We are trying to give as much of a warning as possible on this. We will be bringing the forums down starting around 9pm CST on Saturday, April 29th.

The reason for this is because we are changing forum software completely. The current software we are running has been good for us in the past years, but I think we've found its limitation. Due to the size of the forum and amount of users, we are swapping over to VBulletin, which is a highly used and very stable software application, that also puts alot less of a load on the server.

This migration will take all night and into Sunday. Hopefully we will have everything completed by Sunday afternoon. The VB Team will be working with us to tweak the software and server to ensure stability and the fastest speeds possible.

Also I wanted to note that none of the current data will be lost and will be imported into the new software.

Thanks for bearing with us through the recent problems, we feel this is the right step for the site in the long run.

Any questions you wish to ask, please feel free.

Thanks again,
Brad, Scott & Staff

 

Thank you so much for the warning. We can all feel a lot better knowing what is going on. [img]style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/icon_mrgreen.gif[/img]

 

Good Luck with everything. I hope all goes smoothly!!

 

FYI: We will be trying the migration again this weekend, starting Saturday around 9pm.

 

Good luck guys...May the computer Gods be with you.

 

i hope everything migrates smoothly without any problems

 

this place looks weird....i will get used to it

 

yeah and why isn't my Avatar showing, some peoples Avatar is showning but not mine

 

Wow....I have'nt been on in quite some time and holy cow, this is different! It's gonna take me awhile to get used to this.....

 

Hmm...no avatar for me either. No more custom V6 member title either? Things have really changed......

 

Old forum looked a lot better

 

Old one was eaiser to navigate too.

 

i already miss the old forum

 

New size for avitar is 200 bytes. I for one am having a bit of difficulty getting mine down to that size. Even at 80X80 pixels ( the max size the new software will allow ) it is 2k.

 

very weird. i dont like i but then again what choice is there lol

 

whoa... this is all trippy now

 

Is more of the old stuff (Posts, avatars, etc...) going to show up as time goes? Joe

 

i couldn't manage to get mine to that size what do they want us to display a 5X5pixels aviator to be 2k????


for an hour or so i was able too display a picture in my signature now its GONE WTF (it should be an option to be able to display a picture or not)

 

Guys, forums take quite a while to setup.

Just be patient. The admin staff here works extremely quickly, so i'm guessing that they'll have everything looking right within the next few days.

This is the default vB format. They'll probably add the skin(s), change the layout of the posts and the menu.

The avatar, profile pic, etc. sizes will also probably be adjusted.

Everything has to be adjusted manually. You guys would be suprised at how complex the admincp is for forums (especially invision and vB)

I'm extremely suprised that they transitioned so well.

I am wanting one thing...the thread by 05stangkc for the new 3D Carbon wing.