Just an FYI to everyone:  At some point in the very near future, I'm going to be applying some updates to our website that will require me to take the site offline.   When I do this, the site may be down for 3 or 4 hours.

I'm not sure when I'm going to do this, but it may be as early as tonight or as late as sometime next week.

So...  Don't be surprised if you see the upgrade in progress message.

-JB

Thanks for the heads up JB...and as always, thanks for volunteering your time to maintain the site. A lot of people don't understand how much work you actually put into it. Thank you!

--AJ

are you making it available on mobile devices haha j/k jb i know thts a whole different barrel of monkeys

Thanks JB! you rock

JB, you or one of the other admins should pin this topic so it remains at the top until after the maintance has been completed.

It's pinned.

I'll be taking the site down later this evening to do the first phase of the upgrades. Due to the amount of downloading and uploading involved, the site may be offlne for a couple of hours.

This should be the only phase that required downtime.

-JB

Phase 1 of the updates are complete. There were a few hicups, but it went OK. You may notice that the chat rooms list is missing from the home page. There is a minor error with that module, but the chat rooms are still available from the main menu. I have a support request in so hopefully this will get resolved quickly. Other than that, there should be no visible changes to the way the site works.

The next rounds of updates (hopefully coming in the next few days) will have some very noticeable enhancements that I think everyone will appreciate.

-JB

It keeps coming up that I have a new message in my inbox now but there isnt any.

Posted By xroads on 09/15/2009 05:41 AM
It keeps coming up that I have a new message in my inbox now but there isnt any.

Check under notifications.  You may have a new notification.

--AJ

Posted By xroads on 09/15/2009 05:41 AM
It keeps coming up that I have a new message in my inbox now but there isnt any.

Craig,

This is a bug that I've already reported and will hopefully be fixed in the updated that should be here any day now (along with some serious other improvements to the PM system).

You'll notice at the bottom of the page that you can page through your PM's now.   You may have a new message that's not showing up on the first page.

-JB

I was going to send a PM today and went into my friends list and found that they are all gone. Did something happen to that.

Same here.

--AJ

I did the second phase of our upgrade last night and due to the crappy performance of our cheap web hosting service, it didn't go very smoothly. I sure wish we could afford a decent web host...

There are still a few issues that I'm going to try and work through tonight and I'll add the missing friends to the list.

On a positive note, you may find that sending PM to people from the Message Center is MUCH easier now.

-JB

Friends should be working again now...

Thanks JB!

--AJ

JB, if we come out in the green on Fall Fest why don't we get some better hosting. You work hard enough on this site for free, the club could at least pay for a better host to make it easier for you.

I'd love that. The problem is it would raise our hosting costs from $120 a year to $600 a year.

A decent shared web host starts at $50 a month.

-JB

Heck JB for less than that you can get a virtual server! I have two and they are great.

Actually, I was presented with an even better solution today. I'll post about it in the BOD forum.