Dear Members
The forum software is in need of updating from Xenforo 1.5.7 to the latest version Xenforo 2
Our software is basically coming towards the end of its life on this version and we need to jump upwards to keep current and move forwards.
This will be an upgrade but staying visually basically the same very unlike the last time we did a huge change jumping from one software system to another.
Bob and I have organised and sorted out the new license for the forum to take us forward which is now already in place and we will be notifying you in due course when the upgrade will take place as it may mean for an hour or two the forum is down whilst the upgrade occurs hopefully this can be scheduled during a quiet period to cause minimal disruption to users.
The upgrade will be done via our IT guru & server provider MattWServices who has been looking after us for quite some time now and provided a brilliant service.
I am basically forewarning you ahead of time that this is going to take place and when a set date and time has been organised I will notify you of when that is going to be.
We will try and keep as many of the functions we currently have by adding some more software in the background to make things look and feel the same so once the software update is done then we will need to find the add-ons we require to ensure we still can see and use some of our favourite things like where the recent posts are shown on forum, shoutbox etc but that may take a day or two to add after the software upgrade is done as currently have zero idea which of our add-ons on this system will work with the new one. Am tempted to add a few other things … like some more Christmas decorations and smilies lol but we will see what is available when that time comes. Media Gallery will still be there as that is part of the licence. Matt also runs our servers and does our backups etc so you shouldn't loose anything at all.
When a date is scheduled I will update this thread and ensure everybody knows what and when it is about to happen.
The forum software is in need of updating from Xenforo 1.5.7 to the latest version Xenforo 2
Our software is basically coming towards the end of its life on this version and we need to jump upwards to keep current and move forwards.
This will be an upgrade but staying visually basically the same very unlike the last time we did a huge change jumping from one software system to another.
Bob and I have organised and sorted out the new license for the forum to take us forward which is now already in place and we will be notifying you in due course when the upgrade will take place as it may mean for an hour or two the forum is down whilst the upgrade occurs hopefully this can be scheduled during a quiet period to cause minimal disruption to users.
The upgrade will be done via our IT guru & server provider MattWServices who has been looking after us for quite some time now and provided a brilliant service.
I am basically forewarning you ahead of time that this is going to take place and when a set date and time has been organised I will notify you of when that is going to be.
We will try and keep as many of the functions we currently have by adding some more software in the background to make things look and feel the same so once the software update is done then we will need to find the add-ons we require to ensure we still can see and use some of our favourite things like where the recent posts are shown on forum, shoutbox etc but that may take a day or two to add after the software upgrade is done as currently have zero idea which of our add-ons on this system will work with the new one. Am tempted to add a few other things … like some more Christmas decorations and smilies lol but we will see what is available when that time comes. Media Gallery will still be there as that is part of the licence. Matt also runs our servers and does our backups etc so you shouldn't loose anything at all.
When a date is scheduled I will update this thread and ensure everybody knows what and when it is about to happen.