Computer Hope plans on attempting to migrate its forums to a new forum system after the continued errors that we've been encountering with the current forum system. I plan on attempting the conversion process late Friday (3/22/2007) @ 9:00PM (MST), which should be moving all users and messages to the new forums. Because I want this to go as smoothly as possible the forums will go into maintenance mode (wont be able to login or post) while being converted.
All discussions up to now about this change have been made on the below post.
http://www.computerhope.com/cgi-bin/yabb/YaBB.cgi?num=1174545858As mentioned on the above post a very basic example of the forums at their current state can be found on the below URL. In addition if successful the new forums will be at this address. Because I do not know if the conversion will work or not I have not spent any time modifying the look and feel to resemble what everyone has gotten used to.
http://www.computerhope.com/forumThis forum will not be deleted in anyway and will likely remain indefinitely. However, it's likely next week if the conversion goes smoothly that these forums could be locked preventing new accounts and messages from being created to help test the new system. If that test goes smoothly then it will remain otherwise we'll revert back to how it is and try a different system.
Feel free to post comments, concerns or anything else. This doesn't have to happen tomorrow but I figure since the installation and setup process has gone smoothly so far no point in delaying this update that should of been done long ago any further.
<<Edited>> Added time this will occur.