Upgrading the forums today

[jcat]

I'd better check and see if anything good is on TV tomorrow evening, or find a book I absolutely must reread. Thanks for the warning!

 

[babygirl]

Thanks for letting us know.

 

[tak]

Originally Posted by ccoccocats

Should we expect any threads or posts to get lost in the shuffle during this update?

This is a vBulletin (the forum) script update. It is like upgrading Microsoft Word but all your old documents still work

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[yayi]

Is it finished?

Just to let you know, my connection to TCS is slower than other links. Is the upgrading affecting it?

 

[paul m]

Originally Posted by Anne

We have hired someone to do it. Hopefully it will be tomorrow.

Thank you for your patience everyone!

That would be me - and I will be starting in the next hour or two - the site will be unavailable for between 30 minutes and an Hour.

 

[paul m]

The upgrade is about to begin.

 

[tak]

Hi Paul,

We are looking forward to the upgrade and I hope it goes well.

-Thomas (aka tikitak)

P.S. - I like the title "Forum Upgrader"

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Just to let you know, my connection to TCS is slower than other links. Is the upgrading affecting it?

There was an issue at the datacenter where the TCS server is, that may or may not have been related. I will look into it.

 

[paul m]

Originally Posted by TAK

Hi Paul,

We are looking forward to the upgrade and I hope it goes well.

-Thomas (aka tikitak)

P.S. - I like the title "Forum Upgrader"

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The upgrade is complete - I shall be around for a day or two just to be sure everything worked ok.

I have turned on the CSS caching feature which means that your browser should download a stylesheet datafile for whatever style you have chosen and then cache it locally - this should make each forum page load slightly quicker as it doesn't need to keep reloading all the style data.

 

[hissy]

Bless you Paul and thank you-

 

[rapunzel47]

Wow! That couldn't have been timed better! I've been on a lot more than usual today, and it just slid in between sessions. Lovely.

 

[dawnofsierra]

 

[tak]

Originally Posted by Paul M

I have turned on the CSS caching feature which means that your browser should download a stylesheet datafile for whatever style you have chosen and then cache it locally - this should make each forum page load slightly quicker as it doesn't need to keep reloading all the style data.

Alright, sounds good. Thanks.

 

[rapunzel47]

"Slightly quicker"? Try "lots quicker" -- at least so far! Very nice.

 

[rita]

Good Job

 

[KittenKrazy]

Coolness! Now I'm anxious to go home and check it out on my dial-up connection, that's where I'll notice it more than anywhere (DSL here, home is a 24K connection, max!)

 

[babygirl]

Great job, thanks!

 

[jcat]

Originally Posted by rapunzel47

"Slightly quicker"? Try "lots quicker" -- at least so far! Very nice.

Same experience here! Thank you!

 

[paul m]

Originally Posted by jcat

Same experience here! Thank you!

Well I just popped back tonight to see how it's going - glad to see you are all happy.