Re: Possible Outage 24 February

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  • February 18, 2008 at 11:23 pm #67421
    cpbell0033944
    Participant

    OK, thanks – I'll stay away on Sunday to make sure.  Good luick!

    February 18, 2008 at 11:29 pm #67422
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    One more thing: if you have any private messages with valuable information, make a copy of that info because I may need to dump the private message boxes.

    February 19, 2008 at 12:32 am #67423
    Cowprobe
    Participant

    Thank you for taking the time to keep us in the know.

    The heads up regarding the private messages is just another fine example of your admin expertise.

    Hopefully project "Gamma Mayhem" will work out.  8)

    February 19, 2008 at 1:55 am #67424
    cpbell0033944
    Participant

    Does the warning about PM boxes mean that they will not be a feature of the revised site?

    February 19, 2008 at 1:56 am #67425
    TC2
    Participant

    Nah, you will still have PM's but all the old messages are going to be cleared.  PM's are a pain in the ass when it comes to forums so it's usually better to clear em out.

    February 19, 2008 at 2:21 am #67426
    cpbell0033944
    Participant

    Nah, you will still have PM's but all the old messages are going to be cleared.  PM's are a pain in the ass when it comes to forums so it's usually better to clear em out.

    Ah, cheers. 8)

    February 19, 2008 at 2:33 am #67427
    Lingster
    Keymaster

    Yeah – private messaging will still exist as a feature, but there's about 40 or 50 megabytes of personal messages in the database that I'd just as soon get rid of.  (Slows down the site.)

    Also, I may use a different private message tool.

    See, here's the dilemma.  Joomla 1.5 is now out, but it's a big upgrade and Simple Machines Forum (our forum software) doesn't run with it yet.  And may never.  So if I want to get the new Joomla features, I have to use a different piece of software to run the forums.  There's a new version of phpBB out that is compatible with Joomla 1.5 (this forum originally ran on phpBB, back in the day), and there's also a Joomla-specific forum called FireBoard that looks nice.  I haven't decided which to use, yet.

    Either way, I'm going to have to do a long, tedious conversion and reindexing, so I plan to purge everything I can before starting.

    February 19, 2008 at 1:44 pm #67428
    cpbell0033944
    Participant

    Yeah – private messaging will still exist as a feature, but there's about 40 or 50 megabytes of personal messages in the database that I'd just as soon get rid of.  (Slows down the site.)

    Also, I may use a different private message tool.

    See, here's the dilemma.  Joomla 1.5 is now out, but it's a big upgrade and Simple Machines Forum (our forum software) doesn't run with it yet.  And may never.  So if I want to get the new Joomla features, I have to use a different piece of software to run the forums.  There's a new version of phpBB out that is compatible with Joomla 1.5 (this forum originally ran on phpBB, back in the day), and there's also a Joomla-specific forum called FireBoard that looks nice.  I haven't decided which to use, yet.

    Either way, I'm going to have to do a long, tedious conversion and reindexing, so I plan to purge everything I can before starting.

    Well, good luck. 8)

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