So the Big Change Happened

Beware: there is some technical stuff and some of it can be considered TMI

Haven’t updated this since this past Tuesday because I’ve been spending all my free time on getting the new forums setup. Well they’re up now and I think reactions have been mixed. Some really like it, some are skeptical. I knew there would be a time period while everyone gets comfortable with the new forums, all the bugs are worked out, and everything is customized to how we want it.

The transfer of data from the old forum went fairly smoothly. All members, avatars, posts, threads, forums came over easily and accurately. Since the photo gallery we had was an add-on hack, the importer software didn’t work with it. I just finished uploading the photos to the new gallery, which is run on the Photopost PHP software. All photos have username ‘admin’ and ‘imported’ as the title. If i find a way to spend less then 2 hours changing the username and description to the 200+ photos, I’ll do it.

My two next things I want to concentrate on are the calender and trail conditions reporting/forum. The old calender was a great tool to easily view upcoming rides – I want the same functionality in the new forums. As far as the trail conditions go, it has to be easy, simple and effective to share information on trails and view that information.

After all the basic functionality and stuff is in place, I can put some more attention on the details such as custom buttons and colors and stuff like that.

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