Erik

Status update.

Current state of redeployment, you're in good hands.

For which forums? I've reset two of them. It's likely the passwords didn't hash over correctly from the old boards and just need to be updated. PM me details if you still don't have access.

Please check that you have access. Passwords reset.

Your subscription is safe. I'll make sure everyone gets full use out of them. No estimate yet, files are 83% moved. So still waiting on them to get here. The transporter packages them, secures them with an encryption, sends them, unlocks them, un-packages them, verifies the checksum on all files for integrity, makes a list of bad files, restores the good ones, all in batches. Might of put a little too much thought into that whole routine back in the day when internet connections aren't what they are today. That's what I know, good bad and indifferent.

Well shit, probably need to update my beeper number in the contact list. Remember put in your phone number + 911 and I'll know it's important so I'll call you back. Then I gotta ask, but did you die?

Can you get the password its supposed to be and pass it to me in a PM? Thanks Gkabs

I know you're joking, fake news for sure.

We're working through an SSL Certificate issue on the primary machine running port 80 (web browser) traffic. The issue has been identified and I'm waiting on a datacenter resolve since one of the machines has to be consoled. This is something that was migration/transfer related and unforeseen. Please bear with us as the site is being brought back. Remind me next time we do this to buy more scotch.

I just recovered almost 476,323 attachments belonging to 18,423 users and you're worried about 11,458 files, go sit in the corner.

Yes. You can manage deletions now as well. No more sending requests just deactivate and bounce.

Do a force reset on your browser <CTRL> + F5 You don't need to have access to your old email you just need to know what it was. We used to log in with a username which is insecure. Whatever email address you used to create that username "krgf15" use that email like "*****@*****.tld" and the same password and the site will let you in. Then top right click your profile image and manage account settings > change email or whatever you need to do. That's pretty much it, new features give you access to manage all that.

Yes, that's a frilly thing that I can mess with later. I'm still working on getting the meat and potatoes back on the plate. Member's attached files are now back online so that's a good thing. I just pray when the files all show up I don't have any of them disassociated with member's accounts. The horror that would be. Back to work.

I don't have enough money to buy a new owner.

Those ads pay us roughly $100 a month consistently. If we made that income somewhere else I'd drop them entirely but yes I haven't put ads back into the templates. Low priority right now.

Oh and the files are NOT missing, I know exactly where they are.

Soon being relative. I'm still trying to recover our data, clawing back attachments that got thrown to the wind in the upgrade. Files are still moving in the background and I'll start on those as soon as I can. Subscriptions will be adjusted to reflect the missing time, yes even if they expire, from the date the files come back up. So if you had a weeks subscription and it had 2 days left on it when we went down for migration then you'll have two days coming when we officially go back up.

The more you guys use the place and click around it helps me spot code problems and bottlenecks in apache, php, and mysql. So post some photos, give some replies. Let me know if the snappy goes away and we'll make some changes. The real test will be when files comes back online, that'll be a fun day.

Some things didn't move over very well like images in signatures, some moved because they were put in as attachments and other's were links and the links are now broken. So feel free to update your signatures. I have a newbie tag so don't feel bad. Yeah I need to sort that out but it's a low item on the totem pole at the moment. Remember back to the days when shit didn't hurt, doctors were the furthest thing from your mind, girls actually wanted to hang out with you, and be happy.

At the top of the editor there's a link that says "Categories" Click that and it will open a panel that allows you choose the set. I can play around with the order later but that's the quick way you don't have to scroll through all the emojis. Filed for stuff to do later. Thanks.

a new prescription is in your future

Wish I could say it's been fun but this has literally been hell, sleep has not been a thing and I'm way too old to relive my twenties. We are now re-deployed and running modern code on some healthy and rather obnoxious LAMP boxes. Our database took three days of almost around the clock beating into submission to get us moved and latest versioned to our new home. I sort of deserved that and knew it was coming, I put it off way to long. We're not 100% yet but we're close, 90% and counting. I'm doing one final integrity check before I jettison the old baggage that sustained us for almost 10 years and set us off into the blue skies. The files are all moving over in the background and the 5G of girth that we call our DB is safe and restructured to run InnoDB instead of the old slow MYISAM. Before you guys start sending me lots of emails about subscriptions here's what I'm going to do. If you have a subscription or had one and it expired during the move I will reactivate the ones that need it and extend the others so all your time is accounted for and I will base that on when the files go back live again. I apologize in advance for the long days of downtime and looking at that crappy offline page but there was no way to keep our data safe without making sure it wasn't being populated as it was being converted. That's the equivalent of changing a tire on a moving vehicle, probably a good time but not something I wanted to do. While you're here, Welcome! The new place has some pretty cool new features and it's smoking fast. If you tell me it's slow I'm deleting your account and forgetting I knew you. Get used to the new place and make it fast because when I've recovered we're moving to an even newer code base but that won't incur any downtime. If you see things that are missing like images or things that don't work or look right make a post about it in the support section and I'll get to them as I can. The theme set is a quick and dirty reconstruction to give us some resemblance of what was here but that's going to change too and hopefully give us a couple of options for light vs dark skins to save my eyes. If you need me I'll be around somewhere, maybe, possibly, probably not.