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LevelSea said:
lol, tech forum

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so true it hurts. :awe:
 
Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. We had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

Sorry about that guys. The IT crew was doing some work behind the scenes to change the URLs to be more descriptive, and as you can see even with their best efforts, testing doesn't always catch everything that might happen on a production server. We've reverted things for now while we figure out what's going on with the production server that didn't get flagged in testing.
 
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Ryan Smith said:
Uh, everything's under control. Situation normal. We had a slight weapons malfunction, but uh... everything's perfectly all right now. We're fine. We're all fine here now, thank you. How are you?

Sorry about that guys. The IT crew was doing some work behind the scenes to change the URLs to be more descriptive, and as you can see even with their best efforts, testing doesn't always catch everything that might happen on a production server.
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Is there any particular reason we're still on an alpha of a forum software years old? I mean, I kinda like the look, and it's not a bad software, but are you guys really attached to it or something? 😛
 
Bubbleawsome said:
Is there any particular reason we're still on an alpha of a forum software years old? I mean, I kinda like the look, and it's not a bad software, but are you guys really attached to it or something? 😛
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This is the latest version of vB 3. Replacing vB 3 is on the list of things to do, but it's a massive undertaking. In particular we need to find a way to move forums without having to first reindex, because an offline reindexing of such a large forum would require we be down for a week.
 
Looks like they were trying to do some mod_rewrite stuff... and failed. Why test this stuff in production anyway, do it on the dev server first.

They DO have a dev server, right? (probably not) 😛


To make them feel better I accidentally pushed debug output text code on one of my live forums months ago, I never realized that it broke the captcha and no one could register. It took me 5 minutes to fix in dev last night when I realized what the cause was. 😳
 
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Red Squirrel said:
Looks like they were trying to do some mod_rewrite stuff... and failed. Why test this stuff in production anyway, do it on the dev server first.

They DO have a dev server, right? (probably not) 😛


To make them feel better I accidentally pushed debug output text code on one of my live forums months ago, I never realized that it broke the captcha and no one could register. It took me 5 minutes to fix in dev last night when I realized what the cause was. 😳
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They DID test it.

Do you jump into threads, and post, without reading the last few posts ?

The last few posts, explain what has happened.
 
Ryan Smith said:
This is the latest version of vB 3. Replacing vB 3 is on the list of things to do, but it's a massive undertaking. In particular we need to find a way to move forums without having to first reindex, because an offline reindexing of such a large forum would require we be down for a week.
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vbulleten 3.8.9 is available. It is a final version and not alpha or beta. Heck, why not even do 3.8.8 final at least?
 
Ryan Smith said:
This is the latest version of vB 3. Replacing vB 3 is on the list of things to do, but it's a massive undertaking. In particular we need to find a way to move forums without having to first reindex, because an offline reindexing of such a large forum would require we be down for a week.
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Go read what Plex did with their forum.
 
Ever since the forums came back, the notifications will not take me back to the spot I last viewed (it goes back to some time this morning). It may be unrelated, just thought I would point it out.
 
heh, I thought it was my browser that was messed up or I had some RAM bug or something. I just shut down my laptop, went to eat and stuff, booted laptop back up later, then everything worked! I refuse to accept that the solution wasn't solved by my own great intelligence and decision making skills 😀
 
Side note - last I spoke with the tech team about updating the software, considerations were underway for a potential migration/upgrade. It's absolutely something the team is looking into.

Apologies, by the way, for the interruption of service earlier. As Ryan mentioned, it was a hiccup that occurred despite the best intentions to improve the experience here.

-JP
 
Ryan Smith said:
This is the latest version of vB 3. Replacing vB 3 is on the list of things to do, but it's a massive undertaking. In particular we need to find a way to move forums without having to first reindex, because an offline reindexing of such a large forum would require we be down for a week.
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They went through this type of pain 7-8 years ago when moved off of FuseTalk.

That went much smoother because a parallel system was setup.
 
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