princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 10, 2014 (edited) Hold onto your hats kids, we are going to upgrade!! Upgrade is scheduled to happen early next week (so the week of July 16, 2014), but they may get to us sooner so brace yourself (they tend to get back to me earlier than whatever they promised - that's a good thing!). All the threads, posts and user accounts "should" be fine during the upgrade. That being said, I have manually copied/pasted the Ted C. blind items list that Jerrica did just in case. If there is something you must have saved, please save onto your own desktop computer yourself to post after the upgrade. I don't think it's necessary, but better safe than sorry! And yes, I did have the host backup our database, but I'm a glass half empty person in the end!! In fact if someone wants to copy the master Ted C. blind items list as a third backup, my feelings would not be hurt! While the upgrade is in progress, there will likely be some down time. I don't expect it to be more than an hour or two. If for some reason things go horribly wrong, you can go to http://www.fanchitchat.com/ and I will be posting the current status of FanChitChat there. My email is princess @ fanchitchat .com if you want to send an email, however I can't promise I'll respond to individual emails if the shit has hit the fan However, if you notice "hey I can see the board, I just can't post on it!" messages are always welcome even if I don't personally respond to you. Send out some good vibes to us fellow ChitChaters! And oh yeah, I'll be hitting you up for annual hosting fee donations the end of this month, but for now I just want your good Juju!! As long as the board is up, I'll be posting current status in this thread. Edited June 10, 2014 by princess Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 10, 2014 Once the board has been upgraded and back online, I seriously doubt the customization options I've added will survive the upgrade. For instance, our nice little logo at the top will prob not be appearing: However, all the contents should be fine. It will take me a few days to get back the "look" we are all use to, but the content (such as threads with blind items, etc.) will be intact. We'll just look a little generic for a few days as I try to get our normal look back. The fashion police will be all over us Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hoyaheel 1,874 Report post Posted June 10, 2014 Good luck!! (must be something in the water - the other board I moderate, on Vegas, just upgraded too ;-) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 11, 2014 Hee hee, they are sending me "pre system checks" and little requests for settings, etc. here and there before the upgrade starts. Feel like I'm launching a space shuttle Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 11, 2014 Oh, and looks like one of the features we'll get is you can "like" a post someone made. Similar to facebook. Should be fun Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 12, 2014 Fingers crossed, gave the final go-ahead! I'm guessing sooner rather than later! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 12, 2014 Phase 1 done! Phase 2 is now in progress, rebuilding and reindexing items. So far, so good! Next will be Phase 3 - make the board look like FanChitChat again! Hope to be done with everything by the weekend. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hihomumio 168 Report post Posted June 12, 2014 Board looks great! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 12, 2014 It freaks me out, lol! I'm hoping to get to the colors/themes stuff tonight, and I also want to get back all our custom avatars!! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 12, 2014 Well, I got the "like' feature to work. I like that, ha ha ha! 4 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
dixiedoodah 1,003 Report post Posted June 12, 2014 Wow, it looks really different! This seems like a big job. Thanks for doing it! 3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Maxiemom 623 Report post Posted June 12, 2014 Looks good, Princess! 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
TubaGirl 7 Report post Posted June 13, 2014 Love the upgrade! Some of the smilies don't seem to be working though. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hoyaheel 1,874 Report post Posted June 13, 2014 I like it the more I figure out how to do things I want (like mark posts "read") What a tremendous job - thank you! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 13, 2014 Phase 2 is taking a little longer than I thought. I hope to have our old "look" back over the weekend, including our avatars, smilies, etc. Glad everyone likes the new features. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 14, 2014 I know we have some newbies that have requested to be registered on the board, please hold onto your hats a little longer. I have some settings I still need to adjust before letting new people on. Don't want any more problems like we had before (and hence the upgrade!!). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jerrica Benton 60 Report post Posted June 14, 2014 WELL LQQK AT HOW FANCY WE ARE NOW! nice! meh smileys aren't working 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 14, 2014 Lots of progress on the back-end tonight. But I've cursed enough for one nite. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 14, 2014 Hey look, a smilie worked! Just not the one I wanted!!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 14, 2014 I got the smilies working! How you select it is a little different than the old version of the board, is it obvoius to everyone how to add smilies?? It took me a second.... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 14, 2014 Yikes, that particular shade of red for the overall board color is a little hard on the eyes. If you want to switch back to the blue, scroll down to the very bottom of any page and click "Change Theme" and select "IP.Board" and presto - back to blue. I do like the red's naviation options along the top of the screen better than the blue. Still playing with board "look" as you can tell. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 14, 2014 Okay, getting closer to our old look 1 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
fykeylicious 1,099 Report post Posted June 15, 2014 Looks awesome!! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
princess 1,712 Report post Posted June 15, 2014 Anyone else notice that the sub titles of our threads are gone? We had some great one-liners I'll miss Avatars have become a major feature that is missing from this version of the board. I still have all of our pre-selected options saved, but gettting some sort of menu for you to pick what you want from our pre-selected choices is still in the works. Very odd feature to discontinue, but I'm trying to figure out a work-around add on. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Jerrica Benton 60 Report post Posted June 16, 2014 Thanks for the attention! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites