Slab has to redo crappie.com’s software…
This is his post on main forum.
ell, well, well, the end of life has come to our current forum format. In fact it's software has not been supported for quite a while. I'm not talking about the vBulletin software, but the software behind it. The OS and the DB we are running are junk. This is way past due. We've just been thinking of a plan to move forward with, and I think we have one.
We (my buddy Adam and I) are working on a conversion. It's going to be painful. Yes, I repeat, it's going to be painful. The first test of the conversion took two weeks to complete. A second test with multiple "updaters" was broken. So dang it, we're stuck with what's essentially a 12 day conversion.
What this means is, we will have to KINDA shutdown the site for a bit. It can still run, but updates after a certain date will not be moved to the new software system. I will announce exactly when this happens so you all know. It might be real soon, like tomorrow.
This way you can NOT MAKE BIG/GOOD POSTs like articles, or anything you want to document for posterity. I'd still be able to manually copy those "articles" forward to the new site after the fact, but I'd just want to keep that to a minimum.
And prolly the bigger issue is, the new software. There's going to be a big learning curve. It's new, it's modern, it's complex, but a couple good things I see are:
It's Mobile Friendly right out the box.
Uploads, pics and videos are easy. Can post multiple pics at once.
Videos can be posted simply by posting the the URL.
There are tons more improvements as well.
Please stay with us, it's not going to be easy, for anyone. But we have to change so that we're supported for another 20 years. Yes, I think we've been on this old software for over 20 years already. It's actually unbelievable that this was possible, but we made it work. We were able to hide our unsupported sfwr behind firewalls so that we did not get attacked by children learning data security computer stuff in classes in Hong Kong (yep, I'm serious)
I'll find a good example of the new software y'all can look at to see what it's like.
Bear with Slab as it sounds like a major update, cevans!
