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. We will update this thread with any news on search.

New Stuff: Go here, anything marked "2.3" is our dealio.

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

[UPDATE Jan 11]

The Sunday 11th phase of BigFooty's maintenance and upgrade has been completed. Reactions are limited for now. Search is rebuilding. Scheduled Posts are back! Other upgraded features may look/operate slightly different. The styling and colours will change over time.

• Customised Reactions: Not working until the next phase of the upgrade is completed.
• Scheduled Posts: Setting this up now!
• Search: Still reindexing.

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Swap to DARK theme:

Jan 13th - I'm reverting the colours to try and make this new styling system work.

Jan 14th - Let's see how we go this time

Jan 18th - More features are returning today. Watched content bars, hopefully the club supporter icon as well.

Jan 21st - SEARCH DAY! Search is back.

Jan 24th - Another upgrade for back end stuff incoming - this will let us re-enable the full reactions system.

April 7th - Changed background colour for selected text - now more visible. Try it!

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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.

 

[Kilroy]

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.

Just checking on the ‘search function’ again.

Was there something about us having to log in again after the updates?

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

Still only accounts for stuff entered the last 5 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.

 

[Chief]

Search has not yet been reindexed. We will update this thread with any news.

 

[JHF1870]

Search has not yet been reindexed. We will update this thread with any news.

Came here for this. I had a thread from 2024 unable to search as it would give no results "Showing results for *"

For me, some users are showing up under site search, some are not. I had an old account I logged back into thinking it might be a reset of some sort but still not showing.

 

[Chief]

We will update this thread with any news.

 

[Headless]

We will update this thread with any news.

Thanks for the updates, Chief. Looking forward to search being back on track.

Our dear friend Pie 4 Life has missed out on about 600 retrospective wow reacts over the last few days!

 

[Gethelred]

I have a question.

When searching for something using the basic search function, I'm only getting results from the time since the system upgrade. Is this functionality permanent, or will it be brought back? If it is permanent, is there an alternative to look further back than a few weeks ago?

 

[jim boy]

I have a question.

When searching for something using the basic search function, I'm only getting results from the time since the system upgrade. Is this functionality permanent, or will it be brought back? If it is permanent, is there an alternative to look further back than a few weeks ago?

yes, we are I aware (I probably should mention this to Chief ) - it will be brought back with all data included, but at the moment, yeah it only goes back two weeks

 

[sabso]

Could have waited a while before locking down react permissions again, I was having fun

 

[jim boy]

Could have waited a while before locking down react permissions again, I was having fun

It's just been re-enabled

 

[Carringbush2010]

I have a question.

There used to be an eye on the top taskbar, this for 'posts you've contributed to' what happened to that?

 

[Mobbs]

Hi hi.
Colours of linked text in dark mode cause them to be difficult to read. Note the link you gave in the screenshot below (and in your signature).

 

[Farmer Lister]

I've noticed the title of the thread is no longer showing at the end of the thread on top of the reply box. Is this intentional? Hard for me to remember which thread I'm on without it

 

[Carringbush2010]

I have a question.

There used to be an eye on the top taskbar, this for 'posts you've contributed to' what happened to that?

View attachment 2508261

I'll rephrase the question, how do I get to threads that I've posted in?

 

[Beerfish]

Hi hi.
Colours of linked text in dark mode cause them to be difficult to read. Note the link you gave in the screenshot below (and in your signature).

View attachment 2508262

Came here to say this.

Possibly covered here?]

The styling and colours will change over time.

 

[MarcMaverick]

When are we expecting full functionalty to return?

 

[DarkPhoenix]

Watched/Favourited forums no longer show as a hotlink at the top of the page anymore. i.e toward the top of the page I used to have a link to the Entertainment Wrestling board that I would use to flick back and forth between the North Board and it.

Nor do I have a quicklink to the North Melbourne board in the top most links.
Edit: the North link is there but the forum is defaulting to scrolling to the right most option in the top bar for some reason

Defaulting to:

Prior to update defaulted to:

 

[V23]

How long until the reacts menu isn’t a glitchy mess?

Edit: Also the new reacts miss the character of the old ones

 

[Strapping Young Lad]

Will the club a poster follows be returning on mobile(chrome)?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Chief.

Will the schedule thread function return?

 

[RedmanWasHere]

Also, why is the comment box shaded in grey instead of white?

 

[Cruyff14]

Will the function of your alerts showing when you hover of them be back? (On Chrome).