Just want to let everyone know that our Forums will be down for maintenance starting at about 1pm (est) this Friday, May 25, 2018 so that we can upgrade our Forum software. This is a major upgrade, so expect some differences when the site comes back up. We know from past experience that Forum upgrades are never enthusiastically received by user's as most people don't like changes to something they're use to using.
We hope not to be down for long, but we can only do some of the upgrade work offline. The rest of the upgrading will have to be done once we bring the site back up. Hence, the design and look of the site will have to be completed on the new live site. This means at least for several hours and probably several days the site will not look the way we want it to. We have to do this upgrade to comply with the new GDPR laws for Europe as well as make sure our forums are running the latest security fixes.
So expect some major design issues and some functionality problems for a few days after we complete this upgrade. We will fix as many things as we can on Friday on the new site, but other issues may have to wait until after the Memorial Day Holiday.
We hope not to be down for long, but we can only do some of the upgrade work offline. The rest of the upgrading will have to be done once we bring the site back up. Hence, the design and look of the site will have to be completed on the new live site. This means at least for several hours and probably several days the site will not look the way we want it to. We have to do this upgrade to comply with the new GDPR laws for Europe as well as make sure our forums are running the latest security fixes.
So expect some major design issues and some functionality problems for a few days after we complete this upgrade. We will fix as many things as we can on Friday on the new site, but other issues may have to wait until after the Memorial Day Holiday.