I am confused as to what u mean by wrtitten posted. Soooo does that mean anything in general? Includes posts with download links and such?
a couple have said, perhaps written and posted would have been a better choice of words,
I guess that means EVERY data which is entered into the AO database from the moment coolkevin wrote his post. Maybe they did a complete backup which coolkevin and chompy will use for set-up the forum software at the new server.
... also this post will "disappear" in the new forum...
maybe, assume it will, it depends how the back up is done, something is first and something is last
I'm glad there will be a new server. I'm skeptic if it will really fix the load issues it had for years...but we can hope right.
Wouldn't it just be better to put the forum in maintenance mode or read-only or something for the time being? Especially because I guess many people don't really pay attention to the top banner as it always says something about the uploader rules and can't be bothered to actually check the announcements very often. Chances are people put up new downloads and maybe even put a lot of work into it not being aware that the stuff will be lost soon.
Skeptic, very true, we do not know, until it happens, but the biggest problem is vbulletin, they made themselves a name, and not improved, in fact got worse, but we did look at other software to power the board, and it was migrating everything was a serious problem
we could have changed the mode, and we did discuss it, but it was decided, to keep it open, because of the length of time it could take, and to give you a chance for responses here, we are hoping the time given is the worst case scenario
Please don't lose the attachments again :sweaty:
no they have not been lost this time, most things are fine, it is them characters that vb keep screwing up, (that was the first try and see version)
Also we are looking at new searching software
