This is just a heads up to let you know that we'll be upgrading the forums sometime next week (I'll post the day and time in advance!). The current forum software works quite well, but is soon going to be unsupported, which means we'll no longer be able to get patches and fixes as the backend software is upgraded.
It won't take long to perform the upgrade and no data will be lost - all your posts, uploads, details, etc.. will all be the same. The are lots of advantages to upgrading, mostly in terms of MUCH better attachment handling and improved mobile browsing. This is just the start of some other improvements which we'll be adding to further down the line - such as articles, calculators and so on.
The design will change during the upgrade, but should be very familiar in terms of navigation. Here's the draft version of the design that I previewed to the moderators a little while back:
I'd guess it should take less than half a day to upgrade (hopefully MUCH less), but I'll leave the forums open as read-only for as long as possible during the upgrade process, so there won't be any time that the forums are completely offline (but you may not be able to post for a short while).
I'm really excited about the move, as it's the first time in a long while the we've performed an upgrade of this site on EP. I've been using the new forum software for quite a while and it is so much easier to use - I think you're all going to really like it .
It won't take long to perform the upgrade and no data will be lost - all your posts, uploads, details, etc.. will all be the same. The are lots of advantages to upgrading, mostly in terms of MUCH better attachment handling and improved mobile browsing. This is just the start of some other improvements which we'll be adding to further down the line - such as articles, calculators and so on.
The design will change during the upgrade, but should be very familiar in terms of navigation. Here's the draft version of the design that I previewed to the moderators a little while back:
I'd guess it should take less than half a day to upgrade (hopefully MUCH less), but I'll leave the forums open as read-only for as long as possible during the upgrade process, so there won't be any time that the forums are completely offline (but you may not be able to post for a short while).
I'm really excited about the move, as it's the first time in a long while the we've performed an upgrade of this site on EP. I've been using the new forum software for quite a while and it is so much easier to use - I think you're all going to really like it .
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