Ellsworth
12-29-2010, 11:52 PM
The much anticipated switch to vBulletin has been scheduled to start at 11:00pm PST on Jan 5th.
This is an exciting time for us, because moving to vBulletin means we'll have a much more feature rich forum (can you say PMs!).
Here's the low down on what to expect:
The current forum will be shut down.We will then copy and import the database to vBulletin.The new forum will be at <a href="http://community.loghomebuilders.org/forum.php">http://community.loghomebuilders.org/forum.php</a> (you might want to bookmark that URL).Your user info will remain the same (name and password). You will need to upload your profile picture again.Once the new forum is online, then the forum tab at <a href="http://www.loghomebuilders.org">www.loghomebuilders.org</a> will take you to a page that has a link to the new forum. Here's the bad news, we might be offline for up to 48 hours while the transfer takes place.The great news is all the existing posts will transfer over.We've gone through 3 separate rounds of testing. Twice on a test server, and once on a live server. Tons of little bugs have been fixed, but there's always the chance a few slipped through -- so please be patient if you notice anything odd.
Thus far everything is looking great, and we don't anticipate any major bugs or problems during this change over (knock on wood).
I look forward to seeing you all on our new forum.
This is an exciting time for us, because moving to vBulletin means we'll have a much more feature rich forum (can you say PMs!).
Here's the low down on what to expect:
The current forum will be shut down.We will then copy and import the database to vBulletin.The new forum will be at <a href="http://community.loghomebuilders.org/forum.php">http://community.loghomebuilders.org/forum.php</a> (you might want to bookmark that URL).Your user info will remain the same (name and password). You will need to upload your profile picture again.Once the new forum is online, then the forum tab at <a href="http://www.loghomebuilders.org">www.loghomebuilders.org</a> will take you to a page that has a link to the new forum. Here's the bad news, we might be offline for up to 48 hours while the transfer takes place.The great news is all the existing posts will transfer over.We've gone through 3 separate rounds of testing. Twice on a test server, and once on a live server. Tons of little bugs have been fixed, but there's always the chance a few slipped through -- so please be patient if you notice anything odd.
Thus far everything is looking great, and we don't anticipate any major bugs or problems during this change over (knock on wood).
I look forward to seeing you all on our new forum.