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Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 8:26AM This weekend I will be taking the forum offline for a full day to switch to a new version of software we purchased last month. The forum will og offline sometime early Saturday morning (2/25) and should be available late that night or early the next morning. It takes about 10 hours for the conversion program to process all of the data and put it into the new database. Edited by - Drew Black on Feb 25 2006 [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 9:57AM Good luck. Hope the installation goes relatively glitch free. DenverDon [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11017 Posts 5/01	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 10:47AM I hope this goes smoothly for you as well. You've had enough problems recently. [Link]
BigBobxxx Senior Member 2681 Posts 5/04	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 11:00AM Is there anywhere we could watch re-runs while the site is down [Link]
Robbie Member 884 Posts 1/05	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 11:07AM Will it affect ADT email too? [Link]

willywilly Member Activated Member 662 Posts 2/05	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 12:31PM I liked the old software better! I hate it! What was wrong with the old system? I can't make it _______________(fill in the blank) . How do you ________________(fill in the blank) ? Where is the ______________(fill in the blank) ? It won't ________________(fill in the blank) . It looks weird! It loads slow! This sucks! . [/sarcasm] Anticipating - - You know that you'll be hearing this kind of stuff. Well, when you do, just send them right on over to this thread. I'm calling neeched on them all, right now. [Link]
Kperv The Cuddler *struck (She slipped) 1818 Posts 1/04	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 2:46PM Holy XXXX! You're moving the old threads over to the new system?!? Best of luck, Drew. Fingers crossed at this end. Touch wood. (Uh, that's nice.) Have you had Luna over to work some spells? @willywilly: willywilly wrote: It loads slow! Click to expand If it makes extensive use of style sheets, it may well load much faster. At least for the poor, deprived dial-up users. The current system has quite a bit of overhead. This very page is already over 30k. If you're stuck on 33600 baud, that's nearly 10 seconds. And that's not even including the graphics. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 5:48PM Kperv wrote: Holy XXXX! You're moving the old threads over to the new system?!? Click to expand Yes, the conversion program is already written. I will be sending moderators a link where they can preview the new software within the next day or two. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 5:49PM Robbie wrote: Will it affect ADT email too? Click to expand No. The two features are not related. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 6:29PM I think the down time will be minimal. Only a couple of hours instead of a full day. [Link]
nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 8:39PM This'll be weird. Will we be able to change colors and stuff like that? I focus on the important stuff. [Link]
astroknight Questionable Moderator Tastes so good... 4187 Posts 11/99	Posted - Feb 22 2006 : 10:40PM Very cool. I hope everything goes well. After the last week, you deserve a turn of good luck. "Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 2:19PM nietzsche wrote: This'll be weird. Will we be able to change colors and stuff like that? I focus on the important stuff. Click to expand Nope. [Link]
Robbie Member 884 Posts 1/05	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 2:25PM Will it be like a new look & feel then or is like patching? [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 4:11PM It's a whole different software package. I just don't have the time to keep adding features to our mostly home-built software so we went out and bought an off-the-shelf package. [Link]

Jacco All-Star Member "liable to deprave and corrupt" 2673 Posts 5/04	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 5:57PM Can you tell us which one? Or do we have to wait and see? Jacco [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 6:04PM You'll have to wait and see. Using an off the shelf package is a bit of a double edged sword. The development is done by someone else saving me time and effort but when they create exploitable bugs it's much more of a problem. It's not like I think I'll be able to hide what software we're using I just don't want its signature to be present on every page. After all there are only so many .NET forums out there worth anything. [Link]
MASAMUNE Senior Member 1452 Posts 12/04	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 7:12PM to be honest i was getting bored of the color schemes and gridlines and all. can't wait! [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 7:56PM The new stuff isn't a radical departure from the current color scheme. It's easier on the eyes IMO (Steph's too) but I'm sure we'll get tons of complaints about every little thing anyway. Such is life. [Link]
Janitor Retired Porno movies, sexy videos, xxx. Adult DVD Talk at your service. 6409 Posts 11/99	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 8:07PM I've spent all day on the style sheets. The colors are a muted version of our current colors without the heavy contrasts (eg no dark blue in the middle, no alternating yellow and white posts.) I will get to work on the thing most important to so many of you... smilies. [Link]
threesomebody Official BlowBang Judge Would you like my autograph? 2491 Posts 12/04	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 9:19PM Drew Black wrote: ... but I'm sure we'll get tons of complaints about every little thing anyway. Such is life. Click to expand I just want to say how much I will miss each and every one of you ADT'ers during this lonely down town. Okay. I'm lying. I won't even be online this weekend. [Link]
Bornyo Deactivated Member 803 Posts 12/04	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 9:20PM Looks like this format had a long run. I'm looking forward to the changeover. I haven't had a thing to complain about in a week. [Link]
HeyNow Oblivious Gold Star Hey! 5965 Posts 1/03	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 9:36PM It will be sad to see the old one go. [Link]
threesomebody Official BlowBang Judge Would you like my autograph? 2491 Posts 12/04	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 9:41PM Can Bornyo go the way of the old software? [Link]
DenverDon Benevolent Firmly Embedded in Depravity 5914 Posts 7/02	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 10:16PM threesomebody wrote: Can Bornyo go the way of the old software? Click to expand Nah, he pokes me in the eye and keeps me on my toes. DenverDon [Link]

Bornyo Deactivated Member 803 Posts 12/04	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 10:43PM <<-----I'd just direct your attention over there. What more can he do? threesomebody wrote: Can Bornyo go the way of the old software? Click to expand [Link]
Redish Poetic Moderator Long and Cursive road to the Ivory Pagoda in the province of Loraine 4076 Posts 12/03	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 11:28PM All together now, Should auld acquaintance be forgot ..... [Link]
Flash Golden Age Classic 11017 Posts 5/01	Posted - Feb 23 2006 : 11:50PM Steph wrote: I've spent all day on the style sheets. The colors are a muted version of our current colors without the heavy contrasts (eg no dark blue in the middle, no alternating yellow and white posts.) Click to expand I like them. You did a good job. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 24 2006 : 12:35PM The new forum is unfortunately a bit slower and has larger pages than our current stuff. On the plus side it has tons of new features. We're almost ready to make the switch. [Link]
jamesnadt Deactivated User cambridge, ma 152 Posts 2/06	Posted - Feb 24 2006 : 1:00PM If you think about it, the old stuff was ushered-in in an era of probably 50% or more dialup-users. That number has to be down, considerably. If you look at the bulk of pages out there, they're much "heavier" than a few years ago. I wouldn't sweat it, anyone on dialup's got the option to lighten the load through checking for new versions once per-session, disabling cached images, etc. Certainly par for the course on the rest of the web. [Link]
astroknight Questionable Moderator Tastes so good... 4187 Posts 11/99	Posted - Feb 24 2006 : 1:05PM Steph wrote: I've spent all day on the style sheets. The colors are a muted version of our current colors without the heavy contrasts (eg no dark blue in the middle, no alternating yellow and white posts.) Click to expand I was a little worried about the muted colors and no alternating colors for posts, but I gotta say that it is much easier on the eyes. Good job. I will get to work on the thing most important to so many of you... smilies. Click to expand Yeah, as long as there's cool smiley's we'd be happy if it alternated in chartreuse and fuscia. "Vegetarianism for me is about saying ‘yes’ to things - even meat." - Coupling [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 24 2006 : 1:24PM jamesnadt wrote: Certainly par for the course on the rest of the web. Click to expand Sure, but I may need to move the hosting of the forum outside because the increased page sizes could max us out. [Link]
Janitor Retired Porno movies, sexy videos, xxx. Adult DVD Talk at your service. 6409 Posts 11/99	Posted - Feb 24 2006 : 2:31PM we will be switching before i finish redoing graphics and smilies. flash, astro - glad you guys like. my eyes are happier. [Link]
RonK Big Double Everything Fan Poor Turkey running for her life with Christmas Hat 3713 Posts 9/01	Posted - Feb 25 2006 : 8:51PM Is the new version like the trial balloon that went up yesterday for a little while? I posted a comment to that effect on WNAN but the system crashed and the afternoon posts went missing. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Feb 25 2006 : 9:40PM You can see the new software here we're still holding off on going live with it until a few minor issues are corrected. [Link]

mapofhawaii Senior Member 1050 Posts 3/06	Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 2:39PM To Drew Black, Could this change affect anyone's logging in? I ask because I just had to re-register because when I put in my username and password, it didn't let me in. I think I have been to the site since this change, but I am not sure. Anyway, I know I had the info right, so I don't know why it blocked me. When I clicked on the change password link in the reminder email, I got a page where you are supposed to put info in to reset it. However, there was no box next to the "*Username" part. So, I had to register again. And, when I re-registered I tried using the username I had before and it said that it already existed. So, apparently the account is still open but maybe the password has been changed. It shouldn't be related, but a site I belong to recently changed my username and password because someone hacked into her site. She said she emailed me that it changed, but I either missed it or didn't get it. Now, I have been locked out of that site for over 2 weeks because the site says my info is incorrect. CCBill said the info works when they put it in, but not for me. Long story long, these two cases shouldn't be related but the details are similar enough that I thought I would ask. Thanks for your attention. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 2:43PM We didn't change the software. It didn't work out. However we did change everyone's passwords. You would have received an email to that effect. [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 2:45PM BTW, it generally helps to mention what your old username was. if you want us to look into the problem any further. Otherwise I have no way to connect your new forum ID with the old one. [Link]
mapofhawaii Senior Member 1050 Posts 3/06	Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 3:41PM Drew, Tks, and yes I forgot to give my old username. It was beefstrokinoff. Also, when did they get changed? Tks. [Link]
nietzsche Deactivated User 5470 Posts 8/03	Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 4:42PM Too bad the new software didn't work out. It looked pretty sweet. [Link]
willywilly Member Activated Member 662 Posts 2/05	Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 5:40PM mapofhawaii wrote: Drew, Tks, and yes I forgot to give my old username. It was beefstrokinoff. Also, when did they get changed? Tks. Click to expand Have you seen this thread yet? [Link]
Drew Black broken crankshaft 8009 Posts 9/99	Posted - Mar 26 2006 : 7:05PM nietzsche wrote: Too bad the new software didn't work out. It looked pretty sweet. Click to expand It's not a dead issue yet. I'm waiting for the new version to get released and we'll see what happens. [Link]

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