Thinkpads Forum

WOW Bill, sounds like you went through a lot to get this conversion done

One question though - will this new forum eventually be moved to the "old" URL address (forum.thinkpads.com)?

p.s. not all the smilies work, but I'm sure you have bigger fish to fry than that

Please excuse the construction workers as they come and go. Things will probably suddenly appear (like smilies); hopefully nothing will disappear .

Hope they are wearing their hard hats, safety glasses & steel toed boots

The url will probably be changed very soon, its not a hard thing to do. This looks like its on the host's website url right now. I already see some of the cool new things that are now available to us now. Hopefully in the next few days and weeks we will see this website become complete with graphics and all.

BTW. Nice job. I just recently completed a database class and I know how troublesome it can be to move EVERYTHING to a new DB system.

Yeah, I should have read more first my question was answered in another topic:

JaneL wrote:Eventually, the URL will be the same. Bill needs to flip a few switches, and then it will need to propogate.

Stargate199 wrote:BTW. Nice job. I just recently completed a database class and I know how troublesome it can be to move EVERYTHING to a new DB system.

You have no idea! Bill has been sweating blood trying to get this converted! LOL

just logged onto new forum....

this is *GREAT* clean, uncluttered look--seems to load/respond faster

thanks, bill

Hopefully the servers are fast enough to perform at this level when there's a hundred members online .

I've been waiting, watching, and thinking that, apparently there's no such thing as and "easy site move".

Thanks for all the effort.

Mr Bill, and all others that made this huge conversion successful, WELL DONE !!

It looks almost the same (which is fine by me) but lot faster...

Thanks again...

beGi wrote:Mr Bill, and all others that made this huge conversion successful, WELL DONE !!

Thanks! We tried to make it so that it would be an easy transition for everyone, and it will look even better once the avatars and smilies are all loaded.

Good job! I've only spent a few minutes on the new forum tonight, but I find it's look and feel very appealing. Some of the added features will, I think, prove very useful. Thanks to Bill and all others who make this forum possible.

-Neil

The new forum looks great - i know it took a lot of time and hard work to make it happen (not to mention many hours of lost sleep), thank you!

Thanks to all those that were involved to make this change happen. New forum feels and looks great.

It was mostly Bill and the guy he hired doing all the database conversion work - the rest of us just cheered him on and tested each iteration as he made progress.

Wow, it's good to have the forum up and running again, and it's really fast!!!

The new forum looks very nice!!! Many thanks Bill and everyone else who was involved in the upgrade.

Hi,
Great new forum.
I would suggest to save on vertical space.
eg. after the signature in each post the little square buttons on the right side cause some vertical space wasted,
and also on the top of each page between the grey master header and the first post there is alwas a lot
of vertical space to regain.
HTH

JaneL wrote:You have no idea! Bill has been sweating blood trying to get this converted! LOL

Ah so that dirty mark that I thought was on my screen must be spots of Bill's sweaty blood

it's been said already but adding my thanks to Bill and the team for the hard work.
Personally I love the new search which quickly found what I was after.

Looks classy...It caught me off-guard! I'm having to log in every time I post to a different thread, but at the rate I post lately, that won't be an issue lol...

I'm having a bit of trouble. O_o The forum isn't sending me notifications. I went to set my email, but it's saying that "the password does not contain the required characters". O_o I've tried many different combinations of letters and numbers...

And I can't stay logged in!

Otherwise, it's great! Well worth the switch and initial troubles, methinks...

Congratulations, Bill. It is a big improvement. I like it.

rkawakami wrote:Hopefully the servers are fast enough to perform at this level when there's a hundred members online .

<Unix grey beard rant)
I wonder what makes some people say that. I figure any DB that only needs to handle 250+ concurrent connections or so should run like butter on any modern semi-decent dual core server. I mean load the sucker up with RAM and move on with your life.

I only mention this because I built tons of servers for mid to large business and while some do get crazy esosteric in terms of 8 CPU's, 8+GB of RAM, RAID 5 SAS and so on, the bulk of them are quad core Xeon's with 4GB of RAM and dual 500GB HD's mirrored. Surely this type of setup should be more than enough to run a simple DB.

I've done my years in the trenches admining SQL Server and so on. I've written tons of cross platform programs (mostly for use in-house by clients). I have yet to see one monolithic DB crush a server. I've even run a multi-line BBS back in the 90's.

So yeah I hope any 2 year old or newer machine should be able to handle to what amounts to text, some code and some user permissions.
</Unix grey beard rant>

The board looks great and certainly feels somewhat more responsive. My only questions is why does the page header not line up properly with the edges of the post windows? It rolls from egde to edge magazine style whereas the rest of the page has margins.

Congrats to Bill on getting this up and running. I've been keeping tabs on the status as reported to date and I was beginning to think that it wouldn't be ready for a tad more longer. Nice work on getting it up and running.!!!

poshgeordie wrote:

JaneL wrote:You have no idea! Bill has been sweating blood trying to get this converted! LOL

Ah so that dirty mark that I thought was on my screen must be spots of Bill's sweaty blood

it's been said already but adding my thanks to Bill and the team for the hard work.
Personally I love the new search which quickly found what I was after.

uhmm, that mark on your display is not blood or dirt..

think of what else it might be..

i came unglued when the guy working on this with me moved the whole site and i was not told..
went to grab a file and ..nothing was there.. i thought OHHHH! sheeeeeeeetttt
%&^%#!(~_*&$#.. all that time and work LOST..

things are slowly coming together and i stress s l o w l y..!

thanks for all the kind words and don't hesitate to make a few suggestions..

what i want for the near future is a chat ability though it was not much used on the webboard forum that went away in 2004..

and

an RSS feed..
which will take a little more work once everything else is working as it should...

any complaints too, speak up..

OldManClayton wrote:...The forum isn't sending me notifications. ...And I can't stay logged in

same here. just growing pains, i'm sure. it'll get sorted out eventually.

I sorted out the notifications by changing my email address, but I still can't stay logged in. On the plus side, (this could be my imagination) the forum seems to be brimming full with posts.

OldManClayton wrote:I sorted out the notifications by changing my email address, but I still can't stay logged in.

http://imwebd.com/~thinkpad/forum/viewt ... 22&t=71714

I haven't visited the forum regularly or posted in a while, but I have to join the others in giving my kudos to the new forum design. Function is efficient and more streamlined, seems like there are extra features, and of course the look is vastly improved. From what little I've read it seems like there's been some issues with the migration, but hopefully the pain was worth it.

Cheers!

I read that thread and I still can't stay logged in. O_o Oh well.