Forum Upgrade tonight 10pm

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At 10pm tonight the forum will experience some down time, this is likely to last until midday tomorrow.

As most of you are well aware, the forum has ran on V Bulletin since it started in 2006. Unfortunately VB has been a victim of many security issues this year one resulting in the hack we experienced in September which meant we nearly lost the forum completely.

After the latest security issue with VB two weeks ago, the forum staff made a decision to look at new software to run the forum on, after 2 weeks of testing we have made the decision to move across to a new platform - XenForo, it is extremely secure and offers the forum stability going forward. All your accounts and posts are successfully transferred across and it will look very similar to what we have now.

The new forum is extremely modern in its design and very intuitive to use. There is an excellent private message system and a fantastic alert system which lets you know when a thread you have replied on or started gets a new post.
It is also fully integrated with Facebook and Twitter too for those of you that enjoy social media.

I would just like to emphasise that the forum will be the same, all threads and posts are there, it will just look a little prettier :) and have more features. As with any change things can be a
little different, there will be stickies on how to use the new features and of course if you have any questions please ask any member of forum staff, we are here to help you. The project has been managed by Falken and he has done an excellent job.

You can keep up to date with the changeover via Facebook and Twitter.

I would just like to thank Falken, Highway Man, Debbie and Ellie for agreeing to the change and all staff and members who have been testing the new software. I am sure everyone is going to enjoy the new platform.

Thanks again and see you on the other side :)
 
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We are hoping to have it up and running tomorrow morning. You'll love it, I promise :)
 
A big thank you to Falken and the guys from the technical staff for working hard to make the transition as smooth and quick as possible and for taking on board any issues, wishes, comments and questions that we testers could come up with.

The layout and content of the sections will remain the exactly same with all previous threads available, but all testers (ranging from "can just about get around the current forum" to the savvy) have enjoyed and coped well with the improved, much more user friendly features of the new forum, like a direct picture upload and a quick and efficient conversation/private messaging facility. Beloved features of this forum have been transferred or recreated as much as possible. We will have likes/thanks again; and all previous thanks are in place in the transferred threads, hence why we have been without them for a few days. Personally, I am looking forward very much to the new forum and I hope that you will like it, too!

A very bright side indeed! x)
 
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Ohh i'm looking forward to the new forum :) :) Be interesting to see what it looks like!
 
Fabby can't wait to see the finished result
Does this mean that the thank you button will work again too?
 
Sounds like the best decision to make the move, just wondering if there will still be a mobile version of the forum?
 
Very exciting. Thanks for all of your hard work on this everyone.
 
Thank you for all the hard work - I look forward to seeing the new look forum:)
 
Oh brilliant, I was going to go and copy and paste any info I needed but won't bother now. Thanks Lee. The new forum is going to look great.
 
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