Repaired and Rebuilt

[Lane]

Thanks for your patience!

Believe it or not, this is a very short version of the last few days.

Back end services being updated many times over the years finally forced the update of this forum when the older code became so incompatible with the more modern environment that something finally broke enough to prevent people from posting. This as opposed to a previous problem where you saw an error after a successful post making you think your post didn't work, where it actually did, now the forum was really broken. No more putting off a bunch of work to fix it all.

I put off updating the forum because the supplied update scripts are broken. Basically, there are some versions (the one we were on for example) where the update scripts would fail. Searching the support forums for this forum software would reveal folks experiencing this problem, but not any actual solutions. I would have to slog through and figure them out myself.

The forum had broken enough with incompatibilities I had to rebuild it sort of Frankenstein style. Basically recreating a new blank forum at the same version, repairing busted things by examining and cobbling pieces together. I got it to 'work', but I still couldn't update the forum.

So over the last few days I would wash, rinse, repeat the update and fix process to discover each problem. It was annoying as I would have to redo the growing set of fixes each update attempt, but that's what I had to do. This morning I believe I have found and fixed every issue and got the modified update scripts to bring us up to the latest version of the forum software.

Do you know that song, "there was an old lady who swallowed a fly?" That's what running through each update attempt was like. So anyway "She's fixed of course".

At least I think so. If you notice something broken, I can hopefully address it without again running through the repair and upgrade steps. CUZ I DON'T WANNA DO THAT ANYMORE FOR A WHILE!

And yep, it looks very different. The old theme was wholly incompatible with the newer forum software. It's a fresh paint job too.

- Lane

[milky]

Thanks, Lane.
Looks good and your efforts are really appreciated.

Have a cup of beverage and a lie down 

[Lane]

You're welcome!

[Lane]

And the beverage was Gin! Specifically, a French gimlet.