Admin Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Hi. This is your captain speaking. Been an awful long time down in the basement and as things are in my personal life, I am afraid I will spend most of my time down there, being your "wrench monkey" instead of being able to participate in watch discussions. The fact is that 3 days ago marked the 9th birthday of this forum. At least that was the day that we all moved from the old RWG and created our new home here. A lot of water has passed under the bridge in these years and we are now over 60.000 members and have more than 1,2 million posts. A lot of things has happened in the internet world also, technology wise and the forum software that we are using is facing a major upgrade. I am in the middle of testing out the upgrade as we speak and trying to prepare all files, databases, servers, etc for the upgrade, so that it will take place as smooth as possible. I just want to warn you all that the new software will introduce some major changes to the forum. It will also mean that a great deal of the "extras" we have installed today, will most likely not work until developers hopefully create new versions of the extras we use today. It will mean a new look, new buttons, new places for things you have been used to find in another place for a long time now. But the upgrade is needed, for many reasons; One of the major reasons is that I hope to be able to integrate the upgrade function into the forum software again. It hasn't been easy after I was blacklisted by PP and they closed ALL of my accounts (personal, personal business accounts, etc). but the "hidden" solution that is in place now has been working fairly good. Not going to make this post any longer than necessary, but just wanted to give you a heads up that there will be some downtime soon due to this. I will get back with more details as soon as I know when 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karone76 Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 TQ for the notification, captain! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
astonjenks Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Firstly a huge congrats on the 9th anniverssary and secondly a huge thanks to you and the rest of the admin team for doing sucha great job! Regards AJ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
martijnp Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Congratulations, 9 years of RWG! Thanks for all the effort Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panermaniac Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Yay for 9! Yay for change! Thanks for all that you do, boss. We appreciate it! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Beachcomber Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Thanks for the head up how about Taptalk? Will that change also? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
importr Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 What we need is a rep with "Rwg 9th anniversary" on the case back Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ezio Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 What we need is a rep with "Rwg 9th anniversary" on the case back Other rwg did a forum watch but ended In disaster so probably wont see such a Thing again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jigelow Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Word of advice - another forum I'm part of just upgraded. Learn from our mistake and don't use that bloated hunk of [censored], vBulletin. Nothing imported correctly, the tech support was terrible during the migration, and the stress it put on the servers was astronomical. We scrapped it and moved on to xenforo. Night and day as far as ease of transition. It is about 20% of the bandwidth on the servers and a much better user experience. I believe the pricing was rather similar. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
panerai153 Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Congrats on 9 years!!! I'm not far behind. Also thanks for the update on the forum upgrade. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dieselpower Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Hope the new format is simple and clear. Call me a fuddy duddy but I can't stand things that are complicated just for complications sake. Probably why I like vintage Rolex sports models actually. Well done and all that jazz - here's to another 9 years Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sgtguk Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Thanks for letting us know in advance here's to the next nine and the nine after that ! If there's anything we can do to help let us know Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
danielv2000 Posted March 9, 2015 Report Share Posted March 9, 2015 Thanks for the update, captain. I guess the ship can't take much more of this! [ok, imagine a Scottish accent with Paypal, Rolex and the other gen companies firing lawsuits at us!] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
theiwcroo Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 Thanks for the update and the hard work keeping the forum going! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sye46 Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 congrats on 9 years! Wow... I can't believe it's just about 9 years since I joined too. crazy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
freddy333 Posted March 10, 2015 Report Share Posted March 10, 2015 With fingers crossed............... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chronoluvvv Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 you guys are a buncha dinosaurs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GenTLe Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 What we need is a rep with "Rwg 9th anniversary" on the case back Oh noooo.... We really do not need it... Trust me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSTEEL Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Thanks for the hard work, I shall upgrade to VIP soon, its been a longtime coming. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
billyfras Posted March 11, 2015 Report Share Posted March 11, 2015 Change is inevitable. 9 years is a long time! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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