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Some time between December 27th and January 1st there will be a major site upgrade.
BigFooty will continue to operate during the upgrade.
BUT there will be a period of a day or two where nothing posted or uploaded will be carried over to the upgraded site.
We will put up a large warning on the site, post to Twitter, Facebook, and send out an email to all users.
You can see Xenforo version 2 working on BigCricket (with the default theme):
http://www.bigcricket.com/community/
The Boring Stuff
Why?
Xenforo version 1.5 - our current version - is reaching its end of life in May 2019.
Xenforo version 2.0 - the version we are moving to - has been out for over 12 months and is likely pretty solid.
Xenforo version 2.1 will come out in 2019 and be another large-ish jump for the forum software. We will likely move to that around Christmas/New Years next year (2019), or sooner if it looks like a small job with minimal downtime and the software looks solid.
How?
The plan is to:
1. Clone BigFooty entirely. Web site, database, uploads and proxied images.
2. Leave the original site running.
3. Update the cloned site. (A danger point with 50 mil posts - might need a couple of goes.)
4. Swap over to the clone as our public site. Content posted after the site was cloned (1. above) will be lost.
5. Drop the original site.
This means probably a day or two of posts and uploads will be lost forever. Be mindful of this when posting. There will be a warning on the site BUT this might not be obvious on Tapatalk so please check your emails.
NOTE: If the cloning fails we may need to start from 1. again. So the posts you thought would not survive may survive and... yeah it can get messy with these big upgrades.
We will try to keep tipping working but it may require some manual intervention.
Refugees
We will make a board available on BigCricket - http://www.bigcricket.com/community/ - for BigFooty refugees to keep in touch should there be any extended outage. Register over there if you need to.
Some functionality will change.
Some of the third party add-ons we use may not be available in version 2 and we will need to find alternatives. Some functionality has been absorbed into the core of Xenforo 2 so we won't need updated addons in some cases.
Medals and Tipping have version 2.0 versions so they will not change much.
Media embeds (YouTube, Google Spreadsheets) will likely not change, and might improve with new functionality behind the scenes. Embedded Google Spreadsheets are touchy and might require tweaking, but should not be affected for long, if at all.
There will be a period of adjustment.
We will hunt out the really core issues first, then fringe stuff and a new theme will be worked on. We are giving it about a month to be working really nicely, ready for the new footy season.
But, but...
Please post any questions in this thread.
BigFooty will continue to operate during the upgrade.
BUT there will be a period of a day or two where nothing posted or uploaded will be carried over to the upgraded site.
We will put up a large warning on the site, post to Twitter, Facebook, and send out an email to all users.
You can see Xenforo version 2 working on BigCricket (with the default theme):
http://www.bigcricket.com/community/
The Boring Stuff
Why?
Xenforo version 1.5 - our current version - is reaching its end of life in May 2019.
Xenforo version 2.0 - the version we are moving to - has been out for over 12 months and is likely pretty solid.
Xenforo version 2.1 will come out in 2019 and be another large-ish jump for the forum software. We will likely move to that around Christmas/New Years next year (2019), or sooner if it looks like a small job with minimal downtime and the software looks solid.
How?
The plan is to:
1. Clone BigFooty entirely. Web site, database, uploads and proxied images.
2. Leave the original site running.
3. Update the cloned site. (A danger point with 50 mil posts - might need a couple of goes.)
4. Swap over to the clone as our public site. Content posted after the site was cloned (1. above) will be lost.
5. Drop the original site.
This means probably a day or two of posts and uploads will be lost forever. Be mindful of this when posting. There will be a warning on the site BUT this might not be obvious on Tapatalk so please check your emails.
NOTE: If the cloning fails we may need to start from 1. again. So the posts you thought would not survive may survive and... yeah it can get messy with these big upgrades.
We will try to keep tipping working but it may require some manual intervention.
Refugees
We will make a board available on BigCricket - http://www.bigcricket.com/community/ - for BigFooty refugees to keep in touch should there be any extended outage. Register over there if you need to.
Some functionality will change.
Some of the third party add-ons we use may not be available in version 2 and we will need to find alternatives. Some functionality has been absorbed into the core of Xenforo 2 so we won't need updated addons in some cases.
Medals and Tipping have version 2.0 versions so they will not change much.
Media embeds (YouTube, Google Spreadsheets) will likely not change, and might improve with new functionality behind the scenes. Embedded Google Spreadsheets are touchy and might require tweaking, but should not be affected for long, if at all.
There will be a period of adjustment.
We will hunt out the really core issues first, then fringe stuff and a new theme will be worked on. We are giving it about a month to be working really nicely, ready for the new footy season.
But, but...
Please post any questions in this thread.