Just a note for those who also visit our sister site Rebelscum - they are also moving and members should verify their email address on that site. See this thread posted by Philip Wise. Chances are their move will happen sooner than ours as they have been having security issues, and they have less stuff to move than us.
Graham from rebelscum has posted an update on their move: 8/31 Update We decided to do one more pass then we'll probably open the forums up as a demo so you guys can help find any problems. Won't be long now... You can keep up with their news here. And if you are a registered user and you haven't verified your email address there, now is the time..
The Rebelscum demo forums are now up. You can get the link here in their New Forum thread. If you have a login you can try posting, etc. If you encounter problems please report them in the linked thread, not here, as their admins won't see them here. If it's a display or login issue, please let them know what browser/version you are using.
It's all happening on the Rebelscum front: On Wednesday, September 14th at midnight (ET), the current Rebelscum forums will be closed down. We are anticipating a Friday, September 16th launch for the new forum. Be watching the front page for the announcement. Current forum members can use either their screen name or registered email address along with their current password to log in to the new forum once we go live. You can see the announcement here. Added note - Grahame (RS admin doing the move) will be tweeting his progress. If you want to get progress reports check his feed out here.
Good news... I'm not on Rebelscum, but from the recent posts in the Moving thread, this makes it sound like our move may be happening sometime relatively soon.
I've never visited RebelScum, but if this means our move is closer to reality then I am happy for everyone there.
They've changed the time on their move: On Wednesday, September 14th at 9:00pm (EST), the current Rebelscum forums will be closed down. We are anticipating a Friday, September 16th launch for the new forum. Be watching the front page for the announcement. Current forum members can use either their screen name or registered email address along with their current password to log in to the new forum once we go live.
We're currently on pace to be completely moved by April first 2015, to coincide with pre-Rots 10th anniversary celebrations.
It's underway! Tweets from Grahame since the start: LimeyGW Grahame Wright #rebelscumforumupgrade : Import started! This first step takes 4-5 hours so I'm going to get some sleep, next check-in will be 5:30am EST. 4 hours ago Grahame Wright LimeyGW Grahame Wright #rebelscumforumupgrade : Data backups done, now upgrading old UBB software to 6.5.5 so it can be imported cleanly into Vbulletin. #starwars 6 hours ago Grahame Wright LimeyGW Grahame Wright #RebelscumForumUpgrade: Backup of current system started - should take around 25-30 minutes. 7 hours ago Grahame Wright LimeyGW Grahame Wright #RebelscumForumUpgrade : ok, the time has come. Let's do this!! 7 hours ago Grahame Wright LimeyGW Grahame Wright #RebelscumForumUpdate : less than 3 hours to go. Making sure my redirects are working and backups for the new forum are functioning. 10 hours ago
I like the tweets. Months of work all culminating into the final moving process. Can't wait 'till the JCF is at this point.
New updates: LimeyGW Grahame Wright @erier2003 : it'll be forum.rebelscum.com but threads will redirect automatically including any links from external sites. 15 minutes ago Grahame Wright LimeyGW Grahame Wright #rebelscumforumupdate : crisis averted, I don't think my heart has been beating for the last hour. Onwards!! 20 minutes ago LimeyGW Grahame Wright #rebelscumforumupdate : Post import is complete, just a few other imports to go then we start testing. Slight issue with users, hope to fix 14 minutes ago Grahame Wright LimeyGW Grahame Wright #rebelscumforumupgrade : ok, back to work! The user import was 139 minutes down from 202 the last time. Forum Post import just started. 6 hours ago
And they are back! It's with great pleasure that we announce the grand re-opening of the Rebelscum forums! Members can use either their screen name or registered email address along with their current password to log in. We hope you enjoy. You can check them out here. Just a note - I had to delete all cookies associated with 'threads.rebelscum.com' in order to get there. Also, quite a few of the avatars didn't make the move and mine was one. However, I did manage to find a Fett I could live with. So if you have an ID there you might have to get a new avatar.
We'll be next but I don't know how much they have left to do for us. I'm sure they will be letting Rebelscum bed in for a bit to make sure everything is OK (and to let Grahame catch up on sleep!).
