[IMPORTANT] Forum move

[Tom Speirs]

I will be moving the forum to a dedicated server today and from now on hosting it myself. It will be unavailable for periods. Maybe lengthy.

Once complete we will have:

800GB storage

No reasonable upload size limit.

Ability to make source changes.

New downloads section/module

We will lose the gallery and blog.

[headkaze]

That's great news Tom. I can't wait to fix that BBCode limit

[Draco1962]

Awesome news overall! Hate to see the gallery go away but I think the pluses will outweigh the loss.

[hansolo77]

Sounds good to me. I never used the blog or gallery, but the added storage space and "unlimited" filesize limit could come in handy!

[nullPointer]

This is awesome! Thanks Tom! Hopefully the transition will go smoothly and that downtime can be kept to a minimum. (Keeping fingers crossed). Any idea how this will affect Tapatalk compatibility? Will we have a new URL?

[paulmichel21]

excelent. !!!!

[GimmeClassics]

That's great news Tom. I can't wait to fix that BBCode limit

A BBCode limit fix would be great. Especially creating a table in a post is kind of tricky right now. Adding options like having the possibility to import from Excel would be very cool ! I could use this very well in the Hi-Score Competition we've setup > link

Thanks Tom. Looking forward to this forum upgrade

GC

[Tom Speirs]

Migration is starting now. See you when we are back up!

[GimmeClassics]

Hi Tom. Back up again !

two small things I noticed

> the avator picture of some users are missing. No big deal of course > I will add mine again.

> when I go to "My settings" I get the message "Zend Optimizer not installed"

Just wanted to mention it.

GC

[nullPointer]

Looks like the migration has been successful! Great work Tom! I can confirm the Zend Optimizer glitch, but I'm guessing that server configuration might be a bit of an ongoing process.

[Tom Speirs]

We are back.

Please report any issues here.

[simbamame]

Excellent news :-)

[Tempest]

I panic when I can't login to GameEx. So relieved.

[Krakerman]

I knew something was up when I got home after work and tried to logon ...... nooooooooooooooo! Went to dinner and did my grocery shopping and we are back......all is good!

[Draco1962]

The move appears to have gone fairly well. There may be an issue here or there as server moves require fine tuning to make sure all functionality directs to the new server host properly.

[nullPointer]

I'm pretty excited about the new forum features, particularly the downloads section. I can confirm that the Zend Optimizer issue still occurs when you access My Settings, but as Draco pointed out I'm sure this is more a case of fine tuning the server. Great job Tom!

[KRC]

I had a slight issue with notification emails relating to the general forum taking me back to the offline forum, but it is now rectified (I logged out, cleared all cache etc.. then logged back in.)

New layout looks good

[Draco1962]

At least I am able to change my avatar, still! YAY! Thought I'd use my Xbox360 avatar for a while.

[KRC]

I was thinking of an avatar change but I dont know what to change it to?

[Draco1962]

Looks like you're rocking that LOTR Eye of Sauron or a dragon eye of sorts.

[Tom Speirs]

Just to let you know I have an active support ticket about the Zend Optimizer issue. They have all the server access details so hopefully should be fixed shortly. Its the weekend now so might be next week.

[Tom Speirs]

The "My Settings" issue is resolved now.

[KRC]

Just noticed that, Thanks Tom !

[GimmeClassics]

Thank you Tom ! Great work

[nullPointer]

Thanks for rapidly addressing the issue Tom!