Flare Sci-Fi Forums: Downtime Alert: Upgrades are coming

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Over the next 48 hours, I'm going to be performing a few minor upgrades and refits to Flare. During each one of these, the forums will not be accessable - you'll receive a message indicating that the site is down for mantainence. These periods of downtime should each last less than 15 minutes. The one that was just performed took less than a minute.

Besides two small cosmetic changes, both of which have already been performed, anything I'm doing will be completely transparent to you.

Flare II will launch late on Dec 1st or early on the 2nd. Downtime for the upgrade will no more than an hour and no less than 15 minutes, depending on the time of day. Immediately after the upgrade, new registrations will be disabled until I can verify that the new SENIRS system is perfectly stable. I don't anticipate any problems.

This should be the last major upgrade that will be noticble by you guys until next March, which will be Flare's first anniversary. At that time I'll upgrade the forums once again to the latest version of the UBB.
A note about Flare II: I may be altering (or maybe even disabling) the search feature to speed things up a bit. I'll be keeping an eye on the access logs to see how much it's really used.

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Posted by Montgomery (Member # 23) on :

May one enquire why it is good to upgrade to each new version of UBB? Is there anything particularly wrong with the current one?

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

Yes. It doesn't have as many features at the current version. We want features, features, features!

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Posted by Aethelwer (Member # 36) on :

[double post]

[This message has been edited by The Shadow (edited December 01, 1999).]

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

*Attempts to restrain enthusiasm of impending release of Flare II*

*Fails*

YAY!!!

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

There are some nasty bugs in the backend of this UBB, and some coding improvements in 5.4... That and I needed to redo the entire profile system for SENIRS.

I sorta forgot that today isn't the 31st but the 1st... Thus the above schedule is bumped a day back.

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Jubes, holding dinner: "What will you give me for the food?"
Me: "My virginity..."
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Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

Okay, I'm going to sleep now. That's the cue for Santa Capps to come and leave a brand new (or at the very least upgraded) set of Forums under the tree for good little Trek fans.

Hmm... What does Santa Capps bring to bad little Trek fans?

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- The Collector, "Treehouse of Horror X," The Simpsons.

Posted by LOA (Member # 49) on :

Voyager.

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the love that was here is filled up by anger and rage..." ~FOM

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Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

Ha, not tonight. *looks at schedule*

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Jubes, holding dinner: "What will you give me for the food?"
Me: "My virginity..."
-- Actual quote

Posted by Krenim (Member # 22) on :

*Looks at schedule too*

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"Stop right there! I have here the only working phaser ever built! It was fired only once: to keep William Shatner from making another album."

- The Collector, "Treehouse of Horror X," The Simpsons.

Posted by Charles Capps (Member # 9) on :

*points at bug list hastily tacked to side of screen* Those need to be fixed first. Damned bugs.

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Jubes, holding dinner: "What will you give me for the food?"
Me: "My virginity..."
-- Actual quote

Posted by Jeff Raven (Member # 20) on :

*gives TOC a can of Raid*

It'll even work against roaches, too.

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