With the great success of this site and its stability throughout the years, I have no doubt the new forum will be just fine, and the transition will be smooth and uneventful. I'm also sure the new layout will be just fine and tastefully done. 
Thanks for an already great forum and I look forward to the new one.
Thanks for an already great forum and I look forward to the new one.
YAY!!!!!!!!!
I have actually enjoyed the more primitive forum here, I feel more relaxed with the simple boxes without all that smooth shading and stuff that only makes it look cool.
I vote for multiple "themes" (that the user selects), like on other forums, with a "Vintage DIYAudio" theme.
- keantoken
I have actually enjoyed the more primitive forum here, I feel more relaxed with the simple boxes without all that smooth shading and stuff that only makes it look cool.
I vote for multiple "themes" (that the user selects), like on other forums, with a "Vintage DIYAudio" theme.
- keantoken
As others have mentioned, the stability of this forum is legendary. The VERY few times i have found it was down in the past, it never took long to find it back on again.
Please make the transition smooth, as i must be honest and admit, that i have become addicted. There, now i said it
Oh yes, thanks to all, webmaster, moderators, and members for this great site. (hope i haven't forgot anyone)
With greatest respect.
Ebbe
Please make the transition smooth, as i must be honest and admit, that i have become addicted. There, now i said it
Oh yes, thanks to all, webmaster, moderators, and members for this great site. (hope i haven't forgot anyone)
With greatest respect.
Ebbe
Yes... thank you folks.
Now i will have better monitor to the better forum we gonna have.
Gooooooood!
regards,
Carlos
Now i will have better monitor to the better forum we gonna have.
Gooooooood!
regards,
Carlos
An externally hosted image should be here but it was not working when we last tested it.
Since we won't be using the old wiki after the transition and we won't be transferring the old wiki content immediately, we will probably leave our current wiki open even during the transition. So, despite what I said earlier, it's probably pretty safe to continue to use it for group buys for the time being.
Thanks for all the positive feedback.
Yes!
There will be a new and improved wiki. All data from the old one will be migrated, probably by a team of slaves (including myself), to the new wiki, much as the pyramids were built.
Yes!
That's a great idea. We should make it an official DIY holiday and time of appreciation of one's own work
Yes!
There will be a new and improved wiki. All data from the old one will be migrated, probably by a team of slaves (including myself), to the new wiki, much as the pyramids were built.
Yes!
That's a great idea. We should make it an official DIY holiday and time of appreciation of one's own work
This is great news Jason, congratulation on the best most informative audio site on the web. With this upgrade maybe now we'll get the "Passive Preamp" forum and others which we sorely need to keep diyaudio cleaner, too much inter breading of topics and offshoots on the one forum at the moment.
Cheers George
Cheers George
Hope all goes well and you don't suffer the same fate as that of the ESP forums. Their upgrade corrupted the database and wrecked most of the threads, it's never recovered
I'm sure you have some competent system administrators but just a few words of advice from someone who has been working with linux systems for over 10 years:
1. Make sure everything is backed up to the hilt and then backup again to another location.
2. With the database file make sure you do the backup with all the records closed. Don't just backup the file whilst its live, better still do a dump of the database.
3. Try and run the new system in parallel on a entirely different server and when your happy with the new system migrate to it.
4. Run the new system in a "Alpha" phase with a select group for a month to iron out the bugs before you go live (migrate to it).
Good luck.
col.
I'm sure you have some competent system administrators but just a few words of advice from someone who has been working with linux systems for over 10 years:
1. Make sure everything is backed up to the hilt and then backup again to another location.
2. With the database file make sure you do the backup with all the records closed. Don't just backup the file whilst its live, better still do a dump of the database.
3. Try and run the new system in parallel on a entirely different server and when your happy with the new system migrate to it.
4. Run the new system in a "Alpha" phase with a select group for a month to iron out the bugs before you go live (migrate to it).
Good luck.
col.
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