Change in site ownership

[Ian]

In a few hours time, ElectronicsPoint will be offline for a short period of time while we change site servers - as I'm passing over the running of the site to a company called EETech.

EETech have a lot of experience running electronics discussion forums and electronics/tech sites, and want ElectronicsPoint to continue on as-is with minimal disruption .

I won't be going anywhere though, I'm still going to be here as a moderator (as of course, are the other mods) . I'm going to have a few busy years coming up, so now was the right time for me to pass ownership of the site to experienced hands, who will now be responsible for server maintenance, patching, etc...

I'm very sad to no longer be the administrator here, but I'm very pleased that it is to a company with the sites best interest at heart. I'm sure there will be some apprehension from members about the change, but please give the new owners a chance to prove their worth - I've spoken to them lots in the past couple of weeks and they are a good bunch of guys.

Once the server move is complete, I'm sure they will make an introduction on the forums.

 

[Ian]

If you can read this post, you're on the new server already .

 

[73's de Edd]

Do it again . . . .to see if I can feel the difference . . . .

 

[Ian]

Do it again . . . .to see if I can feel the difference . . . .

I'm glad it's gone smoothly . Didn't take long to transfer in the end .

 

[kellys_eye]

Will this change in ownership result in the site being supported by adverts?

 

[dave9]

^ I wondered the same thing so I went and took a look at some of EETech's sites and they don't look too bad, BUT it could be that my universal preemptive nuke ads from orbit strategy is already blocking them.

 

[eeadam]

Will this change in ownership result in the site being supported by adverts?

Hi I'm Adam, one of the new admins/owners of the site.

This is a good question... the short answer is yes. But this is not anything new. The site has been supported by advertising for many years. We will, however, have more relevant ads to electronics engineering.

I will add that if you don't see them now, you are not likely to see them in the future.

 

[kellys_eye]

OK, next question!

Are any of the new owners actual electronically orientated and/or qualified ? Will they be contributing to the site threads or just be 'observers'?

 

[eeadam]

OK, next question!

Are any of the new owners actual electronically orientated and/or qualified ? Will they be contributing to the site threads or just be 'observers'?

We like to stay out of the way as much as possible and let the community continue as it has.

 

[Arouse1973]

I'm glad it's gone smoothly . Didn't take long to transfer in the end .

Oh no Ian. Sadly missed. Have not been on for a while due to personal reasons. Hope it goes well for you.
Adam

 

[KJ6EAD]

@eeadam Adam La Barbera I presume of the same EETech that took over operation of All About Circuits a few years ago.

When EETech took ownership of AAC there was much concern expressed by the forum members that it would not go well but those concerns have not been born out except for some ridiculously poorly written articles that were submitted to the site early on. I don't know how the article situation has evolved in the interim since I haven't participated beyond the forum in the last two years at least.

 

[eeadam]

@eeadam Adam La Barbera I presume of the same EETech that took over operation of All About Circuits a few years ago.

When EETech took ownership of AAC there was much concern expressed by the forum members that it would not go well but those concerns have not been born out except for some ridiculously poorly written articles that were submitted to the site early on. I don't know how the article situation has evolved in the interim since I haven't participated beyond the forum in the last two years at least.

@KJ6EAD Same team... We are proud to say that the content in the last 2 years has improved many times over and when it doesn't meet the standards of the community, we work quickly to correct.

 

[eeadam]

Quick update:

We have a facelift to the site coming today so we wanted to let members know that they can keep the current design as the default when they are logged into the site.

If there is any confusion on how to do that please let us know and we can create instructions.

Adam

 

[eerob]

Hi all,

We've just launched the new site as you can see. If you see any bugs, or have any feedback whatsoever, please post here (or email [email protected]). We'll be continuing to make adjustments over the next few days to perfect this theme.

If you are noticing any log in issues, please visit https://www.electronicspoint.com/logout/ and then log in again at https://www.electronicspoint.com/login/.

While we hope you use our the new design --If you do wish to switch back to the old design, just visit https://electronicspoint.com/forums/account/preferences and in the 'Style' drop-down you can select "Electronics Point (Old)". The old theme will _always_ be available.

 

[(*steve*)]

Oooh, all different.

I thought I was in the wrong place the first time :-D

 

[davenn]

If you see any bugs, or have any feedback whatsoever, please post here

I switched to the old view and got this when trying to load the new forum

414 Request-URI Too Large
nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)

seems to be a repeating bug in the URL .......

https://www.electronicspoint.com/fi...new/forums/find-new/forums/find-new/forums/fi

 

[eerob]

Hi Dave,

I think this was an issue from the redirect rules I had in place ( /find-new/* should redirect to /forums/find-new/* which is where the forums now are situated).

https://www.electronicspoint.com/find-new/posts now redirects properly for me - Could you verify on your end? Also where did you click to get to the /find-new/ URL?

Thanks!

Rob

I switched to the old view and got this when trying to load the new forum

414 Request-URI Too Large
nginx/1.14.0 (Ubuntu)

seems to be a repeating bug in the URL .......

https://www.electronicspoint.com/fi...new/forums/find-new/forums/find-new/forums/fi

 

[(*steve*)]

I also just changed back to the old view (just to check it worked).

1. It works
2. After changing, I received notification of replies that I hadn't in the new view.

 

[Harald Kapp]

For the time being I switched back to the old view, too. Maybe it's due to lonmg use but I find the old look better arranged. E.g. you can hover over the alerts to get a list of current alerts. The new view requires you to klick and load the alert page.

 

[dave9]

I too switched back to the old view, but unfortunately the new posts column on the right hand side of the page is missing for me. I don't care for the new version drop down at all. As it is, too much horizontal space is wasted.