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Nick

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Hi Everyone,

Pretty soon I will be upgrading the forum to vBulletin version 4.x. This will provide a couple enhancements. I expect to have to work through a few issues during the migration so please bear with me as we go through this.

Mostly, the styles will be adjusting slightly and I need to validate the gallery will still function correctly, as well as the RSS feeds.

This will probably be sometime in the next month or so. :beer:
 

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FYi, this will be happening probably early next week. I may lose some theme information temporarily, so please stay tuned :)
 

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Update; this is going to happen tonight after 7PM EST.

I expect there to be some issues with the site once complete, some things I will need to check include:

1. The image gallery might not function exactly correctly right away, but I'm not 100% sure
2. The styles for the page will likely be lost; at a minimum the header and the footer will probably break.

The forums themselves, your logins. etc. should all work just fine.
 

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The site was down for a little bit. I got very nervous. I was feeling very vulnerable.

Now it all looks a bit different, and I'm not sure I feel OK with that. This is a very stresful time.

Have fun, Nick. Don't spill beer on the server.
 

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Don't worry, this is the default vBulletin theme, will be working to get it back to normal or closer to what it was :)
 

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As luck would have it the styles didn't convert over as cleanly as I thought. I will be working on them but might not get it done tonight. thanks for your patience all!
 

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Its just a template .... temporary until I get the other styles back. Its the name of the template

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OK i put up a logo to try and minimize confusion about where everyone is :)

There are still significant more styling changes to happen. This is just a base for now. At least the boards are working hehe
 

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There is a modified theme, on the bottom right drop down you can try selecting Flue Blue (working) to see progress.

Also I noticed the Article system blew apart so the news section is gone :)
 

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I'm going to need better eye glasses.

I'm sure Nick will get it all straightened out, but in the meantime you can select the "Winter (vB3 -> vB4 Conversion)" theme at the bottom of the page. That makes the text a little bigger, and not so faint of a grey.

AZThemeCapture.jpg
 
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