free is great!glad to hear the forum gets its just reward, an upgrade! <{POST_SNAPBACK}> temmu, i like the upgrade to your avatar as well...patio. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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