Altaira
Superuser
Jan 26, 4:32am
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1-25-26 ANNOUNCEMENT - BOARDS MIGRATING TO NEW PLATFORM
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Greetings!
Everyone here is aware how slow the boards have been. Thanks to all of you for persevering to get in! This is to let you know that help is on the way!
In the next 4-6 weeks these forums will be migrated to a new cloud software platform: Xenforo. Once migrated, through an agreement with TORn, Xenforo will take care of all data storage and software updates on the back end. I will still be the ‘Superuser’ and administer the forums on a day-to-day basis, along with the current forum admins.
Why is this necessary? The old Gossamer Forum software is no longer compatible with modern SSL server standards, so the current boards cannot run on TORn’s newer server. The old server is old and rickety and needs to be retired. In addition, the forum developers stopped supporting Gforum years ago, so it eventually became outdated, and unable to defend against modern, sophisticated internet bots that slowed the site down significantly.
The good news is that all of the threads, posts, private messages, and user information on these boards since their inception in 2007 will be migrated, so none of it will be lost! The only thing that will not migrate is passwords. So, you will eventually have to log in and create a new password once the migration is complete.
Unfortunately, the one thing we’re going to unavoidably lose is ‘threaded’ mode. Some of you will rejoice at this, while others will gnash your teeth. But the sad fact is that only a very few forum platforms offer it any more, and those that do take someone with developer skills who can dedicate themselves to set-up and maintenance. Also, they don’t offer migration services, so we’d have to start over from square one.
Therefore, Xenforo is really the best option. To be sure, it will take some getting used to, but having newer and more robust features will make it well worth it. There *is* a ‘in reply to’ feature that will help keep track of the conversations.
Check back here for updates. If you can’t get in, you can email me at altaira@theonering.net with any questions. But, keep in mind that we’re still at the very initial stages of getting this going, so I don’t have any answers to questions about how things will look or work. I’m guessing that will take at least 3-4 weeks, and will also all be laid out in a new board FAQ.
Keep persevering, and we’ll have shiny, new forums soon!
(This post was edited by Altaira on Jan 26, 5:44am)
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