SWRPs Major Upgrade

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The backend team is upgrading SWRPs software from Xenforo 1.4 to Xenforo 2.1. This is a major upgrade and it'll be done on the same day as the new timeline launch. What this means is that SWRP will be down longer than usual on launch day. This extra downtime may range between 3-6 hours depending on many factors.

To put things into perspective nothing from the Xenforo 1.x series works on Xenforo 2.x. What this means is everything will be stripped off the site before it is upgraded. The skins, features (addons), BBCODE, everything but the very basics (accounts, posts, forums) will have to be removed. Once upgraded, the new 2.x skin, features and bbcode will be uploaded and then configured for the site. It is a major lift and the backend team has been working hard to prep for it to lesson the amount of downtime needed.

While not all of the BBCODE we have now will be available right after the upgrade, it will eventually be available once we get around to recreating it to function on 2.x. There will also be plenty of new BBCODE specific to 2.x to use. If it wasn't obvious the skin/theme we have now will be gone and replaced with something similar but completely new. There will be several new features and quality of life upgrades.

Our suggestion is not to go too crazy designing new character profile templates before then and to save anything important to you on gdocs.
 

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Should do it a day earlier in case something goes wrong?
 

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Should do it a day earlier in case something goes wrong?

If anything goes wrong, SWRP is backed up regualrly and we can just revert to how it was before we updated. Doing it all together lets us minimize overall downtime, rather than having the site mostly closed for a couple days.
 
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Oof, that doesn't sound fun. Good luck with it all.
 

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Our suggestion is not to go too crazy designing new character profile templates before then and to save anything important to you on gdocs.

oh dear.
 

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Wow, a delay in the TL drop when we don't even know anything about it? I honestly can't even.
 
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Wow, a delay in the TL drop when we don't even know anything about it? I honestly can't even.


EVERY STEP THAT I TAKE IS ANOTHER MISTAKE TO YOU
 

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Wow, a delay in the TL drop when we don't even know anything about it? I honestly can't even.

I miss the days when Hassan would just drop an update on us and be like 'so the server had a fit midway through it all and tl;dr I broke everything in the process and had to roll back to last week. Have fun!'

>.>
 

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I miss the days when Hassan would just drop an update on us and be like 'so the server had a fit midway through it all and tl;dr I broke everything in the process and had to roll back to last week. Have fun!'

>.>
March 2013 all over again? Triggered. lol
 

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*George Takei*. oooohhhhh myyyy.
 
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