Over the weekend I'll be (hopefully) performing a set of updates to the site, some minor, some possibly major!

This is an upgrade to fix issues encountered in operating the site. There will be periods of time where the site is offline; has to be to lock the db during changes.

There will be a number of changes to the interface, these are set upon us by the authors of the forum software. The only option to prevent this is to write our own forums software...

Changes will be visible in things like the posts editor which is being replaced.

New features like, best answer, or flagging a question as unanswered.

As this is a potentially large upgrade there are pages of release notes, on the other side we'll update you and keep our eyes peeled for issues.

There will undoubtedly be browser caching issues, requiring forced clearing.

Additional challenges are a database conversion, this is penciled but not confirmed, it's potentially a very long process!

As always this is a heads up, events in real life may take over to prevent or abort.

Cheers,

Colin.

See you on the otherside

Initial maintenance about to begin.

Requires a period of being offline to work on database.

Stage 1 is complete, this was a general update of support applications, like support, store, chat, gallery etc.

Stage2 is the main site, but taking a moment first, will commence around 16:30/17:00

SWMBO's happy that the site's down for some reason :think:

Content Spy installed, limited release while I monitor.

Another round of maintenance today.

WILL BEGIN AT 11:30.

Testing round2

Status updates via your username (top of page) - Reduces the amount of questions asked via this 'on your mind' .

The major items are done, stage 3 will be two new features, for classifieds and member/trader feedback.

Registration captcha is replaced. Instead of trying to read near impossible letters, we've moved to jigsaws.

Only effects new user registrations.

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