ANNOUNCEMENT New Board Design Coming Tomorrow

[Ian]

I know this was supposed to be done a while ago, but I've spent some time since the season ended on a new design, which I think has come out pretty well and is now basically finished and ready to go. I've gone through and cleaned out a ton of old code, along with having updated some things that, in addition to the new server, should also help make sure this place runs a little more smoothly during peak times.

As I think I said a while ago, after updating to the newest version of the software locally and testing it, pretty much all of the customizations I had done were not compatible. That sort of put of put everything on hold and I decided to finally take the time to re-code everything, and it's been a project that turned out to take a little longer than I thought. I was initially going to make some more significant changes, but I ended up enhancing some things while trying to limit any learning curves.

However, I'm finally at the end, and after setting up a test board with the changes, I ran a test upgrade locally of the existing forum. As expected, the software update itself broke everything, but it also caused some other issues I had to figure out. But having done a trial run installing the changes and solving those problems, I think I've got it down.

Based on that experience, the ETA of how long we'll be down will probably be about an hour when I convert it over and make the changes. I may shoot for early tomorrow morning, so we'll see how it goes.

I won't get into details, but this place will absolutely look quite different moving forward. Definitely excited to finally show it to you, and hope you guys like it.

 

[signbabybrady]

No Wise, Jones, or Andrews and you going to give us more change

 

[turkeyneck]

 

[Clonamery]

I know this was supposed to be done a while ago, but I've spent some time since the season ended on a new design, which I think has come out pretty well and is now basically finished and ready to go. I've gone through and cleaned out a ton of old code, along with having updated some things that, in addition to the new server, should also help make sure this place runs a little more smoothly during peak times.

As I think I said a while ago, after updating to the newest version of the software locally and testing it, pretty much all of the customizations I had done were not compatible. That sort of put of put everything on hold and I decided to finally take the time to re-code everything, and it's been a project that turned out to take a little longer than I thought. I was initially going to make some more significant changes, but I ended up enhancing some things while trying to limit any learning curves.

However, I'm finally at the end, and after setting up a test board with the changes, I ran a test upgrade locally of the existing forum. As expected, the software update itself broke everything, but it also caused some other issues I had to figure out. But having done a trial run installing the changes and solving those problems, I think I've got it down.

Based on that experience, the ETA of how long we'll be down will probably be about an hour when I convert it over and make the changes. I may shoot for early tomorrow morning, so we'll see how it goes.

I won't get into details, but this place will absolutely look quite different moving forward. Definitely excited to finally show it to you, and hope you guys like it.

As long as it doesn't look like Windows 11 I'm good.

 

[Ian]

No Wise, Jones, or Andrews and you going to give us more change

More visual improvements than anything else, and I did make some enhancements to make some other things a little more intuitive and less difficult to find, especially when it comes to things like avatars, signatures, etc.

 

[borg]

 

[Ian]

LOL, I feel like you covered the entire gamut of reactions

 

[Steve102]

 

[Hammer of Thor]

I won't get into details, but this place will absolutely look quite different moving forward. Definitely excited to finally show it to you, and hope you guys like it.

Finally got convinced to go with the red background and the Pat Patriots logo, huh?

 

[mike_usagisan]

Finally got convinced to go with the red background and the Pat Patriots logo, huh?

That would be amazing if you could toggle between the two!

 

[maust]

More visual improvements than anything else, and I did make some enhancements to make some other things a little more intuitive and less difficult to find, especially when it comes to things like avatars, signatures, etc.

How often has anything promising to be 'more intuitive and less difficult' ever accomplished either?

 

[manxman2601]

Well we now know when Cooper Kupp will sign.

 

[Lagaffe_07]

Thanks @Ian for all your work to allow us to be part of this community

 

[SammyBlueCat]

@Ian is a STAR!!!

 

[Pape]

 

[DarrylS]

In Ian we trust...
Best run message board on the internet..

 

[signbabybrady]

More visual improvements than anything else, and I did make some enhancements to make some other things a little more intuitive and less difficult to find, especially when it comes to things like avatars, signatures, etc.

I'm kidding of course.

Truly appreciate everything you've done. This board has been such a big part of my life. My father started back in the AOL days and I lurked on his account for years before I finally started my own. You've been a part of my life since I was a kid and I'm 41 now.

Thank you so Much!!!! You've created a truly awesome community you should be proud.

 

[ViperGTS]

So long as it isn't a B/r style of app update we should be good.

 

[Ian]

Well we now know when Cooper Kupp will sign.

LOL, that's why I picked tomorrow morning in case something happens later this afternoon.

 

[FortressX]

That's why they will wait till Friday morning