Exodus.

WE HAVE BLAST-OFF !!!
This message just posted on ww2f by the big man himself:
(Remember folks..... we are talking about ww2f & not this forum)


The time has come.

I'm sure you've all heard me bandying about the migration from the current vB to IPB. We've been testing and testing the process on a live server ensuring everything goes smoothly. I even went to far as to bring in a specialist who worked for Invision to perform the more technical details. The troops are trained, the tanks are fueled, and the pilots are on active alert at their airfields.

It is very difficult to predict the exact hour when we will get rolling, but we are going to start sometime on Thursday, March 7th, and the entire process may take until early Saturday March 9th, all like are CST (GMT - 06:00). This will require us to copy the WW2F DB and begin the import to a new system. The entire site will be frozen, backed up, and imported into the new software.

What does this mean to you?
At some point between Thursday, March 7th, & until early Saturday March 9th, all like are CST (GMT - 06:00) the site will be locked and you will not be able to post.

What should you do instead?
Please refrain from any wailing and gnashing of teeth. An astute colleague of mine mentioned to me the 7th is World book day. Go read one.

 

So going per the title thread I assume it's going to look like this.

 

I always thought Von P owned this site?
Didn't realise it belongs to Otto. I equally
dont know what difference there is between
the two sites. The things you learn...

first pic from inside the WW2T bunker

 

That pic's a remarkably close resemblance to my shed yesterday - bits of pooter all over the shop there was. All fixed now... except for 500G of sodding hard drive.
Ah well.

Do keep up, AHD.
Otto had owned WW2F for a long while, and bought us c.2007 for a couple of hundred dollars (we'd bobbed about for a while from owner to owner, and there was a good chance we'd be flushed by the last chap as we got bundled in with a job lot and weren't his thing).
I'd been reasonably matey with him on WW2F, & he promised he'd leave us to run this place as we see fit in order to retain/rebuild it's... ahem... 'flavour' - & he's stuck to that - never interfered in any way.


So we're something of a front for a sinister owner based in the US.
But it's OK really, 'cos he's actually a Canadian.
There are some other nationalities thrown in there for good measure, but thankfully no Limey.:p
His dear wife is not a Canadian, so we know where he'll throw his lot when the fan is hit.

Two forums, owned by one bloke, under different 'regimes'.
(And before anyone asks, as they tend to when it comes up; No, we're never going to merge WW2T & WW2F... It'd be a bloody car crash. We'll just stay friends, and not shack up together. )
That is correct. We do have our standards over there.

 

understood!

oh, dont forget your Cat5 cable

https://i.chzbgr.com/maxW500/789601536/h3B61A5DE/

 

It'd be a bloody car crash. We'll just stay friends and not shack up together. )

Can we be the daddy?

 

And there was me thinking that 'Exodus' was the film starring Paul Newman and Eva Marie Saint:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exodus_(1960_film)

 

Can the mil drab shades of green be retained? I don't like the standard invisionzone blue / gray.

 

Do you know if there be a straightforward migration of all the information on the present site to the new one, please?
YES.

ww2f.com LOST all the picture galleries (ie Ron Goldsteins, bless his heart!) which Otto had religiously saved. (Bless his heart!) All that returns - so expect bonus items like seeing missing pics re-appear in ancient posts.

Secondly - moderators will be able to merge identical threads, snip and paste replies in the wrong thread to where they belong, retitle threads, fix broken urls, pics etc etc.

Thirdly all the skins that were lost with the last forum are back. Bonus: way, way better.

Should make for a much nicer go around for all.

ww2f.com is down right this minute.
New and vastly improved should appear in a day or so. Whoopie!

 

Can the mil drab shades of green be retained? I don't like the standard invisionzone blue / gray.

I must say that was the very first thought that passed through my mind. I loves the green scheme! It's very cosy and home-like for me. Perhaps a bit old fashioned, but don't we love that here. Von Poop, I think you are quite right in thoughts about perpetuating a look and feel for the place. That's my subtle way of saying don't change it too much ... :p

I'm a member of a forum (which will go unnamed) where you can choose the skin of your choice submitted by members. Can you imagine the possibilities here.

Otherwise I'm not very good with change ...

Regards ...

 

and a reminder to everyone, especially Justin Case -
back up anything you feel is important to you, for
example your avatar. You never know what can go
into the black-hole during a transition


Here's to a smooth change and release

 

That was the remake to the Ten Commandments.