benos Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 (edited) Depending on how long the rest of my research takes, I will shut down the forums, probably around 8 PM MT Wednesday, for software upgrade. At this point (I have a ticket in on how long it will take the posts and pm rebuild tools to run after I do the upgrade) I'm guessing we'll be shut down for at least a couple hours. And don't worry, this won't be a major upgrade like the last one was. So there shouldn't be a big learning curve with lots of changes/prolbems. And the beautiful thing about this upgrade is that it will restore functionality to the Sphinx Search Engine, which we lost with the last upgrade. If the time frame changes I'll post it. be Edited August 3, 2010 by benos Added "Wednesday" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XD Niner Posted August 2, 2010 Share Posted August 2, 2010 Thanks for the heads up and all your hard work Brian. God, I love this place! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Indeed, thank you for all your hard work, tweaking, upgrading and vigilance on this Forum. It's still the greatest place of its kind! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paul Burtchell Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Thanks Brian, for ALL you do Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ChuckS Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 And the beautiful thing about this upgrade is that it will restore functionality to the Sphinx Search Engine, which we lost with the last upgrade. Oh boy, we are going to be Sphinx-sters again! Seriously (more or less) thanks for the efforts and good luck! Later, Chuck Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 And the beautiful thing about this upgrade is that it will restore functionality to the Sphinx Search Engine, which we lost with the last upgrade. Oh boy, we are going to be Sphinx-sters again! Seriously (more or less) thanks for the efforts and good luck! Later, Chuck Yes! Great to hear. Maybe I'll get to change my signature. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SiG Lady Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 "Oh boy, we are going to be Sphinx-sters again!" Groan...! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarge Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Thanks Brian....... I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 3, 2010 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 Thanks for the positive vibe everyone. A couple updates. You might want to back up any PMs that you care about keepping. And the bad news, after the upgrade a PMs tool has to be run to restore any PMs from before the upgrade. Hopefully the tool will recover all the PMs. That's all there is to say on that. And also quite probably, to restore broken quotes and post appearance occurrences, and post rebuild tool also has to be run in SSH. And IPS estimates it may take as long as a day to rebuild our over 1,250,000 posts. (That was the bad news.) I think on running the rebuild posts tool, I'm just gong to wait and see how things look after the upgrade, and then decide whether I will run the tool. The good news it that I have all my appearance and functional hacks restored and tested in my v3.1 test-forums. So by when you see the forums again after the upgrade/tool running, they should look and work just as they did. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtrooper Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Thanks Brian for a wonderful site and devoting your time to improve same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pgh george Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Brian, Thank you for the Forum and all you do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shooterbenedetto Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Thank you Brian. Lots of luck for the upgrade. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 3, 2010 Author Share Posted August 3, 2010 Thanks again for the positive vibe. I'm still on schedule for Wednesday eve. My current plan is to turn off the forums, do the upgrade, and then leave the forums off whlle the PM rebuild tool is running. Then when that tool is done I'll turn the forum back on. Then I / we will check out the appearance aspect of the forums (broken quotes, etc.) and decide if it's worth running the Posts rebuild tool. I have absolutely no idea how long the rebuild PMs tool will take because no one has any way of knowing how many PMs there are. It may be a few hours to half the night. But I will get the forums back on as soon as possible. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dachness Posted August 3, 2010 Share Posted August 3, 2010 Thanks for the heads up. I will be sure to save PDF versions of any PMs I want to save. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sal1950 Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 Thanks for all your hard work Brian, good luck with the upgrade. Sal Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astephenson Posted August 4, 2010 Share Posted August 4, 2010 (edited) I'm glad I saw this message...cause I would have been FREAKING OUT if I came in and this forum was down! Now I can prepare myself. Maybe I'll get some much needed dry-fire practice in. Thanks for all you hard work, Brian! Edited to add...I deleted a bunch of my PM's to maybe cut down the rebuild time a hundredth of a second or so. Just doing my part. Edited August 4, 2010 by WellArmedSheep Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 Still on schedule to shut down at approx. 8 PM, MT, this evening. ================================================ A heads up... the new forums will have a new feature called "Notifications." It will be found in "My Settings." It will appear in the new software to the right of where your member name appears, when you are logged in (at the upper right hand corner of the screen). There will be a "0" with a little down arrow to the right of it. Notifications will notify you of a mod action on your Topic. So for example, if your topic was closed by a mod, then the "0" will change to a "1". When you click it it will take you to the notification area and tell you what happened in your thread. In the new software, you can edit the settings for notifications in: "Your Options/Settings/Notificaton Options". So the bottom line is that the "Notification thing" is a whole new feature that will appear "My Settnigs" with the new software. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 4, 2010 Author Share Posted August 4, 2010 Pleaea note... If you have any problems whatsoever after the upgrade, like not being able to log in, not staying logged in, or any link or feature isn't working properly, before you post, clear your browser's cache and remove any brianenos.com cookies, which will probably automatically log out, then log back in. And, please start a new thread in the Bugs forum for each problem. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 5, 2010 Author Share Posted August 5, 2010 We're back online... with a small bug in the Profile area. Say I select Messenger, then if I click my member name again, so to go to a different link, I don't get the link selection - I can only go to my profile. I have a ticket on it. WHEW, the upgrade was a DISASTER. It's definitely beer thirty. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benos Posted August 5, 2010 Author Share Posted August 5, 2010 Update to the above: I found a pattern. If you click on any of the links (other than the one I just posted the error message about - other than My Profile - it works as expected. But if you click on My Profile, then click my member name again, you can only go to My Profile. Until, you click on a forum link, then it starts working properly again. be Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rolex Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 BE- is the view new content not working?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sperman Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 And, please start a new thread in the Bugs forum for each problem. be http://www.brianenos.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=111242 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Graham Smith Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 WHEW, the upgrade was a DISASTER. No upgrade ever goes un-punished. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maineshootah Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Hey Brian, "Driver Error" on the search tool. (Cleared cache, logged out / in two different browsers) Thank you for the work on the forums! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jman Posted August 5, 2010 Share Posted August 5, 2010 Thinkin' I'm going to dig the "new-old" search engine...I think. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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