The Forum will be down for a software upgrade/migration

[Charles L. Cotton]

The Board is being reindexed, but with almost 1 million posts, this is going to take about 4 hours.

Chas.

[92f-fan]

Thanks for keeping the software current
As you likely know the board is slow - Likely due to the indexing going on
There aren't that many people on the board now so the slowness isnt likely due to that

If the migration changed the URLs or anything else related to search engines
you might consider changing your robots.txt file to exclude search spiders from the site for a few days will the internal indexing is updating .. The load from the 5 search engines currently spidering the site and the internal index rebuild may be too much for the server

My forums really benefit from disk speed, we started running SSD drives a few years back and the server load rarely goes over .3 now which means the sites are rendered very fast.

Good luck

[oohrah]

What happened to the "View Unread Posts", and "View New Posts"? my faves.

[ELB]

What happened to the "View Unread Posts", and "View New Posts"? my faves.

I suspect that once the reindexing is finished, all the search-related functions will operate correctly.

[SewTexas]

thanks for all the hard work! the new board looks great!

[Charles L. Cotton]

What happened to the "View Unread Posts", and "View New Posts"? my faves.

There's only one style with the new software and it may be different than the one you previously used. If so, then look in the upper left side of the monitor and you'll see "Quick links." You'll find all of the options that were in different places with the other style. I tested them and they are all working.

A bit of trivia - it took about 10 hours to index the entire Forum! I had no idea it would take that long. Had I known, I would have planned for the Forum to be down for a full 24 hours. The indexing should have been part of the upgrade process, but something went wrong. For you server folks, I was surprised that there is no command line tool to index phpBB! My web host could have done the indexing in a fraction of the time had there been one.

Oh well, it's done.
Chas.

[baldeagle]

This took much longer than I could have imagined and there were several restarts of the upgrade/migration. I'm going to work on the bugs now.

Thanks for the report folks.
Chas.

Charles, as one who has BTDT and continues to do it, thanks for all your hard work. I know how frustrating it is when you really, really want to get the board back online but it's not ready yet.

[PBratton]

Updating/converting any type of software is always a challenge, especially when you wish to continue service and retain previous data.

Great work Charles. I think you'll enjoy phpBB, I've used it in the past and it never let me down.

[baldeagle]

What happened to the "View Unread Posts", and "View New Posts"? my faves.

Click on Quick Links in the upper left hand area, right about Board Index.

[Taypo]

Gonna take some getting used to, but I appreciate the hard work you've put into the forums. Thanks Charles!

[K5GU]

Good job Charles, and thanks for the hard work! I can relate personally to what you went through. I like the Quick links style as it allows navigation from any page. I think with the tabbed version, you had to be on the Index page to see things like 'see your posts', etc.
The forum looks and works good here.

[K5GU]

Thank you for the effort - it's really appreciated.

One possible suggestion: I noticed that clicking a link now takes one away from the forum completely and to that other website, instead of just opening another tab automatically for that linked website. Could this be changed?

FYI. A workaround is to right click on the url link. I don't know about older browsers but in IE-11, Firefox, Chrome and MS Edge when I right click on the link it pops up a menu that lets you select "open in new tab", "open in new window", etc. If you want it to go to the new tab without clicking on the new tab, there should be a settings option for the browser to specify something like, "go to new tab", etc. For example, in Firefox, the setting says something like, "When I open a link in a new tab, switch to it immediately"

[Charles L. Cotton]

Thank you for the effort - it's really appreciated.

One possible suggestion: I noticed that clicking a link now takes one away from the forum completely and to that other website, instead of just opening another tab automatically for that linked website. Could this be changed?

I'll check to see if that's an admin setting and, if so, I'll change it.

Chas.