I won't release a 5 paragraph order on this move but I do want to provide a few coordinating instructions and things you need to be aware of.
What will happen?
- On either Wed Night or Thurs Night, while most of you are sleeping, I intend to perform a user migration to new forum software.
- After some consideration, we determined it would be smarter to leave the old board at the URL it's always been at: http://www.puritanboard.com/forum. I'm going to convert it to a Read-Only board so that posting will no longer be possible but you'll be able to read any old posts. This elminates the need for a massive update of links or the loss of hundreds of inbound links. The archived Board will receive the name The PuritanBoard Archives.
- Using an import utility, all existing forums, threads, posts, users, and user U2U's will be migrated to the new site. The new site will reside at http://www.puritanboard.com. In other words, the new forum will be at the main domain and the archived site will remain in a folder within the domain. We'll still have the same information pages as before but they'll be links off the main page which will be the forum front end.
What do you need to do?
1. When the new board comes up, don't freak out.
2. Log in with your normal username and password.
3. Go to your Profile and update it. First, there are a few things that are not translating well and the birthdays are one of them. There are also some required fields in the profile that are going to be forced upon you. I know that's a bit of a headache but it's part of the registration process and there's no way to avoid making you guys have to enter it too. It's information that was required in your signature anyway: location, church attending, denomination, church office held, etc. It's not too hard.
4. Clean up your Private Messages. You're going to see a TON of messages that you had long since deleted. It's another bug in translation but it's better to have to re-delete messages than to lose them altogether. Andrew has 900 because he's a popular guy.
Common concerns:
Will my favorite Reformed smileys be there?
Of course. In fact, you'll now have Reformed avatars you can select.
Will this be hard?
No.
Change my profile and delete a bunch of Private Messages?! That sounds really painful.
I'm sorry. What was that you asked?
What will happen?
- On either Wed Night or Thurs Night, while most of you are sleeping, I intend to perform a user migration to new forum software.
- After some consideration, we determined it would be smarter to leave the old board at the URL it's always been at: http://www.puritanboard.com/forum. I'm going to convert it to a Read-Only board so that posting will no longer be possible but you'll be able to read any old posts. This elminates the need for a massive update of links or the loss of hundreds of inbound links. The archived Board will receive the name The PuritanBoard Archives.
- Using an import utility, all existing forums, threads, posts, users, and user U2U's will be migrated to the new site. The new site will reside at http://www.puritanboard.com. In other words, the new forum will be at the main domain and the archived site will remain in a folder within the domain. We'll still have the same information pages as before but they'll be links off the main page which will be the forum front end.
What do you need to do?
1. When the new board comes up, don't freak out.
2. Log in with your normal username and password.
3. Go to your Profile and update it. First, there are a few things that are not translating well and the birthdays are one of them. There are also some required fields in the profile that are going to be forced upon you. I know that's a bit of a headache but it's part of the registration process and there's no way to avoid making you guys have to enter it too. It's information that was required in your signature anyway: location, church attending, denomination, church office held, etc. It's not too hard.
4. Clean up your Private Messages. You're going to see a TON of messages that you had long since deleted. It's another bug in translation but it's better to have to re-delete messages than to lose them altogether. Andrew has 900 because he's a popular guy.
Common concerns:
Will my favorite Reformed smileys be there?
Of course. In fact, you'll now have Reformed avatars you can select.
Will this be hard?
No.
Change my profile and delete a bunch of Private Messages?! That sounds really painful.
I'm sorry. What was that you asked?
