Hi folks
I’m upgrading the forums to the latest version of phpBB3.
If there are any major problems along the way, I may ask our web host to restore the latest 24 hour back up of our website. This means that anything posted on Forumosa after the last backup will be lost.
Be well
gus.
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“I didn’t fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong” – Benjamin Franklin
My latest attempt to upgrade the software didn’t work. I have asked the good folks at HostExpress to restore the site to our last Server-side Backup (hopefully it isn’t too late in the evening for them to get my [...]
Posted in Forums | Also tagged downtime, Forums, server down |
I took the website offline this morning around 6am (Shanghai/Taipei time) and have temporarily switched it back on for testing. Part 1 of the 2-part software upgrade seems to be stable. I’ve tested posting and replying, as well as PMing
Now I need to move to a new network because these guys are switching off their [...]
Posted in Forums | Also tagged downtime, Forums, server down |
I’m sorry, folks, but our upgrade did not go well. We are going to roll back the site 24 hours and then try the upgrade again next week.
I’m sorry for the inconvenience
gus.
Posted in Forums | Also tagged downtime, Forums |
This morning, I went to each ‘user group’ on Forumosa and made the group colors the “default colors” for the Forumosa names of its members.
Some people are members of more than one group, so I started setting name colors for the smallest group first, and proceeded to the larger groups. This way at the [...]
Posted in Forums | Also tagged Forums, Groups |
You may have noticed that the Leaderboard banners are back at the top of our Topic pages. And they have appeared at the top of our Search Result pages, too. We are responding to requests by our site sponsors
I swapped out the Javascripting we use for hardcode for several areas: the Forum pages, the [...]
Posted in Forums | Also tagged advertising, banners, Forums |
We are planning to upgrade our servers at Forumosa. This is a system wide improvement and should result in a faster and more stable server
We have 7 days of 24-hour backups in case anything SNAFUs, but our new server is actually running in parallel already and the actual switchover should take only a few minutes
Forum [...]
Posted in Forums | Also tagged webhosting |
I’m upgrading the classified ads software to the latest version. I will have to re-modify the new version with some of the features and functions that I added before.
Maoman and I are talking about de-linking the user databases of Taiwanted.com and Forumosa.com – despite our efforts, there seems to be too much confusion about our [...]