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Important Announcement

Postby THE MOD TEAM » Fri May 13, 2022 11:10 pm

UPDATE: THE TEST ON THE OLD FOOD BOARD ARCHIVE WILL BE ON 4th JUNE.

UPDATE 2, 4th June: TEST UNDERWAY, NEW ANNOUNCEMENT IN MEMBERS' AREA

UPDATE 3, 9th June: FIRST TEST COMPLETE, NEW BOARD UNDER CONSTRUCTION, NEW ANNOUNCEMENT IN MEMBERS' AREA

UPDATE 4, 12th June: PREREGISTRATION UNDERWAY

UPDATE 5, 18th June: NEW BOARD OPENED FOR REGISTRATION

UPDATE 6, 27th June: THREE DAYS TO LAUNCH

UPDATE 7, 29th June: LAUNCH TOMORROW

Hi all, just to let you know that we've got a potential crisis looming, a rerun of similar problems we've survived in the past. In short, our webspace providers are doing another system upgrade, which might make our boards crash as Wildfood's did. The upgrade is happening on July 1st, so we've got to get it sorted before then.

The only way we have of testing in advance is to use our old forum archive as a testbed, which might make it crash anyway, so the first thing we're asking is that if anyone has anything they would like to save off there, they do it straight away, and we'll set a date of Sunday 29th May to do the actual test, in a fortnight's time. UPDATE: Now 4th June.

In the meantime we will be preparing a fully operational brand new and up-to-date board using the very latest version, one which we'll be able to upgrade ad infinitum in the future. However it will mean everyone will have to register again, as we cannot transfer the membership details across from these boards. Coincidentally it will look very similar to the way Wildfood used to, although we will be tweaking that.

We'll be doing a "send to all" email to advise lapsed members, so anyone with multiple registrations will get several emails.

There's a longer explanation in the Members' Area, please post technical queries there...
viewtopic.php?f=24&t=5225#p153884

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby mistakened » Sat May 14, 2022 6:59 am

Got that, thanks, Moira

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby dennispc » Sat May 14, 2022 8:07 am

Thank you once again for keeping the board going. Dennis

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby icelesley » Sat May 14, 2022 8:22 am

Thanks for keeping us going :thumbsup how will we find the new board to re register?

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby ZeroCook » Sat May 14, 2022 8:27 am

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Thanks for the heads up, Mods

The demo looks exactly like WF, even down to the colour scheme, which is a bit disconcerting. Or are there other colour, UI/interface options?

Using the old mb as a test run sounds like a plan. Good luck with that.

Bit like a the starship Enterprise going thru a singularity or adjustment warp in the spacetime continuum 8-) Hopefully will come out the other side in one piece :?

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Renee » Sat May 14, 2022 10:01 am

Many thanks for everything that you are doing to keep this board going.

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby herbidacious » Sat May 14, 2022 10:05 am

Thanks very much. It's very much appreciated.

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Suffs » Sat May 14, 2022 10:08 am

Thank you so much Sakks and all involved ... if this involves more expense please do let us know ... :thumbsup

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Seatallan » Sat May 14, 2022 10:11 am

As Suffs says... :thumbsup
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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Sloe-Gin » Sat May 14, 2022 10:16 am

Ditto all

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby patpoyntz » Sat May 14, 2022 10:33 am

Very much appreciate all the hard work, thanks all.

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby PatsyMFagan » Sat May 14, 2022 11:20 am

same here...

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Sakkarin » Sat May 14, 2022 11:36 am

FAQs

Icelesley: Thanks for keeping us going :thumbsup how will we find the new board to re register?
When it's all sorted I will post a link on the Carta front page. Short and sweet for remembering! There is already an emergency board.
http://www.carta.co.uk

ZeroCook: The demo looks exactly like WF, even down to the colour scheme, which is a bit disconcerting. Or are there other colour, UI/interface options?
The underlying scheme for THIS board is like that too! The rogue plugin changed the look and feel from day one. I've done a lot of twiddling in the past with the "naked board", and will be tweaking the way it looks within my powers. There's a version somewhere where the colour was purple and I got rid of the 1970s rounded corners and gradients, but it still looked a bit Wildfoody. My coding skills are not what they used to be though!

NEW ANSWERS TO BE ADDED HERE...

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Busybee » Sat May 14, 2022 11:43 am

As others have said…… thank you.

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby liketocook » Sat May 14, 2022 12:11 pm

Thank you so much :thumbsup

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby aero280 » Sat May 14, 2022 1:09 pm

Good luck with the upgrade!

The board that I admin has all the Tech2 stuff done by a colleague. We have done two major upgrades in the past year or so, and they both went through with no problem. We allowed for a day, but we only offline for about half an hour.

It took a lot longer to make the back-up!

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Sakkarin » Sat May 14, 2022 1:21 pm

We have done two major upgrades in the past year or so
It's our service provider that's upgrading, not us. We can't upgrade this board, that's the problem. :-( We will be starting from scratch with a new board.

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Earthmaiden » Sat May 14, 2022 2:19 pm

Sakkarin, will all this be at additional cost to you?

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Sakkarin » Sat May 14, 2022 2:51 pm

No! Just a pain in the backside...

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Re: IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENT

Postby Suffs » Sat May 14, 2022 5:46 pm

Sakkarin wrote:No! Just a pain in the backside...


:idea: We could fund some suppositories ...?


I'll get my coat ................ :oops:

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