David Albert Posted October 17, 2022 Report Share Posted October 17, 2022 Sturmgewehr.com Members, We are planning a forum software upgrade this week, and there is one part of the upgrade that will produce an unknown amount of downtime. I expect that it will be at least a few hours, but it could be longer. We will bring everything back up as quickly as possible. Once the upgrade is finished, you may see some fluid changes as we get everything fine tuned. I anticipate that the board will have a different, but similar look. Thank you for your patience while we perform the upgrade! David Albert dalbert@sturmgewehr.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Albert Posted October 18, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 18, 2022 Update: We expect the downtime to begin around 10pm tonight, Tuesday, 10/18/22. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Albert Posted October 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 Upgrade is complete. There may be some fine tuning that is still needed, but the upgrade proved successful. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AGG Posted October 19, 2022 Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 Looks great--- thank you. Tony Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tangouniform Posted October 19, 2022 Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 21 minutes ago, AGG said: Looks great--- thank you. Tony Agreed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Albert Posted October 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 The total downtime was only 2 hours, so it went well for such a major change behind the scenes. Andy deserves all the credit. Hopefully you like some of the new features. One feature that is really nice is that if you perform a search, the search will return thumbnail photos from posts in the forum that match your search term. There are many updates behind the scenes, but the forum looks almost exactly the same as before. Some of the previous features that did not persist to the new version are as follows: The custom modification to mark things sold - We are going to explore another custom development to determine if it can be re-enabled The total number of members statistic at the bottom of the main page was also a custom mod that did not persist We are currently still working on the upgrade to our sister site, Machinegunboards.com, which has been down since 10pm last night, 10/18/22. Thanks for your patience! David Albert dalbert@sturmgewehr.com 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pa123guns Posted October 19, 2022 Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 Looks good! Happy to see this site keeps improving! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeRanger Posted October 19, 2022 Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 Found a minor glitch: You cannot mark simply one board as read. The mark as read button marks the entire site. It's a bit inconvenient but easily worked around if you know about it in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Albert Posted October 19, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2022 2 hours ago, StrangeRanger said: Found a minor glitch: You cannot mark simply one board as read. The mark as read button marks the entire site. It's a bit inconvenient but easily worked around if you know about it in advance Interesting. I had not noticed that. Thanks for noting it. I will add it to our list to see if it can be changed. On the Machinegunboards software update, we have hit some snags, and are having to work with the software company to resolve. I don't have an ETA for return to service yet. David Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryo Posted October 20, 2022 Report Share Posted October 20, 2022 Sweet.. no more error at the top.. but.. There is one. When I logged in, it gave me the message.. Quote Oops! Something went wrong. Please try again. Contact Us Error code: 2S119/1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryo Posted October 20, 2022 Report Share Posted October 20, 2022 8 hours ago, David Albert said: Interesting. I had not noticed that. Thanks for noting it. I will add it to our list to see if it can be changed. On the Machinegunboards software update, we have hit some snags, and are having to work with the software company to resolve. I don't have an ETA for return to service yet. David Please do fix that site vs forum is read thing. I use it a lot to know if there's anything new. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Albert Posted October 20, 2022 Author Report Share Posted October 20, 2022 Here's an update on Machinegunboards.com, which is one of our sister sites. We expect that it will be down additional days. If it is not back up by end of day tomorrow, Friday, 10/21/22, it will be down through the weekend. It is currently in a queue to be worked by the advanced team at the forum software company. We attempted to do a similar upgrade the evening of 10/18/22 as we did here on Sturm, but ran into some issues. We fully expect to have the site back up, it's just a question of the downtime duration. For Machinegunboards.com members, we apologize for the downtime, and please bear with us. We will be able to continue talking about Thompsons and other great firearms soon. Sincerely, David Albert dalbert@sturmgewehr.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hkg3k Posted October 20, 2022 Report Share Posted October 20, 2022 On 10/19/2022 at 1:45 PM, StrangeRanger said: Found a minor glitch: You cannot mark simply one board as read. The mark as read button marks the entire site. It's a bit inconvenient but easily worked around if you know about it in advance 16 hours ago, Ryo said: Please do fix that site vs forum is read thing. I use it a lot to know if there's anything new. The "MARK FORUM AS READ" is visible and working for me. IIRC, it is in a different place now...located under the "START NEW TOPIC" button and to the left of the "SORT BY" dropdown button. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MontanaRenegade86 Posted October 20, 2022 Report Share Posted October 20, 2022 Love the new look. Great job, Mr. David Albert and Mr. Andy Albert. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StrangeRanger Posted October 20, 2022 Report Share Posted October 20, 2022 1 hour ago, hkg3k said: The "MARK FORUM AS READ" is visible and working for me. IIRC, it is in a different place now...located under the "START NEW TOPIC" button and to the left of the "SORT BY" dropdown button. Right you are. I missed it because I hit the button in the former location which now marks everything Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tarh33l Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 Is anyone else not getting post or PM alerts by email after the upgrade? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ryo Posted October 21, 2022 Report Share Posted October 21, 2022 21 hours ago, StrangeRanger said: Right you are. I missed it because I hit the button in the former location which now marks everything The read forum button is at the bottom of the page next to the Follow button on mobile view Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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