Hey y'all...
I've just come home after an epic two week adventure across the US in which I presented at the FDLI annual conference in DC at the start, and SFATA's annual conference at the end.
During my absence, ECF was migrated from vBulletin to Xenforo, and I want to take a moment to give you a behind the scenes.
This was an epic project, and my brother Toby did more-or-less the whole thing. Most forum migrations are pretty half-assed: the main objective is to get the threads copied over, and that's it. But Toby decided if we were going to do this, we should do it properly. To do this required monumental amounts of custom coding, database changes, rewritten plugins and reconfiguration, and Toby worked absolutely tirelessly to get this sorted. In reality, when we looked at changing the software, we figured it was a job that would take six months - Toby did it in a little over 4!
The migration itself took 48 hours in which he worked straight, and for days after he was tweaking and reconfiguring things as issues were discovered. Truly a herculean effort - I don't think I've ever seen him so wiped out.
Thanks too to our moderators and admins who have been superb helping Toby to get his ducks in a row over the last two months, and especially @retired1 who spent goodness knows how long going through the settings on the day, @Misty who did the usergroup permissions, and @j0ker who recreated all the forms!
There's likely going to be a few niggles (witness our server outage on Sunday), but ECF is now faster, cleaner and more awesome than ever.
So, thanks Toby (@flushdraw) for your awesome work.....
I've just come home after an epic two week adventure across the US in which I presented at the FDLI annual conference in DC at the start, and SFATA's annual conference at the end.
During my absence, ECF was migrated from vBulletin to Xenforo, and I want to take a moment to give you a behind the scenes.
This was an epic project, and my brother Toby did more-or-less the whole thing. Most forum migrations are pretty half-assed: the main objective is to get the threads copied over, and that's it. But Toby decided if we were going to do this, we should do it properly. To do this required monumental amounts of custom coding, database changes, rewritten plugins and reconfiguration, and Toby worked absolutely tirelessly to get this sorted. In reality, when we looked at changing the software, we figured it was a job that would take six months - Toby did it in a little over 4!
The migration itself took 48 hours in which he worked straight, and for days after he was tweaking and reconfiguring things as issues were discovered. Truly a herculean effort - I don't think I've ever seen him so wiped out.
Thanks too to our moderators and admins who have been superb helping Toby to get his ducks in a row over the last two months, and especially @retired1 who spent goodness knows how long going through the settings on the day, @Misty who did the usergroup permissions, and @j0ker who recreated all the forms!
There's likely going to be a few niggles (witness our server outage on Sunday), but ECF is now faster, cleaner and more awesome than ever.
So, thanks Toby (@flushdraw) for your awesome work.....
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