Admin Announcement Site Upgrade 2026

[Chief]

Over the next few days we will be upgrading BigFooty's back end and then the forum software.

Site Availability: The site may be disabled for a short time on Friday 2nd Jan.

Posts and Uploads: There may be a short period of time tomorrow where anything you post will be lost: it will not persist into the upgraded system. Save your magnum opus for the weekend.

Log in: You will need to log back in after we cut over to the upgraded system. Make sure you know your password and your email address is correct.

Search: The Search Index will rebuild over a couple of days, so will be either unavailable or incomplete during that time.

Site Notices will be posted to let everyone know what is happening.

If you have any issues or questions, please post them here.

 

[exe ex machina]

Are there any new features or functions — for either admin or users — with the latest XenForo version?

 

[Chief]

Are there any new features or functions — for either admin or users — with the latest XenForo version?

Visit http://www.xenforo.com/ for the latest.

 

[Chief]

We've done the main bit - upgrading the database - and you should see some performance improvements.

There is more to come, mainly the upgrade of the forum software and the addons.

All of your posts and uploads etc are now going into the new database so nothing you post from now will be lost.

Search will still be out of action for a couple of days.

We will have a few service interruptions here and there in the coming days but generally it is looking good.

Let us know if you see any issues or weird behaviour.