We're moving - Read-Only 7th July

Boards.ie: Niamh

Further to our post on 1st June that we were moving platform - we really are moving platform this week :pac:

As you know we had a bit of a hiccup in June and took some extra time to work on some issues in the background.

The site will go read-only from tomorrow Wednesday 7th July at 6am until some time on Thursday 8th July while all of our site data is transferred to the new platform. It may spill over into Friday as other work has to be completed once the transfer is done and before we can open the site back up to posts again.

We are under no illusions that the new version of the site will be perfect, it won't be. We expect that you guys will discover issues that we didn't see. Some things will just work a little differently to what you are used to, otherwise it will more or less be the same.

Once we get any teething issues sorted out we're excited to see how we can update the site with new additions and features. You can go back to my earlier post here for details on what will be new after the move.

Hopefully nothing too discussion-worthy happens when we're read-only! :eek:

Thanks all!

blade1

I'm scared! :pac:

I am in the process of replacing a few stacks of switches with many hundreds of UTP patch cords, so I know the feeling!
Got to get every single on eback in the right place on the new hardware.

It's going to be the one cable that's missed that everyone will remember. :mad:

I'm sorry niamh. It's just not good enough.
How will people be able to post insults, abuse, rubbish and other perma ban stuff while you inconvenience them by stopping them.
What will the trolls do? TLM

You just haven't thought of them.

I'm other news... Good luck with the move

Mrs OBumble

IBTL.







Someone had to say it!

Deja Boo

good luck it team! see you in the new.

and bye to our old profile pages, was lovely to see our old boards buds there.

frozenfrozen

dark mode top of the list

banie01

Not good enough Niamh!
I'm off to hospital in the morning and now I have nowhere to gain pity thanks without resorting to bloody Facebook!

Very disappointed :P :pac:

Mobile only users won't have a clue whats going on as they don't get the notification banner for this post

Also, where are we at wrt dark mode?

Deja Boo

if it goes on longer than expected, please post read-only updates on boards facebook and twitter ?





:eek: oh the withdrawal... I might need to get a life! :pac:

jester77

It's happening

Leg End Reject

Do we need to pack? I've a small enough car but I'll chip in.

Good luck, fingers crossed there's no unexpected hitches!

ElisaAtWar

Will there be an associated android boards app Niamh?

dublinman1990

Are you guys providing a new skin for this site once it's up & running from later this week?

New Home

Silly question, I know, but is the URL for Boards going to remain the same? I know it's a different platform, but I was wondering whether it'll look like it's www.boards.ie. If not, I'll have to edit all of my Boards-related bookmarks...

New Home

New Home wrote: »

Silly question, I know, but is the URL for Boards going to remain the same? I know it's a different platform, but I was wondering whether it'll look like it's www.boards.ie. If not, I'll have to edit all of my Boards-related bookmarks...

They will just redirect the IP. you'll be grand

Will the new site still require it to be rebooted at 3am? 👀

alchemist33

Closing the site for the England game? I expect the soccer mods exerted some influence here!


But good luck with the move Niamh

Potential-Monke

What the hell am I supposed to do at work tomorrow night?! No consideration!

As an aside, I do not envy ye! All appendages crossed!

the_syco

Potential-Monke wrote: »

What the hell am I supposed to do at work tomorrow night?! No consideration!

So many bosses will wonder why we had a productive day :pac:

Eduard Khil

We will see about a mass for the good of the dole bashers they will all have to go without talking about the scrounging gits for 36+ hours the poor divils

aaronjennings

Zaph

:pac: :pac: :pac:

RIP

Nerdkiller1991

Some avatars that don't date back to the 1990s might be nice.

CatInABox

Good luck folks! Hope to be toasting your success in a couple of days.

Deja Boo

...and thanks for keeping legacy up as long as you did, I think we've been truly spoiled on this format, it's been great!

con747

Goodbye Pacman :pac:

Skid X

This must be exactly how the Apollo 13 crew felt when they went into radio silence before they tried to reenter the Earth's atmosphere, hoping that they wouldn't be destroyed before contact was restored.


Good luck everyone.

Declan A Walsh

It's amazing how hooked on Boards some of us have become. We might gain new, or rediscover old, hobbies during the interregnum!

I Am The Law

Meh.

HeidiHeidi

Declan A Walsh wrote: »

It's amazing how hooked on Boards some of us have become. We might gain new, or rediscover old, hobbies during the interregnum!

I might actually pick up the book I started about 6 months ago and am only half way through.....

punisher5112

Out with the old in with the new....

Bye everyone it's been a pleasure....

rameire

My work won't know whats hit it tomorrow when I get some work done. Do my regulated learning.
Update my LinkedIn.
I'm going to be super efficient like I was back in 2001.

See you on the other side Boards.ie

the_syco

the_syco wrote: »

So many bosses will wonder why we had a productive day :pac:

There's always Facebook

dulpit

Nerdkiller1991 wrote: »

Some avatars that don't date back to the 1990s might be nice.

Oh no, didn't think of that. I'm going to miss Mr. Strong.

Leg End Reject

SouthWesterly wrote: »

There's always Facebook

Or constantly checking - are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? Are we there yet? :pac:

Gregor Samsa

This is a bit like visiting your Nan in hospital just before she gets her hip operation.

You know life will be better for her after it, but a little bit of you is worried that she won’t wake up.

global23214124

Good luck with the move. Hope ye pull it off without too many hiccups

I'm very frrightened.

dulpit

Wonder if there's an aware for whoever posts the last item before read-only mode is applied, so they'll appear at the top of the homepage for at least 24 hours?

cefh17

The next two days are vital

Leg End Reject

cefh17 wrote: »

The next two days are vital

We must flatten the curve!

Deja Boo

Wonder how much of the past post data will be archived (or possibly dumped) in the transition, preserving and transferring all the years of boards data must be overwhelming for any format.

punisher5112

dulpit wrote: »

Wonder if there's an aware for whoever posts the last item before read-only mode is applied, so they'll appear at the top of the homepage for at least 24 hours?

Be a great time to advertise ;-)

New Home

If anyone is having Boards withdrawal symptoms...

https://www.facebook.com/boards.ie
https://twitter.com/boards_ie

Shield

Good. At least now I’ll have time to update my Bebo page. Been a while.

Overheal

There's something important I have to tell you. I -

Deja Boo

I seem to have acquired 2100+ more posts (and counting) in the transition, oh my.

Deja Boo

^ never mind, it was figured out - puzzles on the old platform didnae count posts, so the extra post numbers makes sense now - i cant seem to delete the above post so just putting it here, cheers

Deja Boo

I do have 3 questions, when all this gets settled ...... (1) vanilla offers no way to delete pm's (or discussions) ???

I wish we had learned this before the transfer, I would've cleaned off all my old pm's. "Leaving the conversation" doesn't seem the same (at all)...it does appear even our old messages (even those deleted formerly) are tallied (given there is a number under the conversation).

and... (2) if we choose to close our account, can this be done? and (3) will all our post data remain on our profile page, or will it get scrambled as it was on the old platform?

Oh. Lookit. I can post.