SITE UPGRADE INBOUND

[Steveo9mm]

howd dis go from site upgrades to graph lessons

[SIR VEYOR]

howd dis go from site upgrades to graph lessons

Starts with following the bouncing ball and goes from there.

[GOC Admin]

New update in post 2

[lone-wolf]

UPDATE JUNE 17

The site is currently on version 4.2.5. vBulletin is now at 6.1.2 for stable release.

There is NO upgrade path that avoids breaking functionality of the site. It was left at 4.2.5 too long.

All of the current plugins have no upgrade path. So, we are going to get the core code to version 6.1.2 stable and then start adding features and functionality back in over time.

EXPECTED DOWNTIME

vBulletin is handling this upgrade with us. They estimate 72 hours of the site being offline as a minimum, but it could go longer if they find unexpected things like code hacks, and custom work arounds.

The good news is if things go completely sideways, we can restore the snapshot backup to the time just before they started and at least end up back here with a (semi) functioning community.

I will update again with dates for this outage once we have that info from vBulletin.

Save someone some jumping back and forth

[stevebc]

Any idea when this 72 hour blackout might happen?

[Telos]

Thanks!

We are working with vBulltein to get that sorted this week.

Its a big job, so they actually need to schedule it internally.

Also, they are the only company we have encountered of late that still sends you an email ASKING FOR ALL THE INFO YOU ALREADY PUT INTO THE ONLINE ORDER so that they can manually check the F#$@#^$ing order. That email always goes to spam or gets missed adding days to the sales cycle.

Bout ready to move this site to fricken Discourse LOL

[SIR VEYOR]

And everyone should check what email they have listeded here for recovery purposes. Let's avoid
Rangebob2
M1918 Enfield
Etc 2

[Dewey Cox]

Any idea when this 72 hour blackout might happen?

Like a ballpark even?

[Camo tung]

72 hours...faster than a draw sells out

[JustBen]

Turkish: What's happening with them sausages, Charlie?
Sausage Charlie: Five minutes, Turkish.
Turkish: It was two minutes five minutes ago.

[Telos]

So 72 hours was 3 and they did NOT schedule it with me or anyone else. SO now we are fully upgraded.

I will need you folks to help me identify what plugins need to be brought back.

The look and feel is based on the theme. I am going to try and set up a poll and get a vote going on what theme to use.

The log etc will slowly come back as we get the required plugins installed.

[M1917 Enfield]

Looks like we lost our signatures at the bottom of our posts

[M1917 Enfield]

Fixed it myself!

Now have my signature back.

[R&R Rancher]

I don’t see your signature

[M1917 Enfield]

I don’t see your signature

Do you see yours?

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