Origami October 27, 2018 Share October 27, 2018 The WAMAS server and forum wil be taken offline tonight at 8 PM to perform a forum software update. This will be a major revision update. I expect this to take a few hours if things go smoothly. After the forum software update, you'll notice some changes. Some of the changes are because some software customizations that we have on this forum may have been lost and have to be implemented again. Other changes will be a result of changes between the major versions. One change that will affect a quarter to a third of our members is that YOUR LOGIN WILL CHANGE TO STANDARDIZE ON YOUR SCREEN NAME. We're sorry, but the reason for this change is beyond our control. Some background: When you signed up for the forum, you created an account and there was agreement between your screen name (the name that the community sees when you post) and your login name. In this version of software, this information was kept in two separate fields and allowed for us, over time, to change screen names (if there was good reason to) while leaving your login name the same. In the new version, the two fields are merged and we have to standardize on one. We've chosen to standardize on your screen name since that's how everybody recognizes each other. So, if you're one of the affected (as I'll be), you'll log into your account using your screen name after the upgrade. If your screen name and login name are the same (as it is for the vast majority of you), things will not change for you. If you have trouble logging in after the update is complete and we're back online, please send an email to Alan or me at loginproblem@wamas.org. Another change that you'll see affects the sponsor banners at the top of the web page. Right now that's implemented in a bit of custom code. In the future, we'll probably do that using the built-in banner ad function, but we'll have to learn a little bit about it to get that to stand in for the old, custom code. Finally, there are several forums where we allow continued editing of posts past a certain time. This includes the first post of threads in the for sale forum and in the tank build forum. We may lose that for a little bit and, if we do, we'll work to find a solution as quickly as possible. So, stand by for the next steps. We'll try to make it as smooth as possible, but I'm anticipating a few bumps along the way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
admin October 27, 2018 Share October 27, 2018 WAMAS is going offline in 1 minute. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami October 28, 2018 Author Share October 28, 2018 Sorry folks for the outage. We were working with Invision (the developers of the bulletin board software that we use) to schedule a time for the upgrade and we got our wires crossed early on. Once that was straightened out, there were some technical difficulties that, combined with weekend schedules, caused additional delays. For now, I've re-enabled the community pending a mutually-agreeable scheduled time. That means that we'll have another outage in the near future. However, I didn't want to keep you all from the site while we worked that out. For now, things are the same as they were.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bues0022 October 29, 2018 Share October 29, 2018 No worries on the outage from me. I greatly appreciate the effort you guys put in on the forum for the rest of us!!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Origami October 29, 2018 Author Share October 29, 2018 Thanks for understanding. We're going to give it another shot today. I may be taking the forum down at 10:45 AM which is 15 minutes from now. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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