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There is some lingering confusion out there that I would like to clear the air on.
There are a good number of changes coming to bt3central.com and the community, but not all of them have been implemented as of yet.
The recent outage to www.bt3central.com was to migrate the site off of the old, failing Microsoft Windows server, and on to a new, clean loaded Linux server. At that time, we, the staff of www.bt3central.com (The Sawdust Foundation) have been passed control over the site, and the direction of the site.
What has changed:
Specifically, due to the available command interpreters, the original "temporary articles page" that had been in place for 5+ years is no longer runnable (it was written in Microsoft ASP, which Linux isn't compatible with). We have the data, and are working on fixing the page issue. This admittedly has been a low priority as there have been other fires under out tails as it were.
The image upload problem seems to be fixed for most users, except one who may or may not have hit a quota / limit on image storage. We are working that issue as well.
What has not yet changed:
These are all known issues, and are actively being planned / worked. Please be patient as we hammer these items out.
For the time being, yes you will see the front page / login page show up if you browse to www.sawdustzone.com or www.sawdustzone.org, they will not, or at least should not allow you to log in succesfully. It may even say it did, but will show you logged out.
Please, until further notice, continue to log into, and use the site www.bt3central.com as you normally would have.
Our testing process will involve a "staging" site which will allow us to make changes and keep those changes hidden until we are done testing where we can roll them into production. At the testing time, we will put out a post asking for volunteers to help us test the staging site. Once we are satisfied with the results, the changes will be implemented in production.
There are a good number of changes coming to bt3central.com and the community, but not all of them have been implemented as of yet.
The recent outage to www.bt3central.com was to migrate the site off of the old, failing Microsoft Windows server, and on to a new, clean loaded Linux server. At that time, we, the staff of www.bt3central.com (The Sawdust Foundation) have been passed control over the site, and the direction of the site.
What has changed:
- Our hosting company.
- The operating system the site runs on.
- Available command interpreters.
Specifically, due to the available command interpreters, the original "temporary articles page" that had been in place for 5+ years is no longer runnable (it was written in Microsoft ASP, which Linux isn't compatible with). We have the data, and are working on fixing the page issue. This admittedly has been a low priority as there have been other fires under out tails as it were.
The image upload problem seems to be fixed for most users, except one who may or may not have hit a quota / limit on image storage. We are working that issue as well.
What has not yet changed:
- Theme (obviously)
- Useable domain name.
- vBulletin version.
- Added mobile features.
These are all known issues, and are actively being planned / worked. Please be patient as we hammer these items out.
For the time being, yes you will see the front page / login page show up if you browse to www.sawdustzone.com or www.sawdustzone.org, they will not, or at least should not allow you to log in succesfully. It may even say it did, but will show you logged out.
Please, until further notice, continue to log into, and use the site www.bt3central.com as you normally would have.
Our testing process will involve a "staging" site which will allow us to make changes and keep those changes hidden until we are done testing where we can roll them into production. At the testing time, we will put out a post asking for volunteers to help us test the staging site. Once we are satisfied with the results, the changes will be implemented in production.
Loring in Katy, TX USA
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